Sabbatical

Anthony Keinath

Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences
Fall 2023

To submit manuscripts for publication while also visiting low country organic vegetable farms.

R. David Lamie

Professor, Agricultural Sciences
Fall 2023

To develop research-based training content, identify case studies of innovative agritourism operations and support systems, strengthen the research network for domestic and global agritourism service providers and stakeholder organizations, create a draft strategic plan for Southern Heritage Crops development, and develop project enhancements.

Brandon Peoples

Associate Professor, Forestry and Environmental Conservation
Fall 2023

To complete a book project entitled Common Biota of Eastern North American Streams, author research publications, and begin another book project.

Linda Dzuris

Professor, Performing Arts
Fall 2023

To attend the World Carillon Congress in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Ulrike Heine

Associate Professor, Architecture
Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

To research characteristics and priorities for the field of sustainable or environmental responsive design, focusing on data from winning schools of the ACSA AIA Cote Top Ten Competition since 2015, and to generate recommendations for the current teaching faculty in the field and work on publication of conference papers.

Andrea Feeser

Professor, Art
Spring 2023

To research and work on articles for two projects centered on Wedgwood’s 1787 Abolitionist Medallion and amalgamated images of Native Americans, slaves, and white colonizers in eighteenth-century America.

Valerie Zimany

Professor, Art
Spring 2023

To travel and collect field data, develop collaborations and create a new portfolio of artwork expanding a "Dirt x Digital: Profiles, Patterns, and Print Phenomena" project for national and international presentation.

David Donar

Professor, Art
Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

To research and develop an animation film and music based on the Acadian/Cajun/Creole culture of Southwestern Louisiana and Nova Scotia, Canada.

Elizabeth Jemison

Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion
Fall 2023

To undertake research for a second scholarly monograph, Christian Motherhood: Race and Southern Churchwomen’s Organizing during Segregation.

Salvador Oropesa

Professor, Languages
Fall 2023

To complete book-length monograph project, El Rizoma Verde: Guardia Civil y Constitucionalismo en la Serie Vila-Chamorro de Lorenzo Silva (The Green Rhizome: Civil Guard and Constitutionalism in the Vila-Chamorro Series by Lorenzo Silva).

Stephanie Barczewski

Professor, History and Geography
Spring 2023

To finalize a book proposal for a project entitled A History of British National Parks, produce journal articles and book chapters and submit conference papers.

James Burns

Professor, History and Geography
Spring 2023

To make progress on a digital monograph Cinema and Society in the South Asian Diaspora.

Megan Eatman

Associate Professor, English
Spring 2023

To complete a book proposal for a second monograph that centers on the appropriation of scientific language and research processes in vernacular discourse.

Michelle Smith

Associate Professor, English
Spring 2023

To conduct archival research necessary for a second book project tentatively titled Second Life: A Rhetorical History of Rosie the Riveter.

Elizabeth Baldwin

Associate Professor, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management
Fall 2023

To expand a research agenda, to advance publications from research work and formalize a growing network of collaborators interested in the examination of a knowledge exchange network for school and university forests nationally.

Gregory Cranmer

Associate Professor, Communication
Fall 2023

To conduct field implementation and assessment of bystander intervention toward concussion reporting, advance research projects to publication, and submit grant proposals for external funding.

Katherine Amber Curtis

Associate Professor, Political Science
Fall 2023

To write and submit multiple articles for publication using original Political Attitudes and Identities Survey (PAIS) conducted in nine countries and publicly share the research through the University of Michigan's Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and the Harvard Dataverse.

Jeffrey Peake

Professor, Political Science
Fall 2023

Expand research activities, to begin new research project, develop a State Department grant, and prepare a course on the U.S. presidency.

Darren Linvill

Associate Professor, Communication
Spring 2023

To plan and develop Clemson's Media Forensics Hub initiative and to travel to Brisbane Australia to work with Queensland University of Technology's Digital Media Research Centre.

Daniel Greene

Associate Professor, Finance
Fall 2023

To develop new research manuscripts, travel to conduct and disseminate research, and create case studies for classroom use.

Erica Walker

Associate Professor, Graphic Communications
Fall 2023

To further research and creative pursuits related to research and teaching, connect with industry members and alumni, and improve course material with knowledge gained during these pursuits.

Nicole Sinwell

Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
Fall 2023

To concentrate on research activities for funded interdisciplinary projects, submit manuscripts for publication, and apply a metacognitive lens to one's research agenda and scholarly trajectory.

Philip Wilder

Associate Professor, Education, Health and Development
Fall 2023

To complete research for a Tanzanian school project, submit proposal for Spencer foundation grant, complete book proposal for Teachers College press, and submit manuscripts and conference proposals.

Jacquelynn Malloy

Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
Spring 2023

To conduct research involving elementary education graduates in South Carolina, to transform assessment formats, to design a website for classroom teachings and to complete writing projects.

Ioannis Karamouszas

Associate Professor, Computing
Fall 2023

To develop new approaches for socially-compliant robot navigation by conducting two extended visits at INRIA-Rennes, France and CIMAT-Guanajuato, Mexico.

Mary Beth Kurz

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Fall 2023 and Spring 2014

To conduct proposal writing, grant work and research activities in warehousing / internal logistics topical areas as part of changing roles from more service-intensive activities.

Lawrence Murdoch

Professor, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

To purse a new research topic related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

David Neyens

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Fall 2023

To expand a research portfolio in human factors in health care by engaging clinicians and hospital systems, resulting in research publications and grant applications.

G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fall 2023

To complete a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program and Research Collaborations, engage in large funding proposal development including NSF ERCs and US DOE Centers, publish two book projects entitled Wireless Sensor Networks: Computational Intelligence Applications and Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Complex Systems, and develop a graduate level course related to this research.

Rajendra Bordia

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Spring 2023

To conduct two extended research visits at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India and the University of Bayreuth in Bayreuth, Germany.

Kapil Chalil Madathil

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Spring 2023

To generate a broad interdisciplinary proposal focused on approaches for remote heart failure monitor, to collaborate with colleagues at other universities and to submit manuscripts for publication.

Sarah Harcum

Professor, Bioengineering
Spring 2023

To develop a competitive Engineering Research Center proposal to the National Science Foundation focused on Integrated Continuous Biomanufacturing.

Ashok Mishra

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Spring 2023

To pursue emerging research topics and implement them to extreme climate events, to develop new multidisciplinary proposals for federal agencies and attempt to submit larger proposals and to produce manuscripts for publication.

Pierluigi Pisu

Professor, Automotive Engineering
Spring 2023

To build new skills and conduct research in the area of machine learning, quantum computing and cyber-security of cyber-physical systems with particular applications to automated vehicles and vehicle to grid interactions at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy.

Shitao Liu

Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Fall 2023

To focus on two ongoing research projects on inverse problems for partial differential equations and prepare an NSF proposal to be submitted to the Applied Mathematics program.

Catalina Marinescu

Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

To pursue research projects with collaborators at University of Rejkyavik, Iceland and the Romanian Institute of Materials Physics.

Ramakrishna Podila

Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Fall 2023

To build a new lab and repurpose existing lab equipment and extend existing expertise to study energy storage solutions in extreme environments.

Derek Andrew Brown

Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Spring 2023

To visit researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Georgia Institute of Technology to build collaboration and establish new projects and lines of research that will result in publications and grant funding opportunities.

Xian Lu

Associate Professor, Physics
Spring 2023 and Fall 2023

To advance model capability, disseminate scientific results and collaborate with colleagues.

Matthew Saltzman

Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Spring 2023

To visit Sandia National Laboratory to collaborate on research and develop software tools and research publications.

Yuyuan Ouyang

Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 

To engage in collaborative research activities with scholars at the Georgia Institute of Technoloy and develop research manuscripts in the specific areas of stochastic algorithms, distributed optimization, and machine learning.