Department News

Faculty News - Fall 2008

Dr. Keith Bates became a proud father in August when his wife Lisa gave birth to their daughter Rachel. At the beginning of the fall semester, he assumed the responsibility of faculty advisor to the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity on Union’s campus. On September 30, he delivered a lecture entitled “Militancy and Meaning within American Protestant Christianity” as a part of a Union University Town and Gown series.

Dr. Stephen Carls attended the Southern Historical Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 9-12. He also served as coordinator of the Carls-Schwerdfeger History Lectureship on October 30 with Dr. Jeremy Black as speaker. On November 7, the Union University Alumni Association gave him its 2008 Distinguished Faculty/Staff Award at a Homecoming chapel.

Dr. Judy LeForge, with the support of a PEW Summer Research Grant, spent the summer doing research and writing on a chapter for a book-length manuscript dealing with a nineteenth-century civil rights movement in the U.S. In October, she attended the Southern Historical Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dr. Terry Lindley worked with a panel for the Ohio Valley History Conference by reading two papers and providing questions about them prior to the conference, which was held at Austin Peay State University in late October. The panel was called “The Two Koreas and Cold War Asian Imbroglio.”

Dr. David Thomas attended the 2008 InterVarsity Midwest Faculty Camp at Cedar Campus on Lake Huron in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan on June 21-27.