Faculty and Staff Notes

Associate Director of the Career Development Center Dustin Evatt-Young awarded the Alice P. Naylor Outstanding Dissertation Award by Appalachian State University. His dissertation titled "White Scripts in Higher Education: White Administrators Navigating Racial Equity and Inclusion Efforts" examines how whiteness manifests in the various behaviors, interactions, and decisions of white higher education administrators. 

Assistant Professor of Politics Jenny Garcia was interviewed and quoted in a PBS NewsHour article.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón recently published his short story, "The Primary Substance", in World Literature Today (Autumn 2020).

Professor of Philosophy Todd Ganson published “An Alternative to the Causal Theory of Perception” in Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 

Associate Professor of Music Theory Andrew Pau reviewed Alexandra Kieffer's book Debussy's Critics: Sound, Affect, and the Experience of Modernism for France Review, an online review dedicated to books on French history and culture. 

Associate Professor of Classics Christopher Trinacty recently published an article and a book review. The article discusses the way that Pliny incorporates Senecan material in his letters. The review is on a recent volume about Senecan intertextuality. 

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch's work was recently highlighted in an interview by the American Economic Association. 

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Roberto Hoyle participated in a panel on Humans and Technology for Inclusive Privacy and Security at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting.

Sandra Zagarell, the Visiting Donald R. Longman Professor of English Emerita, published “Literary Recovery, #ReclaimHerName, Alice Dunbar-Nelson,” September 22, 2020, and “A Response to Baileys’ #reclaimhername: The Challenges of Literary Recovery, in LEGACY: A Journal of American Women Writers, (online), August 28, 2020. 

Steven Volk, Professor of History Emeritus, co-authored (with Beth Benedix) "The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention” (Belt Publishing).