Faculty-Staff Achievements
Elzbieta (Ela) Lepkowska-White, professor of management and business, together with Amy Parsons and William Berg
ā18, received the 2020 Emerald Literati Award for Excellence for the article āSocial
Media Marketing Management: An Application to Small Restaurants in the USā published
in the International Journal of Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research, Vol. 13,
No. 3, pp. 321-345.
Andrew M. Lindner, associate professor of sociology, published a book chapter, "Why the NBA Shut Down
First: How Partisan Polarization Informs Sports and Public Health," with Daniel N.
Hawkins (University of Nebraska Omaha) in , edited by Jƶrg Krieger, April Henning, Paul Dimeo and Lindsay Parks Pieper.
Josh Ness, associate professor of biology, published an article exploring the roles of geography,
trade and tourism in shaping distributions of exotic species among Caribbean islands
and nation-states. Titled āPlant Pirates of the Caribbean: Is Cuba sheltered by its
revolutionary economy?ā the work is co-authored with colleagues from NY-6 and Cuba
and published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
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