Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2022-23
Christopher Garcia, Associate Professor, College of Business, “Reinforced learning models for dynamic pricing and capacity allocation in waiting systems,” (Fall 2022)
Marie McAllister, Professor, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “The Representation of race on Memoirs by Medical Practitioners. (Fall 2022)
Krystyn Moon, Professor, Department of History and American Studies, “Race and place in Northern Virginia: Alexandria’s African American Community, Civil War to the 1990s” (Fall 2022 & Spring 2023)
Hillary Stebbins, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Science, “Striatal Dopamine, Electrodermal Activity and their Relationship to Sleep Deprivation and Related Cognitive Processes.” (Fall 2022)
Laura Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Science, “A Clinician’s Guide to Disclosures of Sexual Assault.” (Fall 2022)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2020-21
All Sabbaticals for this year were canceled due to COVID
Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “Affective Cartographies?A Sea of Stories: Diasporic Oceanic Memory in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy.” (Spring 2021)
Christopher Garcia, Associate Professor, College of Business, “Reinforced learning models for dynamic pricing and capacity allocation in waiting systems,” (Fall 2020)
Kate Haffey, Associate Professor, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “Theories of Queer Friendship” (Spring 2021)
Mary Beth Mathews, Professor, Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, ” ‘Abide in My Word’: African American Baptist Seminaries and the Jim Crow South.” (Spring 2021)
Marie McAllister, Professor, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “The Representation of race on Memoirs by Medical Practitioners.” (Fall 2020 & Spring 2021)
Krystyn Moon, Professor, Department of History and American Studies, “Race and place in Northern Virginia: Alexandria’s African American Community, Civil War to the 1990s” (Fall 2020 & Spring 2021)
Marjorie Och, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, “Margaret Sutton, American Modernist.” (Fall 2020)
David Rettinger, Professor, Department of Psychological Science, “An Assessment Tool for Academic Integrity.” (Spring 2021)
Hillary Stebbins, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Science, “Striatal Dopamine, Electrodermal Activity and their Relationship to Sleep Deprivation and Related Cognitive Processes.” (Fall 2020)
Laura Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Science, “A Clinician’s Guide to Disclosures of Sexual Assault.” (Fall 2020)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2019-20
Maria Laura Bocaz-Leiva, Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, “Jose Donoso, The Writer Behind The Obscene Bird of Night.” (Spring 2020)
Melody Denhere, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, “Masking and Swamping Effects on Functional Outlier Detection Methods.” (Fall 2019)
Lance Gentry, Professor, College of Business, “Harnessing the Free Market to Solve the Prescription Drug Development and Pricing Crisis.” (Fall 2019)
Stephen Hanna, Professor, Department of Geography, “Descendant Community Involvement in Plantation Museum Tours and Exhibits.” (Fall 2019)
Liane Houghtalin, Professor, Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, “Publication of the Coins from the Roman Circus at Carthage.” (Fall 2019)
Will Mackintosh, Associate Professor, Department of History and American Studies, “The Loomises of Central New York: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of a Gang and Their Region.” (Academic Year 2019-20)
Jon McMillan, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, “Two Exhibitions of NCECA 2020: Bio forms and New Ceramics in the Old Dominion.” (Fall 2019)
Bruce O’Brien, Professor, Department of History and American Studies, “New Editions and Translations of the Institute Cnuti and the Colbertine Cnut.” (Academic Year 2019-20)
W. David Stahlman, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Science, “A Very Small Part of the Universe: Understanding Behavior as a Natural Phenomenon.” (Fall 2019)
Mukesh Srivastava, Professor, College of Business, “Theory-based Constructs for Modeling Social Media Addiction (SMA), Development, Measurement and Validation of SMA Scale.” (Fall 2019)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2018-19
Joseph Driess, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, “Neuroplasticity, Art and Contemplative Practice: Tapping the Transformative Potential of the Art Experience.” (Fall 2018)
Susan Fernsebner, Professor, Department of History and American Studies, “Childhood and Notions of Play in Republican-Era China (1911-1949).” (Spring 2019)
Carole Garmon, Professor, Department of Art and Art History, “Designing a Better World: Earthworks and Environmental Art.” (Spring 2019)
Debra Hydorn, Professor, Department of Mathematics, “Visual Bytes: A guide to the graphical display of information.” (Spring 2019)
Rosemary Jesionowski, Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, “Drafting a Landscape: An Investigation of Place through Historic Photographic Processes.” (Fall 2018)
Ben Kisila, Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, “Sediments and contaminants dynamics in two Virginia reservoir systems in a progressively changing fluvial basin.” (Spring 2019)
Dave Kolar, Associate Professor, Department of Psychological Science, “Environmental Issues, Assessment, and Psychology.” (Spring 2019)
Janie Lee, Associate Professor, Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, “Language Competence, National Belonging, and Race in South Korean Television.” (Spring 2019)
Betsy Lewis, Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, “Translation of Mujeres e Illustracion, La construcuccion de la feminidad en la Espana del siglo XVIII (Monica Bolufer, U Valencia, 1998, 427 pages): translation, forward and updated bibliography.” (Fall 2018)
Angie Pitts, Professor, Department of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion, “Ancient Women Writers: A Sourcebook.” (Fall 2018)
Allyson Poska, Professor, Department of History and American Studies, “Contested Equality: Smallpox Vaccination in the Spanish Empire (1803-1810).” (Academic Year 2018-19)
Scott Powers, Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, “Intersections of the Spiritual and the Secular in Contempora.” (Spring 2019)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2017-18
Eric Bonds, Associate Professor of Sociology
Project: The Environment Basses Abroad: A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Department of Defense Environmental Policies at Overseas Installations. (Fall 2017)
Wei Chen, Associate Professor of Management
Project: Research on institutional logics, organization structural change, and technology transfers between the public research sector and the private business sectors. (Academic Year 2017-18)
Nora Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology
Project: Guardians at the Gate or Gatekeepers of a Nation? Immigration Lawyers and the Politics of Citizenship in South Korea. (Spring 2018)
Janusz Konieczny, Professor of Mathematics
Project: Maximal Commutative Subsemigroups of a Semigroup. (Fall 2017)
Jennifer Mailloux, Professor of Psychology
Project: Interception and Its Relationship to Eating Disordered Behavior and Related Variables. (Fall 2017)
Laura Mentore, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Project: Forest of Strangers: Ecological Imaging’s and Transitions in an Amazonian Frontier. (Spring 2018)
Joseph Romero, Professor of Classics
Project: Homer’s City: Literature and the Philosophers in Hellenistic Poetry. (Spring 2018; award deferred from the 2016-17 academic year)
Ranjit Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science
Project: Private Landowners’ Attitudes towards Land Conservation in Stafford County, VA. (Spring 2018)
Michael Spencer, Associate Professor of Historic Preservation
Project: Designing Mary Washington: The Legacy of Charles M. Robinson on Virginia’s Female Institutions of Higher Learning. (Fall 2017)
Danny Tweedy, Associate Professor of English
Project: Behind the Protests: Imagining Afrotopia-violence and catharsis of 1960s Radical Black Fiction. (Fall 2017)
Debbie Zies, Associate Professor of Biology
Project: Establishing a Student-Centered Approach to Undergraduate Biology Education (Fall 2017)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2016-17
David Ambuel, Professor of Philosophy
Project: Bodhisattva Socrates. (Fall 2016)
Medhi Aminrazavi, Professor of Philosophy and Religion
Project: An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia: From Pahlavi Dynasty to the Present. (Fall 2016)
Antonio Barrenechea , Associate Professor of English
Project: Cinema of Cruelty: Coffin Joe in the Mouth of Garbage. (Academic Year 2016-17)
Dawn Bowen, Professor of Geography
Project: Heritage Tourism, Resettlement, Land and Life, and Exploration. (Academic Year 2016-17)
Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics
Project: Exponentially Harmonic Maps Between Riemannian Manifolds. (Fall 2016)
Teresa Coffman, Professor of Education
Project: Deeper Learning Approaches: Shifting Pedagogy to Student-Centered Learning with Immersive Activities. (Fall 2016)
Brooke Di Lauro, Associate Professor of French
Project: “Les mortz qu’en moy tu renovelles”: Eros & Thanatos in Maurice Scève’s Délie. (Spring 2017)
Stephen Farnsworth, Professor of Political Science
Project: White House Media Management for President 45: Lessons From Recent Presidencies. (Spring 2017)
W. Shawn Humphrey, Associate Professor of Economics
Project: Tribal Teaching: Rewild Your Students and Rewild Yourself (Spring 2017)
Benjamin LaBreche, Associate Professor of English
Project: Beyond the Sovereign Voice: Problems of Liberty in Milton’s England and Modern Liberalism. (Academic Year 2016-17)
Christine McBride, Professor of Psychology
Project: Stress and Eating Behavior: Bringing the Data to Full Fruition. (Spring 2017)
Chad Murphy, Associate Professor of Political Science
Project: Help Out the Vote: Field Experiments on Encouraging Low Likelihood Voters to Participate in Democracy. (Spring 2017)
Marcel Rotter, Professor of German
Project: Communication Strategies in U.S. Government-sponsored Propaganda towards German-Americans in World War II. (Fall 2016)
Awarded in November 2015 but deferred until Academic Year 2017-18
Joseph Romero, Professor of Classics
Project: Homer’s City: Literature and the Philosophers in Hellenistic Poetry. (Spring 2018)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2015-16
Janet Asper, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Project: Development of a Superabsorbent Polymer for Oil at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division. (Academic Year 2015-16)
Yuan-Jen Chiang, Professor of Mathematics
Project: Exponentially Harmonic Maps Between Riemannian Manifolds. (Fall 2016)
Jason Davidson, Professor of Political Science
Project: America Entangled: Explaining U.S. Alliances, 1776-2016. (Academic Year 2015-16)
Julius Esunge, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Project: Predictive Modeling in Actuarial Science. (Spring 2016)
Surupa Gupta,Associate Professor of Political Science
Project: Will Markets Work for Small farmers: The Role of Institutions, Policies, and Farmer/Producer Companies in Transforming Agricultural markets in India. (Academic Year 2015-16)
Larry Lehman, Professor of Mathematics
Project: Quadratic Number Theory: An Innovative Approach. (Fall 2016)
Miriam Liss, Professor of Psychology
Project: A Textbook for the Psychology of Women. (Spring 2016)
Melina Patterson, Associate Professor of Geography
Project: Race and Nature in a Southern City: Parks and Neighborhood Change in Richmond, VA. (Academic Year 2015-16)
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English
Project: Beyond the Wall: One Soldier’s Story (Fall 2015)
Warren Rochelle, Professor of English
Project: Happily Ever After and Other Stories: Gay Retellings of Traditional Fairy Tales, a Creative Project. (Spring 2016)
Debra Schleef, Professor of Sociology
Project: What is “Intentional” about Intentional Communities? Exploring Vocabularies of Motive among Commune Residents in the U.S. and Germany. (Spring 2016)
Debra Steckler, Associate Professor of Psychology
Project: The Changing Aspects of Emerging Adulthood in Culture and Society. (Fall 2015)
Melanie Szulczewski, Associate Professor of Environmental Science
Project: Understanding Regional Environmental Issues in a Global Context, Focusing on Forest Ecosystem Restoration of Former Mining Sites. (Spring 2016)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2014-2015
Dianne Baker, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Project: Spatiotemporal mapping of kisspeptin system gene expression during early development in the model teleost, medaka (Oryzias latipes). (Spring 2015)
Ana Chichester, Professor of Spanish
Project: Print Media and Political Bias: The Portrayal of Gender and Race in Cuban Anti-Independence Newspapers. (Spring 2015)
Chris Foss, Professor of English
Project: “He is so ugly that he might have made the King smile”: Deformity and Oscar Wilde’s “The Birthday of the Infanta”. (Spring 2015)
Steven Harris, Associate Professor of History
Project: Aeroflot and PanAm: Mobility and Modernity in the Cold War and Beyond. (Fall 2014)
Elizabeth Larus, Professor of Political Science
Project: US Reengagement in the Western Pacific: Implications for Security in the Asia-Pacific. (Academic Year 2014-15)
Leo Lee, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Project: Interdisciplinary Research and Writing in Mathematics. (Fall 2014)
Emile Lester, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Project: Liberalism and Leadership: What Qualifies As a Successful Liberal Presidency? (Academic Year 2014-15)
Leslie Martin, Associate Professor of Sociology
Project: Constructing the Neighborhood School: Gentrification, Parents and Schools. (Fall 2014)
Mary Beth Mathews, Associate Professor of History
Project: “Every Grace that Brings You Nigh”: African Americans, White Fundamentalists, and the Challenges of Modernity. (Fall 2014)
Gary Richards, Associate Professor of English
Project: A Queer Quarter: Literary Imaginings of Gay New Orleans. (Academic Year 2014-15)
Debra Schleef, Professor of Sociology
Project: What is “Intentional” about Intentional Communities? Exploring Vocabularies of Motive among Commune Residents in the U.S. and Germany. (Spring 2015)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2013-2014
Robert R. Barr, Associate Professor of Political Science
Project: Populism and Democracy in Latin America. (Academic Year 2013-14)
Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science
Project: The Elephant in the Room: Conservative Women’s Groups and Republican Women Candidate. (Fall 2013)
Paul Fallon, Associate Professor of Linguistics
Project: The Encyclopedia of Phonological Distinctive Features. (Spring 2013)
Dan Hubbard, Associate Professor of Accounting
Project: Accounting Problems Workbook and Visual Rhetoric in Corporate Annual Reports. (Fall 2013)
Teresa A. Kennedy, Professor of English
Project: Boccaccio and the Making of the Modern Reader. (Fall 2013)
Christopher Kilmartin, Professor of Psychology
Project: Completion of Several Professional Writing Projects. (Academic Year 2013-14)
Jeremy Larochelle, Associate Professor of Spanish
Project: Towards an Ecological Poetics: Sustainability, Urban Ecology and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Latin American and U.S. Latina/o Literature. (Spring 2014)
Maya Mathur, Associate Professor of English
Project: Withholding Wealth, Extending Charity: Practicing Hospitality in Arden of Faversham. (Spring 2014)
Krystyn Moon, Associate Professor of History
Project: Book manuscript — The Emergence of Legal Entry to the United States and its Impact on the Body Politic, 1880’s – 1930’s. (Academic Year 2013-14)
Mara Scanlon, Professor of English
Project: Digital Modernism: The Artifact, The Poetess, and The Modernist Journals Project. (Spring 2014)
Holly Schiffrin, Associate Professor of Psychology
Project: Parental Involvement: Translating Research Into Practice. (Fall 2013)
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2012-2013
Nabil Al-Tikriti, Associate Professor of History
Project: Complete final chapters of monograph on the Ottoman empire and submit final draft for publication.
Spring 2013 with full salary and full benefits
David Cain, Distinguished Professor of Religion
Project: Complete a collection of essays on Kierkegaard.
Fall 2012 with full salary and full benefits
Mindy Erchull, Associate Professor of Psychology
Project: Analyze collected data, prepare to present project and results for publication on objectification among young women.
Fall 2012 with full salary and full benefits
Eric Gable, Professor of Anthropology
Project: Complete book on the archeology of art.
Spring 2013 with full salary and full benefits
James Gaines, Professor of French
Project: Complete series of articles on 18th century literature.
Spring 2013 with full salary and full benefits
Stephen Hanna, Professor of Geography
Project: Consolidate research and submit book for publication on heritage tourism in Fredericksburg.
Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 with half salary and full benefits
Bruce O’Brien
Project: To complete book draft for a series on modern England.
Fall 2012 and Spring 2013 with half salary and full benefits
Jennifer Polack-Wahl, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Project: Complete final testing of iTouch to be used in elementary education.
Spring 2013 with full salary and full benefits
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2011-2012
Susan R. Fernsebner (HIST)
Spring 2012 with full salary and full benefits
Leonard R. Koos (MDFL)
Fall 2011 with full salary and full benefits
Eric G. Lorentzen (ENLC)
Spring 2012 with full salary and full benefits
Marie E. McAllister (ENLC)
Spring 2012 with full salary and full benefits
Angela L. Pitts (CLPR)
Fall 2011 with full salary and full benefits
Allyson M. Poska (HIST)
Fall 2011 with full salary and full benefits
Douglas W. Sanford (HISP)
Fall 2011 with full salary and full benefits
Federico Schneider (MDFL)
Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 with half salary and full benefits
Charles M. Sharpless (CHEM)
Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 with half salary and full benefits
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2010-2011
Janusz Konieczny (MATH)
Spring 2011 with full salary and full benefits
Kristin L. Marsh (SOAN)
Spring 2011 with full salary and full benefits
Keith E. Mellinger (MATH)
Fall 2010 with full salary and full benefits
Marjorie A. Och (ARTD)
Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 with half salary and full benefits
Scott M. Powers (MDFL)
Fall 2010 with full salary and full benefits
Mary B. Rigsby (ENLC)
Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 with half salary and full benefits
Farhang Rouhani (GEOG)
Spring 2011 with full salary and benefits
Gregg Stull (THDN)
Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 with full salary and benefits
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2009-2010
Mehdi Aminrazavi (CLPR)
Fall 2009 with full salary and full benefits
Carole A. Garmon (ARTD)
Spring 2010 with full salary and full benefits
James E. Goehring (CLPR)
Spring 2010 with full salary and full benefits
Steven A. Greenlaw (ECON)
Fall 2009 with full salary and full benefits
John M. Kramer (PSIA)
Fall 2009 with full salary and full benefits
P. Anand Rao (ENLC)
Spring 2010 with full salary and full benefits
Suzanne Sumner (MATH)
Fall 2009 with full salary and benefits
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2008-2009
David K. Ambuel (CLPR)
Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 with half salary and full benefits
Dawn S. Bowen (GEOG)
Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 with half salary and full benefits
Yuan-Jen Chiang (MATH)
Fall 2008 with full salary and full benefits
Jason W. Davidson (PSCI)
Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 with half salary and full benefits
Christofer C. Foss (ENLS)
Fall 2008 with full salary and full benefits
Elizabeth F. Lewis (MDFL)
Spring 2009 with full salary and full benefits
Miriam N. Liss (PSYC)
Spring 2009 with full salary and full benefits
Susan C. Matts (PHYS)
Spring 2009 with full salary and full benefits
Margaret A. Ray (ECON)
Fall 2008 with full salary and full benefits
Stephen H. Watkins (ENLS)
Spring 2009 with full salary and full benefits
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2007-2008
Ana G. Chichester (MDFL)
Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits.
Claudine L. Ferrell (HIST): Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits (will only do essential BLS tasks while on sabbat; see 2/8/07 e-mail).
Julie A. Hodge (THDN)
Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits.
Debra L. Hydorn (MATH)
Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits.
Kathryn E. Loesser-Casey (BIOL)
Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits.
Timothy M. O’Donnell (ENLS)
Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits (did not take awarded sabbat in 06-07).
Judith A. Parker (ENLS)
Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 with half salary and full benefits.
Warren G. Rochelle (ENLS)
Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits.
Joseph M. Romero (CLPR)
Fall 2007 with full salary and full benefits.
Debra J. Schleef (SOAN)
Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits.
Craig R. Vasey (CLPR)
Spring 2008 with full salary and full benefits.
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2006-2007
Wendy Atwell-Vasey (EDUC)
Spring 2007 with full salary and full benefits.
Tracy B. Citeroni (SOAN)
Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 with half salary and full benefits.
Manning Gary Collier (MATH)
Spring 2007 with full salary and full benefits.
Joella C. Killian (BIOL)
Spring 2007 with full salary and full benefits.
Christopher T. Kilmartin (PSYC)
Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 with half salary and full benefits.
David W. Kolar (PSYC)
Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 with half salary and full benefits.
Timothy M. O’Donnell (ENLS)
Spring 2007 with full salary and full benefits (deferred until Spring 2008)
Mara N. Scanlon (ENLS)
Spring 2007 with full salary and full benefits.
Marie A. Wellington (MDFL)
Spring 2007 with full salary and full benefits.
Marsha F. Zaidman (CPSC)
Fall 2006 with full salary and full benefits.
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2005-2006
Claudia Emerson (ENGL)
Spring 2006 with full salary and full benefits.
E. Eric Gable (SOAN)
Fall 2005 with full salary and full benefits.
James F. Gaines (MFL)
Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 with half salary and full benefits.
Steve R. Hampton (PSYC)
Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 with half salary and full benefits.
Stephen P. Hanna (GEOG)
Spring 2006 with full salary and full benefits.
Bradley A. Hansen (ECON)
Fall 2005 with full salary and full benefits.
Margaret A. Klayton-Mi (BUAD)
Fall 2005 with full salary and full benefits.
Elizabeth F. Larus (PSCI)
Fall 2005 and Spring 2006 with half salary and full benefits.
W. Brown Morton III (HISP)
Spring 2006 with full salary and full benefits.
Deborah A. O’Dell (BIOL)
Spring 2006 with full salary and full benefits.
Sabbaticals Awarded for Academic Year 2004-2005
James M. Harding (ENGL)
Fall 2004 with full salary and full benefits.
Liane R. Houghtalin (CPR)
Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 with half salary and full benefits.
Marie E. McAllister (ENGL)
Spring 2005 with full salary and full benefits.
Donald N. Rallis (GEOG)
Spring 2005 with full salary and full benefits.
Robert S. Rycroft (ECON)
Spring 2005 with full salary and full benefits.
Douglas W. Sanford (HISP)
Fall 2004 with full salary and full benefits.
Marie P. Sheckels (EDUC/MATH)
Fall 2004 with full salary and full benefits.
Kelli M. Slunt (CHEM)
Spring 2005 with full salary and full benefits.