Faculty News
Main Navigation
- Home
- About Us
- Our Students
- The Honors Curriculum
- The Honors Experience
- What's Happening in Honors?
- Honors Faculty
- For Academic Advisors
- Alumni
- Apply Now!
-
Contact Us
Morris Library, Room 180
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Carbondale, IL 62901
P: (618)453-2824
P:(618)453-2824 | F: (618)453-2831
honors@siu.edu
Main Content
2020
Dr. Hamilton Brehm is part of the SIU team working on testing kits for Covid 19. Read more.
Dr. Hamilton-Brehm leads a team of researchers who have recently isolated a bacterial genus found deep beneath the area formerly known as the Nevada Test Site; a life form that is anaerobic and thrives at hot temperatures. Read more.
Dr. Jeffrey Punske has published, Language Invention in Linguistics Pedagogy (Oxford University Press, 2020). Coedited with Nathan Sanders and Amy Fountain.
Dr. Walter Metz, Department of Cinema and Photography presented, The Long and the Short of the Romanoffs at the Literature/Film Association Conference. Portland State University; and Television's Liberal Blackface: A Reception-Based Interrogation at the Reception Study Society Conference. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT. September 27, 2019.
Dr. Pinckney Benedict, Department of English, presented, The Page that becomes Immortal: Borges, Homer's Odyssey, and Virtual Reality, at the Annual Classics Symposium at Hollins University in Roanoke VA, October 2019
Jyotsna Kapur, University Honors Program, presented “What is home in a capitalist world? At 7 p.m., Sept. 12, at Southeast Missouri State University’s Catapult Creative House in Cape Girardeau. The lecture is part of the university’s “After Hours: Conversations on Art and Culture” series.
2019
Dr. Izumi Shimada, Professor Anthropology, received the Order of Sacred Treasure award, a high recognition given by the Emperor of Japan for distinguished achievements in research and scholarship to advance society.
Dr. Jyotsna Kapur (Professor, Cinema and Photography and Director, UHP) was invited to Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore for a series of lectures on Media Studies. She also gave a keynote on the integration of Sciences and Arts at their 1st International Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation (2nd-4th April, 2019).
Honors Faculty Publications--a selection
Benedict, P. (2010). Miracle Boy and Other Stories. Press 53 Winston-Salem.
Danzig, G., Johnson, D., & Morrison, D. (Eds.). (2018). Plato and Xenophon: comparative studies. Brill
Edward Benyas, O. (2013). From Mozart to Morricone (DVD). United States: First United Methodist Church of Carbondale
Fredrickson, L. (2018). Zineb Sedira: De-Colonialism and Creative Acts. L'Esprit Créateur, 58(2), 96-111.
Johnson, D. M. (2018). Xenophon’s Intertextual Socrates. In Plato and Xenophon (pp. 71-98). BRILL.
Dr. Kenneth Stikkers, Philosophy, recently presented a lecture, “Pragmatisms's Response to Plato," at Roma Tre University in Rome, Italy, and also conducted a series of graduate seminars on William James' “Principles of Psychology” at Ca’Foscari University in Venice, Italy
Kovacs, G., & Marshall, C. W. (Eds.). (2015). Son of Classics and Comics. Oxford University Press.
Metz, W. (2012). Gilligan's Island. Wayne State University Press.
Metz, W. (2007). Bewitched. Wayne State University Press.
Metz, W. (2004). Engaging film criticism: film history and contemporary American cinema (Vol. 2). Peter Lang.
Moon, W. (2017). Global Food Insecurity and the Unequal Playing field in World Agriculture. 40(1), 27-50.
Moon, W., & Pino, G. (2018). Do US citizens support government intervention in agriculture? Implications for the political economy of agricultural protection. Agricultural Economics, 49(1), 119-129.
Williams, F., & Brunner, E. (2015). Eliot with an Epic, Rowson with a Comic: Recycling Foundational Narratives. Son of Classics and Comic (pp. 179-200).