Our Accomplish ments

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OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

FRANK ABUMERE, Zuzana Simoniova Cmelikova Visiting International Scholar at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, published African Identities and International Politics (Routledge) and Normativity in African Regional Relations (Rowman & Littlefield). Abumere co-published Migration from Nigeria and the Future of Global Security (Palgrave Macmillan).

ADAM BARTLETT, HVAC team leader, received University Facilities’ CHEERS (Co-workers Honoring Excellent Employees with Rewards) Award. Winners are selected from a pool of peer-submitted nominees.

KRISTIN BEZIO, associate professor of leadership studies, published The Eye of the Crown: The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service (Routledge). Bezio also published “Single-Player Videogames in Leadership Learning” in New Directions for Student Leadership.

DAVID BRANDENBERGER, professor of history and global studies, published “Global in Form, Soviet in Content: The Changing Semantics of Internationalism in Official Soviet Discourse, 1917–1991” in The Russian Review and “Stalin and the Silences of the Official History of His Role in the Prerevolutionary Bolshevik Underground” in Revolutionary Russia.

CINDY BUKACH, MacEldin Trawick Professor of Psychology, published “Face Processing Still Predicts Reading Ability: Evidence from Developmental Prosopagnosia” in Cortex.

ELENA CALVILLO, associate professor of art history, published the chapter “Friendship, Medium and the Diverging Lives of Sebastiano del Piombo and Michelangelo” in Sebastiano del Piombo and Michelangelo: The Compass and the Mirror (Brepols).

DAN CHEN, assistant professor of political science, published “One Step Ahead of the Game” in Index on Censorship.

VOLHA CHYKINA, assistant professor of leadership studies, published “Pro-integration policies and the occupational expectations of immigrant youth” in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

TOM COSSE, associate dean for international business programs, was elected to the steering committee of the Latin American Council of Management Schools, an international organization that reunites higher education institutions and international organizations committed to the teaching and research of management.

MARIAMA REBELLO DE SOUSA DIAS, assistant professor of physics, co-published “Leveraging Machine Learning to Harness Non-Parabolic Effects in Semiconductor Heterostructures” in Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures.

KELLING DONALD, Clarence E. Denoon Jr. Chair in the Natural Sciences, in collaboration with undergraduate students, published “On Neutral Unsaturated Ouroboric Borylenes” in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.

DELLA DUMBAUGH, professor of mathematics, co-published A History of Mathematics in the United States and Canada, Volume 2: 1900–1941 (American Mathematical Society).

DANA EL KURD, assistant professor of political science, was selected as a panelist with the Carnegie Middle East Center and the Foundation for Middle East Peace to discuss President Biden’s trip to the Middle East. El Kurd published the chapter “Mixed Methods Research” in Handbook of Research Methods in International Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing).

JOE FARIZO, assistant professor of finance, published “(Black)Rock the vote: Index funds and opposition to management” in the Journal of Corporate Finance.

JESSICA FLANIGAN, Richard L. Morrill Chair in Ethics & Democratic Values, published the chapter “Public Health and Health Care Policy” in The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism (Routledge). She also published the chapter “Deception and Sexual Harassment” in The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan).

JAN FRENCH, associate professor of anthropology, published “Ethnography In-Sight: Spiraling through Fieldwork” and “Paint It Black or Red: Serious Play in Brazil’s Northeast” in The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.

GENGSONG GAO, associate professor of Chinese studies, published “Chinese Centrist Liberal Critics of Trump: A Reconsideration of Contemporary Chinese Liberalism” in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs.

JANE GEANEY, professor of religious studies, published The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China: Normative Models for Words (SUNY Press).

JERRY GILFOYLE, Robert Edward and Lena Frazer Loving Chair of Physics, published “Electron-Beam Energy Reconstruction for Neutrino Oscillation Measurements” in Nature.

AL GOETHALS, professor of leadership studies, received the International Leadership Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

KRISTINE GRAYSON, associate professor of biology, received a $116,800 grant — her fourth year of funding — from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for “Research and Development on a Rearing System for Emerald Ash Borer.”

DIETER GUNKEL, assistant professor of historical linguistics, published “The First Person Singular of the Athematic Middle Optative in Vedic and Indo-Iranian” in the Journal of the American Oriental Society. Gunkel also presented “Evidence for and Against Stress Regulation in Tocharian Meter” at the University of Vienna and “Rigvedic *aśiya, *aśiya, *rāsiya and the Development of PIE *-ih1-h2e into IndoIranian” at Cornell University.

JEFFREY HASS, associate professor of sociology, was selected a co-winner of the American Sociological Association Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict’s 2022 Book Award and received an honorable mention for ASA’s Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for Wartime Suffering and Survival: The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad, 1941–1944 (Oxford University Press).

MEGHAN HARRIS, associate vice president, joined Leadership Metro Richmond’s Leadership Quest Class of 2023. LMR is a community leadership development and engagement organization with a mission to strengthen the region by connecting diverse leaders and preparing them to serve.

CHRISTINE HELMS, associate professor of physics, and an undergraduate student published “Labeling fibrin fibers with beads alter single fibrin fiber lysis, external clot lysis, and produce large fibrin aggregates upon lysis” in Blood Coagulation & Fibrinolysis.

DANIEL HOCUTT, web manager in the School of Professional & Continuing Studies, co-published “Writing Infrastructure with the Fabric of Digital Life Platform” in the first of two special issues on communication design and infrastructures in Communication Design Quarterly.

CRYSTAL HOYT, Col. Leo K. and Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership, co-published “Stereotypic Beliefs Contribute to Gender Disparities in the Field of Economics” in The Journal of Social Psychology and “Coping in the time of COVID-19: Mindsets and the stories we tell” in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. Hoyt and Laura Knouse, associate professor of psychology, published “A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work?” in Psychological Bulletin.

KATHRYN JACOBSEN, William E. Cooper Distinguished University Chair, published the chapter “An Epidemiological Perspective on Historic and Emerging Pandemics” in A Multidisciplinary Approach to Pandemics: COVID-19 and Beyond (Oxford University Press). Jacobsen also published “Anxiety and School Absenteeism Without Permission Among Adolescents in 69 Low- and Middle-Income Countries” in Dialogues in Health.

ELIZABETH KISSLING, associate professor of Spanish and applied linguistics, published “From Rule-Based Explicit Instruction to Explicit Knowledge: A Pilot Study on How L1 English Speakers Interpret Pedagogical Rules about Spanish Preterite and Imperfect” in Instructed Second Language Acquisition and “Exploring Boundedness for Concept-Based Instruction of Aspect: Evidence from Novice L1 English Speakers Learning the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect” in The Modern Language Journal.

LAURA KNOUSE, associate professor of psychology, copublished “Usability and Feasibility of a Cognitive-Behavioral Mobile App for ADHD in Adults” in PLOS Digital Health. Knouse and Crystal Hoyt, Col. Leo K. & Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership, published “A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work?” in Psychological Bulletin.

KAREN KOCHEL, associate professor of psychology, published the chapter “Can Friends Also Be Foes?” in Peer Relationships in Classroom Management: Evidence and Interventions for Teaching (Routledge) and “Empirically Derived Psychological Profiles of College Students: Differential Associations with COVID-19 Impact and Social Adjustment” in Emerging Adulthood.

PAUL KVAM, professor of statistics, co-published Nonparametric Statistics with Applications to Science and Engineering with R (Wiley).

MATTHEW LOWDER, assistant professor of cognitive psychology, published “Relative Clause Effects at the Matrix Verb Depend on Type of Intervening Material” in Cognitive Science.

THOMAS MANGANARO, assistant professor of English, was awarded the Walker Cowen Prize for outstanding work of scholarship in 18th-century