Awards & Appointments

C. W. Sullivan III has been selected as one of the recipients of the 2002-03 Scholar-Teacher Award.  Along with other recipients of the award, Dr. Sullivan will be honored at a symposium to be held later this spring.  Additionally, he will receive a stipend to be used for research purposes that is jointly funded by Academic Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Sherry Southard has been reappointed to the Editorial Advisory Board of Technical Communication, the quarterly professional journal of the Society for Technical Communication.  In addition, she continues as editor of the bibliographic column, "Recent & Relevant," and this year Christine Rouse Bates will join her as co-editor. Continuing to serve as journal monitors are Christine Cranford, Michelle Eble, Brent Henze, and Jan Tovey.

Philip Rubens has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the IEEE Professional Communication Society, an international professional communication organization, for a two-year term.

Ellen Arnold received a College Research Award for Spring 2003, during which time she will edit a special section for Studies in American Indian Literatures in honor of Carter Revard.  The Association for the Study of American Literatures that publishes the journal (SAIL) was founded in the early 1970s "to promote study, criticism, and research on the oral traditions and written literatures of Native Americans; to promote the teaching of such traditions and literatures; and to support and encourage contemporary Native American writers and the continuity of Native oral traditions."  Arnold will also devote time to developing her dissertation into a book manuscript.  The manuscript will focus on the role of postmodern sciences, i.e. post-Newtonian sciences -- relativity, quantum mechanics, systems theory, chaos and complexity theory -- in contemporary Native American fiction and poetry.

Wendy Sharer also received a College Research Award for the Spring 2003 term.  She will be conducting research for an article on writing instruction outside of the academy in the early 20th century.  "More specifically, I'll be researching two textbooks from the 1910s: A Soldier's First Book, by Cora Wilson Stewart, and New World Lessons for Old World Peoples by Violet Pike.  Stewart's book, written for non-English-speaking US military recruits, mixes lessons in basic literacy with lessons in national loyalty and obedience to military authority.  Pike's textbook, written for non-English-speaking immigrant women members of the Women's Trade Union League, presents an interesting contrast to A Soldier's First Book because Pike's intention is to teach English while also training her students to be labor activists. My goal in this research is to investigate how the teaching of writing intersects with the teaching of cultural, political, and economic narratives."

Mary Carroll-Hackett has received a Blumenthal Prize for Prose from the North Carolina Writers Network.  The Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series is in its nineteenth year and selects five prose winners and five poetry winners each year in an open competition. Each winner receives $200 and is then paired with an established North Carolina writer for a reading somewhere in North Carolina.  This year the competition received over 100 entries. The reading series begins February 22 in Southern Pines with readings by Robert Morgan and Bland Simpson at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities.