HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY – Professor Rod Andrew has been named by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation as the 2026 co-recipient of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award, awarded to the best book on the history of the Marine Corps. This is for his book, The Marines’ Fight For Survival: War, Politics, and Institutional Crisis, 1945-1952. The Foundation will also be presenting the General Roy S. Geiger Award to Andrew for the best article on Marine Corps Aviation for his article, “Flying Leathernecks: The Public Debate over Close Air Support and the Future of the U.S. Marine Corps, 1945-1952” in the Journal of Military History (July 2025).
HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY – Assistant Professor Camden Burd was recently awarded a residential research fellowship at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City, Missouri, to continue his research on his book project that explores the environmental history of neoliberalism. He was also awarded a residential research fellowship from the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University to conduct research on his book project examining the environmental attitudes and rhetoric embedded in early video game and software design.
HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY – Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor James Burns was interviewed by the national podcast Intentional Teaching hosted by Derek Bruff. He discussed the $500,000 Mellon Foundation ‘Teacher-Scholar’ grant for which he was the primary investigator. The grant has brought nearly one hundred faculty from across the United States to the Clemson campus over the past three years to participate in workshops focused on integrating civic engagement and voting into humanities and social sciences courses.
ENGLISH – Assistant Professor Stevie Edwards organized and presented in two panels at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in March: “Childfree & Childless Women Writers: Writing Against Gender Norms” and “I Could Not Stop for Death: Poets on Addiction & Substance Abuse.” She also gave poetry readings at two off-site conference events: “Wednesday Night Poetry” and “Button Poetry Live: Charm City.” Recently, she gave a reading at Clemson’s Cooper Library as part of the annual Clemson Literary Festival. Her poem “Campus Life” was published in Porcupine Literary, a magazine that focuses on creative writing about being an educator. Additionally, she is holding a local book release for her fourth book of poetry, The Weather Inside, at Pendleton Bookshop on Friday, April 24th at 6 p.m.
ENGLISH – Associate Professor Jonathan Beecher Field was a guest on Lauren Lassabe Shepherd’s American Campus podcast to take part in a discussion about college rankings.
PERFORMING ARTS – Lillian Utsey Harder, Brooks Center director emerita and artistic director of the Utsey Chamber Music Series, secured a broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today of violinist Geneva Lewis and pianist Evren Ozel’s performance of Bela Bartok’s Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 on March 30 from their concert on March 28, 2024.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION – Associate Professor Elizabeth Jemison delivered the keynote lecture at the American Academy of Religion’s Southeast Regional Annual Meeting on February 28. The meeting was held at Furman University, and her talk was titled, “Studying Religion in Fractured Communities: Resources for our Present.”
PERFORMING ARTS – Professor Linda Li-Bleuel presented a session, “Igniting Passion: Repertoire as the Key to Sustaining Piano Interest with High School and Young Adult Students,”at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) National conference in Chicago on March 23. She also presented a concert with renowned mezzo soprano, Kylee Slee, at the Sigal Music Museum on March 26.
PERFORMING ARTS – Associate Professor Lisa Sain Odom presented a highly attended session entitled, “Singing for the Golden Age” at the 2026 Southeastern Theatre Conference Convention in Chatanooga, TN. Also in March, Odom spoke on a panel about College Auditions for Singers at the Mid Atlantic Region Conference for the National Association of Teachers of Singing in College Park, Maryland.
LANGUAGES – Distinguished Professor Salvador Oropesa presented the paper, “La frontera en la miniserie televisiva Cuando nadie nos ve (2025): Andalucía noir,” at the X Congreso Internacional Tenerife Noir de investigación sobre el género negro, Campus de Guajara in Universidad de La Laguna, Spain, on March 5.
LANGUAGES – Assistant Professor Miyabi Ozawa presented the paper, “dooshite, naze, and nande: The use of why-questions in Japanese” in a panel, “Corpus-based approaches to Japanese language teaching: What we do is not what we think we do” at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Vancouver. She also presented another paper, “Self-initiated my-case tellings with first-person singular pronouns in Japanese talk-in-interaction” at the annual meeting of the American Association for Applied Linguistics in Chicago. Additionally, one of her students in Japanese for International Business II, Madison Bellville, won the most competitive Category 3 at the 2026 Speech Contest organized by the Georgia Association of Teachers of Japanese and was awarded round-trip flight tickets to Japan.
LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Roberto Risso has published his fourth monograph, Qui Io Devo Vivere (Dell’Orso Editore, University of Turin). The book is an in-depth analysis of the last book and masterpiece of the Italian author Guido Morselli, a relevant author for the European canon of 20th-century literature. His book analyses five major themes of the book: solitude, suicide, nature/culture, life/death and his philosophy of composition.
LANGUAGES – This semester, Senior Lecturer Alma García Rodríguez developed and taught Spanish Grammar and Composition for Heritage Speakers (SPAN 3120). Recently approved and added to the curriculum, it is the first course at Clemson designed specifically for heritage speakers of Spanish. In this course, grammar instruction is contextualized through students’ lived experiences and engagement with literary texts. Students analyzed narratives that explore the complexities of Hispanic identity and the experience of navigating between the Spanish-speaking world of the home and the English-speaking environment of school and social life, and connected the themes of the text to their own linguistic and cultural experiences while applying the grammatical structures studied in class.
LANGUAGES – Associate Professor Kumiko Saito published a journal article, “Beyond Alternative History: Time Travel and Historical Continuity in Kindred and The Incident at the Gamō Residence,” in Literature.
LANGUAGES – Professor Johannes Schmidt published “Memory and the Holocaust” in Holocaust Remembered, an annual publication of the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust. He also co-edited this issue and has been serving on the Council since 2021.
ENGLISH – Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature Rhondda Thomas made a presentation on “Liberation as Resistance of the Enslaved at John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation” at the 2026 South Carolina Interpreters Mini-Conference in Columbia, SC, on March 6, 2026.
LANGUAGES – Professor Eric Touya read a paper entitled “The Crisis of Liberalism in the US and France. Theory and Practice from Tocqueville to Current Times” at the 71st Conference for French Historical Studies. The theme of the conference held in Philadelphia was “Liberties/ Libertés”. Touya explored the problematic relation between liberalism and democracy from the 19th century to the era of illiberalism. He contended that among all forms of liberalism, social liberalism was most conducive to preserving democracy.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION– Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor Daniel Wueste presented “On the Province of Practical and Professional Ethics” on the first day of the 35th Annual International Conference of the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, in St. Louis. He was one of five panelists for a session, “How do we evaluate our effectiveness when teaching ethics?: Conversations with Professors,” on March 6th, with Cara Biasucci, Joanne LaLonde, Deborah Mower and Glenn Sinclair. He was also a judge through quarterfinals of the National Championship Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl on March 7 and 8.
