Kudos - Fall 2022
Conference Presentations
Dr. Terrie Johnson, chair of the education department, will present “Get HIP: Reinventing Observation Fieldwork as Student Generated Collaborative Actio Research” at the Association of Teacher Educators 2023 Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, in March 2023.
Dr. L. Bellee Jones-Pierce, assistant professor of English, led a workshop titled "Destabilizing Diagnosis: Gender, Power, and Early Modern Disability Studies,” at the conference Attending to Women, 1100-1800: Performance, at the Newberry Library in Chicago in September 2022. She led the workshop along with Dr. Lindsey Row-Heyveld (Luther College) and Dr. Simone Chess (Wayne State University).
Jones-Pierce will also be a panelist for the roundtable discussion, “Titanic Optimism: Teaching Shakespeare at Non-Elite Institutions,” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention in January 2023.
Publications
Dr. Mohammad Ali, assistant professor of economics, published "Self-Reported Health and Nutrient Availability: Do Perceptions Matter?" in the International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics in December 2022. The study examines the relationship between nutrient availability and the self-reported health of individuals in Nepal using the data from the Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS) and employing an ordered logit estimation.
Dr. Amy Friesenhahn's coauthored work, "Outsiders among outside groups? Campaign advertising and the electability of female US House candidates," was published in October 2022 in Politics, Groups, and Identities. Friesenhahn is assistant professor of political science at Centenary and received the Mattie Allen Broyles Inaugural Year Research Chair award to help support her work on the coauthored article.
Dr. David Kordahl, assistant professor of physics and engineering, published “Agents in the Ether,” a discursive review of the book Imperial Science by Bruce J. Hunt, for Arts & Letters Daily, a website associated with the Chronicle of Higher Education. The review appeared in June 2022 and is available here.
Kordahl also published “The Big Whimper,” in The New Atlantis, a review of The Whole Truth: A Cosmologist’s Reflections on the Search for Objective Reality by P.J.E. Peebles, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Dr. Chrissy Martin, visiting assistant professor of English, published two poems in October 2022: “Sacha Inchi” in Plant People, An Anthology of Environmental Artists Vol. 2 by Plants & Poetry Journal and “Feel Like Yourself Again” in River Styx. She also has two poems forthcoming in The Pinch - Neurodivergent Writers Issue and another poem forthcoming in the literary journal Drunk Monkeys.