Staff & Faculty

Jennifer Bowie, associate professor of political science, along with UR alumni co-authors Adam Webster, '23 and Lauren Oligino, '24, published the peer-reviewed book chapter "A Bottom-up Approach to Lower Court Influence on the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom” in Research Handbook on Law and Courts.

David Wilkins, professor of leadership studies, presented "The Indian Citizenship Act at 100: A Century of Mixed Messages" as the invited speaker at a talk sponsored by the North Carolina American Indian Heritage Commission.

Sydney Watts, associate professor of history and women, gender and sexuality studies, discussed her research project, "The Channel Islands: Borderlands Migration in the Atlantic World, 1763-1815” on the Hagley History Hangout Podcast during her scholar-in-residence term at the Hagley Museum and Library, in Wilmington, Delaware.

Pippa Holloway, Cornerstones Chair in History, received $57,360 from the National Park Service for an exploration of the history of public school desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia. In partnership with colleagues at VCU, Holloway will synthesize scholarly literature on Davis v. Prince Edward County, consider the impacts of the county’s five-year school closure, and examine the commemoration of the case and its aftermath. Their report will help the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Park and the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville, Virginia, plan new interpretation, manage cultural resources, and identify needs for further research on the fight for school desegregation in Prince Edward County.

Jerry Clemmer, executive director of campus business services, received the National Volunteer of the Year Award from the National Association of College Auxiliary Services in recognition of his exceptional volunteer work — at the regional and/or national level — that supports the NACAS mission.

Ovidiu Lipan, associate professor of physics, published "Optimizing bi-layered periodic structures: a closed-form transfer matrix method based on Pendry-MacKinnon’s discrete Maxwell’s equations" in the  Journal of the Optical Society of America B.

Ted Bunn, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts and professor of physics, published “Cosmological inflation in N-dimensional Gaussian random fields with algorithmic data compression” with Conner Painter, ’21, in The Open Journal of Astrophysics.

David Wilkins, professor of leadership studies, presented "Apart and Akin: Indigenous Peoples and African-Americans—Similarities and Differences in Historical/Legal Experiences" as an invited speaker of the University Forum Lecture Series at Appalachian State University.