Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff.

Honors

Richard Hughes, HIS, is this year’s recipient of the Chizmar-Ostrosky University-Wide SoTL Award, in recognition of his outstanding research in and engagement with pedagogical practices for history education.

Presentations

Kate Driscoll, ANT, presented a poster, “Learning from casts? A Reassessment of Sex,” at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting in Baltimore in March 2025. Dr. Driscoll also served as a session chair for the meeting.

Shelby Putt, ANT, co-presented a poster, “Differences in stone toolmaking actions between humans and bonobos (Pan paniscus)” at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists Annual Meeting in Baltimore in March 2025.

Publications

Dan Lannin, PSY; Sue Sprecher, SOC; and Ani Yazedjian, Provost, co-authored the article, “The Efficacy of Relationship Education for Improving Children’s Outcomes: A Multi‐Informant, Multi‐Method Study” in the journal Family Process.

Dan Lannin, Dan Ispas, and Alexandra Ilie, PSY, co-published the peer-reviewed journal article, “Unmonitored Online Exams: Valid Assessment or Score Inflation?“
in Teaching of Psychology.

Kaitlyn Selman, CJS, co-authored “School Copaganda in the U.S. South: Tinsel, twinkle, and police-youth programming” in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal; January 2025.

Gabriela Fonseca Pereira, FCS, co-authored “Examining Attitudes Toward Gerontechnology for Falls in Decision-Makers Supporting Their Aging-in-Place Parents” in The Journal of Aging and Social Change; January 2025.

Jonathan Beckmeyer, Luke T. Russell, and Gabrielle C. Kline, FCS, co-authored “Family Structure and Parent’s Perceptions of the Importance of Youth Developmental Assets: Challenging the Deficit Orientation of Structurally Diverse Families” in Family Transitions.

Elahe Javadi, IT, co-authored “Teaching Tip: Experiential and Peer Learning in an IT Project Management Course: Flipped Classroom, Concept Maps, and Project Dojos” in Journal of Information Systems Education, Winter 2025.

Taylor Soja, HIS, published “Victorian Histories for Today” in Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, 2025.

Janice Jayes, HIS, published a piece in Public I Contact on books-to-prisoners programs in the United States.

Christine Varga-Harris, HIS, published an essay in H-Diplo on the book, Diana Cucuz, Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds: Selling Cold War Culture in the U.S. and the USSR, as part of a “Roundtable Review.”

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