Recent Appoint ment: Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh

RECENT APPOINTMENT JENNIFER JONES CAVENAUGH

Dean, School of Arts & Sciences

Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh will join the UR community as the dean of the School of Arts & Sciences on July 1.

Cavenaugh is currently dean of the faculty at Rollins College and the Winifred M. Warden Endowed Chair of Theatre & Dance. She previously served for four years at Rollins as an associate dean of Arts & Sciences and three years as producing artistic director of the Annie Russell Theatre.

Cavenaugh’s areas of teaching and research include gender and performance, theater history, script analysis, and American musical theater. Her book Medea’s Daughters: Forming and Performing Women Who Kill examines representations of women criminals in plays and television. She is a member of Actor’s Equity and has performed and directed for over 25 years. She is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards.

“Having a long history of being a strong proponent of faculty development and an active participant in shared governance, Dr. Cavenaugh will be a great addition to the University,” said Jeff Legro, executive vice president and provost. “She has deep experience in recruiting, hiring, and retaining an outstanding diverse faculty and in strengthening an academic community, which are also priorities at UR.”

Cavenaugh holds a bachelor’s degree in policy studies from Dartmouth College, a master’s in dramaturgy from Brooklyn College, and a doctorate in theater history and dramatic criticism from the University of Washington. Her husband of 20 years, Gregory, will join the Department of Rhetoric and Communication Studies as a visiting assistant professor.

“The University of Richmond’s teacher-scholar model and its commitment to a liberal arts education and to undergraduate research drew me in immediately,” said Cavenaugh. “I look forward to working with such a vibrant community.” JEPPE VON PLATZ, associate professor of philosophy, published “The Principle of Merit and the Capital-Labour Split,” in Economics and Philosophy and “The Injustice of Alienation” in Social Theory and Practice.

LAURA POE, adjunct assistant professor of information systems, and Lionel Mew, assistant professor of information systems, published “The Effects of Using the Agile Methodology as an Instructional Format for Software Development Courses” in Industry and Higher Education.

JULIE POLLOCK, associate professor of chemistry, with UR undergraduate research students and collaborators from High Point University, published “Identification and evaluation of brominated carbazoles as a novel antibiotic adjuvant scaffold in MRSA” in ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. Pollock, with Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry, students, and off-campus collaborators, published “Investigating novel thiazolyl-indazole derivatives as scaffolds for SARS-CoV-2 MPro inhibitors” in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Reports.

TERRY PRICE, Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics, published the chapter “Feeling and Dirty Hands: The Role of Regret Experienced by Responsible Agents” in Judgment and Leadership: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Concepts, Practice, and Development (Edward Elgar).

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CARMONA, associate professor of biology, received the 2021 Prize for Excellence in Inclusivity from the American Society for Cell Biology.

CHRIS VON RUEDEN, associate professor of leadership studies, co-authored “Where They Sing Solo: Accounting for Cross-Cultural Variation in Collective Music-Making in Theories of Music Evolution” in Behavioral and Brain Sciences and “Niche Diversity Predicts Personality Structure Across 115 Nations” in Psychological Science.

JEFFREY SIMPSON, director of nuclear magnetic resonance and computational support; Michael Leopold, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry; Carol Parish, Floyd D. and Elisabeth S. Gottwald Professor of Chemistry and associate provost for academic integration; and an undergraduate student published “Evaluating Halogen-Bonding Strength as a Function of Molecular Structure Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Computational Analysis” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.