FACULTY EXCELLENCE MORE EXCELLENCE
D I YA A B D O
the Brown University
Tenured and Promoted to Associate Professor:
Swearer Center for Public
• Chafic Bou-Saba,
Service awarded Diya Abdo,
Associate Professor of
Associate Professor of
Computing Technology and
English in the Department of
Information Systems
English and Creative Writing,
• Krista Craven,
as the 2019 recipient of the
Associate Professor of
Thomas Ehrlich Civically
Justice and Policy Studies
• Campus Compact and
Engaged Faculty Award,
• Holly Peterson, Associate
which recognizes faculty for
Professor of Geology
their exemplary engaged
book of poetry, God had a body.
scholarship, teaching
• Chairperson of the
and research. • H. Curt ’56 and Patricia S. ’57 Hege Professor of History Timothy Kircher received a research fellowship at the Freie Universität of Berlin for summer 2020.
• Rachel Riskind, Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Peace and
• Karen Spira,
Conflict Studies and Assistant
Associate Professor of
Professor Zulfiya Tursunova
Foreign Languages
chaired a panel on “Re-
• Christine Stracey
imagining peace and justice
Richard, Associate
through accountability,
Professor of Biology
of Geology and Sustainable
transnational activism,
Food Systems Marlene
sanctuary movements
McCauley.
and decentralizing power”
Francesco Petrarch, whose
• Richie Zweigenhaft
at the 2019 Peace and
life and work helped redefine
(above), Dana Professor of
the importance of classical
Psychology, published his
learning in European society.
first memoir, Geezerball:
Canada.
Promoted to Professor:
North Carolina Basketball at
• Associate Professor of Sport
• Don Smith,
its Eldest (Sort of a Memoir).
Studies Brenda Swearingin
Professor of Physics
published in the same book
• Associate Professor of
took a “dip of faith” and made
• Michele Malotky,
by the Friends Association of
English and Creative Writing
the 12-mile swim around
Professor of Biology
Higher Education. Featured
Mylène Dressler and Visiting
in the latest volume of
Assistant Professor of English
Quakers, Creation Care, and
and Creative Writing Jennie
Sustainability are Associate
Malboeuf were awarded a
Professor of Physics
2019-20 Artists Fellowship
Donald Smith, Professor of
from the N.C. Arts Council.
Channel Crossing.
Chemistry Gail Webster,
Mylène published the second
• Dave Dobson, Professor
Charles A. Dana Professor of
book from her The Last Ghost
of Geology, published his
• Diya Abdo,
English Jim Hood, Kyle Dell,
series: I See You So Close and
first novel, Flames over
Professor of English
and Charles A. Dana Professor
Jennie published her first
Frosthelm.
He studied and presented research on the work of the Renaissance humanist
• Five Guilford College faculty members were
Justice Studies Association conference in Winnipeg,
Charleston, S.C. The 12-mile swim in the Charleston waters was an initial test toward her ultimate goal of completing the English
• Robin Vest, Associate Professor of Theatre Studies
• Wendy Looker, Professor of Music
• Craig Eilbacher, Professor of Sports Medicine
• Maria Bobroff, Professor of Foreign Languages
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