Research and Honors, October 2025

Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff.

Honors

Valerie Wright, MCN, received the AgriSafe Nurse Scholar Farm Credit Illinois Scholarship Award (June 2025).

Taylor Soja, HIS, was selected for a Visiting Research Fellowship by the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute and the North American Conference on British Studies.

Ryan A. Davis, LAN, was awarded the B.H. Roberts Research Grant at the annual conference of the Mormon History Association and also the Pollock Best Historical Article Award at the annual conference of the John Whitmer Historical Association.

Presentations

Keith Pluyners, IT, presented the opening webinar for this year's Yale Forest Forum.

Richard Hughes, HIS, presented a paper, "What Happens When Teaching Mandates Go Your Way: Reimagining History Teaching and Curricula in Blue States," at the History Educators International Research Network Conference in Cologne, Germany. He was also chosen to participate in a pre-conference workshop organized by Canadian researchers titled "What is the Future of Historical Thinking? An International Dialogue."

Valerie Wright, MCN, presented the webinar "The COLLABORATE Card Game: Innovation and Research Insights" at the MNRS Nursing Education Quarterly RIIG Meeting.

Lindsay Stallones Marshall, HIS, was a guest on a new podcast for secondary history teachers on the topic of the American West.

Lindsay Stallones Marshall, HIS, organized and facilitated the annual conference of the Equine History Collective 2025, Horse Sense & Sensibility: Equids, Humans, and Meaning-Making, held virtually in partnership with Johnson & Wales University (Providence, RI).

Publications

Janice Jayes, HIS, published an article on the Israeli/US bombing campaign in Iran in Public i.

Michael L. Dougherty, SOC, coauthored "Building Post-Fordism from the Shopfloor Up: Labor's Constrained Agency and Caterpillar's Employee Satisfaction Process" in the Journal of Labor and Society.

Intan Suwandi, SOC, published "Fighting Back and Building Strength: Reflecting on Indonesia's Labor Movement" in the Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia.

Megan VanGorder, HIS, published a book review on "Review of The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State," by Elizabeth Garner Masarik in The Journal of the Civil War Era.

Lou Perez, HIS, signed a translation rights agreement with Alfa Publishing for the sale of the Turkish language rights of Daily Life in Early Modern Japan.

Valerie Wright and Carolina Posada Ford, both MCN, coauthored "From Small-Scale to Full Program Integration: Partnering With Fire Departments for Mass Casualty Training" in Nurse Educator.

Valerie Wright and Pat Pence, both MCN, coauthored "U.S. Graduate Nurses' Transition into Practice: Perspectives on Simulation-based Education and Cultural Awareness in Caring for Diverse Patients" in Nurse Education in Practice.

Pat Pence, Valerie Wright, MyoungJin Kim, and Kileigh Guido, all MCN, coauthored "Promoting Inclusion Through Diverse Simulation Equipment" in Nurse Educator.

Susan Sprecher, SOC, was referenced for her research in a BBC article titled "The shortcut to close bonds - Asking meaningful questions." She also coauthored the article, "More than an Acquaintance less than a Friend: Fringeships in Everyday Life," which was also featured in a Psychology Today article.

Amy Bardwell and Chang Su-Russell, both FCS, coauthored "An Examination of Well-Being and Retention during the Transition of Learning Modality in a University Academic Department" in Teaching and Learning Inquiry (July 2025).

Hayley Munir and Syed Rashid Munir, both CJS, coauthored "May it Appease the Court Strategic Delays in Indian Judicial Appointments" in the Journal of Asian Studies (November 2025).

Jessie Krienert, Jeffrey A. Walsh, and Caitlyn Donnelly, all CJS, coauthored "Unreadable, Unfindable, and Incomplete: Evaluating PREA Information in State Correctional Handbooks" in Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research (August 2025).

Chang Su-Russell, Luke T. Russell, Todd M. Jensen, and Jonathon J. Beckmeyer, all FCS, coauthored "Examining equifinality and multifinality using outcome-partitioned person-centered analyses: A proof-of-concept with youth developmental assets and health" in The Journal of Family Theory & Review (September 2025).

Georgia Tsouvala, HIS, coauthored "The Palaiopolis 1995 Hoard from Corcyra" in Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress.

Alycia Hund, PSY, coauthored "The role of teacher efficacy and school climate in parent-teacher relationship quality and congruence for Autistic students" in Psychology in the Schools.

Rachel Shively, LAN, published the book Spanish-language pragmatics: A guide for teachers.

Allison Nguyen, PSY, coauthored "How authority affects social evaluations of negotiation words" in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

Kimberly Schneider, PSY, coauthored "Workplace discrimination against pregnant and postpartum employees: Links to well-being. Special Issue on How Reproductive Life Events Influence Women's Mental Health" in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Aaron Pitluck, SOC, published the Special Issue, "Brokering Novel Concepts into Economic Sociology" in Current Sociology Vol.73, Issue 2. Pitluck contributed the open access article, "Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology."

Gabriel Torrealba Alfonzo, SOA, published "Enactive Narrativities: Rubber-Times Historicity and Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia" in The Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America.

Georgia Tsouvala, HIS, coauthored "The Palaiopolis 1995 Hoard from Corcyra" in Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress.

Timothy Lash, CHE, published the following:

• A mini-review of "The Road Less Traveled: A Pathway to Research at a Primarily Undergraduate Institution" in ACS Omega 2025
• "Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Bis(thiadiazolo)benzoporphyrinoids: Insights into the Properties of Porphyrin-type Systems with Strongly Electron-withdrawing beta, bata'-Fused Rings" in Molecules 2025
• "Regioselective Oxidation of Carbaporphyrinoid Systems" in Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 2025

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