Faculty Achievements
2024
March
Yongfang Zhang
Yongfang Zhang’s project “Presenting Novice-level Chinese Grammar Explanation through a Learner’s Lens” has been chosen by the Chinese Language Teachers Association, U.S.A. as the third prize recipient of the 2024 BLCUP Award for Innovative Excellence in the Teaching of Chinese as a Foreign Language. This project was developed from her 2023 Summer Faculty-Student Collaborative Research with four Wofford Chinese major students: Julia Richardson ’24, Hannah Dozier ’26, Rachel Dozier ’26 and Joseph Partin ’26. This award encourages contributions to the improvement of Chinese Foreign Language education in the United States through the design, development, and application of new pedagogy, innovative classroom practices and teaching tools. Zhang serves as an associate professor of Chinese studies.
Gillian Young
Gillian Young, assistant professor of art history, presented her paper “Hydrofeminist Currents in the Wake of Land Art” in February at the 2024 College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago.
Anne Rodrick
Anne Rodrick, Reeves Family Professor of History, will collate and edit a four-volume collection of primary documents, “Nineteenth-Century Popular Lectures,” for Routledge Press.
Dane Hilton
Dane Hilton’s article “ACT like a Christian: A Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Through the Lens of a Christian Worldview” was accepted for publication in the “Journal of Psychology and Christianity.” Hilton serves as an assistant professor of psychology.
Josh Harris
Josh Harris ’09, assistant professor of finance, was interviewed in February on National Public Radio’s SC Business Review concerning the topic of Financial Self-Efficacy and Financial Decision-Making.
Phillip Dorroll
Philip Dorroll’s essay “Toward an Orthodox Ethos of Freedom” has been published in “The Wheel: A Journal of Orthodox Thought and Culture,” vol. 34/35, Summer-Fall 2023. Dorroll serves as an associate professor of religion.
Alan Chalmers
Alan Chalmers’ essay “The Annotated Ape in Thomas Love Peacock’s Melincourt, or, Sir Oran Haut-Ton,” will appear in the Spring issue of the journal “Studies in Romanticism” pp. 25-51. Chalmers serves as a professor of English.
Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Laura Barbas-Rhoden, Jen Bradham and Grace Schwartz presented on “Place-Based Research at Local Scales” at the Together SC 2024 South Carolina Nonprofit Summit held in North Charleston in February. Barbas-Rhoden serves as a professor of Spanish. Bradham is an assistant professor of environmental studies, and Schwartz is an assistant professor of chemistry. Bradham was also awarded a $10,000 fellowship from The Sloan Foundation and Second Nature for energy equity research in Spartanburg.
February
Dr. Douglas Clark
Dr. Douglas Clark, visiting assistant professor of religion, organized a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History, titled “Intelligence and Imagination in Hindsight: Memories of Religion and Military Service in U.S. History.” He presented a paper on that panel, titled “Religion and Reconnaissance: World War II Memory and Military Intelligence in Christian Black Power Activism.”
Rebecca Forstater
Rebecca Forstater’s work is on view in the exhibition “Slime in the Grass” at the University of Montana through the end of February. She is an assistant professor of studio art. Forstater and Michael Webster, assistant professor of studio art, have been selected alongside studio art majors Annie Heisel ’24 and Maggie Genoble ’24 to exhibit their work in EMERGENCE at The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts. The juried exhibition features work from faculty mentors and student mentees from 23 institutions of higher learning across the Southeast. Forstater and Webster have both been selected as ArtFields 2024 Competition Artists. Their works will be on display in Lake City, S.C., in April.
Dr. Karen Goodchild
Dr. Karen Goodchild, Chapman Family Professor of Humanities, published an article, “A New Masaccio—and Other Low-Life Images—from Anton Francesco Grazzini’s Florentine Art History, in Renaissance Studies.
Dr. Natalie Grinnell
Dr. Natalie Grinnell, Reeves Family Professor in Humanities, published an article, “‘[H]e, which can no pite know’: Murdered Children in the Confessio Amantis,” in Investigo: Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Grinnell also published “The Thrush and the Nightingale,” an entry for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Additionally she presented an invited talk, “Interpreting Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson 82D,” at the Marco Manuscript Workshop 2024: “The Whole Book,” at University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.
Dr. Rachel Grotheer
Dr. Rachel Grotheer, assistant professor of mathematics, co-authored the article “Iterative Singular Tube Hard Thresholding Algorithms for Tensor Recovery,” which has been accepted for publication in the journal Inverse Problems and Imaging.
Dr. Alysa Handelsman
Dr. Alysa Handelsman, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, was honored for her work in civic engagement at the 2023 Mary L. Thomas Women’s Leadership Luncheon.
Dr. Aaron Harp
Dr. Aaron Harp, assistant professor of music, was recently featured as a baritone soloist in performances with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Chicora Voices and Taylor Festival Choir.
Dr. Daniel Helman
Dr. Daniel Helman, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies, presented a paper at the International Conference on Labour Relations and Labour Law at Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, titled “Aristotle as strategy for collective bargaining: Understanding three kinds of knowledge.” He also taught two research workshops at Ton Duc Thang University in January, and helped to set up a meeting between Wofford College students on their Vietnam Interim and students from Ton Duc Thang University. Additionally, Helman was featured in a Vietnamese-language news article in Bao Thanh Ninh about the undergraduate soccer championship games that took place in Ho Chi Minh City in January. Finally, Helman published a play, titled “Hypatia’s Math,” in the January issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
Dr. Kirsten Krick-Aigner
Dr. Kirsten Krick-Aigner, professor of German, published the article “Polarizations at the Intersections of Jazz, Identity and Blackness in Ernst Krenek’s 1927 Opera Jonny spielt auf and Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer’s 1928 Still life Jonny spielt auf”in Polarization in North America. European Perspectives. Eds. She also was interviewed by art historian Julia Secklehner for the podcast on artists Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich, Lisel Salzer and Lisl Weil on “The Salon,” Episode 14, for “Vienna to the World.”
Dr. Dawn McQuiston
Dr. Dawn McQuiston, professor of psychology, was invited to present her research on secondary trauma among jurors and prosecutors at the North Dakota State Attorneys’ Association 2024 conference.
Dr. Jess Tomkins
Dr. Jess Tomkins, assistant professor of history, scripted the animated TedEd video “History vs. Egypt’s ‘most powerful’ pharaoh,” which has been viewed 333,000 times.