Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts and SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, was formally accepted as a senior member into the National Academy of Inventors on February 26, 2026.
Cameka Hazel
College of Arts and SciencesCameka Hazel, Ed.D., assistant professor of psychology and counseling in the College of Arts and Sciences, published "Teaching Multicultural Counseling: A Phenomenological Exploration of Counselor Educators’ Voices," in the Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision. She was the first author of the article, published on February 16, 2026.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published an article "Luis Muñoz Marín: Boricua Modernism between Poetics and Politics" in the collection "Jim Crow Modernism" (Oxford Universty Press), on February 6, 2026. The article analyzes the 1920s fiction, verse, and journalism of Luis Muñoz Marín, written two-plus decades before Marín became the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico.
Kate E. O'Hara
College of Arts and SciencesKate E. O’Hara, Ph.D., associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, presented “Age is Only a Number: An Exploration of Intergenerational Learning” at the 10th World Conference on Qualitative Research, on February 3, 2026. O’Hara’s autoethnographic study positions intergenerational learning in higher education as a transformative space where shared experience, reflection, and action merge to promote civic engagement, digital literacy, and social activism. Additionally, the study reflected findings on the health and wellness that emerges through social interaction, knowledge sharing, and emotional support.
Eugene Kelly
College of Arts and SciencesEugene Kelly, Ph.D., adjunct professor in the Department of Humanities, published a paper, Spirit and Mind: Hartmann’s Das Problem des Geistigen Seins, in the Kultura i Wartości, on January 14, 2026.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, was appointed to the Advisory Board of Joyce Studies Annual, an academic journal published at Fordham University, on January 11, 2026.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, published "'Paris, Past and Present': A Report on 'Joyce in Paris,' Irish Embassy, Paris, 14–16 June 2025." The paper was published in James Joyce Quarterly on January 6, 2026.
Eugene Kelly
College of Arts and SciencesEugene Kelly, Ph.D., adjunct professor in the Department of Humanities, published a paper, Revisiting the Concept of the Person and Its Moral Responsibility in Max Scheler and in Edith Stein, in the Edith Stein and Max Scheler in Dialogue, Bloomsbury Academic, on January 1, 2026.
Jonathan Ezra Goldman
College of Arts and SciencesJonathan Ezra Goldman, Ph.D., professor of English, Department of Humanities, contributed a peer-reviewed chapter, "Teaching Ulysses in Nonacademic Spaces," to Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century, published by University Press of Florida on December 16, 2025.
Elaine Brown
College of Arts and SciencesElaine Brown, Ph.D., department chair and associate professor of humanities, conducted a narrative medicine workshop for faculty and students at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine on December 3, 2025.