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FACULTY RECOGNITION

CHARLIE AGNEW, associate professor of art and art program coordinator, co-presented “The Emergent
Fourth Dimension” with Keith Hamon and D. L. Simmons at the Southern Humanities Council Conference
in 2018. He exhibited “Calligraphic Line Series” at the Southern Humanities Council Conference in 2019. He
also directed the MGA 2018 Faculty Art Exhibition and Gallery Talk.

DR. YASEEN S. ALHAJ-YASEEN, associate professor
of finance, co-authored “Does Asymmetric Informa-
tion Drive Herding: An Empirical Analysis,” published
in the Journal of Behavioral Finance. He also published
“Do American Depository Receipts Exhibit More Herd-
ing Than Their US stock Counterparts? New Evidence”
in Journal of Economics and Finance and co-authored
“Accounting Standards and Earnings Quality—Evidence
from Registered ADRs” in Review of Pacific Basin
Financial Markets and Policies.
DR. RHONDA AMERSON, assistant professor of educa-
tion, co-presented “Making Social Studies Matter” and
“Discovering the Hidden Treasures of Google Products,”
the latter with Julie Carter, at the 2018 Georgia Middle
School Conference. She also co-presented “P3: Prima-
ry Document, Popular Music, and Poetry” at the 2018
Georgia Council of Social Studies Conference.
PAMELA ARLOV, associate professor of English, has authored several short works in partnership with
Macmillan, including “Helping Students Connect with Poetry,” “Carpe Diem from Marvell to Pitbull: An
Online Assignment,” “Song Lyrics: an Accessible Entry Point to Quoting and Citing,” and “Two Wicked
Good Short Stories for Halloween.” She also authored Wordsmith: A Guide to College Writing, 7th ed. and
Wordsmith: A Guide to Paragraphs and Short Essays, 7th ed.
DR. ELAINA BEHOUNEK, assistant professor of sociology, wrote “Female Sex Offenders” and “MacKin-
non, Catherine” for The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime. In 2019, she presented “Safety for Women
and Girls in Educational Settings” at the United Nations NGO Forum Committee on the Status of Women.
She also presented “Teaching Criminal Justice Topics through Project-Based Learning Approaches” at the
Innovation in Teaching Conference in 2018.
DR. PATRICK BRENNAN, professor of English, presented “Neo-Noir in Tough Guys Don’t Dance” and
served as a session moderator at the Norman Mailer Society Conference in 2018. He also presented “Mail-
er, Technology, & The Prisoner of Sex” at the Southern Humanities Council Conference in 2019.
DR. LISA WENGER BRO, professor of English, presented “Rewriting Gothic Tropes in Late and Post-Post-
modern Literature” at the Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the
South Conference. She chaired panels on speculative fiction and literary monsters at the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association Conference in 2018. At the conference she also presented “Compliancy,
Control, Subservience: Biopolitics and the Regulation of Women’s Bodies in Orphan Black, The Hand-
maid’s Tale, and Bitch Planet.” She edited Monsters of Fiction, Film, and Fable: The Cultural Links between
the Human and Inhuman with Crystal O’Leary-Davidson and Mary Ann Gareis in which she authored the
essays “Killing Tinkerbell: Remythologizing the Fey in a Technocentric Age” and “What Happens When
the Body’s Gone? Transhumanistic Fears and Desires in Science Fiction and Urban Fantasy” as well as the
introduction to the collection.

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