SEEN AND HEARD

from HBS Roundup: Scholarly and Creative Works

ACADEMIC INNOVATION

Presentations, Publications, & Podcasts

create Sitting with History, Vol. 1.

POLITICAL SCIENCE

Dr. Mark Setzler, Director of International Relations Program & professor, co-authored, “Gender, American Identity, and Sexism” with Dr. John Graeber. The article will be published in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 137, Winter 2022.

PSYCHOLOGY

Dr. Kirsten Li-Barber,

Department Chair & associate professor, showcased four posters at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Chicago this May. Two were collaborations with associate professor Dr. Kelly Curtis. Together, they presented “Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Psychological Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life” and “Parental Emotional Availability and Attitudes of Emotional Expression Predict College Student Symptoms of Alexithymia and Susceptibility to Stress.”

RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

Rev. Dr. Chris Franks, Owen D. and Mattie Holt McPherson Associate Professor & Department Chair, visited Furman University to present “Make Friends, Not (Only) Donations” on April 19. He also published a book review of Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism, by Kathryn Tanner, in the July edition of the International Journal of Systematic Theology. Rev. Dr. Joe Blosser, Executive Director of the Center for Community Engagement & associate professor, published an extended entry in the Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics titled “Consumption and Production.” Dr. Carl Helsing, instructor, published the essay titled, “Zhuangzi’s Moral Psychology of Humor: The Playful Liberation of Self, Others and Society,” in the collection The Moral Psychology of Amusement. He also presented “Zhuangzi’s Epistemological Imagery: Border Paths, Ox-Bones, and Rabbit Snares” virtually at the International Society for Chinese Philosophy. Dr. Beth Hupfer, assistant professor, presented “Ineffective Charity” at the North American Society for Social Philosophy Conference in July. Her scholarly article “Humanitarian Nations” was published online by the Journal of Global Ethics. Dr. Caroline Mobley, instructor, presented “Moral Responsibility for Amusement” to the International Association for the Philosophy of Humor at the American Philosophical Association in Chicago, IL in February. Rev. Dr. Preston Davis, Minister to the University, was featured on the Means of Grace podcast this summer. He spoke about the rise of fear and anxiety in young adults and the importance of college ministry to address such issues.

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY

Dr. Rodney Reynolds, assistant professor, sponsored guest speaker Dr. Ayesha Ahmad from St. George’s Medical School University of London in collaboration with HPULearning Communities, Cultural Programs Committee, and Faith Action Intl.

WORLD LANGUAGES, LITERATURES, AND CULTURES

Dr. Daliang Wang, Department Chair & associate professor, was invited by the NJ Chinese Teachers Association and the Fujian Students and Scholars Association of Greater New York to host a virtual lecture, titled “The Philosophies of Yangming through Taiji and Daoism” on April 3rd. Dr. Sara De Nicolas, assistant professor, published the article “Looking for votes: a comparative study of political advertisements of the US presidential campaign of 2020 targeting the Latinx community” in the journal Revista de Lingüística y Literatura. On October 21st, she spoke at Georgetown University. Dr. Denis Depinoy, assistant professor, presented the paper, “Des sentiers impossibles: La construction de l’espace médiéval dans Johan et Pirlouit de Peyo” at the 2022 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in Lexington, KY. Dr. Tessa Gurney, Director of the Italian Studies Program & assistant professor, spoke at the Carolina Conference for Romance Studies in Chapel Hill. Dr. Benoit Leclercq, assistant professor, chaired a panel titled “Denaturing Narrative” and presented a paper on piétinement narratif in Les Misérables at the 2022 Kentucky Foreign Language Conference in Lexington, KY.

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