Endowed Professorships - Interdisciplinary

Name of Professorship

Appointment Date

Current Holder

Description

John B. & Minnie Sue Entrikin Endowed Professorship

2003-2005

Thomas Ticich (vita)

Funded in 1995, this professorship will allow the professor to involve students in research throughout the year as a part of their course work, including the summer, in an ongoing research project. After receiving training in laser techniques and optogalvanic spectroscopy, the students constructed and tested an apparatus that can measure trace quantities of materials using a laser-based technique called cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Last summer, Dr. Ticich continued an ongoing collaboration with a colleague at the NASA-Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH. Along with junior chemistry major Leif Sherry, he developed new laser-based methods of catalyst preparation for the growth of carbon nanostructures. The latter are of great interest due to their potential use in molecular-sized circuits and in composite materials. In April, Dr. Ticich led a contingent of five students and two colleagues to the National American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego, where one of the students presented our work at NASA from the previous summer. Their research has resulted in three publications in 2000 and three more in 2001 in the following journals: Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Chemical Physics Letters and Carbon.

Magale Professorships (5)

2005

Darrel Colson

Funded in 1996, these professorships provide coordination of campus technology and library functions in support of extensive academic content access.

Rea J. Fox Memorial Endowed Professorship

Spring 2003

John Shimon & Julie Lindemann

Funded in 1993, the Rea J. Fox Distinguished Professorship in Creative Arts and Letters brings to Centenary for a brief residency a person of national prominence in creative writing and the fine arts. During their four weeks at Centenary in spring 2003, they will teach a course on photographic narrative and meet informally with students and faculty.

Rea J. Fox Memorial Endowed Professorship

Spring 2006

Walter Schoen (vita)

Funded in 1993, the Rea J. Fox Distinguished Professorship in Creative Arts and Letters brings to Centenary for a brief residency a person of national prominence in creative writing and the fine arts. Professor Schoen will direct Jeffrey Kallenberg's new play at the Marjorie Lyons Playhouse and give master's class to Centenary Students.

Centenary Research Professorship in Leadership #1-5

Fall 2003

Kenneth Schwab (vita)

Funded in 1998, the professorship provided funds for speakers from around the country to lecture students on the characteristics and values of being a leader.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #1

Fall 2008

Terryl Givens

Funded in 2001, this professorship will allow Dr. Givens, professor of literature and religion at the University of Richmond where he holds the James Bostwick Chair in English, to give several public lectures, visit a variety of classes, conduct a 2-day symposium over the weekend, and join a Sunday evening fireside address.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #2

Fall 2008

Terryl Givens

See above.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #3

Fall 2008

John Shimon and Julie Lindemann

Funded in 2001, this professorship will allow Shimon and Lindemann, photographers host exhibits, film screenings, and give public and class lectures during their residency.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #4

Fall 2008

John Shimon and Julie Lindemann

See above.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #5

Spring 2009

Barry van Driel

Funded in 2001, this professorship will provide funds for lectures and convocations by prominent scholars. Barry van Driel, an education specialist with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, is the senior education consultant for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, works with the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, is the Educational Advisor for the new Human Rights Museum in Santiago de Chile, and serves as sec. gen'l for the International Association for Intercultural Education (Netherlands). Professor van Driel will be in residency for a planned five days to discuss his current research and consulting work on Holocaust education, human rights education, intercultural/multicultural education, intolerance against Muslims, and homophobia.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #6

Spring 2009

Barry van Driel

See above.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #7

Fall 2008

William (Bill) Bridgwater

Funded in 2001, this profesorship will fund Mr. Bridgwater's campus visit. Prior to his retirement, William (Bill) Bridgwater held a number of senior level positions with AT&T, FORE Systems, Marconi Communications, Expanets and Juniper Technologies. His extensive global experiences include operations, finance, research & development via Bell Labs, product development, manufacturing, marketing and sales. Today he spends the majority of his time and financial resources speaking /advocating on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Association and raising funds for the State and National Alzheimer’s Associations. He will give a Convocation and address the Alzheimer's Association Conference on campus.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #8

Spring 2009

Celia Carey

Funded in 2001, this professorship will bring to campus Celia Carey. Ms. Carey grew up with an inherited Irish love of storytelling, attended film school in New Orleans, worked for National Geographic Television, and earned a Master of Science from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. For over fifteen years. In 2002, the Explorers Club nominated and inducted ! Carey as a fellow. Since 2005, films directed and produced by Carey have earned nine Emmys, and other accolades including: a Golden Eagle Award, a CINE Golden Eagle Special Jury Award for best arts film nationwide, an audience choice award from the Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, an NETA award for best arts film nationwide, Best Cultural Issues film at the Cine International Film Festival, and a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additionally, Carey has written and photographed for a variety of publications including Outside magazine, Scientific American, Elle, Health, and Lonely Planet. Ms. Carey will give a public screening and discussion of her film work while she is on campus. She will also give a public talk, The Celluloid Ceiling, which will address women and filmmaking. In addition, Carey will meet with various classes and student groups to discuss her work as a filmmaker, photographer, and writer.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #9

Spring 2008

Barbara Forrest

Funded in 2001, this professorship will allow Professor Forrest to make a public presentation and visit students in various classes. Dr. Forrest was awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy at Tulane University in 1988. She has taught philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University since 1981 and presently is a professor in philosophy in the Department of History and Political Science. With scientist Paul R. Gross she co-authored Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (Oxford University Press 2004), which examines the goals and strategies of the intelligent design movement and its attempts to undermine the teaching of evolutionary biology.

Attaway Professorship in Civic Culture #10

Spring 2006

Magnolia Sisters

Funded in 2001, The Magnolia Sisters, a performing group, came to campus in Spring 2006.

C.M. Hutchinson Professorship for Outstanding Scholarship

2008-2010

Lisa Nicoletti (vita)

Funded in Summer 2002, this professorship will allow Dr. Nicoletti, Associate Professor of Visual Studies, to begin a project examining regional murals from the 1930s and 1940s, especially public frescoes created in Louisiana under Federal arts projects.

J. Hugh Watson Endowed Professorship

2008-2012

Dr. Helen Sikes
(Vita)

Funded in July 2004, the professorship will provide funding for Professor Sikes to further her research agenda in the area of executive compensation. Corporate misconduct includes the activities of insider trading and participation in “financial accounting irregularities.” For the years 2003-2005, all employee executive instances of insider trading and accounting irregularities pursued by SEC litigation are identified along with the accused employee’s executive compensation. The study group of wrongdoers is compared to a group of non-accused firms with their employee executive compensation compared to average compensation levels grouped by firm size and industry to examine differences in compensation. The study presents meaningful information that employees who are accused of this type of wrongdoing are, on average, significantly underpaid compared to their industry peers. The importance of this work is its focus on the existence of options in the executive pay structure, a popular compensation tool not previously addressed.

John Spencer and Virginia Doyle Hardy Professorship

2008-2010

Drs. Scott Chirhart
(Vita)
and Joshua Lawrence
(Vita)

Funded in October, 2005, the professorship will allow Drs. Chirhart and Lawrence to pursue collaborative research with undergraduate students. Their research group will synthesize new organometallic compounds and assay them for membrane permeability. If successful, these studies could lead to new techniques for drug delivery.