Research completed or works published within the past five years.
Dr. Kristen Barnard|Associate Professor, Mathematics
18 years at Berea
Guiding Students to Discover Counting Formulas–With a Modeling Twist (2022).
Using Mathematical Modeling to Motivate the Study of Polynomial Functions (2022).
Dr. Rebecca Bates|Professor, History
23 years at Berea
“Childhood and Imperial Training, 1875-1914,” in Gendered Subjectivities and Modalities in Global Youth Migration, edited by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio. (2019).
Dr. Suzanne Birner|Associate Professor, Geology/Earth Science, Chemistry (Geology Program)
6 years at Berea
Deep, hot, ancient melting recorded by ultralow oxygen fugacity in peridotites (2024).
Oxygen fugacity across tectonic settings, Chapter 3. Magma Redox Geochemistry, Ed. Roberto Moretti, Daniel R. Neuville. (2021).
Dr. Rachelle (Shelly) Bouchat|Associate Professor, Mathematics
4 years at Berea
Generalized splittings of monomial ideals (2024).
Using mathematical modeling to motivate polynomial end-behavior (2022).
Multigraded Betti numbers of Mobius domino ideals (2021).
Dr. Terry Buchanan|Assistant Visiting Professor, Child & Family Studies
1 year at Berea
Using Observation to Guide Your Teaching. (2022).
Dr. Karina Christopher|Associate Professor, Child & Family Studies
1 year at Berea
Virtual Interprofessional Education – Lessons Learned. (2023)
Dr. Jacob Dickerson|Associate Professor, Communication
9 years at Berea
Musical Identities: Teaching Race, Class and Gender through Popular Music (2020).
Redefining Women: Femininity in Country Music’s Alternative Spaces (2024).
Thinking Made Visible: Movement, Narrative, and the Work of Saul Bass (2024).
Dr. Gordon Gray|Associate Professor, Media and Culture, Theatre and Asian Studies
13 years at Berea
Jianfen Wang & Gordon Gray “The Journey to the West: A Platform for Learning about China Past and Present.” Education about Asia 24(1), pp. 5-13. (2019).
Dr. Chris Green|Associate Professor, Appalachian Studies and Director of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center
13 years at Berea
‘Work to Do’ (poem) in “What Things Cost: An Anthology for The People.” Eds. Rebecca Gayle Howell & Ashley M. Jones. University Press of Kentucky. Page 24. (2023).
“Berea College” (co-authored) in Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation, eds. Eli Feghali et al. OR Books (2024).
“Lexington was built on the backs of enslaved labor. Injustice continues today.” A 1,300 word Op-Ed in Sunday Lexington Herald Leader, 1 Aug 2021.
[Liaison]: Poems from the Third Annual Artist Thrive Summit (28 pp, Vol. 1). ARTISTS THR!VE. Tremaine Foundation. (2019).
Jhonn Guerra-Banda|Visiting Assistant Professor, Foreign Languages
1 year at Berea
“Violencias, totalitarismos y nuevas masculinidades en Bio y de Diego Trelles Paz.” (2023).
“¿Ser o parecer? Las otras masculinidades en Púrpura de Ana García Bergua.” (2023).
“La casa de las flores y la telenovela en tiempos de streaming.” (2021).
Dr. Nicholas Hartlep|Department Chair, Education Studies
5 years at Berea
Walking the Talk: Engendering a “Community of Teachers” in an Educator Preparation Program in the Southern United States. Journal of Teacher Education (2024)
Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Diverse Faculty (2024).
Teacher Educators as Critical Storytellers: Effective Teachers as Windows and Mirrors (2021).
Dr. Alison Heck|Assistant Professor, Psychology
5 years at Berea
Body structure processing and attentional patterns in infancy and adulthood (2024).
42 Emotions in infants (2022).
Average fixation duration in infancy: Stability and predictive utility (2022)
Waist-to-hip ratio sensitivity in early infancy (2020).
Recognizing threat: Infants’ processing of threat-relevant body expressions (2020).
Dr. Dee Hill-Zuganelli|Professor, Child & Family Studies
9 years at Berea
The need for cultural humility in classrooms (2024).
If Lil’ Wayne can say it, why can’t I?”: White male undergraduates using the n-word. (2021).
Integrating effective virtual check-ins and student support into college teaching (2021).
Rethinking the additive approach of cultural competence for Latinx immigrant families (2019).
Advancing cultural humility through serving marginalized families (2019).
Dr. Jessica Klanderud|Director of the Carter G. Woodson Center, Associate Professor, African and African American Studies and History
5 years at Berea
Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh (2023).
“Constructed Space in the Hill District: Black Urban Appalachia and the Making and Remaking of Pittsburgh,” The Metropole, Urban History Association (2023).
Dr. Zachary Lee|Assistant Professor, Chemistry
1 year at Berea
Binding of SO3 to Group IV Transition Metal Oxide Nanoclusters (2023).
Predicting the Mechanism and Products of CO2 Capture by Amines in the Presence of H2O (2021).
Reaction of NO2 with Groups IV and VI Transition Metal Oxide Clusters (2020).
Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou|Chair and Associate Professor, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies
5 years at Berea
“Jay-Z’s afro-pessimism black femme(inism)s makes all lives matter.” Critical Essays on Hip Hop and the Study of Hip Hop: Know(the)Ledge (Palgrave Macmillan). Forthcoming. (2024).
“dancing in dehiscence.” Syndicate. “Symposium on Marquis Bey’s Black Trans Feminism.” (2023).
“Loving with bell, Leaping with Fanon, and Landing Nowhere.” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy. Volume 30:2. (2022).
“Surviving the ends of Man: On the animal and/as black gaze in Jordan Peele’s Get Out and Us.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies. Volume 18:2. (2021).
“Reaching backwards in time: The feltness of unfreedom in an antiblack world.” Theory & Event. Volume 24:2. (2021).
Dr. Kelsey Malone|Director/Curator, Art and Art History, Doris Ulmann Galleries
2 years at Berea
“Complicating the Confederate Monument Enid Yandell’s 1894 Proposal for Louisville, Kentucky,” in Ohio Valley History, vol. 20, no. 2 (2020).
Dr. Verlaine McDonald|Professor, Communication
(co-authored with Andrew McDonald)
29 years at Berea
Paul Rusch in Postwar Japan: Evangelism, Rural Development, and the Battle Against Communism (2018).
Dr. Lauren McKee|Associate Professor, Political Science and Asian Studies
10 years at Berea
Japanese Government and Politics (2023).
Dr. Troy Messina|Professor and Department Chair, Physics
10 years at Berea
Gold Ion Beam Milled Zero-Mode Waveguides (2022).
Searching for Magnetic High Entropy Alloy Treasure in CoCrxFeNiQ (2022).
Dr. Ian Norris|Moore Chair in Entrepreneurship, Professor of Marketing and Psychology, Entrepreneurship for the Public Good, Economics and Business
12 years at Berea
Norris, J. Ian and Nancy Sowers (2023). “Invest in Your Financial Literacy: A Guide for Financial Decision-Making, 1st ed,” Cognella Press.
Ziegler, Alexander, Alexis Allen, John Peloza, and J. Ian Norris (2023), “Vicarious embarrassment and service disruptions: The eUect of self-construal on word-of-mouth, complaining, and avoidance,” Journal of Consumer Behaviour.
Ziegler, Alexander, Alexis Allen, John Peloza, and J. Ian Norris (2022), “How Embarrassing (For You) and Me: The Nature of Vicarious Embarrassment,” Journal of Business Research, 153, 355-364.
Dietz, Lauri, China Jenkins, Laura Cruz, Amber Handy, Rita Kumar, Julia Metzker, and J. Ian Norris (2022), “Wicked 2 : The Increasing Wickedness of Educational Developers as DEI Cultural Influencers,” To Improve the Academy.
Norris, J. Ian, Mario P. Casa de Calvo, & Robert Mather (2020), “Managing an Existential Threat: How a Global Crisis Contaminates Organizational Decision-Making,” Management Decision, 10, 2117-2138.
Norris, J. Ian, John Peloza, and Alexis Allen (2020). “C2B: Motivating Consumer-to-Business Transactions Through Environmental Appeals,” Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 5, 56-69.
Dr. Carlos Poggio|Associate Professor, Political Science
2 years at Berea
Brazil and the United States: Fading Interdependence? (book chapter) (2024).
O Império Ausente: Brasil, Estados Unidos e o Subsistema Sul-Americano (book) (2024).
MyNews Explica: A Política dos Estados Unidos (book) (2023).
The Advantages of Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework to the Studies on Ethnic Interest Groups (peer reviewed article) (2022).
Víctor García Ramírez|Assistant Professor of Spanish, Foreign Languages
1 year at Berea
“Y que se callen los muertos: Lengua y violencia en Fernando Vallejo.” Autorretrato de un idioma: Crestomatía política del español. Daniela Lauria, Dario Rojas, Mariela Oroño y José del Valle, Eds. Editorial Aluvión, Madrid. (2021).
“Del oído al pie: retóricas del paseo en Beatriz Sarlo, Nelly Richard y Julio Ramos.” Revista de la Fundación Sala Mendoza (Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela) (2020).
Dr. Jeff Richey|Professor, Asian Studies
22 years at Berea
Confucius in East Asia: Confucianism’s History in China, Korea, Japan, and Viet Nam 2nd Edition. (2022).
Dr. Jon Saderholm|Professor, Education Studies
17 years at Berea
Walking the Talk: Engendering a Community of Teachers in an Educator Preparation Program in the Southern United States (2024).
College STEM faculty teaching practices; the influence of professional development (2022).
Teaching mathematics with technology: TPACK and effective teaching practices (2022).
Dr. Rebecca Singer|Associate Professor, Psychology
1 year at Berea
Beyond “far” transfer and “happy” therapy dogs: Comparative psychology gets the facts right. (2024).
Terry Slaughter|Visiting Assistant Professor, Dance, Health & Human Performance
2 years at Berea
Honolulu Dance Collection (2022).
Honolulu Dance Collection (2022).
Dr. Nancy Sowers|Professor, Finance, Economics and Business
10 years at Berea
“The Belt and Road Initiative: An Integrative Subject for Interdisciplinary Studies about China.” Co-written with Jianfen Wang, Education About Asia (2023).
Invest in Your Financial Literacy: A guide for financial decision making. Co-written with J. Ian Norris, First edition, Cognella Press, San Diego, CA (2023).
“The Global Crisis and Crime: A Look into Manufacturing Firms.” co-written with Halil Kaya, SocioEconomic Challenges, (volume 4 (3), Sept. 2020), p 66-77.
Dr. Jason Strange|Chair and Associate Professor, Peace and Social Justice
15 years at Berea
Shelter From the Machine: Homesteaders in the Age of Capitalism (2020).
Dr. Michelle Thornton|Associate Professor, Health and Human Performance
8 years at Berea
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance / Water Safety Skills Can Be Taught Without a Pool (2025).
Dr. Jianfen Wang|Associate Professor of Chinese, Foreign Languages and Asian Studies
8 years at Berea
The Belt and Road Initiative: An Integrative Subject for Interdisciplinary Studies about China (2023). Co-written with Nancy Sowers.
Developing PCA-informed Chinese language podcasts for true beginners (2022).
Dr. Ronnie Wu|Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry
1 year at Berea
