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FACULTY RECOGNITION

DR. MONICA MILLER, assistant professor of English, authored the research guide A Different South:
Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers. She presented “Wrestling with Angels: The Plantation Novel within the
Gay Fantasia” at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference in 2018 and also taught a
workshop titled “From Page to Stage! Experimenting with Shakespeare” at the 2018 Duke-TIP Teachers
Workshop. At an invited talk hosted by Georgia Southwestern University, she presented “She Let Herself
Go: The Ugly Plots of Southern Women Writers.” In 2019, she gave the annual Flannery O’Connor Memo-
rial Lecture/Reading at Georgia College and State University titled “Flannery O’Connor in the Multimodal
Classroom.”
DR. DANEELL MOORE, assistant professor, published the paper “Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan Before
She Was Harriet” in Social Studies Research and Practice. She presented “Thematic Units: The Best Kept
Secret for Teaching Social Studies” at the 2018 National Council for Social Studies Conference. She au-
thored a proposal request for the Sandra Dunagan Deal Summer Literacy Initiative titled “Preparing Early
Childhood/Special Ed. Teachers Candidates to Teach Reading,” and she was also awarded a faculty devel-
opment grant as part of the MGA Faculty Diversity Initiative.
DR. BENITA HUFFMAN MUTH, professor of English, wrote “Par-
adise Retold: Lewis’s Reimagining of Milton, Adam, and Eve”
which was published in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S.
Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature in 2018.
DR. ANDRE NICHOLSON, associate professor of new media and
communications, published “The Biased Truth: An Objective
Perspective on Nonobjective News Reporting” in Handbook of
Research on Media Literacy in Higher Education Environments.
DR. EVARISTUS OBINYAN, assistant professor of criminal jus-
tice, is credited as the producer of the film Wax Print: 1 Fabric,
4 Continents, 200 Years of History. He published “Face Book
Surveillance” in The Sage Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security,
and Privacy and the article “Delinquency and Moral Strength.”
DR. ALISON OSSIP-DRAHOS, assistant professor of biology,
published four articles: “Losing the Trait without Losing the Sig-
nal: Evolutionary Shifts in Communicative Colour Signaling” in
the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, “Trade-offs between Visual
and Chemical Behavioral Responses” in Behavioral Ecology and
Sociobiology, “Selection Imposed by Pollination Mode Minimally
Influences Evolution of Pollen Morphology in Thalictrum (Ranun-
culaceae)” in the International Journal of Plant Sciences (also
delivered as a poster presentation), and “Information-Gather-
ing as a Response to Manipulated Signals in the Eastern Fence
Lizard, Sceloporus Undulates” in Ethology. In 2018 she present-
ed “Evolutionary Shifts in Sexually-Selected Signaling Colors
of Sceloporus Lizards” to the II Joint Congress on Evolutionary
Biology which became an award recipient of the 2019 Weaving
the Future of Animal Behavior Early Career Symposium.
DR. SHERIE OWENS, assistant professor of education, and Sumitra Himangshu-Pennybacker presented
“Sped-ing Their Way: Using Concept Mapping to Analyze Reflections of Preservice Teachers in a Separate
School” at the 2018 International Conference on Concept Mapping and published it in Proceedings of the
8th International Conference on Concept Mapping: Concept Mapping: Renewing Learning and Thinking.
DR. SIMONE PHIPPS, associate professor of management, has published two articles—“The Business of
Black Beauty: Social Entrepreneurship or Social Injustice?” in the Journal of Management History and
“From Slaves to Servants Leaders: Remembering the Contributions of John Merrick and Alonzo Herndon”
in the Society and Business Review. She presented “New Histories of Management and the New Futures
They May Inspire” as a professional development workshop at the Academy of Management Conference
in 2018.

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