Associate Professor of Marketing Giles
Jackson, Ph.D., spent his summer
developing the Bryd School’s first-ever
course on sustainable business strategy.
Dr. Jackson published one of the first
doctoral dissertations on the topic in the
early 1990s. In the practical component of
the course, students will help Amphibian
Ark (amphibianark.org) research various
models for a new certification program to
encourage the sustainable and ethical trade
and management of native amphibian
species. Thirty percent of amphibian species
are threatened with extinction, primarily
due to habitat loss.
Associate Professor of Sport Management
Brian Wigley, Ed.D., was selected as a
2013 NCAA Division III Faculty Athletics
Representative (FAR) Fellow. He has served
as the university’s FAR for the past three
years. Dr. Wigley, who serves as the FAR
liaison to the ODAC board of directors,
was selected following a nomination from
ODAC Commissioner Brad Bankston.
As a 2013 FAR Fellow, he will take part
in an institute at NCAA headquarters
in Indianapolis and the 2014 NCAA
Convention. At the institute, Dr. Wigley
will participate in a 360-degree leadership
assessment process and develop an action
plan for implementation at Shenandoah.
“I have been interested in serving at the
national level for some time,” he said. “This
is a great opportunity to learn from other
FARs and bring that knowledge back to
Shenandoah University and to the ODAC.”
Associate Professor of Operations
Management Mesut Yavuz, Ph.D.,
presented a paper, “A Route-First ClusterSecond Heuristic for an Electric-Vehicle
Routing Problem,” at the joint international
EURO-INFORMS 2013 conference in
Rome, Italy.
Conservatory
The following individuals joined the fulltime faculty of Shenandoah Conservatory
this fall semester: Visiting Associate
Professor of Jazz Dance Bob Boross,
Professor of Guitar Julian Gray, and
Visiting Associate Professor of Music
Therapy Anne Lipe.
Associate Professor of Costume Design
Jennifer Flitton Adams, M.F.A., designed
costumes for “Les Miserables,” which
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opened the Shenandoah Summer Music
Theatre’s 30th anniversary season.
Charles A. Levitan Chair in Music
Theatre and Professor of Composition
and Musical Theatre Direction Thomas
R. Albert, D.M.A., and Lindé Hayen
Herman’s one-act music drama “Lizbeth”
had its Pittsburgh, Pa., premiere in
September. Written in 1976 and supported
by a grant from the National Endowment
of the Arts, “Lizbeth” is based on the story
of Lizzie Borden, notoriously accused (and
acquitted) of the brutal ax murders of
her father and stepmother in 1892 in Fall
River, Mass. The opera originally opened
at Shenandoah in 1976; there were two
subsequent Shenandoah productions in
1987 and 2005.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Theatre
Sally Anderson, M.S., performed this
summer in a “role of a lifetime” as Miss
Shepherd in the Unexpected Stage’s
production of Alan Bennett’s “The Lady
in the Van” in Silver Spring, Md. The part
was originally made legendary by Maggie
Smith in London in 1990. It recounts the
amazing true story of the eccentric woman
who lived in her van in Alan Bennett’s
garden for 15 years. Joel Markowitz,
theatre critic for the D.C. Metro Theatre
Arts Review, said, “... watching Anderson
command the stage was a pleasure, as she
made every word, every line, every gesture,
every scene come alive.” Anderson also
recorded two audiobooks for Audible.
com, including Margaret Storm Jameson’s
autobiography “Journey from the North.”
She taught theatre in PAVAN’s Summer
Regional Governor’s School and presented
an intensive theatre course at Shenandoah
Conservatory Arts Academy.
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Vocal
Coaching Joel Ayau, D.M.A., served on
the music staff of the Castleton Festival
held at the private estate of Maestro Lorin
Maazel in Rappahannock County, Va. He
coached singers from the Castleton Artists
Training Seminar, helping to prepare their
opera scenes, and he gave private lessons
and masterclasses to the apprentice coaches.
Associate Professor of Dance TingYu Chen, M.F.A., choreographed “Red
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