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facility, greenhouse and herbarium, DNA Students often present results of their Why Study Biology? sequencers, modern electrophysiological investigations at the Richmond Arts & There is nothing more natural than curiosity equipment, microscopes related to computer Science Undergraduate Research about the living world. Studying biology imaging technology, thermocyclers, and Symposium and at regional and national gives you the tools to understand and digital gel documentation are all available meetings. Students also publish findings think critically about how life works and for student and faculty use. The University with faculty in scientific literature. evolves at all different levels, from molecules owns a 20-foot Boston Whaler that serves to cells to organisms to ecosystems. as a research vessel for oceanographic and marine research, and the department has Recent Publications with additional vehicles to reach field sites and Student Co-Authors The Biology Curriculum an array of collection and sampling gear. Because biology today is a broad and Wu, C.A., Streisfeld, M.A., Nutter, L.I., rapidly changing field, the curriculum for and Cross, K.* 2013. The genetic basis majors and nonmajors alike starts with Internships and of a rare flower color polymorphism in biological principles. The program then Mimulus lewisii provides insight into focuses on building other important skills: Career Opportunities the repeatability of evolution. PLoS the ability to think critically and to Students are encouraged to participate in ONE 8(12): e81173. synthesize information; to find and extract internships that offer practical experience Rivera, A., Winters, I.*, Rued, A.*, Ding information from continually expanding in careers related to life sciences. Biology S.*, Posfai, D.*, Cieniewicz, B.*, databases; to formulate hypotheses and graduates enter a variety of fields, including Cameron, K., Gentile, L., and Hill, A. design appropriately controlled experiments medical professions, teaching, biological (2013) The evolution and function of to test these hypotheses; to analyze and research, forensics, museum restoration, the Pax/Six regulatory network in evaluate data and draw scientifically valid natural history, science illustration, science sponges. Evolution and Development. conclusions from that data; and to writing and publishing, photography, and In press. communicate clearly and succinctly, both agricultural professions, such as forestry, Daugherty, A.*, Suvarnapunya, A.E., and orally and in writing. wildlife management, and conservation Runyen-Janecky, L.J. 2012. The Role of Requirements for a biology degree include biology. OxyR and SoxRS in oxidative stress introduction to biological thinking; three survival in Shigella flexneri. Microbiol. courses from three different conceptual Res. 167: 238-245. areas; introductory chemistry; organic Departmental Hill M., Massaro, A.*, Weisz, J., and chemistry I and II; and five additional units Webster N. (2012) Selective filtration of upper-level elective biology courses. The Scholarships/Fellowships and reduced pumping rates in response Bachelor of Science degree requires one The Denoon Scholarship and Cole to thermal stress in the Great Barrier year of calculus and two approved Memorial Scholarship are available annually Reef sponge Rhopaloides odorabile. quantitative science courses. Partnerships to natural science students. The John Journal of Experimental Marine Biology exist with several programs including Neasmith Dickinson Memorial Research and Ecology. 416-417: 55-60. Duke University Marine Sciences Award and the Robert F. Smart Award in * indicates student coauthor Laboratory, the Marine Biological Biology are fellowships awarded to biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass.; and majors to support summer research projects. the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Recent Student Presentations Study abroad is also encouraged. at National Meetings Undergraduate Research Hill, M., Hill, A., Cotman, C.*, Friday, S.*, The biology faculty’s varied research interests Heist, T.*, McCauley, M.*, Peterson, K.*, Facilities and Equipment provide opportunities for students to Richardson, C. *, Riesgo, A., and Biology shares the state-of-the-art become involved in independent research. Gottwald Center for the Sciences with the Majors are encouraged to join a faculty Strehlow, B.*, “Evolutionary and chemistry and physics departments. This research program early in their studies. ecological significance of sponge- arrangement encourages collaboration Each semester, more than 50 students Symbiodinium symbioses: genetic among faculty and students in the three pursue independent research, and more than regulation of uptake and maintenance in disciplines. In addition to well-equipped 60 stay during the summer for 10 weeks sponges.” Society for Integrative and teaching and research labs, the facility of full-time research. Faculty research Comparative Biology. January 2013 features a central reading room with grants, the Richmond undergraduate (San Francisco, CA) electronic access to reference materials research committee, department awards, Hill, M., Strehlow, B.*, Richardson, C.*, that are updated and expanded daily. UR Summer Fellowships, and institutional Peterson, K.*, Cotman, C.*, McCauley, The department maintains diverse, grants support students in this work. M.*, Friday, S.*, Heist, T.*, Riesgo, A. modern equipment to support teaching Collaborations with other departments are and Hill, A. “Genetic regulation of and research. An imaging center (TEM, encouraged (for example, a biology and zooxanthella uptake and maintenance SEM, and confocal microscope), animal psychology concentration in neuroscience). in sponges.” 12th International Coral

9 Reef Symposium. July 2012 (Cairns, Angela Hilliker Australia) IQ Science, URISE, and SMART Ph.D., University of Chicago Moore M.E.*, Smith, C.J.*, and Wu, C.A.. Continuing support from the Howard Hughes Area of specialty: yeast molecular genetics Genetic and phenotypic analysis of natural Medical Institute has allowed the University to freeze tolerance variation in Mimulus expand science faculty, create new courses, and Roni J. Kingsley wildflowers. First Joint Congress on develop an Integrated Quantitative Science Ph.D., University of South Carolina Evolutionary Biology, Ottawa, Canada. course (IQS), a year-long sequence. Open to Area of specialty: calcification in marine July 2012. first-year students, the course combines invertebrates and protists * indicates student copresenter biology, chemistry, computer science, math, and physics in an integrated way to solve Omar A. Quintero scientific problems. The latest grant, for Ph.D., Duke University Schools Accepting $1.4 million, supports two new experiences: Area of specialty: role of molecular motors in • URISE: University of Richmond Integrated mitochondrial motility Recent Graduates Science Experience is a comprehensive Gary P. Radice Duke University program combining early and extensive Ph.D., Yale University Emory University undergraduate research with an emphasis on Area of specialty: development of three- Harvard University interdisciplinary STEM education. URISE is dimensional body patterns in vertebrates Massachusetts Institute of Technology a summer pre-first-year research experience The Ohio State University that aims to remove barriers for underrep- Maren B. Reiner The Rockefeller University resented students in STEM disciplines. M.S., New York University Stanford University • Science, Math, and Research Training Director of Nonmajors Biology Laboratories (SMART) combines introductory biology Tufts University Laura Runyen-Janecky University of California, Berkeley and chemistry with a coordinated calculus course. Ph.D., University of Wisconsin University of Chicago Area of specialty: bacterial molecular genetics University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Texas Faculty Peter D. Smallwood University of Virginia Ph.D., University of Arizona Linda M. Boland Area of specialty: behavioral ecology of Vanderbilt University Department Chair Virginia Commonwealth University foraging in small mammals and terrestrial Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill invertebrates Virginia Tech Areas of specialty: ion channel function, Washington University synaptic memory formation Krista Stenger Yale University Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University Emily J. Boone Areas of specialty: synthesis, release and actions M.S., University of South Alabama of catecholamines in macrophages Medical Schools Accepting Director of Biology Labs Amy M. Treonis Recent Graduates R. Jory Brinkerhoff Ph.D., Colorado State University Brown University Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder Area of specialty: microbial ecology Case Western Reserve University School of Areas of specialty: epidemiology, vector-bourne Medicine zoonotic disease dynamics John Vaughan Columbia University Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University Christine Davis Director of Pre-Health Education Weill Cornell Medical College B.A., Mary Baldwin College Drexel University School of Medicine Director of Microscopy & Imaging John Warrick Emory University School of Medicine Ph.D., Temple University Florida State University College of Medicine Rafael O. de Sá Area of specialty: analysis of neurodegenerative Jefferson Medical School Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin disease via transgenic Drosophilia Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Distinguished Educator Award, 1998 Mayo Medical School Areas of specialty: systematics, evolution and Carrie Wu Michigan State University development of amphibians and reptiles Ph.D., University of California at Irvine Areas of specialty: ecology, evolution and Mount Sinai School of Medicine W. John Hayden New Jersey Medical School genetics of local adaptation in natural plant Ph.D., University of Maryland populations Tulane University School of Medicine Areas of specialty: anatomy, morphology and Uniformed Services University of the Health systematics of vascular plants Eugene Wu Sciences Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute University of Connecticut School of Medicine April L. Hill Areas of specialty: structure-based drug design, University of Maryland School of Medicine Ph.D., University of Houston nucleic acid polymerases, virology, viral University of North Carolina School of Medicine Area of specialty: genetics of sponge development evolution University of Vermont College of Medicine Malcolm S. Hill University of Virginia School of Medicine Ph.D., University of Houston Virginia Commonwealth University School of Area of specialty: evolutionary ecology of sponges Medicine Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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Introduction to the Major Facilities Employers Hiring All of the University of Richmond’s All classroom and offices in the business Recent Graduates business administration, accounting, school are equipped with up-to-date Accenture and economics students start in a liberal technology. Each classroom has a Altria arts program. First-year students take multimedia instructor’s platform, ceiling- Bain Capital School of Arts and Sciences courses to mounted projection system, and network Baker Tilly acquire a background in the liberal arts, ports/power for laptop computers at a requirement of all University students. every student seat. The entire building is Bank of America After one year in Arts and Sciences, WiFi-enabled. Several classrooms have Barclays Capital students may declare their intent to major wall-mounted video cameras for recording Bloomberg LP in business administration, accounting, speakers, such as student presentations Capital One or economics. Students interested in and talks by visiting executives. Carmax pursuing a major or minor in the Robins The Robins School recently completed a Citigroup School of Business (business administration, building expansion that added 60 percent Coca-Cola Company economics, or accounting) must have more space and allows better student Deloitte earned at least a 2.7 GPA after completing services. The expansion, Queally Hall, Ernst & Young a minimum of 12 units at the end of the includes a finance trading room, auditorium, Federal Reserve Bank three semesters of college coursework, café, numerous classrooms and offices, Genworth Financial including ECON 101, ACCT 201, and and research and teaching centers, including Goldman Sachs MATH 211 (or its equivalent). Academic the Center for Career Programs in Business. Google advisors in the Robins School are IBM assigned once a student has declared a Jefferies & Co. major for a Bachelor of Science in International Exchange Program JPMorgan Chase business administration degree. Business majors are encouraged to Keiter Stephens Students majoring in business participate in one of the University’s many KPMG administration must select one or more study abroad options. About 50 percent Merrill Lynch concentrations from among accounting, of Robins School students study abroad Microsoft finance, economics, international business, for at least one semester. The Robins Philip Morris USA marketing, and management (including a School has exchange programs with more PwC track in innovation and entrepreneurship). than 52 of the world’s leading business SunTrust Banks Majors in accounting or economics may schools, including schools in 25 countries Travelers Insurance select a concentration but one is not in Europe, North and South America, U.S. Government required. Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. New Wachovia Securities About 270 students are enrolled in the schools are added regularly. business program at each of the sophomore, junior, and senior class levels. Class sizes Schools Accepting average 23, thus the environment affords Student-Faculty Research Recent Graduates a close relationship between faculty and Students in the Robins School are American University students. The Robins School is encouraged to engage in joint research Columbia University professionally accredited by the AACSB- projects with the business school faculty. Duke University International and has consistently been Previous collaborations have been in George Washington University ranked a Top 25 Undergraduate School areas as diverse as resource efficiency of Hofstra University of Business by Bloomberg Businessweek. start-up ventures, international James Madison University entrepreneurship, and the quantitative The Ohio State University importance of various factors affecting University of Miami high school dropout rates. Student-involved University of Notre Dame papers have been presented at professional University of South Carolina conferences and published in professional University of Utah journals. The business school offers University of Virginia summer research stipends to students Virginia Commonwealth University doing research with a faculty member. Washington & Lee University

11 Faculty Thomas M. Arnold Craig W. Heinicke Leo V. Plante The F. Carlyle Tiller Chair in Business Ph.D., University of Toronto M.B.A., Temple University Ph.D., University of Georgia Department: Economics M.A., A.B.D., University of Pennsylvania Department: Finance M.Div., Weston Jesuit School of Theology Violet Tzu Wei Ho Department: Finance D. Neil Ashworth Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D., University of South Carolina Department: Management Collin Lee Rabe Department: Management M.A., Ph.D. Anticipated, Johns Hopkins University Joe Hoyle Department: Economics Harold W. Babb M.A., Appalachian State University, CPA Department chair Department: Accounting Randle David Raggio Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Ph.D., Ohio State University Department: Marketing Monika Kukar-Kinney Department: Marketing Ph.D., Indiana University Nancy A. Bagranoff Department: Marketing Nancy M. Ridgway Dean Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin D.B.A., George Washington University Abdullah Kumas Department: Marketing Department: Accounting Ph.D., Southern Methodist University Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas Philip S. Rohrbach William H. Bergman Department: Accounting M.Tax., Virginia Commonwealth University M.B.A., Southern Methodist University Department: Accounting Department: Marketing M. Carol Lancaster D.B.A., Louisiana Tech University Robert M. Schmidt Douglas A. Bosse Department: Finance Department Chair Ph.D., The Ohio State University Ph.D., Duke University Department: Management Dana N. Lascu Department: Economics Ph.D., University of South Carolina Jeffrey R. Carlson Department: Marketing Judith Schrempf-Stirling M.A., Purdue University Ph.D., Universite de Lausanne Ph.D., University of Connecticut (Anticipated Spring 2014) Maia K. Linask Department: Management Department: Marketing Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Department: Economics Daniel D. Selby Paul M. Clikeman Ph.D., Florida State University Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Lewis A. Litteral Department: Accounting Department: Accounting Ph.D., Clemson University Department: Management Ruixia Shi Susan L. Cohen Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Daniel L. Mackay Department: Management Department: Management Ph.D., University of Virginia Department: Economics Raymond L. Slaughter C. Mitchell Conover M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., Florida State University, CFA Shakun Datta Mago J.D., Howard University Department: Finance Ph.D., Purdue University Department: Accounting Department: Economics Thomas J. Cossé Jerry L. Stevens Associate Dean for International Business Programs Adam J. Marquardt The David Meade White Distinguished Teaching Fellow Ph.D., University of Arkansas Ph.D., University of Oregon Ph.D., University of Illinois Department: Marketing and International Business Studies Department: Marketing Department: Finance Richard S. Coughlan Cassandra D. Marshall Andrew C. Szakmary Senior Associate Dean Ph.D., Indiana University Ph.D., University of New Orleans Director, Richard S. Reynolds Graduate School of Business Department: Finance Department: Finance Executive Director of Executive Education Ph.D., University of Arizona Eric K. Martin Stephen B. Tallman Department: Management M.B.A., Harvard University The E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professorship in Department: Management Business Erik D. Craft Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles Ph.D., University of Chicago Thomas A. Mattson Department: Management Department: Economics Ph.D., University of Hawaii at Manoa Department: Management Shital A. Thekdi Dean D. Croushore M.S., University of Michigan Rigsby Fellow in Economics KimMarie McGoldrick Ph.D., University of Virginia Ph.D., The Ohio State University Joseph A. Jennings Chair in Business Department: Management Department: Economics Ph.D., SUNY at Binghamton Department: Economics Steven Michael Thompson Chadwick C. Curtis Ph.D., University of Connecticut Ph.D., University of Notre Dame Mohammad Saif Mehkari Department: Management Department: Economics Ph.D., The Ohio State University Department: Economics Joyce Ann van der Laan Smith Robert C. Dolan Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University Ph.D., Rutgers University James W. Monks Department: Accounting Department: Economics Director of Assessment and Accreditation Ph.D., Boston College Valaria P. Vendrzyk John H. Earl Jr. Department: Economics Ph.D., Texas A&M University Department chair Department: Accounting Ph.D., Arizona State University Olena Mykhaylova Department: Finance Ph.D., Georgetown University Andrea Lynn Waddle Department: Economics M.A., Ph.D. Anticipated, University of Minnesota Amit Eynan Department: Economics Department chair J. Randolph New Ph.D., Washington University Ph.D., Arizona State University W. Darrell Walden Department: Management Department: Management Department chair Specialist for Accounting Assessment and Accreditation Raymond P.H. Fishe Robert H. Nicholson Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University The Patricia A. and George W. Wellde, Jr. Distinguished Associate Dean for Undergraduate Business Programs Department: Accounting Chair in Finance Ph.D., North Carolina State University Ph.D., University of Florida Department: Economics Jonathan W. Whitaker Department: Finance Ph.D., University of Michigan David S. North Department: Management Marshall A. Geiger Director of the Center for Active Business Education Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University Ph.D., Michigan State University Jonathan B. Wight Department: Accounting Department: Finance Ph.D., Vanderbilt University Department: Economics and International Studies Timothy Hamilton Gyung Hyun Paik Ph.D., North Carolina State University Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department: Economics Department: Accounting Jeffrey S. Harrison Robert A. Phillips The W. David Robbins Chair in Strategic Management Ph.D., University of Virginia Ph.D., University of Utah Department: Management Department: Management

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Introduction to English with them regularly. Enrollments in creative interaction with distinguished writers who writing classes are limited to 15–18 students. regularly visit campus, and a student Recognizing that the aim of a liberal arts Most literature and film classes enroll 20 literary magazine, The Messenger. In education is to bring students to a critical students. All majors take two seminars that addition, students can work as paid understanding of themselves, the world, focus on special topics and in which writing consultants in the University’s and the intricate relationship between the enrollment is restricted to 12 students. Writing Across the Curriculum Program two, the English department seeks to assist Each year, several English faculty teach or in the Writing Center. Membership in majors in coming to this understanding community-based learning courses, which the English Honor Society, Sigma Tau through a comprehensive study of literature take advantage of the rich culture and Delta, offers such benefits as a national and language. Coursework required for the history of both the city of Richmond and the conference where students can present major focuses centrally, though not Commonwealth of Virginia. For example, a their research and opportunities for exclusively, on English literature written in course on the literature of war allows publication in the society’s journal. Britain and the United States and on students to consider how Richmond itself The department’s honors program allows rigorous training in writing. The major has been affected by war in general and by highly motivated students, through the seeks to give students a knowledge of the the American Civil War and World War I writing of an honors thesis, to do extensive, way literature and language have evolved, in particular. The professors invite a combat guided research on topics of their own exposure to a broad range of texts from veteran and a psychologist who works on war choosing. In addition, students can work both the past and present, and theoretical trauma to their class, and they take students on individual summer research projects in understanding of the ways in which to local war memorials, and to meet with a tutorial relationship with a faculty literary texts are produced and can be read. veterans at McGuire VA Medical Center supervisor and receive monetary support and to share poetry with them, making the for this work. One recent summer project English as a Major course a model of interdisciplinary study. involved a student examining the influence Requirements for the English major A National Endowment for the Humanities of Shakespeare’s plays on a number of achieve these aims while allowing students grant enables the department to periodically important 20th-century novels. Another to choose from varied courses offered in create unique classroom experiences. involved research in London on material the department. In addition to courses in Organized by an English professor, visiting objects and the fiction of Virginia Woolf. the expanding canon of British and authors and artists help teach a course and Students can earn English credit toward American literature (including African- give public lectures and performances. graduation for internships that involve American and Native American), students Most recently in our Blurred Boundaries supervised writing and editing, either in the may take courses in film, creative writing, course, students explored the nature of summer or during the academic year. For and the important and growing body of cultural, aesthetic, social, and artistic example, one student interned with Simon literature produced in English from parts boundaries with novelists Jonathan Ames and Schuster in New York, and another of the globe other than North America and Jonathan Lethem, radio and television spent his summer working in Washington, and the United Kingdom, including the host Ira Glass, Pulitzer Prize-winning D.C., for Organizing for America. There are Caribbean, India, and Anglophone Africa. playwright Suzan-Lore Parks, screenwriter also many internship opportunities in the and novelist Trey Ellis, and performance Richmond area. Our students have artist DJ Spooky. Students concluded the interned at the Valentine Museum, Style English as a Minor semester with a day trip to Kara Walker’s Weekly, the Women’s Health Care Center Students may also minor in English. The exhibit at the Whitney Museum of at Virginia Commonwealth University, the English minor consists of several core Modern Art in New York. Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice, English courses and additional courses The University’s recently expanded library the office of a Virginia state senator, the chosen by the student. Many students find and academic computing center facilitate Virginia Film Office, and at law firms and that an English minor enriches their study student research, and the University’s public relations, marketing, and of another field, such as a foreign language, Writing Center and Speech Center provide communication agencies. history, philosophy, or journalism. Some help with papers and presentations. Students interested in interdisciplinary students majoring in the sciences have study can enrich their work in the English chosen an English minor to give major by choosing the allied fields option; themselves an undergraduate education Special Learning Opportunities by participating in interdisciplinary studies that balances the sciences and humanities. The English major and minor both concentrations, such as Medieval and emphasize the study of literature, but the Renaissance studies, or in interdisciplinary department offers varied opportunities for programs like American Studies or film Learning Environment involvement in creative writing, including studies; or by choosing from among eight Classes in the English department are six regular courses, independent study combined majors: English/classics, small, which means that the faculty get to courses, an editing and publishing course English/Greek, English/Latin, English/ know their students individually and meet taught in conjunction with Verse magazine, French, English/German, English/Russian, 31 English/theatre, and English/women, Faculty Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, 1992 gender, and sexuality studies. Areas of specialty: 20th-century women Bertram Ashe writers, literature of the American South, Ph.D., College of William & Mary 20th-century American fiction Career Opportunities Distinguished Educator Award, 2012 Areas of specialty: 20th-century American Peter Lurie Students majoring in English go on to literature, 20th-century African-American Ph.D., Boston University careers in such fields as advertising, literature and culture Areas of specialty: modern American literature, film studies, Faulkner studies, late 19th business, editing, journalism, marketing Laura Browder and communications, museum century American literature, literary and Ph.D., Brandeis University visual modernism, critical theory curatorship, public relations, software Tyler and Alice Haynes Professor of American development, teaching, television and Studies Joyce MacAllister movie production, or web development Areas of specialty: 20th-century American Ph.D., University of Texas literature, documentary studies, modern Areas of specialty: rhetoric and composition, and writing; or they may enter graduate modern grammar, life writing programs in English, law, or other fields. drama, American studies The reading, writing, analytical, and Abigail Cheever Elizabeth Outka Ph.D., University of Virginia critical thinking skills acquired by English Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Areas of specialty: film studies, American film, Areas of specialty: modernism, 20th-century majors make them attractive to employers American literature after World War II British literature, history of the novel in business, industry, government, and Kevin Pelletier nonprofit organizations. Joseph Essid Ph.D., Indiana University Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo Director of the Writing Center Areas of specialty: 19th-century U.S. literature, Schools Accepting Distinguished Educator Award, 2004 U.S. apocalyptic literature, race and slavery Areas of specialty: computers and composition, Anthony Russell Recent Graduates history of technology, virtual worlds Ph.D., Yale University American University Terryl Givens South Atlantic Association of Departments of Boston College Ph.D., University of North Carolina English, Outstanding Teacher, 2004 Boston University James A. Bostwick Professor of English Distinguished Educator Award, 2002 Brandeis University Distinguished Educator Award, 1997 Areas of specialty: Renaissance studies, Brown University Areas of specialty: Romanticism, religion and comparative literature (English, French, College of William & Mary literature Italian), Shakespeare Columbia University Louis Schwartz Cornell University Elisabeth Gruner Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., Brandeis University Duke University Department Chair Emory University Areas of specialty: 19th-century British literature, children’s and young adult James Holly Hanford Award for Most Fordham University Distinguished Book Published on Military, The George Washington University literature, creative nonfiction writing, 19th-century British women writers 2009 Georgetown University Areas of specialty: 16th- and 17th-century Harvard University Brian Henry British nondramatic literature, John Milton, Indiana University M.F.A., University of Massachusetts 16th-century lyric, English prosody New School for Social Research Distinguished Educator Award, 2011 New York University Best Translated Book Award for Poetry, 2011 Monika Siebert Northwestern University Treci Trg Prize (Serbia), 2009 Ph.D., Harvard University Notre Dame University Cecil B. Hemley Memorial Award, 2008 Areas of specialty: Native American studies, The Ohio State University Carole Weinstein Poetry Award, 2006 North American ethnic literatures, film studies Pennsylvania State University Areas of specialty: creative writing, Julietta Singh Princeton University contemporary poetry Ph.D., University of Minnesota State University of New York, Buffalo Dona Hickey Areas of specialty: postcolonial literatures and Tufts University Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee theory, diasporic literatures, transnational University of California, Irvine Professor emerita feminist studies, critical theory University of California, Santa Barbara Distinguished Educator Award, 1990, 1993 Nathan Snaza University of Chicago Areas of specialty: rhetoric and composition, Ph.D., University of Minnesota University of Connecticut 20th-century American and British poetry Director of the Bridge to Success Program University of Edinburgh Areas of specialty: modern narrative, literary University of London Raymond Hilliard theory and continental philosophy, University of Maryland Ph.D., University of Rochester posthumanism, social and cultural University of Massachusetts, Amherst Distinguished Educator Award, 1981, 2008 foundations of education, sexuality and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Areas of specialty: the novel, 18th-century gender studies University of Oxford British novel, 18th-century English literature, the modern novel David Stevens University of Pennsylvania M.F.A., Pennsylvania State University University of St. Andrews, Scotland Suzanne Jones Ph.D., Emory University University of Texas, Austin Ph.D., University of Virginia Areas of specialty: creative writing, University of Virginia Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities 19th-century American literature, University of Wisconsin South Atlantic Association of Departments of Western literature, science fiction and Vanderbilt University English, Outstanding Teacher, 1994 fantasy Yale University Distinguished Educator Award, 1989, 1992

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Introduction to History Schools Accepting Harry M. Ward Scholarship for University of Richmond students The history faculty believes the major Recent Graduates from either college is both enriching and practical. No Spencer & Margaret Albright major covers more territory: It spans University of Chicago (near Eastern Scholarships the globe and every kind of human studies) Maude Howlett Woodfin-Susan activity from planting crops to creating Columbia University (law) philosophies. What could be more Dartmouth College (comparative Lough Grant for a Westhampton practical than trying to understand literature) alumna attending graduate school how people create and respond to Duke University (law) in history change? As students examine how Georgetown University (law) Earnest C. Bolt, Jr. Travel Grant people construct, try to live in, and Harvard University (law) alter their social, political, and symbolic University of Maryland (medicine) Recent Senior Honors Theses worlds, they become more adept at Michigan State University (history) New York University (history) Justin Chew: “Utah Statehood: The understanding the changing world — Normalization of Mormonism for Northwestern University (history) a skill valued by many employers. U.S. Security” Princeton University (history) Syracuse University (architecture) Kevin Kane: “Morale Maintenance in World War II U.S. Army Ground Learning Environment Tulane University (medicine) Combat Units: European Theater of The history department offers a Vanderbilt University (history) rigorous intellectual experience in a Operations, 1944–45” congenial environment of small classes Maria Lee, “Black Bahamas: Political and close interaction between students Employers Hiring Constructions of Bahamian and faculty. A concentration in history National Identity” consists of 10 units that ensure Recent Graduates Sarah Rhoads, “Regulating Death and students explore topics and historical CapitalOne Building Empire: American Doctors eras both broadly and deeply. The The Chapin School, Manhattan, N.Y. and The Construction of the department also offers a history minor, Charleston, S.C., Police Department Panama Canal, 1904¬–14” which consists of five units. Cine Mosaic Films Frances Sisson: “White Female Majors have access to a rich and Citibank, New York Criminals in Civil War Richmond, varied offering of courses in American, Delaware Museum of Natural History 1860–65” British, European, African, East Asian, Droga5 (advertising) Andrea Stevens: “The Politicization of Latin American, and Middle Eastern FD MorgenWalke Biblical Analysis by Protestant Army history. All must take a research Freehold Township Schools, N.J. Chaplains during the American seminar involving extensive work in Grey NY (advertising) Revolution” primary source materials. Internships Historical Foundation of are available to majors at various Hillsborough, N.C. historical museums in the Richmond Lincoln Law Partners, Chicago Facilities and Washington, D.C., areas. For NBCSports.com • Access to research collections in the those who qualify, an honors program Ventura County (Calif.) Public Library and Archives of Virginia, culminates with a senior thesis. Defender’s Office the Virginia Historical Society Raytheon Missile Systems Library, the Museum of the Career Paths Virginia Department of Historic Confederacy Library, and the The directions that graduates with Resources Virginia Baptist Historical Society history degrees take include graduate or Library professional school, education, business, Scholarships • Strong campus library holdings, government service, and much more. especially in American and British Employers from many fields have said for History Majors history and first-rate Internet and that what impresses them is that Helen G. Stafford Scholarship for a interlibrary loan access to collections Richmond history majors have learned to Westhampton College student around the world think through complex human problems Jacob Billikopf Scholarship for a • Classrooms and offices located in and to express themselves clearly. Richmond College student historic Ryland Hall 45 Faculty Edward L. Ayers, University president Nicole Sackley Yücel Yanikda˘g Ph.D., Yale University Ph.D., Princeton University Ph.D., The Ohio State University Recipient: 2012 National Humanities Current Truman-Kauffman Fellow Former Fulbright Fellow to Turkey Medal Areas of specialty: United States and Member, Institute for Advanced Study Areas of specialty: southern history, the world, U.S. culture (Princeton) American Civil War Areas of specialty: Modern Middle East, L. Carol Summers Ottoman Empire, Modern Turkey David Brandenberger Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Ph.D., Harvard University Former fellow, Davis Center for Eric Yellin Former fellow: Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton Ph.D., Princeton University Russian and Eurasian Studies, University and National Humanities James Madison Prize, 2010–11 Harvard University, Fulbright Center Area of specialty: 20th-century program, National Endowment for Distinguished Educator Award, 2001 United States the Humanities, and International Area of specialty: Africa Research & Exchange Board (IREX) Area of specialty: Russia/Soviet Union John D. Treadway The Freeman Professorship Ph.D., University of Virginia The Douglas Southall Freeman Joanna Drell Samuel Chiles Mitchell-Jacob Professorship was established in Ph.D., Brown University Billikopf Professor honor of the noted biographer and Former fellow, American Academy in Past Fulbright Fellow to Montenegro journalist by his family and allows the Rome Former fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center department to bring a distinguished Howard R. Marraro Prize, 2003 Distinguished Educator Award, 1985, visiting historian to the campus Area of specialty: Medieval Europe 1988, 1991, 1995, 1999 annually. The Freeman Professor for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, spring 2014 was John French, an Robert C. Kenzer 1993 expert on Latin America who focuses Ph.D., Harvard University Areas of specialty: European on Brazil’s labor history. William Binford Vest Professor diplomacy, Eastern Europe Outstanding Mentor Award, 2008 Areas of specialty: 19th-century U.S., Sydney Watts Civil War, and Reconstruction Ph.D., Cornell University Areas of specialty: Early modern Tze May Loo Europe, France 1650-1800 Ph.D., Cornell University Former Japan Society for the Hugh A. West Promotion of Science Fellow Ph.D., Stanford University Areas of specialty: Japan, East Asia Department Chair Robert Maxwell Prize, 1989 Manuella Meyer Distinguished Educator Award, 1985, Ph.D., Yale University 1996 Larson Fellow, Library of Congress Former fellow, National Humanities Area of specialty: Latin America Center Area of specialty: Modern European David W. Routt thought Ph.D., The Ohio State University Area of specialty: Medieval Europe

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Introduction to Structure Latin America, Middle East, modern Europe, and world politics and diplomacy. International Studies Since culture and international behavior Each concentration is supervised by a The international studies major are influenced by many complex factors faculty advisor who is a specialist in the promotes the teaching and learning of that cannot be understood from a single area. A student with a strong interest in issues of global importance. To achieve disciplinary perspective, the international an area not defined as a concentration informed and coherent perspectives on studies major integrates various academic may, with permission, create an international affairs, the program builds disciplines. This is accomplished through individual course of study. The structure its strengths on advanced language two interdisciplinary core courses — of the international studies major lends competency, overseas cultural immersion, Perspectives in International Studies and itself to combining it with other majors, and expertise in a geographic or the senior seminar — and through the especially in such fields as modern functional area. requirement of courses in no fewer than languages and literatures, political Because this is an interdependent three disciplines within the student’s science, economics, history, sociology, the world, no nation or individual can live concentration. natural sciences, and others. Students and prosper in isolation or ignorance of Perspectives in International Studies have also combined this major with others. For this reason, the University of addresses issues that arise in cross- degrees in business and leadership studies. Richmond, which places great emphasis cultural representation and interpretation, Internationally oriented internships on internationalizing the education of in addition to the origins and implications may be pursued locally, elsewhere in the all students, established the international of diversity and interdependence among United States, and abroad. In recent studies major. Drawing faculty from 25 nations, cultures, regions, and peoples. years, international studies majors have academic disciplines that offer more than During the senior seminar, sets of had internships at the U.S. Department 150 courses, this versatile and flexible international issues and relationships are of State in Washington, D.C., while program has consistently been one of studied using tools and approaches of others did summer internships in the most popular majors on campus. several disciplines and core field Bangkok, London, and Cape Town. An understanding of the global system concepts. Under faculty supervision, in which people live is the primary seminar students write a major research objective of the major. It aims to educate paper on a topic relating to both the Language Requirement students about cultures, nations, and seminar’s theme and their international International studies majors must achieve societies, and enable them to deal with the studies concentration. In recent years, IS proficiency in a second language through economic, political, cultural, and security majors have won University prizes for completion of at least two units of issues confronting the world today. research projects on such topics as 300- or 400-level foreign language International studies majors are contemporary French policy toward courses taught in the target language. generalists and, as such, are prepared to Francophone Africa, mapping as a form Language instruction is available in enter careers in any field in which the of power in New Spain, Muslims in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, ability to work across cultural China, international refugee issues, Italian, Russian, and Spanish at the major boundaries, knowledge of a foreign imperial implications of the Great level; and Japanese at the minor level. language, and experience with living, Exhibition of 1851 in London, the Kuril studying, and working abroad are assets. Islands controversy in current Russo- Today these fields include international Japanese relations, the United Fruit Experience Abroad trade, banking, law, government, U.S. Company as an agent of imperialism in International understanding and and international nongovernmental Guatemala, and human trafficking. communication depend on mutual organizations, education, human In addition, Political Science 250: respect and the appreciation of services, health, environmental Introduction to International Relations, linguistic, cultural, economic, and organizations, and many others. which studies the “society” of states and political differences. To develop these The international studies major also nonstate actors, or Geography 210: qualities, all international studies majors builds a foundation for graduate study Geographical Dimensions of Human complete an “experience abroad” of at in areas such as law, business, history, Development is required. Beyond these least one semester in duration. This may political science, international relations, core courses, majors choose a be accomplished through participation public relations, foreign languages and concentration in which they gain in a study abroad program or, with literatures, and anthropology, as well as coherence in their study and expertise by approval by the academic advisor, public administration and public health, taking an additional eight courses in no through a less traditional program of intercultural communication, peace fewer than three departments. The work or community service abroad. studies, and a growing number of major consists of seven concentrations: The University of Richmond offers interdisciplinary programs. Africa, Asia, international economics, study abroad programs during the 49 academic year and in the summer at contact with visiting scholars, writers, and Dr. Manuella Meyer partner institutions around the globe. students from all over the world. More Department of History With advising and approval by relevant than 70 countries are represented among departments and the Office of International the students, faculty, and staff at Richmond. Dr. Joseph Obi Jr. Advisor, Africa Education, Richmond students are able to The annual International Week includes Department of Sociology and Anthropology study in nearly every part of the world events such as the Study Abroad Fair, the while earning credits toward the major International Career Forum, and many Dr. Jennifer Pribble and without delaying their graduation. programs that bring together U.S. and Advisor, world politics/diplomacy Financial aid is transferable to University international students from the campus Department of Political Science programs abroad. and the whole metropolitan area, in addition to faculty, alumni, and members Dr. David Salisbury of the Greater Richmond community. Advisor, Latin America Companies/Organizations Department of Geography and the The city of Richmond and the Environment Hiring Recent Graduates surrounding counties are now home to a Americorps number of immigrant communities: Dr. Carol Summers Bonner Foundation Vietnamese, Cambodian, Russian, Indian, Advisor, world politics/diplomacy, Africa Child Fund International Ethiopian, and Chinese, to mention only Department of History CNN-Washington Bureau a few. International studies majors have Fulbright Program the opportunity to work as interns and Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis volunteers in various organizations that Advisor, Middle East International Justice Mission Department of Anthropology Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme offer services to new immigrants. Peace Corps Dr. John Treadway Teach for America Office of Advisor, world politics/diplomacy U.S. Agency for International Development International Education Department of History The Office of International Education is Dr. Hugh West Schools Accepting the focal point of international activities Advisor, modern Europe Recent Graduates on campus. The staff assists international Department of History American University (international affairs) studies majors as they choose opportunities Dr. Jonathan Wight Georgetown University (European studies) for study, work, and service abroad. It also Advisor, international economics The George Washington University (Asian advises international students and works Robins School of Business studies, public health) with student government and student Johns Hopkins University (international organizations to develop international Dr. Yücel Yanikda˘g events and activities. Advisor, Middle East relations) Department of History London School of Economics New York University (Spanish) Faculty Because the international studies major is University of Denver (law, international Dr. David Brandenberger interdisciplinary, students have the benefit studies) Advisor, modern Europe, world politics/ of daily contact with faculty from several University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill diplomacy departments and fields. Faculty involved (comparative politics) Department of History in the major represent a wide range of University of Notre Dame (comparative Dr. Sheila Carapico, Program Coordinator scholarly specializations, including: politics) Advisor, world politics/diplomacy, Middle East University of Virginia (law) Department of Political Science • politics of Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East Yale University (international relations, Dr. Mary Finley-Brook East Asian Studies) Advisor, Latin America • Amazonia Department of Geography and the • war and society Campus Life Environment • imperialism Dr. Yvonne Howell • globalization and development and the City of Richmond Advisor, modern Europe • modern Balkans International education at Richmond is an Department of Modern Literatures and • human rights integral part of campus life. International Cultures • world hunger studies majors, like all students, have the Dr. Sandra F. Joireman • Czech literature opportunity to participate in organizations Weinstein Chair of International Studies • Islam such as the International Club, Amnesty Department of Political Science • Holocaust representation International, the Japanese Society, and Dr. Stephen Long • Soviet Stalin era Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for Advisor, world politics/diplomacy • Turkish nationalism international scholars. They can attend the Department of Political Science • human environment interface international film series, concerts, exhibits, Dr. Tze Loo • cultural heritage preservation symposia, and lectures on international Advisor, Asia issues. Students also have the benefit of Department of History

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Introduction to the School Admission Procedures Alumni and Careers The first institution of its kind in the world, To be considered for admission, students With fewer than 1,500 graduates worldwide, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies apply during the fall semester of their the Jepson alumni network is intimate and helps students gain a rich understanding of second year. Students are not required to accessible. Many alumni go straight to top leadership so that they can become active, select an additional major, although many graduate schools after Jepson. Many seek thoughtful, and effective participants in choose to do so. more education later. They successfully their world and live lives of consequence. pursue careers ranging from business to To educate students for and about nonprofits, from medicine to politics, leadership, the School uses multiple Jepson School Students government service, and law. disciplinary lenses. The study of Jepson School students bring diverse Jepson School graduates are cognizant of anthropology, economics, history, literature, interests to the learning community. their place in, and their responsibility to, philosophy, politics, psychology, and Active in student government, fraternities, their professions, their organizations, and religion allows students to look at sororities, the arts, athletics, and clubs, their communities — a trait that follows leadership as it was, as it is, and as it should they share their leadership abilities to make them far beyond the borders of campus be, and provides them with conceptual contributions across the University. and throughout their lives. tools that support the exercise of Recruiters and graduate schools alike leadership in a variety of settings. consistently cite Jepson graduates for A thoughtfully designed and sequenced Jepson School Community strength in the areas they value most, curriculum integrates the disciplinary Jepson’s environment is one of open doors, including communication, critical perspectives on leadership. The introductory personal attention, trust, and respect. thinking, ethical understanding, social courses — Leadership and the Humanities Classes are interactive and rich in discussion. responsibility, interpersonal ability, and Leadership and the Social Sciences — Students frequently work in groups and leadership understanding, self-managed give students the historical and empirical learn through interaction and one-on-one learning, presentation skills, and teamwork. foundations to ground their study of mentoring. The result is an academic leadership. Leadership Ethics serves as the community in the best sense of the term: capstone course in the academic program. students, faculty, and staff who form Required Courses for Majors Required courses in Critical Thinking and close-knit intellectual and social bonds. Leadership and the Humanities Theories and Models of Leadership reflect They work together and draw upon shared Leadership and the Social Sciences Jepson’s commitment to intellectual rigor experiences to understand leadership, to Justice and Civil Society and theoretical depth. Advanced courses conduct research, and — ultimately — to Critical Thinking and Methods of Inquiry allow students to look at leadership as a make a better world. As a result of these Theories and Models of Leadership historical, social/organizational, and ethical relationships, alumni stay close to the Leadership Ethics phenomenon, and to focus on an area of School and to one another. Internship interest such as the psychology of leadership, The Jepson School sponsors events on Four Advanced Electives gender and leadership, international and off campus, and is a respected center leadership, and leadership and the law. for debate and discussion of issues related to Courses with experiential components — leadership. The annual Jepson Leadership Advanced Courses especially Justice and Civil Society and the Forum brings renowned speakers to campus. Historical Internship — help students understand Local and national leaders share their Civil War Leadership how to use knowledge gained through expertise through a leader-in-residence Creation of the American Republic coursework in the world outside the program and through informal discussions Dead Leaders Society classroom. Majors are awarded a Bachelor at dean’s luncheons and dinners. The Early Modern Crises in Leadership of Arts in leadership studies. Jepson School of Leadership Studies Leadership and Religious Values A Jepson education investigates leadership Student Government Association represents Leadership in Political Contexts as a process and a relationship among the student body and plays an integral role Presidential Leadership people. It is based in a rigorous academic in academic and student affairs. New Reason, Rhetoric, and Leadership curriculum with plentiful hands-on students are welcomed into the Jepson Social Movements opportunities. It explores fundamental School community at a ceremony called Statesmanship questions about who we are, how we live Prelude, and students enjoy alumni, Social/Organizational together, and how we influence the course educational, and social functions. Many Conflict Resolution of history. It exemplifies the spirit of the students say that their peer relationships Gender and Leadership liberal arts: to educate people to take an within the School are their most meaningful Good and Evil active role in the world. The Jepson School on campus. Group Dynamics helps students realize their distinctive Leadership in a Diverse Society capacities and apply their learning for the Leadership in Cultural and Historical good of society. Contexts 59 Leadership in Organizations Javier Hidalgo Leadership in Socially Active Businesses Schools Accepting Ph.D., political philosophy, Princeton University Leading Change Curricular interests: immigration, Recent Graduates citizenship, global leadership Ethical American University Competition, Cooperation, and Choice California Institute of the Arts Crystal L. Hoyt Contemporary Debates in Democratic Case Western Reserve University Ph.D., social psychology, University of Theory College of William and Mary California, Santa Barbara Economic Policy and Leadership Duke University Curricular interests: social behavior, group Ethical Decision Making in Health Care Emory University dynamics, research methodology in the social sciences Leadership and Governance in the Georgetown University Contemporary American Metropolis Harvard University Peter I. Kaufman Leadership and the Common Good Johns Hopkins University Ph.D., religion, University of Chicago Leadership in International Contexts The London School of Economics Curricular interests: historical studies (late Leadership on Stage and Screen New York University antiquity to early modern Europe), Moral Limits of the Criminal Law Oxford University contemporary social justice (immigration Sex, Power, and Politics Princeton University issues, access to higher education) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of Notre Dame Dejun (Tony) Kong Research Opportunities Ph.D., organizational behavior, Washington University of Pennsylvania University in St. Louis Jepson students have the opportunity to University of Virginia work together with faculty members to Curricular interests: negotiation and conflict Wake Forest University management, leadership in organizations, conduct research on a variety of topics and Yale University gain insight into leadership as a basic part organizational behavior, cross-cultural of the human condition. They often find management practical applications for their work. Jepson School Faculty Gary L. McDowell Opportunities include: independent study, The Jepson School’s distinguished faculty, Ph.D., government and public affairs, collaborative study, directed study, senior many of the nation’s top scholars in their University of Virginia thesis, and senior honors thesis. Grants are fields, builds upon the strong foundation Curricular interests: the Constitution, the available for students to conduct full-time of the University’s liberal arts curriculum judiciary, politics, statesmanship, and or part-time research. with small classes and innovative teaching civil liberties approaches. Sandra J. Peart Concentrations in Kristin M.S. Bezio Dean Ph.D., English literature, Boston University Ph.D., economics, University of Toronto Leadership Studies Curricular interests: 16th- and 17th-century Curricular interests: competition and Majors have the opportunity to pursue a literature, women’s literature, drama and cooperation, experimental economics, concentration in a specific area of interest in performance, new media and gaming, history of economic thought leadership studies. Possible concentrations comparative literature, rhetoric and Terry L. Price include: international leadership, political composition Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs leadership, the psychology of leadership, Ph.D., philosophy, University of Arizona leadership ethics, law and leadership, social Joanne B. Ciulla Ph.D., philosophy, Temple University Curricular interests: leadership ethics; moral justice, gender and leadership, organizational psychology of leadership; and social, leadership, and religious leadership. Students Curricular interests: international leadership, ethics, critical thinking and conflict resolution, political, and legal theory may also develop a concentration not listed. business ethics, and philosophy of work Ernesto Semán Jessica Flanigan Ph.D., history, New York University Recent Internships Ph.D., political philosophy, Princeton University Curricular interests: history of Latin American Heart Association Curricular interests: ethics, bioethics, American populism, U.S.-Latin American Walt Disney Studios political philosophy, feminism relations, the Cold War, history of Argentine Peronism, history of Latin Common Purpose UK Donelson R. Forsyth American caudillismo Saks Fifth Avenue Ph.D., psychology, University of Florida Royal Bank of Canada Curricular interests: group process, group Christopher R. von Rueden Boston Celtics dynamics, morality and ethics Ph.D., anthropology, University of Mercedes-Benz California, Santa Barbara The White House George R. 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Political Science at Richmond Career Opportunities Dayton University Duke University Political science involves the description, For those students interested in law, political Emory University analysis, and critical study of governments science is the most popular department at the Georgetown University and their social and cultural environments; University of Richmond. The department Harvard University offers courses that help to prepare students decision-making processes, laws and New York University policies; and the relationships of these for law school. Students have taken Rutgers University elements to one another. As such, political advantage of the Philosophy, Politics, Syracuse University science has many subfields and shares Economics, and Law major, law and liberal University of California, Berkeley many points of interest with other arts minor, and the pre-law advising disciplines, such as economics, philosophy, program. However, any one of several University of Chicago history, sociology, and law. The major majors in the liberal arts will help prepare University of Michigan subfields in political science at the a student for admission to law school. University of North Carolina University of Richmond are American Majors in political science may also University of Pennsylvania government, public policy, comparative pursue a variety of careers in government, University of Richmond politics, political theory, international private organizations concerned with University of Virginia relations, and research methods. public or social policy, teaching, and Vanderbilt University The political science major has unusually business. Students may go directly into Wake Forest University distinctive choices. In addition to the usual government or private sector work, or they Washington and Lee University advantages of a small university — close may choose to enter specialized graduate Yale University working relationships with faculty and an programs in such fields as urban planning, excellent liberal arts education —students public policy, or international affairs. Recent Student-Faculty can enroll in a two-unit internship program Research Projects at the General Assembly during spring Schools Accepting semesters; participate in an internship in “The Effect of International Pressure on China Washington, D.C., organized by departmental Recent Graduates in 2008,” Brian Guay with Monti Datta faculty; minor in leadership studies, international Cornell University “Crossing Borders and the Journey of studies, or law and liberal arts; and even George Washington University Undocumented Migrants: Human take courses taught by law school faculty. Georgetown University Rights and Effective Governance Along Johns Hopkins University the U.S./Mexican Border,” Ruby Northwestern University Shumaker with Monti Datta Class Size The Ohio State University “Voter Verification in Congress and the More than 140 students major in political Rutgers University States,” Meredith Patrick and Doug science. Classes vary in size from eight to Stanford University Rubin with Daniel Palazzolo 24, with an average of 19–20. University of California, San Diego “Early Childhood Education,” Katy University of Chicago Groover with Jennifer Erkulwater Internships University of Connecticut “Third World Women,” Kimya Dennis About 50 students participate in University of Florida with Sheila Carapico government internships each year. Some University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Asymmetrical Warfare? Implications of work with legislators, lobbyists, and University of North Carolina China’s Information Warfare Strategies,” government agencies involved in the University of Notre Dame Gwendolyn Stamper with Vincent Wang legislative process at the Virginia General University of Pittsburgh “Intergovernmental Lobbying and the Assembly. Legislative internships carry two University of Rochester Help America Vote Act: Deliberation units of credit. Internship positions are also University of Texas, Austin and Compromise,” Fiona McCarthy available in other agencies of state and local University of Virginia with Dan Palazzolo University of Wisconsin-Madison government in the Richmond area, and “Women’s Health: Balancing Life and Work,” many students take advantage of the summer Villanova University Virginia Commonwealth University Jamie Settle and Nicole Conner with months to gain internship credits by working Rick Mayes and studying in Washington, D.C. Washington University Yale University “The Consequence of Community Control: Socioeconomic Inequities in American Study Abroad Public Education,” Amanda Biddle with An increasing number of students in Law Schools Accepting Jennifer Erkulwater; paper was presented political science take advantage of the Recent Graduates at the undergraduate symposium growing opportunities to study abroad, Boston College “The Economics of Asymmetric Conflict: not only in Europe, but also in Australia, College of William and Mary 1989–Present,” Steve Rancourt with Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Cornell University Sheila Carapico 77 “Asthma in Low-Income and Minority Urban Children,” Lauren Skiles with Rick Mayes Faculty “Ain’t nothing but a race thing: Race and the Jennifer Bowie B. Rick Mayes Environmental Justice Movement,” Andrew Ph.D., University of South Carolina Ph.D., University of Virginia Ryan with Andrea Simpson Author of articles on judicial behavior and decision NIH Post-doctoral grant at the University of making California, Berkeley, 2000–2002 “Use of the Media in the Most Recent Areas of specialty: judicial politics, public law, Richmond College Student Government Association Elections in Canada, Great Britain and the American government Faculty Member of the Year, 2000, 2007 United States,” Kate Metcalf with Tracy Roof Omicron Delta Kappa Professor of the Year, 2003 “Agenda Change in the Virginia General Sheila Carapico Author of books and articles on healthcare policy Assembly,” Nate Goodman with Dan Palazzolo Ph.D., Binghamton University (State University of Areas of specialty: healthcare policy, mental health, New York) children’s health, global health, public policy “Pre-K Education: Across the United States, Distinguished Educator Award, 1991 Who Is Leading the Movement?” Katy Fulbright Scholar, 1993 Ernest McGowen Groover with Jennifer Erkulwater Author of a book on civil society in Yemen and a Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin “No Excuse Early Voting in Virginia: Is it recent book on international democracy promotion Areas of specialty: American politics, political Worth It?” Timothy Quinn with Dan Palazzolo in the Middle East participation, research methods “Blue Health Care, Red Politics,” Benjamin Areas of specialty: international relations, comparative Paul with Rick Mayes Daniel J. Palazzolo politics, cultural studies Department Chair “China, India, and the Politics of Global Kevin M. Cherry Ph.D., University of Virginia Climate Change,” Tenzin Tsayang with Ph.D., University of Notre Dame Congressional Fellow Vincent Wei-cheng Wang Author of a book on the purpose of politics Distinguished Educator Award, 1994, 1998 Areas of specialty: political theory Omicron Delta Kappa Professor of the Year, 1999 Author of articles and books on congressional Scholarship Awards Richard Dagger leadership, budget politics, and election reform The W. Ney and May Thompson Evans E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Areas of specialty: public policy, American Scholarship is given to one or more Liberal Arts government, research methods outstanding Westhampton political science Ph.D., University of Minnesota majors in their senior year. The Albright Author of numerous publications in legal and political Jennifer Pribble Scholarship is given to junior or senior political philosophy Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill science majors with demonstrated financial Areas of specialty: political theory, political philosophy Area of specialty: social policy and reform in Latin America need and strong academic performance. Monti N. Datta Ph.D., University of California at Davis Tracy M. Roof Author of a book on anti-Americanism Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Notable Alumni Areas of specialty: world public opinion, global Areas of specialty: American political institutions, Frank Atkinson, chairman, McGuire Woods governance, U.S. foreign policy, human rights and public policy, interest groups, social movements Consulting; served in the cabinet of Virginia modern-day slavery Gov. George Allen Stephen Simon Jennifer Erkulwater Ph.D., University of Maryland Phil Cramer, Vanderbilt Law School graduate Ph.D., Boston College J.D., NYU School of Law and author of a book on radical Research Fellow, Brookings Institution Author of book on universal rights and the Constitution, environmentalism, which is based on a Distinguished Educator Award, 2012 and articles on civil rights and liberties senior Richmond research project Author of articles, chapters, and books on inequality, Areas of specialty: constitutional law, political theory, F. Amanda DeBusk, attorney with Miller and disability, and civic engagement human rights Chevalier; former assistant secretary for Areas of specialty: social welfare, inequality and export enforcement for the U.S. poverty, public policy, American politics Andrea Y. Simpson Department of Commerce Ph.D., Emory University Sandra F. Joireman Author of a book on identity and political attitudes, H. Benson Dendy, president, Vectre Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles and articles on environmental justice Corporation; served as a member of the Weinstein Chair of International Studies Areas of specialty: American government, racial cabinet in the administrations of Virginia Professor of Political Science politics, social movements Gov. Gerald Baliles and Gov. Charles Robb Areas of specialty: legal development, property rights James Derderian, former chief of staff, House Aleksandra Sznajder Lee Commerce Committee, Washington, D.C.; Jimmy D. Kandeh Ph.D., Yale University now a Washington lobbyist Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison Author of papers and articles on political economy of Fulbright Scholar, 2009 post-communist Europe Scott Erwin, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford, Recipient of U.S. Institute of Peace Grant Areas of specialty: comparative politics, European England, 2006 Author of numerous articles and a major book on politics, political economy Virgil Goode, former Virginia congressman West Africa Thomas Jardim, former mayor of Westfield, N.J. Vincent Wei-cheng Wang Areas of specialty: comparative politics, African politics Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences Jennifer McClellan, attorney, Virginia House Stephen Long Ph.D., University of Chicago of Delegates, local civic leader Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Directed 14 Richmond Quest-funded independent B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of American Advisor Excellence Award 2011 study projects with a research trip to China, Hong Government at the University of Pittsburgh “The 300 Best Professors” (Princeton Review) 2012 Kong, and Taiwan in spring 2005 Andy Rich, Ph.D., Yale University; Executive Author of papers and articles on international Author of numerous articles on Asian politics, foreign Secretary, Truman Foundation rivalries, civil wars, and victory and defeat in war policy, and political economy Mary Sue Terry, former attorney general of Areas of specialty: international relations, Areas of specialty: Asian governments and politics, Virginia and candidate for governor in 1993 international conflict and security international relations, comparative politics Sean Theriault, Ph.D., Stanford University; assistant professor at the University of Texas, Austin

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Introduction to Psychology major covers a rigorous, interdisciplinary Recent Honors Student Research curriculum that integrates theoretical Psychology is one of the youngest study, empirical investigation, and Kathryn Sears, “The Cognitive Effects branches of science, yet it seeks to practical application. Full-time faculty of Birth Control on Women’s Brains” answer questions that have existed have expertise in areas including Sarah Yurinich, “Differential since the beginning of human history. adulthood and aging, child development, Diagnosis of ADHD and Bipolar How do humans think and feel? How clinical psychology, cognition and Disorder: An Analog Study” do they act as individuals and in emotion, cognitive neuroscience, Karen Duan, “Generalization of groups? What is normal behavior? neuroscience, and social psychology. Expert Face Processing Takes Time” What is abnormal? How do people Psychology majors take courses in a Katie Freeman, “From Mind to change from the cradle to the grave? comprehensive curriculum that provides Machine: Parity Effects in the The Department of Psychology aims excellent preparation for graduate Attentional Set-Shifting Task in to immerse students in the study and careers in psychology. In Animal and Machine Models” intellectually exciting processes of addition, majors can pursue Taylyn Hulse, “The Influence of Word discovery and interpretation related to independent research interests as well human behavior. This goal is met Problem Structures on Algebraic as applied work in internship settings. through opportunities to work closely Expression” with faculty in the classroom, research Matthew McMaster, “The Effect of labs, and field settings. Close faculty Endogenous IGF-II Expression on mentoring of students is one of the Research Opportunities Learning and Memory in Rats” department’s defining characteristics. The development of an inquisitive Lauren Henry, “Emerging Adults’ Psychology majors study human and mind that makes use of methods of Psychological Symptom Profiles: animal behavior, including social and critical and analytical inquiry is at the Differential Associations with Peer emotional development in children; heart of the psychology major. Victimization and Gender Typicality” cognitive development and decline in Learning to ask good questions and Lisa Auster-Gussman, “The Effect of adulthood; brain-behavior relationships; get good answers is best cultivated Implicit Theories on Eating Behavior” maternal behavior in rats; social and through apprenticeship and interpersonal relationships; personality, independent research experiences psychopathology, and positive conducted with faculty scholars in psychology. Richmond faculty members Scholarship Awards psychology; self-regulation and Each year, one to two students in goal-setting; embodied cognition; have active research programs that memory; concept formation; symbolic allow for undergraduate participation psychology are selected to receive a thinking; face recognition; and race, at all levels of the research enterprise. generous research stipend provided by sex, gender, and identity issues. Students explore topics in a variety the John Neasmith Dickinson Memorial Through the psychology major and of areas. Their research is supported fund. The award is given to original minor, students gain an understanding by faculty grants, University- proposals of outstanding merit to of why people think, act, and feel the supported undergraduate research students who will conduct a yearlong way they do. Psychology courses grants, and departmental research research project in their senior year emphasize intellectual curiosity and awards. Richmond students have a with a faculty mentor. In addition, the cultivating the life of the mind. strong record of research School of Arts and Sciences Students progress through a rigorous accomplishments, as evidenced by Undergraduate Research Committee and engaging curriculum that presentation of their work at national typically supports several summer and international conferences and in challenges them to ask and to answer research fellowships for our majors that questions about human behavior. the publication of their work in top peer-reviewed journals, including provide research and living stipends to Assessment, Brain Research Bulletin, pursue research projects during a Psychology as a Major Cognition and Emotion, Current 10-week period in the summer. Research in Social Psychology, Psychological issues permeate everyday Journal of Applied Social Psychology, lives and the world at large. A major Journal of Attention Disorders, Unique Learning Opportunities in psychology provides the knowledge Nature, Personality and Individual and skill sets that graduates need in The department has a signature Differences, Proceedings of the fields as diverse as clinical and program that is geared toward peer- Cognitive Science Society, counseling settings, business, law, centered learning and collaboration Psychological Bulletin, and Stress. politics, education, and medicine. The — the Teaching Fellows Program in

81 Psychology. This program allows eight Loyola University Jennifer Burnette talented and motivated majors to Meharry Medical College Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University New York University Areas of specialty: self-regulation and motivation, teach and lead their first-year peers in forgiveness in interpersonal relationships, the Introduction to Psychological Simmons College social cognition, group dynamics Science laboratory course. All majors Stanford University can apply. Of the more than 100 The State University of New York, L. Elizabeth Crawford undergraduates who have been in the Buffalo Ph.D., University of Chicago University of Alabama Department Chair Teaching Fellows program since 1994, Distinguished Educator Award, 2011 almost all have gone on to graduate University of California, Santa Barbara Areas of specialty: the detection and school, medical school, law school, University of Chicago representation of categorical structures, and other exciting and challenging University of Connecticut cognition and emotion professional pursuits. University of Denver University of Minnesota Craig H. Kinsley Ph.D., University Center at Albany, State University of New Mexico University of New York Internships University of North Carolina at Distinguished Educator Award, 1995 Internships in work relevant to the Greensboro Areas of specialty: effects of reproductive University of South Carolina experience on brain and behavior, including field of psychology are available across learning and memory; hormonal influences on Greater Richmond for course credit University of Sydney, Australia University of Tennessee the structure and function of the neuron; during the academic year and summer. comparative animal behavior Internships provide students with direct University of Texas, Dallas University of Virginia experience in work environments Laura E. Knouse Virginia Commonwealth University Ph.D., University of North Carolina at where psychologists function. Students Greensboro gain valuable hands-on experience that Areas of specialty: Attention-Deficit/ helps them determine more fully Examples of Employment Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in adults, whether a particular career in psychology self-regulated learning and metacognition, seems right for them. Internships are for Recent Graduates cognitive-behavioral intervention development available in a variety of settings Psychological Research (Virginia and evaluation including clinical/mental health (for Commonwealth University) David Landy example, drug intervention programs, Education (Teach for America, Ph.D., Indiana University treatment centers for children, programs College Board Corps) Areas of specialty: cognitive processes involved in for the homeless, rehabilitation using, interpreting, and reasoning with formal programs); health/developmental notations; embodied mathematical cognition (hospitals, nursing home care, Faculty Peter LeViness occupational and physical therapy); Scott T. Allison Director, Counseling and Psychological Services Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara Ph.D., Boston College educational (mainstream and special- Distinguished Educator Award, 1993 needs classrooms in public and private Areas of specialty: anxiety disorders, depression, Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, 1998 alcohol abuse, attention deficit hyperactivity schools); and in settings where Areas of specialty: social decision-making disorder (ADHD), academic stress industrial/organizational psychology processes, social interdependence, social can be studied (personnel, human cognition, intergroup relations Andrew F. Newcomb resources, selection, training). Ph.D., University of Minnesota Jane M. Berry Distinguished Educator Award, 1994 MacEldin Dunn Trawick Professorship in Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, 1995 Psychology Areas of specialty: social and emotional Schools Accepting Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis development, children’s friendships and peer Distinguished Educator Award, 2000 relations, conduct and attention disorders Recent Graduates Areas of specialty: memory functioning in Albany Medical School adulthood and old age; memory self-efficacy, Boston College metamemory, and self-regulation; perceptions of aging; positive aging; normative and Affiliated Faculty Boston University pathological aging William Cooper Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology College of William and Mary Cindy M. Bukach Distinguished University Professor Columbia University Ph.D., University of Victoria President Emeritus Dartmouth College Areas of specialty: cognitive processes and neural Areas of specialty: decision making and organization of vision and memory, normal cognition, leadership, psycholinguistics Duke University and abnormal object recognition, behavioral Fordham University and neural changes related to the development David Leary George Mason University of perceptual expertise Ph.D., University of Chicago James Madison University Area of specialty: history and philosophy of Lehigh University science and psychology

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