Faculty kudos

 

College of Education

William Sadera, Educational Technology and Literacy, James Robertson, Liyan Song, Educational Technology and Literacy, and Nichelle Midon have published "Success in online learning and the role of community" in the Journal of Online Leanring and Teaching. This collaborative research effort involved faculty members Sadera and Song and two instructional technology doctoral students, Robertson of UMUC and Midon.

Theresa Adkins, Secondary Education, recently had an article accepted into The Journal of Negro Education. The article, "I'm not afraid to come into your world: Case studies of teachers facilitating engagement in urban high school English classrooms," will be published in a forthcoming issue.

College of Liberal Arts

Evelyn Avery, English, has had her essay, "Diversity Is More Than Skin Deep: Memoir of an Academic in Africa," accepted for publication in a collections of essays to be published in 2010 by Purdue University Press.The essay reflects a transforming segment of Avery's life and will be included in her full-length memoir, which she began during her spring sabbatical.

George Hahn, English, has been named series editor of Peter Lang Publisher’s Studies in Eighteenth-Century Humanities and Culture. He joins Professor Peter Baker, who is editor of Lang’s Studies in Modern Poetry series.

Clarinda Harriss, English, has just learned that TU’s student literary publication, Grub Street, has once again won a Gold Medalist Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, one of only 10 awarded for 2009.

Michael Masatsugu, History, has been awarded the Western Historical Association's 2009 Arrington-Prucha Prize in Western American Religious History for his article, “Beyond this World of Transiency and Impermanence: Japanese Americans, Dharma Bums, and the Making of American Buddhism in the Early Cold War,” which was published in the Pacific Historical Review.