Academics & Research

Associate Professor of Fine Arts Shawn Tucker presented a paper on July 27, 2012 at the International Congress of Humanities and Social Science Research in Paris, France.

Dean Paul Parsons of the School of Communications led sessions on diversity, faculty, resources and assessment at an Aug. 23 Accrediting Council workshop in Chicago for 60 university programs seeking accreditation in the discipline.

Mary Gowan, professor of management in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, is the co-author of a study published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Business and Psychology.

Elon Law Professor and Senior Scholar Steve Friedland recently presented at Poitiers University in Paris, France on the politicization of the Supreme Court. New editions of books about evidence that he co-authored were published recently as well.

Professor Michael Sanford exhibited July 17-August 11 at the Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, a non-profit artist run gallery that has been promoting the work of women artists since 1973 through gallery exhibitions and public programming.

The article “Brass Rings and Red-Headed Stepchildren: Protecting Active Criminal Informants” by Elon Law Professor Michael Rich has been published in the American University Law Review.

Jessica Gisclair, department chair and associate professor in the School of Communications, presented a workshop titled “Finding a Work/Life Balance” to the International Association of Business Communicators Aug. 23 in Lynchburg, Va.

Michael Rodriguez, assistant professor of marketing, served as a panelist at the American Marketing Association’s 2012 Summer Marketing Educators’ Conference on August 18.

Tina Das, professor of economics, and Cassandra DiRienzo, associate professor of economics and associate dean of the Love School of Business, published a paper entitled “Tourism Competitiveness and the Role of Fractionalization.”