Faculty Achievements

	Matt Davies, assistant professor, Shakespeare & PerformancePlayed Agamemnon in Deus ex Machina — which integrates theatre and technology by giving the audience unprecedented power to vote (via cell phones) for one of twelve possible versions of The Oresteia — for Whirligig Theater Company in Austin.
	Ben Herz, program director and professor, occupational therapyBecame a member of the Board of Directors for the Pony-Up for Parkinson’s Foundation, December, Fishersville, VA. Invited to review a manuscript titled The Effects of Nintendo Wii-Based Training that has been submitted to the The Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences. Consulted as a resource for The Lancet Neurology article, January 2014.
	Cara Jones, assistant professor of political scienceAn article published in the World Politics Review titled “Political Violence Tests Burundi’s Stability Ahead of Elections.” Her dissertation selected as a finalist for the Gabriel Almond best dissertation in Comparative Politics award from the American Political Science Association.
	Paul Menzer, director of Shakespeare & Performance Convened and chaired a panel at the Modern Language Association called “Marlowe’s Queer Futurity,” January 9, Vancouver, BC.
	Daniel Metraux, professor of Asian studies Attended the 2015 annual conference of the SE Chapter, Association of Asian Studies meeting at UVA. Asian Studies and International Relations major Shekira Ramdass presented a paper, “The Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS on Indian Women,” January 17, which also won top prize in the popular competition for the best undergraduate paper of the year. Metraux presented a paper, “George Kennan’s Influential 1905 Depiction of Korea as a “Degenerate State” and Japan as its Gracious Savior,” at the same conference. An article, “The Malevolent Japanese Seizure of Korea through the Eues of Canadian Journalist Frederick Arthur McKenzie,” appeared in the chapter’s journal, the Southeast Review of Asian Studies.
	Linell Gray Moss, adjunct assistant professor of musicPresented a poster paper at the National Opera Association Convention, January 9, Greensboro, NC. Eros and Psyche, a 2011 opera premiere by Bridgewater College composer Larry Taylor, was the subject of her study.
	Roderic Owen, professor of philosophyA paper presentation, “Gandhi’s Conception of the Self,” January 18, the Southern Association Conference for Asian Studies at UVA.
	Rick Potter, assistant professor of historyServed as a peer reviewer for an upcoming article in the Virginia Social Science Journal on redlining and racial residential segregation.
	Katherine Turner, associate professor of EnglishA commissioned essay on Thomas Gray for Oxford Handbooks Online.
	Laura van Assendelft, professor of political scienceA review of Ida McKinley by Carl Sferrazza Anthony in the December 2014 issue of Indiana Magazine of History.
	Abby Wightman, assistant professor of anthropologyAn article, “Disappointing Indigeneity: Powwow and Participation Among the Plains Apache,” published in the most recent issue of the journal Ethnology.