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College of Liberal Arts Awards programs 2015

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Page 1: College of Liberal Arts Awards programs 2015

APRIL 21, 2015

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Masters of CeremonyDaydrie Hague and Chris Qualls, Department of Theatre

WelcomeJoseph A. Aistrup, Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Competitive Professional Improvement Leave Paula Bobrowski, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty Development & Graduate Studies

Competitive Research GrantsPaula Bobrowski, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty Development & Graduate Studies

Promotion of Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards (PETL)Paula Bobrowski, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty Development & Graduate Studies

Staff and A&P Employee of the Year AwardsJoseph A. Aistrup, Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Closing and RemarksJoseph A. Aistrup, Dean, College of Liberal Arts

Please join us after the ceremony for a reception honoring the award recipients in the museum lobby.

ORDER OF EVENTS

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Competitive Professional Improvement LeaveThe College of Liberal Arts, in keeping with its commitment to research and creative work, established the Competitive Professional Improvement Leave to recognize the importance of activities that provide faculty with opportunities for renewal and growth. Each awardee receives one semester paid leave at full salary.

Competitive Research GrantsThe College of Liberal Arts recognizes the importance of opportunities for professional growth. Each of these awardees receive a $10,000 summer salary to support their research.

Grant Writing The College of Liberal Arts provides a course release for faculty writing a significant external grant.

SubventionThe College of Liberal Arts provides partial funding through a competitive process for scholarly publication in book form.

Promotion of Excellence in Teaching and Learning Awards (PETL)The PETL Committee reviews nominations for outstanding teachers in the College. This year, PETL awards include Academy of Outstanding Teachers, a Teaching Excellence Award, a Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, and an Advising Award.

Staff and A&P Employee of the Year Awards

The College established the Staff and A&P Employee of the Year Award to honor Staff and A&P members who have made exceptional contributions to their departments and the College. The award recognizes our outstanding employees for their efforts to go above and beyond to provide outstanding service to others, create an inspiring work environment, and foster positive relationships across the university.

University AwardsThese award recipients received recognition from Auburn University for their pursuit of excellence.

DESCRIPTION OF AWARDS

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Brigitta R. BrunnerProfessor, School of Communication & Journalism

PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT LEAVE

Brigitta R. Brunner is a professor in the School of Communication & Journalism at Auburn University. She has been on the faculty at Auburn since 2002 and teaches public relations courses. Brunner has served as a Plank Center for Leadership Educator Fellow, College of Liberal Arts Engaged Scholar, Imagining America Research Fellow, Auburn University Provost’s Fellow, Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow, and Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership in Diversity Program Fellow. In 2008, Brunner was presented with the PETL Teaching Award in Communication and Social Sciences. She was selected as the inaugural winner of the Public Relations Society of America Health Academy and Quinnipiac University Faculty Paper Competition in 2009. She was named the PRCA Educator of the Year in April 2013 and works with colleagues around the country on matters related to civic professionalism through funding from the Teagle Foundation. Some of her work can be seen in Public Relations Review, The Internet and Higher Education, Teaching Public Relations Monographs, PRism, and Learning, Media, and Technology.

PhD – University of Florida MA – Auburn University BA – Juniata College

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A dual citizen of France and the U.S., Christopher McNulty is a visual artist who creates sculptural objects, video, and works on paper. His work has explored the limitations of human thought and performance, and the tensions that exist between our ideals and everyday lives. His current work explores how environmental space penetrates the body, creating relationships among individuals, species, and objects. He has exhibited work throughout the U.S., including the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Rochester Art Center, and Saltworks Gallery. His projects have been featured in many publications including Art Papers, New American Paintings, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and The Week. McNulty has received many awards including an Alabama State Council on the Arts grant and completed artist residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Vermont Studio Center.

Christopher McNulty Associate Professor, Department of Art & Art History

MFA – University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate study in history – University of Michigan BA – Lawrence University

PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT LEAVE

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Chris Newland joined the Auburn faculty in 1988 and immediately established a laboratory devoted to the experimental study of drugs and environmental contaminants that affect the central nervous system and behavior. Using experimental laboratory models, he and his students have investigated drug and contaminant exposure. They have reported disturbing impairments in the ability to adjust to changing conditions that can be traced to low-level methylmercury exposure even when it occurs only during gestation, ending before birth, and that such exposures can accelerate aging, a fetal basis of adult disease. He has also investigated the impact of exposure in the older adult. He and his students are now investigating the critical adolescent period and its sensitivity to chemical exposures. Newland teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels on the biological bases of behavior, drug effects on behavior, conditioning and learning, and clinical psychopharmacology in developmental disabilities.

Chris Newland Alumni Professor, Department of Psychology

Postdoctoral Fellowship – University of Rochester Medical Center PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology MS – Georgia Institute of Technology BEE – Auburn University

PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT LEAVE

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Adam Jortner joined the Auburn faculty in 2009. His work focuses on the political response to supernatural events in early American history. He teaches classes on the Age of Jefferson, American religious history, new religions in America, and the history of witchcraft and witch trials. His book, The Gods of Prophetstown, won the 2013 James Broussard Prize for the best first book written on American history, 1760–1860. He has also been the recipient of the Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Award, the J. Talmadge Jones Award for history of the Latter-day Saints, and fellowships from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, the Massachusetts Historical Society, Harvard’s Houghton Library, and the Kentucky Historical Society. He is currently working on a history of miracles in the Age of Jefferson and a history of witchcraft and the law in British colonial America.

Adam Jortner Associate Professor, Department of History

PhD – University of Virginia MA – University of Virginia BA – College of William and Mary

COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANT

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Christopher Keirstead Associate Professor, Department of English

PhD – University of Delaware MA – University of Delaware BA – College of William and Mary

COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANT

Christopher Keirstead joined the English faculty in 1999. His research focuses primarily on issues of travel, form, and cultural border crossing in poetry and travel writing from the nineteenth century to the present. He has published articles on travel writing by figures as diverse as Charles Dickens, Mary Kingsley, Bruce Chatwin, and Jon Krakauer. He has also contributed a chapter to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing. His book Victorian Poetry, Europe, and the Challenge of Cosmopolitanism was published by The Ohio State University Press in 2011. His current book project, “Cosmopolitan Genres: Dynamics of Form and Travel,” examines the ways different textual forms “travel”—both in the sense of how they engage readers with foreign cultures and places, and, simultaneously, how these forms—from poetry to prose travelogues to guidebooks—hybridize and travel across each other.

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Jennifer Robinson’s research focuses on the interaction between brain regions responsible for cognitive and emotion based processes. Her work has appeared in journals such as Human Brain Mapping, NeuroImage, and Biological Psychology. Her current research examines the relationship between the autonomic and central nervous systems under a variety of conditions that trigger stress responses, such as sleep restriction or performing a task under pressure. Understanding these relationships may have transformative implications on our understanding of basic cognitive functioning and on our understanding of pathological states.

Jennifer Robinson Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

PhD – Case Western Reserve University MA – Case Western Reserve University BA – Case Western Reserve University

COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANT

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Kelly AlleyProfessorDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work

COMPETITIVE FUNDING SUPPORT FOR GRANT WRITING

Stacey L. HuntAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Political Science

Tracy WitteAssistant Professor Department of Psychology

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SUBVENTION AWARDS

Brigitta BrunnerProfessor School of Communication & Journalism

Arianne GaetanoAssistant Professor Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work

Monique LaneyAssistant Professor Department of History

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Thomas Aulino - Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre

Tessa Carr - Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre

Sally Ann Cruikshank - Assistant Professor, School of Communication & Journalism

Andrew Kozlowski - Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History

Kelly Krawczyk - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

Keetje Kuipers - Assistant Professor, Department of English

Jennifer Robinson - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

Mary Sandage - Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Disorders

Joseph Vonasek - Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

NEW FACULTY SUMMER RESEARCH GRANT

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Brigitta R. Brunner is a professor in the School of Communication & Journalism at Auburn University. She has been on the faculty at Auburn since 2002 and teaches public relations courses. Brunner has served as a Plank Center for Leadership Educator Fellow, College of Liberal Arts Engaged Scholar, Imagining America Research Fellow, Auburn University Provost’s Fellow, Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow, and Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership in Diversity Program Fellow. In 2008, Brunner was presented with the PETL Teaching Award in Communication and Social Sciences. She was selected as the inaugural winner of the Public Relations Society of America Health Academy and Quinnipiac University Faculty Paper Competition in 2009. She was named the PRCA Educator of the Year in April 2013 and works with colleagues around the country on matters related to civic professionalism through funding from the Teagle Foundation. Some of her work can be seen in Public Relations Review, The Internet and Higher Education, Teaching Public Relations Monographs, PRism, and Learning, Media, and Technology.

Brigitta R. BrunnerProfessor, School of Communication & Journalism

PhD – University of Florida MA – Auburn University BA – Juniata College

ACADEMY OF OUTSTANDING TEACHERS

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Hilary Wyss is Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University, where she has taught courses in early American literature, American studies, and Native American studies since 1998. She is the author of over a dozen articles and book chapters as well as three books on Native American literacy practices in early America. She has won teaching awards at Auburn University as well as national research grants to support her work. She has served on the editorial board of the journal, Early American Literature, and as president of the Society of Early Americanists, and she was recently elected as a member of the American Antiquarian Society, which is one of the oldest research libraries in the U.S. She has combined her love of early American studies and teaching in her co-edited American literature anthology, which includes texts ranging from classic works of American literature to less commonly studied materials that provide students with voices from a variety of American experiences.

Hilary Wyss Professor, Department of English

PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill MA – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill BA – Hamilton College, Clinton, New York

ACADEMY OF OUTSTANDING TEACHERS

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Kristrina Shuler joined the Auburn faculty in 2007, following years of employment as a senior archaeologist and consultant for one of the largest cultural resource management firms in the U.S. Her research explores the biological and cultural dimensions of shifting food production systems, which she investigates from archaeological contexts in the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin America. Shuler’s teaching portfolio includes courses in biological anthropology, medical anthropology, bioarchaeology, paleopathology, the African Diaspora, anthropological theory, introductory anthropology, and race, gender, and human variation. In addition to serving as the faculty advisor for the Auburn Anthropological Association, Shuler regularly advises undergraduate student research at Auburn, serves on MA and PhD committees at several institutions, and actively collaborates on research projects with students and faculty from institutions in the U.S. and abroad.

Kristrina Shuler Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work

PhD – Southern Illinois University Carbondale MA – University of Southern Mississippi BA – University of South Carolina

TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD

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Craig Cummings is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology. He is a member of the Teaching Fellows Program, a former student member of the TFP committee, and former Head Graduate Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Psychology. Craig has served as a graduate teaching assistant for both graduate and undergraduate courses, has taught four semesters of Introduction to Psychology, and is currently teaching his third semester of Drugs and Behavior. In 2012, he applied for and won a competitive Experimental Fellowship granted by the Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis in order to fund a line of research to serve as his dissertation. The goal of his research is to characterize the functional, behavioral, and pharmacological mechanisms which maintain behavioral deficits (i.e., preservation, behavioral flexibility, and overall task engagement) in a specific strain of mice (C57BL/6n).

Craig Cummings Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology

PhD – Auburn University, May 2016 (Expected) Major – Experimental Psychology Major Advisor – M. Christopher Newland, PhD

GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT AWARD

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Jonathan Hallford is an Academic Advisor III in the College of Liberal Arts and advises nearly 600 students of all disciplines in the College. Hallford joined CLA in 2011 after working in the College of Architecture, Design, and Construction and the Honors College at Auburn University. He is an active member in Auburn University Advisors and Counselors Council (AUACC) and has previously served as the chair elect, the interim chair, and the chair. Hallford represents CLA on the Practical Advising Seminar Group and is a member of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). He also served as the chair of the 2015 NACADA Region 4 Conference hosted by Auburn University and is currently serving as the NACADA state liaison for Alabama.

Jonathan HallfordAdvisor, College of Liberal Arts

MEd – Auburn University BA – Auburn University

EXCELLENCE IN ADVISING AWARD

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Sarah Ferguson, A&P Award RecipientCoordinator, Auburn University Band Program

Trixie Langley, Staff Award RecipientLead Administrative Assistant, Department of Psychology

Sarah Ferguson is the coordinator for the Auburn University Band Program in the Department of Music. In addition to facilitating the activities of the university’s concert and athletic bands, she oversees the planning and execution of honor bands, summer camps, and other large events while communicating with alumni, potential students, and parents on a daily basis. She also handles all finances for the program, monitoring budgets and processing payments. As a former band director, she enjoys working with summer campers and honor band participants in a teaching capacity as well.

Trixie Langley is the lead administrative assistant in the Department of Psychology. She joined the department in 1999 and has been in her current position since 2008. Her responsibilities include, but are not limited to, all HR and payroll procedures, budgeting and financial management, and course scheduling and assignments for the entire department. She handles most undergraduate program matters and advises and assists undergraduate students, and enjoys offering assistance to an individual whether it is a student or faculty member.

STAFF AND A&P EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR AWARDS

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Paula R. Backscheider Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, Department of English

Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lectureship Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, professor in the Department of English, is the recipient of the Distinguished Graduate Faculty Lectureship. The award is jointly sponsored by the Auburn Alumni Association and the Auburn University Graduate School. The recipients of the award are nominated by deans, department heads and others and are chosen by the Graduate Faculty Council on the basis of excellence in research and graduate teaching.

Paula R. Backscheider specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, feminist criticism, and cultural studies. She is the author of several books for which she has won both the British Council Prize and the MLA Lowell Prize; two of which have been selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Book award, and she has published articles in many prestigious journals. A former president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she has held ACLS, NEH, and Guggenheim fellowships, and is one of the few American members of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh. An award-winning teacher, she is dedicated to discussion courses and creating an atmosphere in which students can be themselves and feel free to take risks.

UNIVERSITY AWARDS

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Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine ArtChristian McGee, pianist Student Eminent SocietyWendy Bonner Vicky SantosAdriene C. SimonMichael Gutierrez Anna Beth Jager Bethany BroderickAustin LacyLauren Frankle Martina Janska

Produced by the College of Liberal Arts Office of External Affairs, April 2015. Auburn University is an equal opportunity institution/employer.

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SPECIAL THANKS

Paula Bobrowski, ex officio, Associate Dean for Research, Faculty Development & Graduate StudiesBrigitta Brunner, Communication & Journalism Karen Garrison, Music Ann Knipschild, MusicSridhar Krishnamurti, Communication Disorders Angela Lakwete, History Chris Newland, Psychology

Paula Bobrowski, ex officio, Associate Dean for Research, Faculty Development & Graduate StudiesAllyson Comstock, Art, Chair Janice Clifford, Sociology Cate Giustino, History Wiebke Kuhn, CLA IT (ex-officio)Jeremy Samolesky, Music David Sutton, Communication & Journalism

Promotion of Excellence in Teaching and Learning Committee Members

Research Grants Committee Members Staff and A&P Employee of the Year Awards Committee Members

Jenny Barton, Assistant Dean, College of EducationAllen Furr, Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Social WorkStephanie Woodley, HR Generalist, College of Sciences & Mathematics

2014 – 2015 COMMITTEE MEMBERS