Faculty Promotions
The Ohio State Board of Trustees May 17 approved Erynn Beaton’s promotion to associate professor with tenure. In addition, Vladimir Kogan, political science, was promoted to professor.
Professor Stephanie Moulton has been named associate dean for faculty and research to oversee and coordinate the college promotion and tenure process. She will also take the lead on developing a robust faculty mentoring program as the college welcomes multiple new junior faculty members this fall. Research governance and coordination will remain in Moulton’s responsibilities as associate dean.
Additional Faculty Achievements
Associate Professor Jeff Bielicki published “The Promise of Coupling Geologic CO2 Storage with Sedimentary Basin Geothermal Power Generation” in iScience. He and co-authors explore the promise and challenges of new energy technologies, identify key research gaps and offer a critical appraisal of the role that policy for a technology at the intersection of renewable energy, energy storage and geologic CO2 storage may play in achieving broad deployment.
Professor Russell Hassan, the Ambassador Milton A. and Roslyn Z. Wolf Chair in Public and International Affairs, published “When do Women Receive Managerial Support? The Effects of Gender Congruence and the Quality of Manager-Employee Relationship” in Public Management Review. Analyzing multi-source survey data collected from a state agency, he and his co-author found support for the gender-similarity effect and a positive relationship between manager-employee relationship quality and supportive leadership behavior.
In the journal Economic Development Quarterly, Professor Ned Hill published “What Is Economic Development? And What Is the Job of an Economic Development Professional?” examining community, workforce, housing, and commercial and industrial real estate development and the necessity of investment that results in the production of goods and services.
Associate Professor Lauren Jones and colleagues published “The 2022 State of Ohio Families: Challenges and Promises” in Marriage and Family Review. They describe the current state of both the challenges faced by Ohioans and some of the innovations, programs of promise and policies aimed at addressing family well-being.
Professor Stéphane Lavertu will join the Thomas B. Fordham Institute as a Senior Research Fellow. He has conducted numerous studies on education governance, school accountability policies, and public- and private-school choice programs, including several Ohio-focused analyses for the Fordham Institute about the impacts of school closure, interdistrict open enrollment, public charter schools and the EdChoice scholarship.
Assistant Professor Megan LePere-Schloop published “‘We Expected a Revolution and Got a Slow Burn’: Microfoundations of Institutional Change in the Community Foundation Field” in Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly. She and co-authors examine community foundation mission descriptions from 2011 to 2016, finding limited evidence that the field is aspiring toward the community leadership model. They found that change, even amid field-level pressures, unfolds through localized improvisation and bricolage as community foundations adapt their work to demands in their community.
Assistant Professor Tasha Perdue was one of six early-career research scientists accepted to the Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program on Substance Use and HIV. She will receive research methodology and scientific writing skills, education on issues unique to justice-involved populations, a mentored research experience including funds for pilot projects and ongoing mentorship and collaborative learning experiences. Perdue and co-authors published “A Blended Immersion Course: Advancing Practice for Social Work Students Working With Military Members, Veterans and Their Families” in Social Work Education. The paper describes a framework for combining methods of instruction, such as blended and immersive experiences, that can be useful for social work education and in advancing practice in working with military and veteran communities.
Assistant Professor Christopher Rea published “The Eco-munitionary Subject: Conservation with and of Firearms” in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. He and colleagues examined the role of the Pittman-Robertson Act in shaping the relationship between firearms and conservation and sought to understand how this relationship is reproduced.
Professor Long Tran served as the Glenn College’s Washington, D.C., Faculty Fellow this summer. Tran partnered with the college’s Washington office in delivering the Washington Academic Internship Program (WAIP) to the summer cohort of students. In addition, Tran authored “Avid, Averse, Apprehensive, or Apathetic? A Typology of Collaboration Attitudes” in the journal Nonprofit Management & Leadership. Based on interviews with the leaders of 20 U.S.-based transnational nonprofits in the field of child welfare, the study qualitatively identifies four major types of attitudes toward collaboration opportunities and presents several propositions to facilitate a future research program for the integration of attitudes into collaboration research.
Lower-income people spend more of their time waiting for services, according to a study by Associate Professor Katie Vinopal. The unconditional gap in waiting time, representing unproductive time and autonomy lost while fulfilling needs, suggests low-income people spend at least six more hours per year waiting for services than high-income people. In the study, “Examining Inequality in the Time Cost of Waiting,” published in Nature Human Behavior, she and her co-author offer policy and management responses that might be considered to help mitigate this manifestation of inequality.
While in Stockholm for a conference, Professor Emeritus Charles Wise was invited by Swedish organizers of a rally to support Ukraine to address attendees about the Ukrainian Parliament. The rally has been held every Monday since the Russian invasion began. You can watch his remarks on Facebook.
Read the latest edition of Public Address, the Glenn College magazine.