2020 Recipients for the Chancellor’s and Provost’s awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity.

Please join me in congratulating the 2020 recipients for the Chancellor’s and Provost’s awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity.


The recipient of the Chancellor's award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity is Dr. Curtis R. Ryan. Dr. Ryan is a Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. He has written extensively on international relations in the Middle East, on inter-Arab relations, alliance politics, and on Jordanian domestic politics and foreign policy. He has published articles in the Middle East Journal, Middle East Policy, British Journal of Middle East Studies, Middle East Report, World Politics Review, Arab Studies Quarterly, Orient, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Middle East Law and Governance, Journal of Third World Studies, Southeastern Political Review, Israel Affairs, Middle East Review of International Affairs, and online with Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and Middle East Report Online. Dr. Ryan is the author of three books: Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to Abdullah (Lynne Rienner, 2002), Inter-Arab Alliances: Regime Security and Jordanian Foreign Policy (University Press of Florida, 2009), and most recently, Jordan and the Arab Uprisings: Regime Survival and Politics Beyond the State (Columbia University Press, 2018). Professor Ryan served as a Fulbright scholar at the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He is a past president of the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) and currently serves as the organization’s program director. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) and its quarterly journal, Middle East Report.   

 

The recipient of the Provost's award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity is Dr. Alecia Y. Jackson. Dr. Jackson is Professor of Educational Research in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC – where she is also affiliated faculty in the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies program. Dr. Jackson's research interests bring feminist, poststructural, and posthuman theories of power/knowledge, language, materiality, and subjectivity to bear on a range of overlapping topics: deconstructions of voice and method; conceptual analyses of resistance, freedom, and agency in girls’ and women’s lives; and qualitative analysis in the “posts.” Her work seeks to animate philosophical frameworks in the production of the new, and her current projects are focused on the ontological turn, qualitative inquiry, and thought. She has publications in The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Qualitative Inquiry, The International Review of Qualitative Research,Qualitative Research, Gender and Education, and numerous book chapters, and has presented her methodological scholarship at U.S. university campuses as well as internationally (Australia, Norway, and the UK). With Lisa Mazzei, she is co-author of Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research (2012), and co-editor of Voice in Qualitative Inquiry (2009).

 

To learn more about the research and scholarship of Dr. Curtis Ryan and Dr. Alecia Jackson, please save the date to hear them speak at the second annual Virtual Research & Creative Activity at Appalachian (RECAPP) event on September 18, 2020.

 

Ece Karatan
Vice Provost for Research


* The Chancellor's and Provost's Awards for Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity honor faculty members for superior achievement in their fields. Recipients are Associate or Full Professors who have been at Appalachian State University at least three years. Recipients are either nominated by faculty, Chairs, Deans, and/or self-nominated, and are chosen by a committee of faculty members. Two awards are given in this category per year. 

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Published: Aug 12, 2020 10:48am

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