Faculty and Staff Briefs: November 2022
Florida State University’s faculty and staff are central to its mission and the key to its countless accomplishments.
Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across campus. Faculty and Staff Briefs are produced monthly to recognize accomplishments and provide a space where honors, awards, bylines, presentations, grants, service and any other notable items can be showcased.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Joseph Watso, Ph.D. (College of Health and Human Sciences) received a Judge Travel Award to attend the recent 2022 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists.
LaToya Stackhouse, Ed.D. (FSU Panama City Office of Student Affairs) was accepted to Ujima Institute, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators leadership institute designed by and for African American and Black student affairs professionals who aspire to senior student affairs leadership.
Ellen Granger, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) received the Tallahassee Scientific Society Gold Medal Award.
Mainak Mookherjee, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) was elected as a fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.
GRANTS
Anand “Sunny” Narayanan, Ph.D. (College of Health and Human Sciences) was awarded a grant from NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Division for his research on “Partial Gravity and Sex-Difference Effects on the Venous Circulation.”
Jessica Ridgway Clayton, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) won the 2022 Apparel and Textile Education Xchange Award for Excellence in Marketable Textile Design for her design “Two Sides to Every Story: A Reversible Kangaroo Care Garment Designed for a Mother and Infant’s Shared Lived Experience in the NICU.”
Yunjung Kim, Ph.D. (College of Communication & Information) was awarded a research grant from the Korea Health Industry Development Institute for her project “Developments of Speech Rehabilitation Software for Persons with Dysarthria Secondary to Stroke.”
Margaret Sullivan, Ph.D. (College of Communication & Information) is a co-principal investigator for the College of Social Work’s project “Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Regional Centers,” which recently earned a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
BYLINES
Bruce Thyer, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) authored a chapter, “The First Wave of Behavioral Therapies,” in the textbook “Behavior Therapy,” published by Springer.
Yaacov Petscher, Ph.D. and Callie Little, Ph.D. (Florida Center for Reading Research) co-authored “Developmental Trajectories of Eye Movements in Oral and Silent reading for Beginning Readers: A Longitudinal Investigation,” published by Scientific Reports.
Michael Killian, Ph.D. (College of Social Work) co-authored “The Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care for Hispanic/Latino Patients with Depression and Comorbid PTSD,” published by The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research.
Wayne Logan, J.D. (College of Law) published his book “The Ex Post Facto Clause: Its History and Role in a Punitive Society” with Oxford University Press.
Mason Marks, J.D. (College of Law) authored the op-ed “Seeking Psychedelics? Check the Data Privacy Clause” for WIRED Magazine.
Michael Ormsbee, Ph.D. (College of Health and Human Sciences) co-authored the textbook “Exercise Physiology for Health Fitness and Performance, Sixth Edition,” published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Danielle Atkins, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) co-authored the paper “Factors Associated with Counselling Adherence in Opioid Treatment Programs” in Health & Social Care in the Community.
Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) and Lindsay Dennis, Ph.D. (College of Education) had their collaborative manuscript, “Practice-Based Coaching for Speech-Language Pathologists supporting Paraeducators and Speech-Language Pathology Assistants,” accepted for publication in Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools.
Reinier Leushuis, Ph.D. (Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics) published the essay “Castiglione and Platonic Love” in the Handbook to Platonic Love from Antiquity to the Renaissance, edited by Carl O’Brien and John Dillon (Cambridge University Press).
Casey Dozier, Ph.D. (College of Education) and doctoral students Carley Peace, Ivey Burbrink and Michael Morgan co-authored “Standardized Career Course Curriculum: Effects on Negative Career Thoughts” for The Career Development Quarterly.
Eric Coleman, Ph.D. (College of Social Sciences and Public Policy) and associate scholar Bill Schultz, Ph.D. co-authored “Recognizing the Equity Implications of Restoration Priority Maps,” published in Environment Research Letters.
Barry J. Faulk, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) published the chapter “David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, the Cut-Up, and Rock’s Unfinished Revolution” in the book “Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music,” published by Bloomsbury Publishing. He also wrote a review of Jon Stewart’s “Dylan, Lennon, Marx and God” in The Dylan Review.
Adam Gaiser, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) wrote the book “Sectarianism in Islam: The Umma Divided,” published by the Cambridge University Press.
Tarez Graban, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) co-edited the book “Teaching through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, Activism,” published by Southern Illinois University Press. She also co-edited the book “Global Rhetorical Traditions,” published by Parlor Press.
Vincent Joos, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) co-edited the collective volume “Migrants Shaping Europe: Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures,” published by the Manchester University Press.
David Kirby, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) wrote the review “Chuck Berry’s complicated path to becoming a rock legend,” published by The Washington Post.
Gary Taylor, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) wrote the article “Playhouse Manuscripts, Vectors of Transmission, and Shakespeare’s Henry V,” published in “The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.” Taylor also wrote the chapter “Interface Design and Editorial Theory” in the book “The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Interface,” published by Routledge.
Olga Seliazniova, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) wrote the article “The Rhizome in and Around Sal’nikov’s ‘The Petrovs in and Around the Flu,’” published in the journal Russian Literature.
Lisa Wakamiya, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) wrote the chapter “Somatic Metaphors and Retranslation” in the collective volume “Time, Space, Matter in Translation,” published by Routledge.
Tenley Bick, Ph.D. (Department of Art History) published a book chapter “Porta di Lampedusa, Porta d’Europa: Contemporary Monumentality, Entropy, and Migration at the Gateway to Europe” in the new volume “Migrants Shaping Europe: Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures,” published by the Manchester University Press.
PRESENTATIONS, CONFERENCES AND EXHIBITS
Changhyun Nam, Ph.D., Jessica Ridgway Clayton, Ph.D. (Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship) and Hoyong Chung, Ph.D. (FAMU-FSU College of Engineering) presented “New filaments from used face masks as PLA filament alternative for 3D printing: Part I” at the annual International Textile and Apparel Association conference in Denver.
Eundeok Kim, Ph.D. (College of Entrepreneurship) and Terry Coonan, J.D. (College of Law) presented a paper, “Advancing Sustainability Education through a Cross-Disciplinary Online Course: Sustainability and Human Rights in the Business World,” at the International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference in Denver.
Hugh Catts, Ph.D., Kelly Farquharson, Ph.D. and doctoral student Anne Reed (College of Communication and Information) spoke on an Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) panel, “Busting Dyslexia Myths — A Panel Discussion on Dyslexia Awareness,” hosted by the college.
Marcia Mardis, Ed.D. (College of Communication and Information) co-presented the research project “Rural Resiliency Hubs: An Integrated, Community-Centered Approach to Addressing the Resiliency Divide through Rural Public Libraries” to the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Ebrahim Randeree and Faye Jones, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) gave two presentations at the 2022 CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, titled “Moving Towards a Causal Agenda: Recruiting, Retaining, Completing, and Employing Black Men in STEM” and “Building Partnerships with and for STARS Alumni.”
Sana Tibi, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) moderated a session of a forum at the Queen Rania Teacher Academy, titled “Building Forward Better: Transforming Schools of Today.”
Russell Clayton, Ph.D., Arienne Ferchaud, Ph.D., Svitlana Jaroszynski, Ph.D., Donna Nudd, Ph.D., Jessica Wendorf Muhamad, Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information), doctoral student Anne Rivera and former doctoral student Sean Sawicki co-presented at the National Communication Association’s annual conference in New Orleans.
Rafe Blaufarb, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) guest-lectured at the University of Grenoble Law School “Propriétaire, de Quel Droit?: Transitions Sociales et Controverses Sur le Droit de Propriété” conference in Grenoble, France, and at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association in Chicago.
Carla Della Gatta, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) presented her paper, “The Spanish ‘A’ of Othello: Sounding Boricua in Raúl Juliá’s Othello” at the Shakespeare and Race 2022: Spoken Word(s) Academic Symposium at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.
Reinier Leushuis, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) delivered the opening welcome words at the international conference, Antigone, Medea, Electra: Love and Violence Between Counter-Narrations and Institutions of New Symbolic Orders.
Rochelle Marrinan, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) delivered the first lecture in the Mission San Luis Lecture Series “Digging Deeper: Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida.”
Tanya Peres, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) co-hosted an online discussion of her book “Mastodons to Mississippians: Adventures in Nashville’s Deep Past” for the Tennessee Historical Society book club, Tennessee Talks.
Nathan Stoltzfus, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) spoke on the opening panel at the National WW II Museum’s 15th International Symposium.
Gary Taylor, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) presented his talk “Tragedy, Modernity, and The Changeling” at the conference “400 Years of The Changeling” in Alicante, Spain.
Irene Zanini-Cordi, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) presented the paper “Daughters of Medea. Abandonment and Identity in Elena Ferrante’s The Days of Abandonment” at the international conference Antigone, Medea, Electra: Love and Violence Between Counter-Narrations and Institutions of New Symbolic Orders.
Casey Copeland, MA (School of Dance) presented her research “The Slow Regard of Silent Things: Building Mental and Emotional Resilience for Dancers” at the annual meeting of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science in Limerick, Ireland.
Tom Welsh, Ph.D. (School of Dance) presented a paper on “Assessing the Practical Significance of Dance Medicine and Science Research Findings” at the annual meeting of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science in Limerick, Ireland.
SERVICE
Tarez Samra Graban, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) was elected chair of the editorial board for Peitho, the peer-reviewed journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.
NOTABLE
Maura Scott, Ph.D. (College of Business) was selected as a 2023 Marketing Science Institute Scholar. The appointment honors the world’s most prominent marketing scholars.
Theodore Clevenger Jr., Ph.D. (College of Communication and Information) received a posthumous Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association (NCA). Clevenger was the first Dean of the College of Communication in 1976.
Matthew Goff, Ph.D. (College of Arts and Sciences) co-organized the joint conference “A Dead Sea Scrolls Celebration” with Stetson University’s Department of Religion Studies.
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