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Celebration of Faculty Scholarship and Service 2024

This guide displays many of Pitt-Greensburg faculty's accomplishments in scholarship and service during the academic year.

Behavioral Sciences

Adam Cilli

Pilar Herr

Michelle Louch

Russ Phillips

Jonathan Vallano

D.H. Woo

Paul Adams: “Brexit: The Referendum and Beyond” panelist, “Inside, Outside, Neither, or Both: EU Relations with Non-Member States in the Post-Brexit Environment” paper, International Conference of Europeanists, Reykjavík, Iceland, June 2023; “Northern Ireland and the EU” panelist, “Fight the Future: Evaluating the Political Options of Post-Brexit Northern Ireland” paper, University Association for Contemporary European Studies Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, September 2023

Kristen Asplin: “A Modified Flipped Classroom Facilitates Group Interaction and Discussion in an Introduction to Psychology Classroom,” Assessment and Teaching Conference, University of Pittsburgh, February 2024 

William Campbell: “Pleasaunt was his absolucioun? Friars and Light Penances in English History and Literature” invited paper presentation, The Secular-Mendicant Controversy and its Long Aftermath (13th-20th c.): Modern Historiographies, New Perspectives conference, University of Münster, Germany, June 2023; “’Recogitabo tibi omnes annos meos’: Tracing the Life of an Office of the Dead Manuscript” paper presentation, International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan, May 2023; Demonstration encompassing XML-stack coding and network analysis, Digital Studies and Methods Seminar, Humanities Center at Oakland Campus, May 2023 

Douglas Harding: Two SBDC First Step seminars in fall 2023; “Exploring Business Entities” and “Expanding into Export Markets” videos 

Pilar Herr: “Placing the Mapuche in Their Rightful Place in the World History Classroom” invited paper presentation, World History Association Conference,  University of Pittsburgh, June 2023

Tim Holler: AI in the classroom roundtable discussant, Northeastern Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference, Williamsport, June 2023; Mentoring roundtable discussant, intersections of DEI in curriculum panelist, and research in rural communities roundtable discussant, American Society of Criminology conference, Philadelphia, November 2023;  “Doing Restorative Justice Right” roundtable discussant, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 2024 Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2024

Jocelyn Hunt and Jessica McCormick: "Trauma Informed Practices for Teachers," National Education Association Conference, Atlanta, March 2024

Michelle Louch:  “Designing Trust: The Impact of Website Design on User Confidence” with J. Ferguson. ISCAP, Albuquerque, NM, 2023

Melissa Marks: "Making an Impact: Youth’s Actions During Hard History," National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Nashville, December 2023; "University versus School: Pushback from the Field" with S. DeWitt, G. Lipscomb, A. Aydinian-Perry, moderator and presenter, College and University Faculty Association of the National Council for Social Studies Annual Conference, Nashville, December 2023

Russ Phillips: Poster Presentation at Eastern Psychological Association Annual Meeting  

Ewa Rudnicka:  “Fast Fashion Supply Chain Sustainability," Industry, Engineering & Management Systems Conference, virtual, March 2024

DH Woo: "Diversity and Hospital Efficiency: A Data Envelopment Analysis Model" and "Exploring the Relationship between Bitcoin and Altcoins in Late 2018" papers, Midwest Decision Sciences Institute conference, Youngstown State University, OH.

Geoff Wood: “Back to the Future: The Past and Potential Future Impacts of Natural Disasters” Presidential Address, “Elite Conflict and Social Inequality in American Society: Revisiting Elite Theory and its Application to Current Events” presentation, “Teaching Sociology of Politics During an Election Year: The Roles of Ideology and Media Rhetoric” presentation, North Central Sociological Association Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, 2024 

Pilar Herr: Reviewer, two unedited sample chapters of "To Govern Is to Educate: Modeling Racial Education in Modern Chile (1879–1920)” manuscript by Romina A. Green Rioja 

Michelle Louch: Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) for Independence Health through Center for Applied Research (CFAR)  

Adam Cilli: $6000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support book research 

Melissa Marks: PI for PDE Grant with Hempfield Area School District; PI for SEED Grant with Southmoreland Area School District 

Russ Phillips: Grant from international data acquisition platform Besample supporting data collection