Latest Faculty & Staff News

• Dr. Kristen Dayle Welch is the author of a recently published book about Pentecostal women preachers (7/20)

  Dr. Kristen Dayle Welch, Assistant Professor of English, is the author of a recently published book, 'Women with the Good News': The Rhetorical Heritage of Pentecostal Holiness Women Preachers. The 136-page paperback, published July 12 by CPT Press, is described by the publisher as "the first book to share interviews with women preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC). Dr. Welch explores rhetoric, gender, and religion in the biographies, autobiographies, and histories that detail what it means to be a Pentecostal woman preacher in Oklahoma. Archival materials provide a picture of Pentecostalism years before Oklahoma became a state in 1907, and a transcribed interview with the former Presiding Bishop of the IPHC, James Leggett, gives a contemporary view of what it means to be a Pentecostal in the 21st century. A Christian scholar who grew up in the IPHC, Dr. Welch draws upon the field of rhetoric to use Jim Corder's theory of generative ethos to illuminate the way identity is constructed on individual, collective and spiritual levels." Dr. Welch is director of the Writing Center and has taught at Longwood since 2007. The publisher, affiliated with the Centre for Pentecostal Theology, is a peer-reviewed academic press based in Cleveland, Tenn.

• Dr. Maureen Walls-McKay will deliver the keynote address to the 2010 graduating class of Redbank Valley High School (5/11)
  

  Dr. Maureen Walls-McKay, Associate Director of the Counseling Center, has been invited to deliver the keynote address to the 2010 graduating class of Redbank Valley High School in New Bethlehem, Pa., on June 3. Dr. Walls-McKay is 1984 graduate of Redbank Valley, and a nephew of hers, Frank Kevin Walls, is graduating with this year's class.

  Dr. Walls-McKay, a licensed clinical psychologist who also teaches in the Psychology Department in addition to her Counseling Center position, said her address will include "the importance of service to others, loving what you do, celebrating accomplishments, and blooming where you are planted." She is adviser to Longwood's Relay for Life (she was the 2006-07 Outstanding Student Organization Advisor), has chaired the local Heart of Virginia Festival and continues to direct the Festival Craft Show, and chairs the Community Outdoor Film Series. Campus committees on which she serves include the Sustainability Committee, the First-Year Reading Committee, and the Women and Gender Studies Advisory Committee.

• Dr. Steven Isaac lectured April 21 at the University of Poitiers, France, where he is currently conducting research as a Fulbright Scholar (4/23)

  Dr. Steven Isaac, Associate Professor of History, lectured April 21 at the Center for Advanced Medieval Studies at the University of Poitiers, France, where he is currently conducting research as a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Isaac spoke on "Mercenaries, Urban Militia and Foot Soldiers in the Twelfth Century." Dr. Isaac is a medieval historian whose research focuses primarily on Western Europe in the 12th century. His Fulbright research in Poitiers, from Jan. 10 through May 10, is titled "Urban Experience of Siege in the Twelfth Century."

• Dr. Robert Frank recently was elected to offices in two professional organizations (4/23)

  Dr. Robert Frank, Director of International Affairs, recently was elected to offices in two professional organizations. Dr. Frank was elected to a two-year term on the Executive Board of the Western Virginia International Educators (WVIE), a professional organization of college/university personnel who work with international students as well as U.S. students who study abroad. The WVIE meets once each semester, and Longwood will host the group in March 2011. The organization, affiliated with NAFSA: Association of International Educators, consists of more than 150 administrators, educators and community volunteers.

  Also, Dr. Frank was elected vice-chair of the Division of Intercultural Communication in the Southern States Communication Association. This is a three-year commitment that will culminate with Dr. Frank being the chair of the group during the third year. He recently finished as chair of this organization's Division of Rhetoric and Public Address.

• Dr. Frank Bacon is the co-author of five recent publications, two of which won an award at a recent conference (4/23)

  Dr. Frank Bacon, Professor of Finance, is the co-author, with students, of five recent publications, two of which won a Best Paper Award at the 2010 conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences (ASBBS). "The failure of IndyMac: A test market efficiency and behavioral challenge," written with MBA student Dawn Peebles, and "The debt and dividend decisions for non-stock cooperatives: Pecking order vs. trade-off," written with finance major David Smiy, each received a Best Paper Award at the 17th annual ASBBS conference Feb. 18-21 in Las Vegas. Both appear in the ASBBS E-Journal, 6 (1), 100-09 for the former and 132-40 for the latter.

  In the other publications, "Stock split announcements: A test of market efficiency," written with finance major Tara Westfall, has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Allied Academies International, USA, and for presentation at the annual conference of the Allied Academies International, USA, held Feb. 14-16 in New Orleans. "Insider Trading: A test of market efficiency," written with finance major Darrell Asbell, has been published in the Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Conference, 17 (1), 174-81. "The impact of stock split announcements on stock price," written with finance major Carlos Garcia de Andoain, was published in the Journal of Business and Behavioral Sciences, 21 (1), 18-27.

• Longwood's Peggy Agee earns State Clinical Achievement Award (4/20)
  

  Longwood University's Dr. Peggy Agee was recently presented the State Clinical Achievement Award by the Speech-Language-Hearing Association of Virginia (SHAV) during the group's annual convention held in Portsmouth, Va.
• Dr. Raymond Cormier recently gave two invited lectures and had a journal article published (4/16)
  Dr. Raymond Cormier, Visiting Professor of French, recently gave two invited lectures and had a journal article published. He lectured Feb. 15 to the Medieval Studies Program at Loyola University Chicago on "Glossing the Empire: Medieval Translation Theory, Anachronism and Hermeneutics in Twelfth-Century French Romance." He lectured April 15 to the Great Books Program at East Carolina University on "A Comparison of Virgil's 'Aeneid' and its High Medieval Adaptation into French: Mind and Method." His article "After Virgil's 'Aeneid': A High Medieval Adaptation of the Monster Dog Cerberus" has been published in Studies in Latin Language and Literature (XV, pp. 517-527), a series published by the Belgian journal Latomus.