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The Fellows
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Jeff Broome is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the area of Art Education at the University of Georgia. His teaching and research interests include explorations into multi-age models of art education, cross-cultural studies in art and aesthetics, classroom management, and the social foundations of art and education. Professor Broome earned his Ph.D. in art education from Florida State University in the fall of 2006. He has since completed manuscripts drawn from his dissertation research on teaching art in multi-age school environments, and also on the subject of arranging art classrooms for effective management. He is currently working on manuscripts and instructional resources related to an integrated approach to art education, and continues to explore the subject of multi-age art education as well. Professor Broome presents regularly at both National and State Conferences, and has presented on the topic of thematically integrated art projects at school district workshops. He has co-authored curriculum planners for the David C. Anchin Center and has published an article in the Journal for the Multi-Age Association of Queensland. At the University of Georgia, Professor Broome teaches courses on the foundations of art education, art appreciation, and cultural diversity in North American art, and also supervises art education student teachers. Professor Broome supervised student teachers at Florida State, teaching courses on teaching portfolios, classroom management, ethics, and school law. He earned an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award at FSU in 2005. Professor Broome earned his M.A. in art education from the University of South Florida and his B.S. in art education from Florida State University. He worked for eight years as a public school art teacher in Florida and earned recognition from his colleagues in the Hillsborough County School District with a Teacher of the Year Award. Please refer here for additional information about Professor Broome http://www.visart.uga.edu/people.php?id=5027.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Sharon Claffey is Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia. She studies social support, perceived fairness, and distress among couples and parents. Professor Claffey earned her Ph.D. in social psychology from Kent State University in 2006. She is working on journal manuscripts drawn from her dissertation research on the division of household labor, perceived fairness, spillover (between work and home), and distress among working mothers. She is also conducting research on classroom response systems and their effect on student involvement in large lecture classes. Professor Claffey has presented at the International Association for Relationship Research, has an article accepted in Sex Roles and has published book chapters in Focus on Lifestyle and Health Research and Gender Identity, Psychology, and Lifestyle, both published by Nova Science Publishers. She is a member of the Association for Psychological Science and the International Association for Relationship Research. At UGA, Professor Claffey teaches lecture courses on general psychology, social psychology, and social and personality development. She also teaches an honors introductory psychology seminar. She has taught beginning and more advanced courses on quantitative methods in psychology. At Monmouth University, Professor Claffey earned an M.A. in counseling psychology. Her B.A. is from College of the Holy Cross in psychology. She has earned several awards, including the Student Research Award and the Under Researched Population Award while a graduate student at Kent State University.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Brian Drake is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Georgia. He specializes in the history of the postwar American environmental movement, particularly its relationship to postwar politics and ideology. His dissertation, The Unnatural State: Conservatives, Libertarians, and the Postwar American Environmental Movement, is currently under review for publication. In 2005 he received the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation's Eddie Jacobson Scholarship to support his research. Professor Drake has published articles in Great Plains Quarterly and the Georgia Historical Quarterly and is also the author of a number of reviews. He has also contributed several articles to the kuhistory.com Web site, a "public history" site detailing the genesis and growth of the University of Kansas. His current research interests involve the environmental history of the South, where he originally worked as an outdoor educator and wilderness guide for several years before entering academe. Prior to arriving at UGA, Professor Drake taught for two years in the humanities and Western civilization program at the University of Kansas. Professor Drake earned his B.A. in history at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and his M.A. in U.S. history from the University of Georgia.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Aisha S. Durham is Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. Her scholarly interests are cultural representations, interpretive methods, and black feminism. Professor Durham earned her Ph.D. in communications from the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Professor Durham is the co-editor of Home Girls, Make Some Noise!: A Hip-Hop Feminism Anthology (Parker Publishing, 2007) and Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Method & Policy (Peter Lang, 2007). She is a former research/writer intern for TIME magazine and assistant editor for qualitative research journals, such as Qualitative Inquiry. Her recent co-authored chapter, "A Tail of Two Women: The Contours of Difference in Popular Culture" is featured in the book Curriculum and the Cultural Body (Peter Lang, 2007), and brings together her dissertation work on hip hop feminism and ethnicities in relation with African American and Puerto Rican icons Beyonce and Jennifer Lopez. Professor Durham earned her M.A. in journalism and mass communication from the University of Georgia and B.S. from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Daniel Farnham is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. His research is in moral philosophy and its history, the philosophy of mind, and political philosophy. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in 2002. Professor Farnham is working on a book manuscript articulating a broadly stoic theory of morality and the good life, along with articles on practical reasoning and punishment. He has edited The Intrinsic Worth of Persons, a collection of essays by Jean Hampton (Cambridge, 2007) and published articles in The Southern Journal of Philosophy and The Journal of Value Inquiry. He has taught a graduate seminar on conceptions of well-being and their role in moral theory, upper level courses on ethical theory and philosophy of the self, and courses in applied ethics, ancient philosophy, and philosophy and literature. Professor Farnham has an A.M. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. from Swarthmore College, both in philosophy.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Ian Hagarty is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and temporary assistant professor in the Department of Art at the University of Georgia. His visual work conveys a synthesis between notions of playfulness and order. The motivations for his work derive from interests in contemporary music, culture, art history and nature. He received his M.F.A. in Painting from Indiana University in 2006. Professor Hagarty's most recent works have been included in an exhibition entitled "Essentials," shown in the Elder Gallery at Nebraska Wesleyan University (Fall 2007). His work has also been exhibited at numerous universities and galleries throughout the country. Professor Hagarty is currently teaching courses on color & composition, and intermediate painting. In addition to these courses, he has taught all levels of drawing at Herron School of Art & Design: IUPUI where he worked as a visiting faculty member for one year. While a graduate student at Indiana University, he was awarded an associate instructor position, a grant in aid of research and a travel grant for study in Florence, Italy. Professor Hagarty earned his M.A.T. in art education and his B.F.A. in painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Benjamin Jones is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Georgia. He studies representation theory, algebraic groups, and related algebraic geometry. In particular, his thesis explores the properties and computation of certain numerical invariants of mathematical singularities. This branch of mathematics arises from the study of symmetry in mathematical systems (e.g., the symmetries of systems of algebraic equations describing geometric objects in high dimensions). The field has important applications to other branches of mathematics such as geometry and number theory as well as to physics and chemistry. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society. At UGA, Professor Jones currently teaches a course for freshman about the application of modern mathematical ideas such as graph theory to real world problems like optimizing urban services and business efficiency. Professor Jones taught numerous undergraduate courses at Notre Dame and was the recipient of Notre Dame's Kaneb Center Award for excellence in teaching in 2006. He earned his B.S. in mathematics and physics from the University of Utah.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Megan L. Knowles is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. in psychology at Northwestern University. As a social psychologist, Professor Knowles studies the interplay of the self and identity, relationships, and group memberships. Most of her work examines belonging regulation mechanisms, or the means by which individuals maintain a subjective sense of connection in the face of social threat. Investigating both lower level perceptual processes (e.g., attention to facial and vocal cues) as well as higher level processes (e.g., bolstering of one's available social bonds) that facilitate a sense of connection, Professor Knowles has focused most recently on the effective use of social surrogates following social rejection. She is particularly interested in examining the protective value of individuals' seemingly one-sided attachments to their favorite television characters. She has received research fellowships and awards from institutions such as the National Science Foundation, the Positive Psychology Center, and the Center for Emotion and Emotional Disorders at Northwestern University. She is also a member of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, American Psychological Association, and other international psychological organizations. Her teaching interests range from introductory psychology and methods to more specific topics within social psychology such as the self, relationships, and social cognition. Professor Knowles earned her B.A. from the University of Kentucky.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Megan McIlreavy is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia. Her research centers on the development of attention in infancy. More specifically, she is interested in how infants process various auditory, visual, and multimodal events as indexed by both behavioral and psychophysiological (heart rate) measures. Professor McIlreavy earned her Ph.D. from the Developmental and Biological Sciences program at Virginia Tech in 2006. She is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development and the International Society for Infant Studies. Professor McIlreavy's teaching interests include topics in developmental psychology, introduction to psychology, and research methods in psychology. She is currently teaching developmental psychology, research methods, and general psychology (honors) courses at UGA. Professor McIlreavy earned her B.A. from Virginia Tech.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Peach Pittenger is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Georgia. She studies American theatre history, women in theatre, and popular entertainment. Professor Pittenger earned her Ph.D. in theatre history, literature, and criticism from The Ohio State University in 2005. She is working on a book manuscript drawn from her dissertation research on women in American popular entertainment during the vaudevillian era. Professor Pittenger has presented papers at the Popular Culture, American Studies, International Federation of Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, American Society for Theatre Research, International Comparative Drama, and Mid-America Theatre conferences. She has published articles in the Journal of American Theatre and Drama and Theatre History Studies. Professor Pittenger is a member of American Society for Theatre Research, American Theatre and Drama Society, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, International Federation of Theatre Research, American Studies Association, American Popular Culture Association, and Phi Beta Kappa. Professor Pittenger teaches a theatre history survey course for theatre and film majors, as well as script analysis and drama appreciation (honors) courses at UGA. She has also taught American theatre and a lecture course on theatre appreciation. Professor Pittenger earned her M.A. in theatre studies from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. Her B.A. is from Smith College in theatre and English. She has earned several fellowships and grants, including the Distinguished University Fellowship at Ohio State University and a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Dissertation grant.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor LeeAnn Reynolds is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Georgia. She studies twentieth century U.S. history, history of the South, and African American history. She earned her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in May 2007. In her dissertation, she considered how black and white children in the South learned about the institution of segregation in their homes, schools, and churches in the period from 1920 to 1955. She is currently revising her dissertation for publication. Her teaching responsibilities include U.S. history survey courses and senior seminars on various topics in twentieth century U.S. history, including the Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement. She earned her B.A. from the University of Tennessee in 2000 and her M.A. from Vanderbilt University in 2001.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Brett M. Rogers is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Georgia. He studies Greek epic and drama, with further interests in classical mythology and modern media. Professor Rogers earned his Ph.D. in Classics from Stanford University in 2005. He is working on a book manuscript drawn from his dissertation research on representations of 'teaching' and 'learning' in archaic and classical Greek poetry, through the study of which he seeks to explain why Greek dramatists used the linguistic frame of educational language for the exploration of civic identity and political power. Professor Rogers has presented papers at both domestic and international conferences, and has recently written an article on classical drama for the forthcoming Western Drama Through the Ages (Greenwood Press). He is a member of the American Philological Association, the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, and the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest. Professor Rogers teaches courses on classical mythology, theories of mythology, Greek language and literature (Homer, Plato), and the Roman novel at UGA. He has also taught at graduate courses at the University of Georgia on Greek drama (Aeschylus) and Latin poetry (Horace), as well undergraduate courses on Greek Culture and Latin language. Additionally, Professor Rogers has taught numerous undergraduate courses at Stanford University and Santa Clara University as well as serving as a consultant for the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University. He earned his B.A. in Classics from Reed College.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Angela L. Sauers is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia. She has studied organic synthesis, specifically of chiral molecules designed for inorganic applications in nanotechnology, and now focuses on chemical education research directed towards the instruction of introductory level organic chemistry. Professor Sauers earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University in 2006. Currently, she is working on an organic chemistry "survival guide" designed to accompany introductory organic chemistry texts. She is a member of the American Chemical Society. Professor Sauers teaches a lecture course on introductory organic chemistry, with a biological emphasis. She has also taught general chemistry. Professor Sauers earned a M.A. in chemistry at Princeton University and a B.S. from Juniata College, both in chemistry. She has earned several fellowships, including the Hubert Alyea '24 Teaching Award for continued excellence in undergraduate teaching for her work as a teaching assistant at Princeton.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Carrie G. Shepler is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Georgia. She studies the thought processes utilized by undergraduate general chemistry students. Professor Shepler earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from Washington State University in 2005 where her work focused on uranium biogeochemistry. She has presented papers at meetings of the American Chemical Society, the V.M. Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, and the International Conference on Chemistry and Migration of Actinides and Fission Products. She is a member of the American Chemical Society. Professor Shepler revised the second edition of a "survival guide" to general chemistry that is published in conjunction with a general chemistry tex book. She teaches introductory level chemistry at UGA and has also taught courses in analytical chemistry and introductory organic and biochemistry. Professor Shepler earned her B.S. in chemistry and communication arts at Georgetown College in Kentucky. She has earned several fellowships and awards, including the National Science Foundation/Washington State University/Center for Multiphase Environmental Research Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training fellowship and the Washington State University Graduate and Professional Students Association Teaching Assistant Excellence Award.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Karen Sivertsen is a Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Georgia. She specializes in the history of Dutch Manhattan and religion in Early America and the Black Atlantic. Her dissertation, entitled Babel On The Hudson: Community Formation in Dutch Manhattan, is currently being revised for publication. She is also revising an article, entitled "Transcending the Floating Tombs: Trauma and Transcendence During the Middle Passage," for publication in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Before arriving at UGA, Professor Sivertsen taught at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in New York City. At the University of Georgia, besides teaching the first half of the 300-student US survey class, Professor Sivertsen teaches courses on African-based religions in the Black Atlantic and their relevance for our understanding of Black American spirituality and religious practices in the United States. She also teaches seminars on race and religion in the early Atlantic world. She earned a B.A. in History, with a minor in Psychology, from New York University, where she graduated cum laude.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Andrew Trachsel is Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow, visiting assistant professor, and assistant director of bands at the University of Georgia. In addition to working with all aspects of the band program, he conducts a concert band and teaches courses in conducting and music education. Professor Trachsel earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in wind conducting from the University of North Texas, where he was a student of Eugene Migliaro Corporon. Prior to his appointment at the University of Georgia, Professor Trachsel served as a doctoral conducting associate and graduate staff coordinator at the University of North Texas, where he was named one of four outstanding teaching fellows at UNT for the 2005-2006 academic year. He was appointed assistant conductor for the inaugural season of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a professional wind band based in the Dallas-Fort Worth. Additionally, he taught applied saxophone at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth and also taught in public high schools for four years in Iowa. Professor Trachsel has participated as a performer and production associate for the critically acclaimed Klavier Wind Project, GIA Publications Composer's Collection, GIA Teaching Music Through Performance in Band Resource Recordings, NAXOS Wind Band Classics, and the newly-released GIA WindWorks. He is published in three volumes of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band as the author of eight resource guides for teachers. His critical edition of Gordon Jacob's William Byrd Suite was recorded by the North Texas Wind Symphony and released on the album Altered States in 2007. Professor Trachsel holds memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, Iowa Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Music Educators National Conference, Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity of America. Professor Trachel earned his Master of Music in wind conducting from the University of North Texas and his Bachelor of Music Education from Drake University.
Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor Paula Warrington is Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia. She studies the representation of memory and remembering in Old English literature and in Modern English idiom. Professor Warrington earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Leicester, in England, in 2005. She is now developing and broadening her doctoral research into a study of memory metaphors. Professor Warrington has presented papers at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds University, and the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University. She is a member of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (ISAS) and Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland (TOEBI). Professor Warrington teaches courses on early English literature (Chaucer, Shakespeare, English Literature to 1700) and language (History of the English Language, English Grammar). She is developing a topics course on the figurative representation of memory and mind. In the United Kingdom, Professor Warrington taught courses including Old English and Language and Text. She has also supported several undergraduate Information Technology workshops. Professor Warrington earned her M.A. in English Literature and Literary Research and her B.A. (Hons.) in English at the University of Leicester. She was awarded postgraduate studentships from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Board in order to complete two postgraduate degrees. Professor Warrington was also awarded the Jean and Arthur Humphreys Prize for the best assessed English dissertation submitted by a final-year undergraduate at the University of Leicester. |
Jeff Broome
Sharon Claffey
Brian Allen Drake
Aisha S. Durham
Daniel Farnham
Ian Hagarty
Benjamin F. Jones
Megan L. Knowles
Megan McIlreavy
Peach Pittenger
LeeAnn Garrison Reynolds
Brett M. Rogers
Angela L. Sauers
Carrie G. Shepler
Karen Sivertsen
Andrew Trachsel
Paula Warrington
