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Abby Bender (Languages & Literature) presented the paper, "Breast, Bottle, Milk Bank: Irish Writers and Infant Feeding in (Global) Crisis," at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
Abby Bender (Languages & Literature) delivered a talk about "Jewish Ireland and James Joyce's Ulysses" at the Irish History Round Table in New Haven.
Elliott Bertrand (Mathematics) and Jennifer Phaiah (Farrington College of Education & Human Development) co-presented a workshop on "Optimizing Postsecondary Teaching Through High-Leverage UDL Strategies" at Goodwin University's third UDL conference (“No Labels, No Limits: Exploring the Power of UDL”). This presentation included joint work with Lindsay Keazer (FCEHD) as part of their ongoing NSF-funded grant OPTIMUM (Optimizing Postsecondary Teaching: Integrating Methods for UDL in Mathematics).
Lori Bindig Yousman (Communication & Media) published her essay, “Stick to the Status Quo” or “‘Start of Something New’”? Exploring the Highs and Lows of Disney+’s High School Musical: The Musical: The Series,” in the book The Disney+ Kingdom: Essays on Nostalgia, Representation and Branding (McFarland & Company).
Lori Bindig Yousman (Communication & Media) presented “Real World Problems?: Representations of Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Reality Television” at the Cultural Studies Association National Conference.
Pamela Buck (Languages & Literature) published the monograph, “Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs,” with University of Delaware Press.
Pamela Buck (Languages & Literature) published a book review of Kerri Andrews' Wanderers: A History of Women Walking in the journal Romanticism, in the journal “Romanticism,” (Vol. 30, Issue 1)
Pamela Buck (Languages & Literature) presented the paper, "Charlotte Eaton’s Battlefield Relics in Narrative of a Residence in Belgium” at the British Women Writers Conference at University of Colorado Boulder.
Ximeng Chen (Political Science & Global Affairs) co-published an article on intermediary organizations’ engagement of diaspora philanthropy titled “Intermediary Organizations for Diaspora Philanthropy: A Systematic Literature Review,” which was published in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.
Maureen Conard (Psychology) presented a study at the peer-reviewed Eastern Psychological Association Conference in Philadelphia, PA. The paper was titled “Validation of cognitive and non-cognitive factors in Doctor of Physical Therapy.”
Richard Falco (Communication & Media) co-wrote an article, “Angola: A Struggle to Survive,” for the online magazine Witness; text by João Coelho & Richard Falco and photographs by João Coelho.
Richard Falco (Communication & Media) co-facilitated a reading and discussion with Nathan Lewis (Art & Design) from Marie Hulme's new book, “Brigid’s Peace “The talk was accompanied by an exhibition of Falco's photographs. Richard Falco's (Communication & Media) work was shown alongside Mariusz Smiejek’s works in an exhibition titled “Ireland: Conflict in Eden An Exhibition of photographs of the Conflict in Belfast and the life in Southern Ireland.”
Richard Falco (Communication & Media) worked with the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. to establish an archive of his photographs, film and multimedia that will be available for research.
Charles Gillespie (Catholic Studies), Todd Matthews (Sociology, Criminology & Criminal Justice) Gary Rose (scholar in residence) and Bill Yousman (Communication & Media) participated in WSHU discussion panel about the movie WarGames.
Zhen Han (Political Science & Global Affairs) gave a speech at the International Studies Association (ISA) 2024 Convention in San Francisco in honor of Professor T.V. Paul (ex-president of the ISA), the recipient of the 2024 ISA-Canada Distinguished Scholar award.
Zhen Han (Political Science & Global Affairs) presented a paper, “Explaining the Institutionalization of BRICS,” at the International Studies Association 2024 Convention in San Francisco.
Zhen Han (Political Science & Global Affairs) was invited to discuss his paper, "China's Approach to a Post-expansion BRICS" during the 2024 Association of Slavic and East European Studies Conference on Nov. 23 in Boston.
David Luesink (History) presented a guest lecture, “Medicine & Imperialism: An Anatomical Tour of East Asia, Circa 1917,” in March 2025 at Salisbury University in Maryland, during a lecture series called "Imperialism In Asia." Sasha Aaronson and Sharlene Kerelejza (Social Work) partnered with Wednesdae Reim Ifrach in 2024 to present a workshop, "Restricted: Racism's Intersectional Impact on Agency and Liberation," to the CT Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Kelly Marino (History) presented the opening lecture at the Fairfield Museum & History Center to launch the new exhibit on civic engagement, which she helped to create. Her talk focused on her second book, Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign (NYU Press).
Mark Mascia (Languages & Literature) presented at a conference in Durham, England. He spoke about “Lope de Vega Writing De Senectute: On Life and the State of Literature as Seen in the Fílis Égloga” for the IV Durham-Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies.
Mark Mascia (Foreign Languages & Cultures) gave a presentation, “Food, Survival, and the Inversion of Prosperity in Early Modern Spain: The Case of the Picaresque Novel and Lazarillo de Tormes,” at the MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, PA.
Bonnie Maur (Biology) and Andrew Lazowski (Mathematics), along with some of their students, were presented at the National Science Teachers Association and led a presentation titled, “Using Mini-Grants to Increase the Level of STEM Education in Classrooms.”
Luciana McClure (Art & Design) chaired two panels, including “Nasty Women Connecticut: A Collaborative Feminist Project,” for the Feminist Art Project at the CAA Conference in 2024.
Irena Portenko (Music) organized her 11th Summer International Festival and Academy “Music in the Alps” in August 2024, as well as her first festival of Schubert’s music in October 2024.
Catholic Studies faculty Dan Rober and Michael Sean Winters attended a seminar on Catholic social teaching in Warsaw, Poland. Winters helped organize the conference, which focused on the 60th anniversary of the close of Vatican II. Rober presented at the event.
Dan Rober (Catholic Studies) wrote an article about NYC public transit and congestion pricing for Commonweal Magazine in June 2024.
John Roney (History) and SHU Dingle hosted a Trinity College Dublin "4-Oceans" project workshop in Dingle, Feb. 26-28, 2024. The EU-funded 4-OCEANS project studies the importance of marine life for human societies during the last two millennia, 100 BCE to 1860 CE. Chelsea King (Catholic Studies) gave the annual lecture in Religion and Science at Clarke University in Iowa. The title of her lecture was “Darwin’s Disbelief: Evolution, Animal Suffering, and the Crisis of Faith."
Nidhi Shrivastava (Languages & Literature) participated in a panel by the Center of Media and Celebrity Studies during a 2024 live screening and panel talk on caregiving, loss and grief. The films explored during the talk were Kiera Obbard’s Caregiving: An Exploration of Grief, Care, and Family Trauma and Michael W. Dodge’s Getting To It.
Nidhi Shrivastava (Languages & Literature) presented a paper called "Teaching Social Justice and Gendered Violence of 1947 Partition Narratives in the #MeToo Classroom," at Modern Languages Association (MLA) 2023 in Philadelphia, PA.
David Thomson (History), David Luesink (History), Grace Guo (Management) and Zhen Han (Political Science & Global Affairs) organized a roundtable discussion on the topic of "American Dream, Chinese Dream."
Pamela Valera (Social Work) presented at the National Institute of Justice’s 2024 National Research Conference: “Advancing Justice Through Science,” in Pittsburgh, PA. Her presentation was titled “Unveiling the Mental Health Challenges of Correctional Police Officers—A Cross-Sectional Analysis by Race and Gender.”
James Castonguay (Communication & Media) announced the receipt of grant from the Press Forward Initiative. The $100,000 grant will help the Sacred Heart University community journalism collective to continue to work with the Easton Courier to bring community-based coverage to Easton and the surrounding communities.
Anna Kouremenos, Ph.D., (History) was awarded a grant from the Rust Family Foundation for her work on Hellenism in the Roman Empire. Kristen Savell received the Cobb Professional Development Grant from the American Association of Biological Anthropologists for her project "Limb Segment Length, Gait Transition & Cost of Transport during Slope-Walking.
Eleni Mantas-Kourounis (Political Science & Global Affairs) and Todd Matthews (Sociology, Criminology and Criminal Justice), won the Naclerio Award for their collaborative project, "The Effects of Civic Education, Political Information, and Political Memories on Political Participation and Self-Censorship."
Victoria Osborne (Social Work), along with colleagues in the College of Nursing and the College of Health Professions, received a grant, “Implementation and coordination of interprofessional education virtual reality simulation experiences for health professions, social work and nursing students.” The team included Millie Hepburn (PI), Susan Goncalves, Elizabeth Buckner, Jennifer Cullinan, LuAnn Etcher, Susan Ronan, Reynold Jaglal, Marguerite Lawrence and Melissa Scollan-Koliopolous
The awardees of the Naclerio Award are Katie Kroeper (Psychology), for her project, "Cultivating Growth & Resilience."
Kelly Marino’s (History) letter about presidential contender Kamala Harris appeared in the New Haven Register and Marino was quoted in an article about JD Vance in the HuffPost.
Dan Rober (Catholic Studies) was quoted in America Magazine.
Gary Rose (Political Science & Global Affairs) was quoted in the CT Post.
Gary Rose (Political Science & Global Affairs) was the featured guest on the podcast of Carol Platt Liebau, President of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. The Iowa Caucuses and the forthcoming primaries were the subject of the interview.
Gary Rose (Political Science & Global Affairs) was as guest on Yankee Institute’s “Y CT Matters” show to talk about presidential polling.
Gary Rose (Political Science & Global Affairs) appeared on News 12 to provide analysis during election coverage and was quoted in a story in The Hour about candidates running against long odds.
Gary Rose (Political Science & Global Affairs) was interviewed by WSHU and weighs in on Connecticut’s Democrats push back on Republican criticism of Trump’s conviction.
Gary Rose (Political Science & Global Affairs) was interviewed by the Middletown Press and NewsTimes about members of President-elect Trump's transition team.
The SCMA Faculty-sponsored Unity in Diversity Conference was mentioned in an article on Patch.
Rachel Bauer (Media & Performing Arts) discussed her in-progress research project, "Moms vs. the EPA: The Performance of Expertise After Environmental Crisis," during the first ever Hot Topics session at the Mid-America Theatre Conference. She is working with sociologist Dr. Kristen Kalz on this project.
Rachel Bauer presented "The Untitled Othello Project: A Blueprint for Experiencing Theatre in Higher Education" at the Mid-America Theatre Conference. Bauer is writing this piece with collaborators Emily Bryan (Languages & Literature) and Charlie Gillespie (Catholic Studies).
Abby Bender (Languages & Literature) presented a lecture on Irish cultural and literary history of breastfeeding in Ireland, a topic that has led to further considerations of the body, biopower, disability and medical humanities, with a particular focus on gender and women’s writing. The lecture was held at the Gaelic American Club in Fairfield.
Abby Bender presented on two panels for the New England/Mid-Atlantic American Conference of Irish Studies at Boston College, including a roundtable on the new book The Irish Revival: A Complex Vision, and a paper on “Reconceiving Irish Motherhood in Contemporary Irish Women's Writing.”
Lori Bindig Yousman (Communication Studies) presented "Facing Reality?: Representations of Racial Inequality and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Reality Television" at the Union for Democratic Communication Conference at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ryan Brown (Catholic Studies) published a journal article, "On Reason and Hope: Plato, Pieper, and the Hopeful Structure of Reason,” in Communio-International Catholic Review, 50.2.
Maureen Conard (Psychology) presented the study “Predicting Physical Therapy Clinical Scores with Non-Cognitive Factors” at the Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Boston, MA.
Zhen "Arc" Han (Political Science & Global Affairs) presented a paper titled "Soft Balancing Coalition: The Case of BRICS" (co-authored with Mihaela Papa, Tufts University) at the International Studies Association 2023 Convention in Montreal, Canada.
Zhen Han presented his research papers "Alliances in Chinese international relations: Are they ending or rejuvenating?" and "Brazilian alliance perspectives: Towards a BRICS development–security alliance?" at the conference of "Rising Power Coalitions: Reimagining Global Governance?" held at the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University in Boston.
Cara Kilgallen's (Languages & Literature) piece "Naturalism’s Nonhuman Streets: Sustainability & Sustenance in Black Women’s Writing" was published as a chapter in a collection of essays called The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism, edited by Kenneth K. Brandt and Karin M. Danielsson.
Kathryn Kroeper co-published a study about girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) in Child Development, a publication of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Brent Little (Catholic Studies) published a book titled Acts of Faith and Imagination Theological Patterns in Catholic Fiction (The Catholic University of America Press).
Michelle Loris (Catholic Studies) published "Rescuing Augustine and Aquinas: How Seminar Pedagogy Can Help Save the Catholic Intellectual Tradition" in LOGOS: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Vol 26 Number 5 2023, pp.56-64.
David Luesink (History) presented a workshop in Taipei, Republic of China: “Till Death Do Us Apart: Death-Related Practices and Group Categorization in Modern Eastern Asian Cultures.”
David Luesink was the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-China Association keynote speaker for an event honoring the legacy of Yan Fuqing, MD, Class of 1909.
Mark Mascia (Languages & Literature) presented a paper at the Modern Language Association 2023 Convention in San Francisco. The title of the paper was “Early Modern Spanish Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom: Teaching Older Texts and Contemporary Issues."
Mark Mascia presented a paper: "Tomé de Burguillos and Lope’s Bestiary: The Social Function of Animals in Lope de Vega’s Later Poetry” at the XVI Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Hendrik Meurkens (Music) presented a masterclass entitled "Getting to Know the World of Jazz and Improvisation" at the University of Costa Rico in San Jose, Costa Rico.
Steven Michels (Political Science & Global Affairs) participated on a panel at Pace University, as part of the release of Socio-political Risk Management (De Gruyter) and his chapter, "Climate Change and Extreme Weather."
Foluke Omosun (Communication Studies) co-presented two papers, “Framing Fauci: Analyzing partisan media coverage of a top U.S. spokesperson during COVID-19” and “Vaccine Diplomacy in the Era of Covid-19: Framing News Coverage in International Broadcasters from China, Russia, the U.K., and U.S.,” at the annual Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference in Washington, D.C.
Jonix Owino (Psychology) was the guest speaker on "Capturing Social Change: The Practice and Research of Social Enterprise," at Yale University.
Gerald Reid (Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice) presented a paper entitled “All in the Family: The Delarondes of Kahnawà:ke and the Marketing of Kanien’kehá:ka Beadwork at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” at the Conference on Iroquois Research, held October 13-15 on the Six Nations Grand River Reserve in Brantford, Ontario.
Gerald Reid's article "Lacrosse in the Economic and Social Life of the Kanien’kehá:ka Community of Kahnawà:ke in the Late Nineteenth Century" has been accepted for publication in Ethnohistory, the journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory.
John Roney (History) wrote a chapter titled “Jean Henri Merel d’Aubigné,” in The Genevan Réveil in International Perspective, eds. Jean D. Decorvet, Tim Grass and Kenneth J. Stewart. (Wipf and Stock Publishers).
John Roney presented at a conference titled "Using AI and AR in Deep Mapping the Dingle Peninsula," in a panel on Digital Humanities and Irish Studies, Boston College, American Conference for Irish Studies.
Gary Rose (Political Science & Global Affairs) was a keynote speaker at the Annual Lincoln Dinner sponsored by the Catholic Club of Norwalk. His speech was titled "'A House Divided: President Lincoln's Warning Within the Context of Contemporary American Politics."
Nidhi Shrivastava presented "Exploring Feminist Politics and Agency during the rise of Hindu Nationalism in Deepa Mehta’s Adaption Leila (2019)" in the seminar panel titled “Future Beyond Dystopia: Dismantling Power Structures and Reconfiguring Agency in South Asia” at the 51st Annual Conference on South Asia.
Lisa Smith (Psychology) published an article in Psychology Today about eustress.
Brian Stiltner (Theology & Religious Studies) presented at the joint annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and the Religious Research Association, in Salt Lake City, UT. The presentation was titled "Empowering Internal and External Community-Building in Congregations."
Christine Susienka (Philosophy) and Brian Stiltner (Theology and Religious Studies) attended the 32nd annual conference of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics in Portland, OR. They presented a talk, "Technological Drift in University Education as a Threat to Democratic Equality," and, as co-directors of the Hersher Institute, attended a summit workshop for directors of ethics centers.
David Thomson (History) gave a lecture at the University of Alabama on his new book Bonds of War.
Michael Vale (Psychology) published a paper with his colleagues examining age differences in using humor coping styles during the pandemic in the journal Humor.
Shanshan Wang (Media & Performing Arts) presented her latest VR work, The Thinkers Loop, at the XOR Space in Berlin and the Timecheh Festival in Cologne, Germany.
Alyssa Woronik (Biology) published a research article in Science Advances. This study uses genomics and CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to investigate the evolution of an alternative life history strategy in butterflies.
Deirdre Yeater (Psychology) co-published (Manitzas Hill, H. M., Highfill, L., Bolton, T., Henriquez, W., Dudzinski, K., Gutierrez, M., Birk, D., & Yeater, D.) “Effects of human-dolphin interactions on tourist knowledge and attitudes about dolphins” in Animals and Society, 1(aop), 1-22.
Bill Yousman (Media & Performing Arts) presented "Eleven Theses on Disinformation (with Apologies to Karl Marx)" at the Union for Democratic Communication Conference at the University of Pennsylvania.
Grants & Fellowships
The biology department received a grant from the Long Island Sound Futures Fund for Extending 'Living Shoreline' in Stratford.
Torrance Hanley (Biology) is leading a one-year project funded by NOAA’s National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Science Collaborative ($77,845). In collaboration with project partners from six organizations, she is assessing global seagrass restoration methods and developing tools to improve communication of seed-based restoration techniques among seagrass practitioners around the world.
Jonix Owino was selected for the North Star Collective BIPOC Faculty Fellowship.
The Center for Catholic Studies received a $72,000 grant from the Owsley Brown II Family Foundation to fund a fellowship that will promote SHU’s excellence as a premier Catholic university rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition and inspired by Vatican II and increase its recognition around the world.
LaTina Steele (Biology), along with Sarah Crosby (The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk), A. Randall Hughes (Northeastern University), Nicole Kollars (Northeastern University), Nicole Spiller (Harbor Watch and Earthplace), won a Connecticut Sea Grant Program grant for “Assessing the impacts of warming and planting strategy on the resilience of restored salt marshes to improve restoration efficacy.”
Amy Ekeh (Theology & Religious Studies) published an article titled "Prophecy in the New Testament" in The Bible Today.
Zhen Han (Political Science & Global Affairs) released a new article, "As BRICS cooperation accelerates, is it time for the US to develop a BRICS policy?" (co-authored with Mihaela Papa and Frank O'Donnell). It has been featured in the Minerva Initiative of the US Department of Defense website.
Michael W. Higgins (Catholic Studies) published an opinion piece, A ‘toxic nucleus’ within the Church, in La Croix International
Mary Ignagni (Psychology) published an opinion piece on becoming a service leader to connect with hybrid/remote workers in Smart Brief.
Jo Marie Kasinak’s (Biology) research “Conceptualizing the construct of ocean identity” was published on Nature.com.
Sharlene Kerelejza (Social Work) wrote a Black History Month op-ed in the CT Insider to recognize the impact of racism and be willing to engage in conversations that acknowledge impact.
Rick Magee (Languages & Literature) wrote an opinion piece about the importance of poetry and his teaching experience in Ireland on Newstimes.com.
Todd Matthews (Sociology, Criminology & Criminal Justice) was interviewed by Public Health America (aired on Bronxnet.tv and available on YouTube) on his research on food insecurity and food deserts, and his student experience with undergraduate and graduate education.
James McQueeny (Communication Studies) published an opinion piece on EWR.
Steve Michels (Political Science & Global Affairs) was interviewed on WTIC.
Gary Rose (Political Science & Global Affairs) was featured on Connecticut Today with Paul Pacelli.
Rachel Bauer (Media & Performing Arts) published "It’s Okay to Not be 'Right': Incorporating Creative Thinking into Theatrical Partnerships" in the collection Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists (Routledge).
Rachel Bauer (Media & Performing Arts) published "Big Moves: Navigating Work/Life Changes While Nurturing a Perspective of Care" in Theatre/Practice, the peer-reviewed journal for the Mid-America Theatre Conference.
Lori Bindig Yousman (Communication Studies) published “Same Girl, Different Show: Representations of Young Femininity in Teen TV” in the edited volume Women in Media (ABC-CLIO)
Emily Bryan (Languages & Literature) co-published "Religious Violence and Twitter: Networks of Knowledge, Empathy and Fascination" in Religions, 13(3), 245.
Pamela Buck (Languages & Literature) published "Colonialism and Disease in Anna Maria Falconbridge’s Two Voyages to Sierra Leone," Women's Writing, 29(4).
Debbie Danowski (Communication & Media Studies) published “COVID Comfort: Food Advertising, Family, and Unity During a Pandemic” in a peer-reviewed journal for the Midwestern Popular Culture Association, Popular Culture Studies Journal, 10(1).
Debbie Danowski (Communication & Media Studies) published the article "Selling Safety: Food and Beverage Advertising During a Pandemic, Then and Now" in the 2021/2022 Journal of the Communication, Speech & Theatre Association of North Dakota, 34.
Zhen Han (Political Science & Global Affairs) published his paper "China's View and Counter-Strategies Toward the Indo-Pacific Strategy" on AEI Insight, 8(1), a peer-reviewed journal published by the Asia-Europe Institute of the University of Malaya.
Chelsea King (Catholic Studies) published an article titled "Apophaticism in Disguise: The Function of Apophatic Theology in Gregory of Nyssa's Soteriology" in the peer-reviewed journal Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, 22(2).
Kathryn Kroeper (Psychology) co-authored “Not such a complainer anymore: Confrontation that signals a growth mindset can attenuate backlash,” a manuscript published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 124(2), 344-361.
Brent Little (Catholic Studies) published "Bridging the Divide: The Crucifixion in Endo’s The Samurai” in the peer-reviewed journal Literature and Theology.
Nathan Lewis (Art & Design) had 113 original artworks in his solo show, In Praise of Shadows, at California State University Stanislaus.
Rick Magee (Languages and Literature) had two poems published in New Note Poetry: "Allen Ginsberg Flirted with Me" and "Upon Seeing Yeats' Grave."
Marylena Mantas-Kourounis (Political Science & Global Affairs) published Current Perspectives on American Politics (co-edited with Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University).
Suzanne Marmo (School of Social Work) and Kerry A. Milner (College of Nursing) published “From Open to Closed: COVID-19 Restrictions on Previously Unrestricted Visitation Policies in Adult Intensive Care Units,” a mixed-methods research study, in the American Journal of Critical Care, 32(1): 31-41.
Suzanne Marmo (School of Social Work) published “Visitors Not Welcome: Hospital Visitation Restrictions and Institutional Betrayal” in the Journal of Policy Practice and Research (2022).
Jennifer Mattei (Biology) published two chapters -- “The Power of Citizen Science: 20 Years of Horseshoe Crab Community Research Merging Conservation, Education, and Management” and “Conservation and Restoration of Estuaries and Coasts: Horseshoe Crabs as Flagship Species” -- in the publication International Horseshoe Crab Conservation and Research Efforts: 2007-2020. The first chapter included three colleagues from SHU: Kirk Bartholomew and Jo-Marie Kasinak (Biology) and Samah Senbel (School of Computer Science & Engineering).
Victoria Osborne-Leute (School of Social Work) co-published “Substance Use–Related Continuing Education Course Objectives: Alignment with Professional Competencies in Substance Abuse, 43(1), 1363-1369.
Jason Ostrander (School of Social Work) co-published “Gender Dynamics and the Political Recruitment of Social Workers” in the Journal of Policy Practice and Research (2022).
Amie Reilly (Languages & Literature) received a Best of the Net nomination from The Chestnut Review for the short story "Hole."
Amie Reilly (Languages & Literature) had her short story "Anthropomorphize" published in The Atticus Review, April 2022. It was nominated for a Best of the Net Award in short fiction.
Kristen Savell (Biology) co-published “Mixed Models for the Relationship Between Latitude, Temperature, and Human Postcranial Form” in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 179(3).
Nidhi Shrivastava (Languages & Literature) published the book Gender Violence, the Law, and Society.
Marlina Slamet (Physics/Chemistry) co-published “Wave Function Identity: A New Symmetry for 2-Electron Systems in an Electromagnetic Field” in the journal Chemical Physics, 556.
Lisa Smith (Psychology) and Bronwyn Cross-Denny (Health Sciences) co-authored a book chapter for Integrated Social Work Practice: Bridging Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Level Practice (1st Edition), Bronwyn Cross-Denny, ed.
David Thomson (History) compiled a five-piece series of blog posts for the John Adams Institute in Amsterdam on his recently published book Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union.
Alyssa Woronik (Biology), in collaboration with researchers from New York University, published an article, “Laser Microdissection for Species-Agnostic Single-Tissue Applications,” in JoVE, a leading producer and provider of science videos.
Deirdre Yeater (Psychology) co-published “Cetacean Responses to Violation of Expectation Paradigm in a Free‑Swim Context” in Animal Cognition.
Bill Yousman (Media & Performing Arts) published “Necessary Connections: Black Lives Matter, Cultural Studies, and Critical (Race) Media Literacy” in the edited volume Critical Race Media Literacy: Themes and Strategies for Media Education (Routledge).
Grants & Fellowships
Jason Ostrander (School of Social Work) received a grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services through the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute at the University of Washington to work with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The funding is part of a project to support the Cherokee Nation Gadugi (Working Together) Project.
David Thomson (History) received a research fellowship from the University of North Carolina's Wilson Special Collections Library to conduct archival research for his next book.
Jennifer Wilson (School of Social Work) received a grant from the POD Network Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to support a 10-month workshop series entitled “Continuing Conversations in Anti-Racism.”
In the Media
Joe Alicastro (Journalism & Media Production) had an article on the use of traditional and social media and the need for K-12 media literacy education published by the Connecticut Mirror.
Mark Congdon (Communication Studies) discussed COVID-19's effect on public relations and creating accessible content as an invited guest on the public relations agency Bospar's podcast, "Politely Pushy."
Kathryn Kroeper (Psychology) appeared on AskPsychSessions about fixed versus growth faculty mindsets and how they impact students.
Rick Magee (English) had his work "Watching the Tour of California" published in Vocivia Magazine.
Jo-Marie Kasinak was interviewed about the Stratford Point restoration project for a news segment that aired on NBC.
Dawn Melzer and Deirdre Yeater (Psychology) were interviewed about their latest research article on comparative psychology, focused on creativity in children and dolphins.
David Thomson (History) had his book Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union featured in the New York Times article "How Civil War History Explains Memestocks."
Bill Yousman (Media & Performing Arts) has appeared 14 times as a guest on WNPR’s The Colin McEnroe Show.
Scholarly Publications & Exhibitions
Lori Bindig Yousman (Communication Studies) published the article “Usually people just accept media and don’t talk about it”: The Perceived Value and Enjoyment of Critical Media Literacy in Eating Disorder Treatment in Media Literacy and Academic Research, 4(2), 42-57.
Ximeng Chen (Government) published the article “Immigrant-owned small businesses' participation in diaspora philanthropy: a case study during the COVID-19 outbreak” in the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, 24, 105-121.
Mark Congdon Jr. (Communication Studies) published the article “Dwelling in revolutionary intimacies: Performing mentoring and/as reflexivity” in Communication and Critical/Cultural Mentoring: Experiences from Higher Education by Lexington Books.
Jean Guillaume (Math) and Michael Barrus published the article “Upward-closed hereditary families in the dominance order” in the Journal of Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, 23 (3).
Dika Kuljis (Biology) along with Kristina Micheva, Ajit Ray, Waja Wegner, Ryan Bowman, Daniel Madison, Katrin Willi, and Alison Barth published the article “Gephyrin-Lacking PV Synapses on Neocortical Pyramidal Neurons” in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22(18).
Nathan Lewis (Art & Design) held a solo exhibition, Rough Draft: Works on Paper by Nathan Lewis, at theMoira Fitzsimmons Arons Art Gallery, Hamden, CT.
Nathan Lewis (Art & Design) appeared in the exhibition Spring Break Art Fair with Emerson Dorsch Gallery NY, NY and in Historical Correspondence, Exile Books and Printed Matter, part of the NADA Art Fair.
Peter Loth (Math) along with W. Lewis and A. Mader published the article “The main decomposition of finite-dimensional protori” in the Journal of Group Theory, 24, 109-127.
Kelly Marino (History) published the article “Students, Suffrage, and Political Change: Maud Wood Park, the College Equal Suffrage League, and Campus Campaigns for Women’s Right to Vote, 1905-1920” in Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 20, 370-391.
Kelly Marino (History) and Cara Kilgallen (Languages & Literature) along with Sacred Heart colleagues Rene Roselle, Robin Hands, and Julianna Howard published the article “Revisiting the Tripartite Council Model: Considering the Collaborative Possibilities between the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Education.” Education in a Democracy: A Journal of the National Network for Educational Renewal 12 (1), 134-149.
Jerry Reid (Sociology) published Chief Thunderwater: An Unexpected Indian in Unexpected Places with the University of Oklahoma Press.
Nicole Roy (Biology) along with SHU students Sophie, Barbagallo, Cassidy Baldauf, and Emily Orosco published the article “Di-butyl phthalate (DBP) induces defects during embryonic eye development in zebrafish” in Ecotoxicology, 31, 178–185.
David Thomson (History) published the chapter “‘The National Debt May Be a National Blessing’: Debt as an Instrument of Character in the Civil War Era,” in Buying & Selling Civil War Memory in Gilded Age America by University of Georgia Press.
Alyssa Woronik (Biology) along with Henry Shaffer, Karin, Jon Laurent, Ronald Zambrano, SHU student Mariah Daley, Jef Boeke, and David Fitch published the article “EUAdb: A resource for COVID-19 test development and comparison” in PLoS ONE 16(8): e0255417.
Grants & Fellowships
David Thomson (History) received a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Global South Research Fellowship from New Orleans Center for the Gulf South.
Jo-Marie Kasinak (Biology) and Jennifer Mattei (Biology) along with Miriah Kelly, Emma McKinley, and Jamie Vaudrey received a grant for their project “Toward a deeper understanding of human connections with ocean environments: Ocean Identity (OI) as a novel construct, research instrument, and assessment tool” from the Connecticut Sea Grant College Program.
In the Media
Rick Falco (Media & Performing Arts) serves as Editor in Chief of Vision Project’s Witness Magazine and produced a series of photo essays for the Easton Courier News.
David Thomson (History) published “‘We can’t have this’: Slavery connections prompts name change for West Hartford town green,” in the West Hartford News.
David Thomson (History) appeared on WICC’s The Lisa Wexler Show and The Peel News Podcast
Bill Yousman (Media & Performing Arts) has appeared eleven times as a guest on WNPR’s The Colin McEnroe Show and was featured on the WNPR podcast Pardon Me.
Scholarly Publications & Exhibitions
Isil Akbulut-Gok (Government) published the article, “Intergovernmental Networks in Peace Operations,” in Peace & Change 45 (4): 569-601.
Isil Akbulut-Gok (Government) published the article, “Interorganization Cooperation in Peace Operations: A Network Approach,” in Global Change, Peace & Security 32(2): 111-133.
Rachel E. Bauer (Media & Theatre Arts) and Kristen M. Kalz published the article, “Exploring the History and Implications of Toxicity through St. Louis: Performance Artist Allana Ross and the ‘Toxic Mound Tours,’” in The Journal of Drama and Theatre.
Lori Bindig Yousman (Communication Studies) published the chapter, “Good Girls Go Bad: The Transformation of Young Femininity in Contemporary Teen TV,” in Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, 6th edition, by Sage.
Rachel Bowman (Psychology) along with Maya Frankfurt, Victoria Luine published the chapter “A Potential Role for Dendritic Spines in Bisphenol-A Induced Memory Impairments during Adolescence and Adulthood” in Vitamins & Hormones.
Emily Bryan (English) published the article, “Fantastic Tricks before High Heaven, Measure for Measure and Performing Triads,” in Religions, 11(2), 100.
Mark Congdon Jr. (Communication Studies) published the article, “Environmental Injustice: Examining How The New York Times Frames the Flint Water Crisis,” in Ohio Communication Journal, with Quang Ngo and Evan Young.
Mark Congdon Jr. (Communication Studies) published the article, “Envisioning a Critical Social Entrepreneurship Education Framework for Community Engagement: Guiding Commitments for Future Research,” in Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, with Liliana Herakova.
Peter A. DePergola II (Theology and Religious Studies) published the chapter, “The Bionic Brain: Pragmatic Neuroethics and the Moral Plausibility of Cognitive Enhancement,” in The Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Exploration (Vernon Press).
Peter A. DePergola II (Theology and Religious Studies) and Anna K. Shapiro published the article, “Presumed Consent and Priority Allocation Systems for Organ Donation Legislation in the United States: Making the Moral Case,” in Online Journal of Health Ethics 16, no. 2, a. 4 (2020): 1-5.
Charles Gillespie (Catholic Studies) published the article, “Theodramatic Themes and Showtime in Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit,” in Religions, 11(10), 499.
Charles Gillespie (Catholic Studies) published the chapter, “Reading Ricoeur Together: Interpretive Work and Surplus Meaning in a Just Pedagogy,” in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University (Lexington).
Charles Gillespie (Catholic Studies) served as co-editor of a special issue of the journal Religions on “Religion and Theatrical Drama.”
Sidney Gottlieb (Media & Theatre Arts) published the article, “Under Capricorn and the Hitchcockian Melodrama of Trauma, Recovery, and Remarriage,” in Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism.
Kenneth Knies (Philosophy) published the book, Crisis and Husserlian Phenomenology: A Reflection on Awakened Subjectivity (Bloomsbury Academic).
Nathan Lewis (Art & Design) exhibited work in A Century of Creativity at the Lyman Allyn Museum.
Brent Little (Catholic Studies) published the article, “A Charity of Mutuality and Hospitality: L’Arche’s Witness to Catholic Theology,” in Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society 47, 1.
Kelly Marino (History) published the article, “We ‘Protest the Unjust Treatment of Pickets’: Brooklyn Suffragist Lucy Burns, Militancy in the National Woman's Party, and Prison Reform, 1917-1920,” in the Long Island History Journal.
Suzanne Marmo (Social Work), with colleagues Kerry A. Milner (Nursing) and Susan Goncalves (Nursing), published the article, “Implementation and Sustainment Strategies for Open Visitation in the Intensive Care Unit: A Multicentre Qualitative Study,” in Intensive Critical Care Nursing.
Jason Ostrander (Social Work), with colleagues A. Sandler, M. Hylton and T. Smith, published the article, “The Three-Legged Stool of Voter Engagement: Social Work’s Role in Mobilizing the Vote among Marginalized Communities,” in Critical Social Work, 21(2), 41-56.
Jason Ostrander (Social Work) and Kate Kelly published the article, “Fulfilling the Ethical Obligation to Political Participation: Clinical Social Workers, Professional Socialization, and Professional Identity,” in Journal of Social Work Education, 56(4).
Jason Ostrander (Social Work) along with Tobias Kindler and Janelle Bryan published the article “Using the Civic Voluntarism Model to Compare the Political Participation of US and Swiss Social Workers” in the Journal of Policy Practice and Research.
Barbara Pierce (Biology), with co-authors S. Casagrande, K.J. Demoranville, L. Trost, A. Bryla, M. Dzialo, E.T. Sadowska, U. Bauchinger and S.R. McWilliams, published the paper, “Dietary Antioxidants Attenuate the Endocrine Stress Response during Long-Duration Flight of a Migratory Bird,” in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Jessica Samuolis (Psychology), with Jocelyn K. Novella and Kok-Mun Ng, published the article, “A Comparison of Online and In-Person Counseling Outcomes Using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for College Students with Anxiety,” in Journal of American College Health.
Jessica Samuolis (Psychology) and Laila McGeorge published the article, “Co-Occurring Health Risk Behaviors and Their Association with Self-Rated Health Among Female College Students,” in American Journal of Health Education, 51, 257-264.
Ashley Stoehr (Biology), with co-authors J.M. Donley, S.A. Aalbers, D.A. Syme, C. Sepulveda and D. Bernal, published a paper, “Thermal Effects on the Red Muscle Contractile Performance in Deep-Diving, Large-Bodied Fishes,” in Fish Physiology and Biochemistry.
Dave Thomson (History) published the chapter, “Reorienting Atlantic World Financial Capitalism: America and the German States,” in Globalized Peripheries: New Approaches to the Atlantic World 1680-1850 (Boydell & Brewer).
Anna Vaughn (Philosophy) published “Damaris Masham and Molyneux’s Question: What Response Would Masham Have Given?” in Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy (Routledge).
Deirdre Yeater (Psychology) along with Malin Lilley and Amber DeVere published the article “Laterality of Eye Use by Bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) and Rough-toothed (Steno brenanensis) Dolphins while Viewing Predictable and Unpredictable Stimuli” in the International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 33.
Bill Yousman (Media & Theatre Arts) and Lori Bindig Yousman (Communication Studies) published Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Critical Reader, 6th edition (Sage).
Bill Yousman (Media & Theatre Arts) and Lori Bindig Yousman (Communication Studies) published the grant-funded report, Critical Media Literacy and Cultural Autonomy in a Mediated World, for Culture Reframed.
Grants & Fellowships
Sharlene Kerelejza (Social Work), Barbara Pierce (Biology), and Bill Yousman (Media & Theatre Arts) were among the College of Arts & Sciences faculty who received Inclusive Teaching Fellowships for 2020 from the Center of Excellence and Innovation in Teaching.
Nathan Lewis (Art & Design) received a Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellowship Grant for Excellence in Painting.
Nathan Lewis (Art & Design) received a Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Painting Fellowship.
Michelle Loris (Catholic Studies) received a Lilly Fellows Grant to for faculty development reading groups on racial justice.
Kelly Marino (History) received a micro-grant from The Society of Civil War Historians for a research project on the Hartford Soldiers’ Aid Society.
Jennifer Mattei (Biology), with LaTina Steele (Biology) and Jo-Marie Kasinak (Biology), and Chris Hauser (Sea Grant, University of Delaware) received a $65,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Long Island Sound Futures Fund for their proposal, “Protecting, Restoring and Increasing Resiliency Along the Housatonic Estuary, Stratford.”
In the Media
Dean Robin Cautin (College of Arts & Sciences) and Shanshan Wang (Media & Theatre Arts) published “Evolution of the NeXReality Lab at Sacred Heart University” in University Business.
Rick Falco (Media & Theatre Arts) was the director and executive producer for the Vision Project documentary film, Project Music: Not a Dissonant Note (2020). Rick Falco also serves as editor-in-chief of Vision Project’s Witness Magazine.
Rick Falco (Media & Theatre Arts) produced a series of photo essays for the Easton Courier News this fall.
Cecilia Frometa (Psychology) appeared on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt Nov. 16 in the segment, “How the Pandemic is Impacting Kids’ Mental Health.”
Gregory Golda (Media & Theatre Arts) crafted a 30-second spot for Connecticut House of Representatives incumbent candidate Raghib Ali Brennan.
Rick Magee (English) publishes a monthly column in the Danbury Times. His most recent column, “What Would Sam Do? A Letter to My Son,” ran in all eight Connecticut Hearst newspapers.
Kelly Marino (History) published an op-ed on women’s suffrage in the Connecticut Post this summer.
The Dan Patrick Show was nominated for its third straight Sports Emmy award for Best Daily Studio Show. Paul Pabst (Communication Studies) is an executive producer for the show.
Jerry Reid (Sociology) was a featured guest on a podcast episode entitled, “Reverberations of Resistance,” which focused on the political activities and influence of Chief Thunderwater on indigenous resistance and Haudenosaunee political revitalization in Canada in the early 20th century. The episode was part of Indigenous 150+, a podcast series focused on indigenous issues in Canada.
Dave Thomson (History) published two articles this year in the Boston Globe: “Jubilee Jim Fisk’s Big Short” and “Broadway Ball.”
The Spanish publisher, Desperta Ferro Ediciones (Madrid, Espana), in coordination with Princeton University Press, has just released a video trailer, podcast and video documentary for Gregory Viggiano’s (History) book, Men of Bronze, which has become the most authoritative statement on ancient Greek hoplite warfare internationally.
Bill Yousman (Media & Theatre Arts) appeared as a guest on WNPR’s The Colin McEnroe Show on April 17, May 29, August 7 and October 23.