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Faculty updates2005 faculty awards | New directors and chairs | 2005 faculty retirees 2005 faculty awardsThe College of Humanities and Sciences honored outstanding students, faculty and alumni at the 2006 award ceremony held Thursday, April 20, 2006, at the Stuart C. Siegel Center. Awards presented by the dean included: Distinguished Service AwardKathryn Murphy-Judy, associate professor of French, School of World Studies Excellence in Scholarship AwardBernard Moitt, associate professor, Department of History Tracy Ryan, associate professor of advertising research, VCU Adcenter Distinguished Scholar AwardJames P. McCullough Jr., professor, departments of Psychology and Psychiatry Distinguished Adjunct Award – HumanitiesUrsula Marfurt-Levy, adjunct faculty, School of World Studies Distinguished Adjunct Award – Natural SciencesJoan Barnes, adjunct faculty, Department of Statistical Sciences and Operational Research Elske V.P. Smith Lecturer AwardR. McKenna Brown, director, School of World Studies Distinguished Teaching AwardFaye Belgrave, professor, Department of Psychology Distinguished Advisor AwardMark Wood, professor of religious studies, School of World Studies New directors and chairsAlison BaskiDepartment of Phy Alison Baski, Ph.D., takes the chair in the Department of Physics after 10 years of distinguished service with VCU. As a professor, the focus of her instruction and research deals with silicon, a material that has spawned a multibillion-dollar industry. In particular, Baski has studied the properties on high index silicon (Si) structures using scanning tunneling microscopy. Baski has been honored with the Chancellor’s Recognition Award and the Boettcher Foundation Scholarship, as well as having earned the AT&T Ph.D. Fellowship.
L. Terry OggelDepartment of English Terry Oggel, Ph.D., a scholar and former director of VCU’s School of Mass Communications, has been a professor in the humanities at VCU since 1988. He was named a professor of English in 1969 at the University of Wisconsin where he received the Ford Foundation University Fellowship. As program chair, he will provide academic guidance and oversight for students, faculty, curriculum and program development.
Bernard Moitt Department of History The Department of History and the College of Humanities and Sciences are proud to announce that Bernard Moitt, Ph.D., has been appointed the new chair of the Department of History. Since his arrival at VCU, Moitt has established himself as a passionate, innovative and highly productive scholar with international prominence in the fields of Caribbean and West African history. In addition to being the first black chair of the Department of History, Moitt is one of two recipients of the Excellence in Scholarship Award from the College of Humanities and Sciences and won a research grant from the dean’s office to complete research for a book on children and slavery in urban Senegal. Judyth TwiggPolitical Science The L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs welcomes Judy Twigg, Ph.D., as the new interim director this summer. A 2005 Outstanding Faculty Award Winner chosen by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, she is an associate professor of political science in the Wilder School. Twigg also was honored in 2005 as a Scholar Award Winner. Her teachings include classes on politics of the former Soviet Union, international relations, issues in world politics and others.
2005 faculty retireesJohn “Jack” Hartnettindustrial/organizational psychology
Nancy MustafaSpanish Richard Priebe
African literature, folklore, popular culture Jimmie “Sherwood” Williamscriminology/delinquency, social organization Wilma Wirtmass communications |
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Education: Ph.D. (1985), University of Toronto; M.A. in African History (1977),
Education: Ph.D. (1994), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A. (1986),