Monday Memo August 29, 2016

Message from the Dean

Dear Colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating our colleagues who earned promotion, OFFICIALLY, last week when the Board of Trustees approved our recommendations!

  • Latricia Best, Associate Professor of Pan African Studies & Sociology with tenure
  • Csaba Biro, Associate Professor of Mathematics with tenure
  • Derrick Brooms, Associate Professor of Sociology with tenure
  • Joy Carew, Professor of Pan African Studies
  • Judith Danovitch, Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences with tenure
  • Guy Dove, Associate Professor of Philosophy with tenure
  • Jasmine Farrier, Professor of Political Science
  • Bonnie Bonseca-Greber, Associate Professor of Classical & Modern Languages with tenure
  • Cate Fosl, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
  • Jonathan Haws, Professor of Anthropology
  • Baron Kelly, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts with tenure
  • Jinjia Li, Associate Professor of Mathematics with tenure
  • Benjamin Mast, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
  • Eric McCord, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice with tenure
  • David Owen, Professor of Philosophy
  • Patrick Pranke, Associate Professor of Comparative Humanities with tenure
  • Paul Rosen, Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences with tenure
  • Siobhan Smith, Associate Professor of Communication with tenure
  • Hristomir Stanev, Associate Professor of English with tenure
  • Cristina Tone, Associate Professor of Mathematics with tenure
  • Margath Walker, Associate Professor of Geography & Geosciences with tenure
  • Sherri Wallace, Professor of Political Science

We are proud of your accomplishments, and very glad the Board of Trustees was finally able to make these decisions.
 Kimberly Leonard
Kimberly Kempf-Leonard
Dean

Deadlines

Faculty: QEP Faculty Work Group deadline Sept. 1
Developing a Quality Enhancement Plan, or QEP, is part of our institution’s commitment to the reaffirmation process for SACS-COC to be completed in early 2017. The QEP Development Committee, composed of faculty, staff and student members from units across campus, is co-chaired by Riaan van Zyl, acting dean and associate dean for research in the Kent School of Social Work and Patty Payette, director of Ideas to Action and senior associate director of the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning. The QEP Development Committee is inviting faculty at UofL who are interested in being part of the Faculty Work Group to express their interest by Sept.1 to or .

A&S Senior Honors Thesis proposals due Sept. 12
If you’re encouraging a student to write an A&S Senior Honors Thesis or considering directing one, please review this important information, consider attending the upcoming information sessions, and direct any questions to the A&S Senior Honors Thesis committee. Through collaboration with University Archives and Special Collections, A&S Honors Theses will be archived in a searchable, global system (ThinkIR), making our students’ work available worldwide. Proposals due Monday, Sept. 12. More information: Honors Thesis

2016 (Fall) Internal Grants Program Deadline Oct. 25
The Office of the EVPRI is accepting applications for the Internal Grants Program. The Internal Grants Program (Research I, Research II and URG) aims to assist faculty in new highly productive research projects. All grant categories are open to full-time faculty. For more info visit the website or contact (852-1400).

Announcements

2016 State of the College Address
The 2016 State of the College Address will be held on Friday, Sept. 16 at 2pm in Humanities 100 and is open to all A&S faculty and staff. The address will be immediately followed by a reception in the lobby of the Shumaker Research Building. SUPERVISORS: please make accommodations wherever possible that so that staff have the opportunity to attend.

REMINDER: Excused Absence Policy
The university recognizes that educational experiences extend beyond the classroom and campus, and faculty must be flexible with students who are acting as official representatives of the university, or participating in university-sanctioned events or activities that require absence from class. For more info, visit classroom policies.

Sustainability Roundtable: Call for speakers and current schedule of talks
The Sustainability Roundtable Speaker Series is a collaborative series hosted by the UofL Sustainability Council. The talks are open to anyone with an interest in sustainability (or social-ecological resilience). Anyone can present at the speaker series and participate in the audience, including faculty, staff, students, practitioners, teachers, government officials, leaders and members of the public. The purpose of this speaker series is to increase public awareness, while providing a platform for collaborative research and practice. If you would like to give a presentation, or would like to invite a particular speaker, please contact Prof. Daniel DeCaro. For a list of scheduled talks in Fall 2016, visit Sustainability Series.

Faculty: Join Inclusive Teaching Communities for fall
Would you like to enhance your teaching, meet monthly with like-minded colleagues over a delicious lunch, meet in a safe space for open discussions of successes and challenges in pedagogical practices, and develop a deeper understanding of resources and scholarship related to making your class inclusive. If your answer is yes, please join one of two Inclusive Teaching Communities (ITC) this fall semester.

  • Wednesday, August 31, 12pm – 1:30pm. This month’s topic will be Stereotype Threat. The group will meet in SRB, room 228. Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Aaron Rollins at acroll01@louisville.edu.
  •  Tuesday, August 30, 12pm-1:30pm. Student Activism and the (Alleged) Coddling of the American Mind will meet in SRB, room 229. Lunch will be provided. For more information, contact Keith Lyle at keith.lyle@louisville.edu.

Call for entries: Sonnets on a Sunday poetry contest
University of Louisville’s Sonnets on a Sunday Contest is open for submissions. Ten winning sonnets, written by UofL students, will be chosen for performance by the Commonwealth Theatre players on Sunday, Nov. 13 at the Louisville Water Tower. Poets are asked to review ten sonnets by Shakespeare (email for list) and write 1-5 sonnets “in response” to these ten. Poets are invited to interpret the phrase “in response” however they see fit: some might write homages, others parodies, and others still yet may respond to something thematic they see across this selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets. For more information, email Jon Udelson, Special Projects Assistant for Creative Writing.

Students: Part-time job fair Aug. 30
The Career Development Center is excited to announce the Fall 2016 Part-Time Job Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 30 in the Bigelow Hall Auditorium from 11am-1pm. Please share this information with your students.

Teaching, Research, Creative Activities, & Service

Pro. Omer-Sherman to present at American University
Prof. Ranen Omer-Sherman (Comparative Humanities) has been invited to present a major talk at The Kibbutz: Ideal, Crisis, Renewal, a conference hosted by American University in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 27.

Prof. Williams presents at Imaginarium Convention
Prof. Michael Williams (Comparative Humanities) is presenting at the Imaginarium Convention, a three day annual event held Oct. 7-9 in Louisville centered entirely on creative writing, including the worlds of books, movies, gaming, music, and comics/graphic novels. For more info, visit Imaginarium Convention.

Profs. Vito, Reed and Walsh publish on policing
Profs. Gennaro Vito, John Reed and William Walsh (Criminal Justice) have published “Competing Views of Compstat: PERF Chiefs vs. Police Managers”  in Police Practice and Research: An International Journal.

Prof. Hale’s research featured in Smithsonian documentary
A segment about Prof. John Hale’s (Liberal Studies) archaeological work at the Delphic Oracle on Mount Parnassus will be featured in a documentary about ancient Greek oracles and sacred sites airing on the Smithsonian Channel at 8pm on Monday, Sept. 26.

Kudos & Congratulations

Fine Arts alumna wins design awards
Lauren Michelle Smith (Graphic Design BFA ’11), a senior designer at the University of Chicago Press, has received three design awards for her book cover designs. Her design for Making Marie Curie was recognized in two different design competitions – “50 Books/50 Covers” (a competition begun by AIGA and now sponsored by Design Observer) and one of 40 entries, out of 348, selected for the Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show 2016.

Geography alumnus’ startup finalist for Vogt Award
Kela Ivonye’s (BS in Applied Geography ‘12) local startup company, MailHaven, was one of six finalists for the Vogt Awards. Winners receive a $25,000 prize and will compete for a $100,000 award in mid-November. Kela also started Arrow Food Couriers, a Louisville-based food courier service, two years ago. 

In the News
Commerce City police smart to seek Justice Department review
(The Denver Post, 8/22/16) – Prof. Justin Nix (Criminal Justice) on the Justice Department’s Collaborative Reform Initiative for Technical Assistance.

Blacks should question love for Dems (The Courier-Journal, 8/24/16) – Prof. Ricky Jones (Pan-African Studies) on black support for Democrats.

Professors share expertise over lunch in A&S lecture series(UofL News, 8/24/16) – Profs. Che Rhodes (Fine Arts), Margaret Carriero (Biology), Joy Hart and Kandi Walker (Communication), and Gennaro Vito (Criminal Justice) will give presentations as part of the “Meet the Professors” series.

Facebook labels us as conservative, moderate, or liberal: Does it matter? (Christian Science Monitor, 8/24/16) – Prof. Jason Gainous (Political Science) on political campaigns and social media.

How Poverty Affects the Brain (Newsweek, 8/25/16) – Prof. W. Carson Byrd (Pan-African Studies) on how poverty affects minorities.                     

The Thinker Fall 2016

the thinker magazine cover

View the latest issue of The Thinker, the newsletter of the College of Arts & Sciences, online. To request a print copy, email Melissa Moody.