QU | Faculty Briefs
Faculty Briefs MEGAN BOCCARDI '99, PHD, associate
professor of history; Division of Behavioral and Social Science chair, was one of a select group of faculty members nationwide chosen by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History to participate in a special American history seminar on “The Civil War in American Memory,” at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
JOSEPH R. COELHO, PHD, professor
of biology, in collaboration with Charles W. Holliday, PhD, of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and Jon M. Hastings, PhD, of Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Kentucky, published an article entitled “Intra- and Interspecific Prey Theft in Cicada Killers.” The study examines prey theft in two cicada killer wasp aggregations: the Pacific cicada killer wasp in Ruby, Arizona and the Eastern cicada killer wasp in Easton, Pennsylvania. The paper was published in The Journal of Insect Science, Volume 19, Issue 1. In collaboration with Krista Delany Manard ’15, JOSEPH R. COELHO, PHD, recently published an article entitled “Insects in Folk Music.” The study examines values expressed toward arthropods in folk music. The study began as Manard’s honors research project while she was a student at QU. The paper was published in American Entomologist, Volume 65, Issue 1, Spring 2019, pages 61-65. Sadly, Manard passed away in November 2017 and was never able to see the article published.
Several works of Quincy University’s ROBERT LEE MEJER, distinguished professor of art, have been selected for international, national, and statewide exhibitions. Mejer’s watercolor Take PC #4 was selected for inclusion in the international Fabriano in Watercolor 2019 Exhibition, in conjunction with the Art Fabriano in Acquarello Convention in Fabriano, Italy; Mejer’s watercolor Take PC Open Book #2 was selected for inclusion in the 2019 Transparent Watercolor Society of America 43rd Annual Exhibition in Kenosha Wis.; Mejer’s watercolor Pinball was selected for inclusion in the 58th National Exhibition of Watercolor USA in Springfield, Mo.; Mejer’s watercolor Jason’s Delight was selected for inclusion in the 2019 Missouri Watercolor Society International Exhibition in St. Louis Mo.; and Mejer was invited to exhibit his artwork in Pathways to Watercolor, a three-person exhibition at the Springfield Art Association Gallery in Springfield, Ill. Mejer was honored for master watercolorist status which is achieved by acceptance into 10 or more annual juried exhibitions. Mejer also received the $1,000 special merit James McNeill Whistler Award.
JONATHAN MILES PHD, associate
professor of philosophy, published an article entitled “Taking Patient Virtue Seriously.” The article is another attempt to expand the discussion of virtue ethics in health care from the virtues of good nurses and doctors to the virtues of good patients. The project started with a question from nursing students in Miles’ bioethics course: What makes a good patient and how do health care institutions encourage and cultivate them? The article was published in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.
JONATHAN FUQUA PHD, adjunct
professor of philosophy, in conjunction with Brian Besong, assistant professor of philosophy at Ohio Dominican University, recently published a book entitled Faith and Reason: Philosophers Explain Their Turn to Catholicism. The book examines compelling stories and arguments from senior statesmen in the field and bright young philosophers alike, all detailing how their reasoned and rigorous pursuit of truth led them to the Catholic faith. The book was published by Ignatius Press.
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Assistant Professor of English, ANNA SHAJIRAT, PHD, research on Gothic literature and gender in the British long eighteenth century appeared in the prestigious peer-reviewed publications Studies in Romanticism and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, as well as in an edited collection of essays from University of Wales Press titled Women's Authorship and the Early Gothic. She presented excerpts from this work over the summer at the annual conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the International Gothic Association.
