Sabbatical
The Sabbatical Leave program provides an opportunity for Clemson University faculty to continue their professional growth and development by engaging in significant scholarship-related projects that will enhance their future contributions to the mission of the University.
Applications for sabbaticals beginning in the Fall semester must be submitted in Watermark Faculty Success no later than January 31. Please email your department chair and copy DMAdmin@clemson.edu to request a sabbatical application process in Faculty Success be initiated for you. A Faculty Success process will only be launched upon your request. All forms associated with applying will be submitted through Faculty Success. Note in the email whether you are requesting an application for Fall or Spring.
Applications for Spring sabbaticals are due to the department no later than May 1.
For more detailed process information regarding due dates, consult the calendar of dates and deadlines.
Find Important Dates and Key Resources
Below, we have compiled a list of resources regarding sabbatical leave at Clemson University, from a calendar of important dates and deadlines to a helpful sabbatical application checklist to help you navigate the process. The forms linked below will be used for all sabbatical submissions and submitted in Faculty Success. Please note: The PDF forms must be downloaded to activate the signature panel
- Sabbatical Form - updated January 13, 2025 (PDF)
- Request to Revise Sabbatical Leave Form - updated January 13, 2025 (PDF)
- Sabbatical Application Checklist (PDF)
- Calendar of dates and deadlines

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View InstructionsUpcoming and Recent Sabbaticals
Stay up-to-date with upcoming and recent sabbaticals below.
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College of Agricultural, Forestry and Life Sciences
Anthony Keinath
Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences
Fall 2023To submit manuscripts for publication while also visiting low country organic vegetable farms.
R. David Lamie
Professor, Agricultural Sciences
Fall 2023To 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 2023To complete a book project entitled Common Biota of Eastern North American Streams, author research publications, and begin another book project.
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College of Architecture, Art and Construction
Linda Dzuris
Professor, Performing Arts
Fall 2023To attend the World Carillon Congress in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Ulrike Heine
Associate Professor, Architecture
Fall 2023 and Spring 2024To 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 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023To research and develop an animation film and music based on the Acadian/Cajun/Creole culture of Southwestern Louisiana and Nova Scotia, Canada.
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College of Arts and Humanities
Elizabeth Jemison
Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion
Fall 2023To undertake research for a second scholarly monograph, Christian Motherhood: Race and Southern Churchwomen’s Organizing during Segregation.
Salvador Oropesa
Professor, Languages
Fall 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023To make progress on a digital monograph Cinema and Society in the South Asian Diaspora.
Megan Eatman
Associate Professor, English
Spring 2023To 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 2023To conduct archival research necessary for a second book project tentatively titled Second Life: A Rhetorical History of Rosie the Riveter.
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College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences
Elizabeth Baldwin
Associate Professor, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management
Fall 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023Expand 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 2023To 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.
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Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business.
Daniel Greene
Associate Professor, Finance
Fall 2023To develop new research manuscripts, travel to conduct and disseminate research, and create case studies for classroom use.
Erica Walker
Associate Professor, Graphic Communications
Fall 2023To 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.
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College of Education
Nicole Sinwell
Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
Fall 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023To 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.
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College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Science
Ioannis Karamouszas
Associate Professor, Computing
Fall 2023To 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 2014To 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 2024To purse a new research topic related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
David Neyens
Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
Fall 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023To develop a competitive Engineering Research Center proposal to the National Science Foundation focused on Integrated Continuous Biomanufacturing.
Ashok Mishra
Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Spring 2023To 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 2023To 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.
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College of Science
Shitao Liu
Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Fall 2023To 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 2024To 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 2023To 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 2023To 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 2023To advance model capability, disseminate scientific results and collaborate with colleagues.
Matthew Saltzman
Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Spring 2023To 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 2023To 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.