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EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL
POSITIONS
Georgia
Southern University
Political Science Department
- Associate
Professor
- Assistant
Professor
- September
1996 - July 2001
- Temporary
Assistant Professor
- January
1994 - September 1996
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Doremus,
Jones and Smith, P.C.
P.O. Box 296
Metter, Georgia 30439
- Associate:
June 1992 - January 1994
- Law
Clerk: Summer 1990, 1991
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GRANTS
AND AWARDS
- $900 CLEC grant
for guest speaker Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears (with Constance Campbell
- Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Lori Amy - WGST), 2008
- $1,326 GSU travel
grant for professional development
from Georgia Southern University (to
attend the Fifth National Conference for Pre-Law Advisors of the Pre-Law
Advisor's National Council in Las Vegas, Nevada), 2008
- $14,485
Student Technology Fees Fund Grant for multimedia upgrades to the Carroll
Building, November 2005
- Educational Leave
Grant, Fall Semester 2005
- $20,492
Student Technology Fees Fund Grant for multimedia upgrades to the Carroll
Building, 2004
- College of Liberal
Arts and Social Sciences Award of Distinction in Service, 2004
- $400 scholarship
from the Southern Association of Pre-Law Advisors (to attend the Fourth
National Conference for Pre-Law Advisors of the Pre-Law Advisor's National
Council in Boston, Massachusetts), 2004
- $1,240 GSU travel
grant for professional development
from Georgia Southern University (to
attend the Fourth National Conference for Pre-Law Advisors of the Pre-Law
Advisor's National Council in Boston, Massachusetts), 2004
- $9,712
Student Technology Fees Fund Grant for multimedia upgrades to the Carroll
Building, 2003
- $43,700
Administrative Office of the Courts grant to research, create, and publish
web pages for the state judicial system in southeast Georgia, plus travel
money and equipment directly disbursed by the AOC, 2002-2003
- $45,000
grant from the Administrative Office of the Courts to research, create,
and publish web pages for the state judicial system in southeast Georgia,
2001-2002
- $1,200
travel grant for professional development from the Administrative Office
of the Courts (to attend the National Center for State Courts Seventh
Court Technology Conference in Baltimore, Maryland), 2001
- $95,000
Student Technology Fees Fund Grant with Peggy Hargis and Sue Moore to
develop a computer lab for the Political Science & Sociology Departments,
2001
- $11,000
Student Technology Fees Fund Grant with Peggy Hargis for a shared Smart
Room for the Political Science & Sociology Departments, 2001
- $1000
Crossing Borders CLASS Research Grant (with Sandra Peacock),
2000-2001
- $35,680
grant from the Administrative Office of the Courts to research, create,
and publish web pages for the state judicial system in the southern
half of Georgia (plus travel money and equipment directly disbursed
by the AOC), 2000-2001
- $9,500
Student Technology Fees Fund Grant to develop a Smart Room for the Political
Science Department,1999
- $2,600
Student Technology Fees Fund Grant to develop a Smart Room for the Political
Science Department, 1998-1999
- Outstanding
Performance in International Studies (Graduate School), April 1988
- Graduate
school travel grant for seminar in El Salvador and Nicaragua, Summer
1987
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Founding
Director, Office
of Pre-Law Advising (OPLA), Fall 2003 - present
Projects
and Activities:
- Proposed and procured
funding for the Office of Pre-Law Advising (OPLA)
- Supervised the
establishment of OPLA and hosted OPLA Open House (Summer 2003)
- Developed and maintain
web site at http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/prelaw/
and pre-law listserv
- Designed and continue
to revise handouts for Pre-Law FAQs for Freshmen/Sophomores; Pre-Law
FAQs for Juniors/Seniors; Application Timeline for Juniors/Seniors;
Writing Your Personal Statement; Letters of Recommendation FAQs; Course
Suggestions for the Pre-Law Student and OPLA brochure
- Initiated and continue
to conduct SOAR freshmen pre-law orientation sessions
- Initiated mock
LSAT prep tests
- Conduct training
sessions for recruiters; provide tours of OPLA; conduct pre-law presentations
for students and the general public; represent OPLA at Georgia Southern
University Open Houses
- Coordinate with
the Office of Career Services to recruit law schools for Graduate School
Fairs
RESEARCH/SCHOLARSHIP
Research
Currently in Progress
- Seizing Serendipity:
The Biography of Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears
Publications:
Books
Publications:
Book Chapters
Publications:
Articles in Refereed Journals
Publications:
Misc., Non-Refereed
- "Climb Every
Mountain," invited essay written for the Eighth Weltner Freedom
of Information Banquet (Georgia First Amendment Foundation), February
28, 2009
- "Exploring
the African-American Experience," The Eyrie, Spring 2003 Vol. 1
No.1
- "A Fresh Perspective:
A First-Time Attendee's Thoughts on the 2002 SAPLA Conference,"
Southern Association of Pre-Law Advisors Newsletter, Vol. XXII, Issue
2 (Fall 2002)
- "Faculty Profile:
Chris Ludowise," The Eyrie, Fall 2002 (online)
- "Moore Awarded
2002-2003 Ruffin Cup," The Eyrie, Fall 2002 (online)
- Exclusionary rule
essay for three- volume reference titled Encyclopedia of the Supreme
Court, Salem Press, Inc. (August, 2000), pp. 330-332
- "What
I Learned at the CET and How I'm Using It" The Center Piece,
the CET newsletter (December 10, 1998).
- Davis, Rebecca
and Bobby Jones. "The Law Enforcement Officer as an Expert Witness,"
1992 Trial Advocacy Seminar Packet, ICLE
- Essay excerpt published
in Bedford Guide for College Writers, New York: St. Martin's
Press, 1987
Presentations,
Panels and Workshops
- Seizing
Serendipity: Georgia Women who Blazed the Trail from Bar to Bench,
Invited Speech, SUNY
Geneseo, 26 April 2007
- Oral History and
Digital Technology Workshop, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort,
KY, July 12-14, 2006
- LEGACY Oral History
Workshop, San Francisco, CA, July 14-16, 2005
- Models
for Pre-Law Advising, Southern Association of Pre-Law Advisors Annual
Conference, Invited Presentation, Durham, NC, October 31, 2003
- The
Administrative Office of the Courts Web Page Project, Invited
Presentation, First District Magistrate Council,
Statesboro, Georgia, January 24, 2001
- How
to Teach about Law and Society via the World Wide Web, Presentation
with Dr. Phoebe Morgan, Society
for the Study of Social Problems 2000 Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C., August 11, 2000
- Participated in
an invitational Prentice Hall technology focus group, American Society
of Criminology Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 18, 1999
- How to Teach
About Crime, Law and Justice Through Web Technology, Demo, American
Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, November 17,
1999
- Taking Your
Show on the Road, Rock
Eagle Georgia University System Annual Computing Conference, Presentation
with Steve
Bonham, Rock Eagle, Georgia, October, 1999
- Hands on in
the Lab: Techniques for Enriching Interaction and Motivation in Your
Training, Rock
Eagle Georgia University System Annual Computing Conference, Presentation
with Steve
Bonham, Rock Eagle, Georgia, October, 1999
- Law, Religion,
and the Moral Order, American
Bar Association Invitational Conference, , San Antonio, Texas, May
13-15, 1999
- Trends
in the Law: Shame and Punishment, Presenter and Panel Chair, American
Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 12 November
1998
- "Of Gigabytes
and Chigger Bites: American Library Association v. Pataki, the Dormant
Commerce Clause, and State Efforts to Criminalize Cyber-Speech,"
35th Annual Meeting of the Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 11 March
1998
- "The Good
Faith Exception in a Computerized Society: Federal and State Court Reactions
to US v. Leon and Arizona v. Evans," 34th Annual
Meeting of the Academy
of Criminal Justice Sciences, Louisville, KY, 12 March 1997
- American
Bar Association Invitational Conference: Technology and its
Impact on Privacy, Civic Discourse and Higher Education, Charleston,
S.C., March 7-9, 1997
- Individual,
Social and Cultural Explanations of Crime, Panel Chair, 48th Annual
Meeting of the American
Society of Criminology, Chicago, Illinois, 22 November 1996
- What Fourth
Amendment? H.R. 666 and the Satanic Expansion of the Good Faith Exception,
Academy of Criminal Justice
Sciences, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 12-16, 1996
- Two Strikes
and You're Out: Equal Protection, O.C.G.A. Sec. 16-13-30(d) and Georgia's
Flip-Flopping Supreme Court, Georgia Political Science Association
Convention, Savannah, Georgia, February 22-24, 1996
Faculty
Development Related to Scholarship
- 2001
- present : History and Social Sciences Research Network (invited
member). We meet every 3 weeks for two hours to discuss issues associated
with scholarship at GSU. We work on our individual projects as well
as cooperate on joint projects
- 1999-2000:
participant in Dr. Janie Wilson's Scholarship Circle
Membership
in Professional Organizations
TEACHING
Courses
taught:
- CRJU 3131
Criminal Law
- CRJU 3131
Criminal Law
NET
- CRJU 3133
Criminal Procedure
- CRJU 3133
Criminal Procedure NET
- POLS 3137
Judicial Process
- POLS 3137
Judicial Process NET
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- POLS 3138
Constitutional Law I
- POLS 3139
Constitutional Law II
- POLS 1101
American Government
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Activities
related to instruction:
- Designed three
online Justice Studies courses and numerous supplemental web sites for
use in my law classes and for my pre-law advisees
- Conducted
Mock Trials at the Bulloch County Courthouse and at the Center for Continuing
Education with my Judicial Process classes (1998-2000)
- Supervised
several Directed Studies and Honors Program capstone projects
- Conducted
numerous student tours to prisons and jails in Reidsville, Jesup and
Glenville. Conducted student field trips to Bulloch County Courthouse.
- Invited
speakers to campus who have addressed such diverse subjects as administering
polygraph tests, criteria for law school admissions, fingerprinting
techniques, and DEA, U.S. Customs, US Marshals, Justice Dept. and Drug
Task Force internship and employment opportunities
- Nominated
for 2000-2001 GSU Award for Excellence in Contributions to Instruction
- Nominated
for 1999-2000 Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning
Advising
- University-wide
pre-law advisor since Fall 1994
- Volunteer:
Academic Advising Center: Spring 2004, Fall 2003; Spring 2003
- Responsible
for advising approximately 50-60 Justice Studies students Fall 1994
- Spring 2000
- Advisor
of Justice Studies Club, Fall 1997-Spring 2000
Courses
and seminars taken to improve instruction:
- Selected
for the Web-Based Course Development Retreat at Sea Palms, March 2000
- Selected
participant in Dr. John Daily's Seminar to Improve Instruction January
1997 - June 1997
- CIS
381 Intro to Computer Programming
- CIS
251 Intro to Computer Information Systems
- Center
for Excellence in Teaching Courses: WebCT - Manage
Files, WebCT - Manage Course, WebCT - Quizzes, WebCT Brown Bag, Using
Respondus, Creating Webpages with Dreamweaver (introductory, intermediate
and cascading style sheets classes), Managing Your Web Site with WS_FTP
LE, Creating WebPages with Netscape Composer, Using an Excel Spreadsheet
(introductory and intermediate classes); Using Form Mail on Your Webpage;
PowerPoint and RealPresenter: Putting Your Lecture on the Web; WebCT:
Moving from Version 1.2 to 3.0; Creating PDF Documents with Adobe Acrobat/Distiller;
Creating Animated GIFS with Paintshop Pro; Funding Technology Projects;
Presentation Graphics; Desktop Publishing; Digital Video; Intro to Pagemill;
Creating charts: Quattro Pro 7; Advanced PowerPoint ‘97 Clinic;
Advanced Windows ‘95 OS Techniques; Advanced Paint and Draw techniques;
Introduction to Paint and Draw; Advanced Database Techniques; Creating
a Database; Making a Spreadsheet Gradebook; Advanced Eudora Lite 3.0;
Intro to Word Processing; Intro to PowerPoint;; Building a Homepage;
Introduction to Windows; Introduction to Lexis/Nexis; Introduction to
the Personal Computer; Galileo workshop
SERVICE
Professional
service
- Secretary,
Southern Association
of Pre-Law Advisors, June 2004 - present.
- Refereed manuscripts
for The
Georgia Historical Quarterly (Summer 2009; Spring 2008; Summer 2007),The
American Journal of Criminal Justice (Summer 2002); Politics
and Policy (Spring 2002, Fall 2001), Southeastern Political
Review (Summer 1997, Summer 1994);University of British Columbia
Law Review (February 2000).
- Reviewed five chapters
of Brian Porto's textbook May it Please the Court for Addison,
Wesley, & Longman: May 1999. Reviewer comments utilized on book
cover.
University
service
Committees,
Search:
- Committee
member: Vice President of Business and Finance, 2004
- Committee
member: Faculty Technology Advisory Group, 2004 - 2005
- Committee
member: Director of Teaching and Learning Initiatives (Center for Excellence
in Teaching), 2003 - 2004
- Committee member:
Educational Leadership Search, 1999 - 2000
- Committee member:
International Studies Search, Spring/Summer 1999
- Committee member:
Educational Leadership Search,1997
Committees,
General:
- CLASS Masquerade
Ball Committee, 2003 - 2004
- CLASS Newsletter
Advisory Committee, 2002-2004
- Women's and Gender
Studies Steering Committee, 2002- 2004
- Software Screening
Committee 1999
- Y2K Task Force
Committee member 1998-1999, 1999-2000
Faculty presentations
and lectures
- Numerous
pre-law presentations to a variety of classes campus-wide
- Conducted
session on Separation of Church and State for Religious Awareness
Week, 11/20/02
- Invited
to present at the Showcase of Online Courses (for Chairs, Deans, and
Vice-Presidents) at the Center for Excellence in Teaching 5/2/00
- Intro
to PowerPoint; Advanced PowerPoint; Intro to Pagemill; Performing Web
Demos Without the Web; Favorite Techniques of GSU Pagemasters (Center
for Excellence in Teaching 1999, 1998)
- Invited
to present at the Open House Faculty Showcase: Using Multimedia
to Enhance Teaching and Learning, Center for Excellence in Teaching
8/16/99 and 3/26/99
- Advising
workshop for new faculty members 8/13/99
- Mentor,
CET Intro to Word Processing class, 10/7/97
- Speaker
at Marvin Pittman Career Connections Class re: exploring careers in
lawyering and education, January 1997
- Discussant:
"Does Prayer/Religion Have a Place in Public Education? The Separation
of Church and State," Religious Diversity Week, Georgia Southern University,
Statesboro, GA, May 17, 1995 and October 25, 1994.
Technology-related
support
- Updated
web sites for Georgia Southern University's Office of Legal Affairs
(November 2005) and Office of Audit
and Advisory Services (December 2003)
- Web
page training sessions for numerous faculty members and graduate students
- Designed
and created web pages for Women's and Gender
Studies (Fall 2002) and for the Office of Legal Affairs (Fall 2000)
- Designed
and created web pages; taught PowerPoint sessions for Middle School
Science Camp (Summer 2000; Summer 1999), sponsored by the Center for
Wildlife Education
- Designed
and created web pages for the Center for International Studies and the
Model United Nations (1999-2000)
- With
Steve Bonham (Center for Excellence in Teaching), created project titled
"Let's Go to Court," developed to demonstrate to faculty members the
uses of the Authorware application (Fall 1998)
Public
relations
- Interviewed by
WSAV-TV about Judge Faye Sanders Martin: Head Full of Sense, Heart Full
of Gold (November 2004 Eye on Business segment)
- With
Chief Justice Fletcher of the Georgia Supreme Court, interviewed and
quoted by WTOC, Northland Cable, the Statesboro Herald, and the George-Anne
re: the Administrative Office of the Courts Web Page Project, week of
August 12, 2002
- Volunteer
for A Day for Southern: 2006, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000
- Interviewed
and quoted by the George-Anne re: use of web pages in the classroom,
12/1/99
- Operation
Move-In Volunteer, 2002, 1999
- Assisted
with Eagle Volleyball recruiting, 2/20/99
- Interviewed
and quoted by Statesboro Herald, 10/12/98 re: the impeachment process
- Assisted
with Football Recruiting Weekend 1/31/98
- Interviewed
and quoted by Statesboro Herald, 6/2/97 re: aftermath of Simpson trial.
Document
design/revision
- Designed
brochure for the Center for Excellence in Teaching (Winter 1998)
Other
- Co-coordinator
of the Women's Network (2002-2004; 1999-2000)
- Volunteer
for PSC Department-sponsored "Meet the Candidates Forum" for candidates
for local and state government offices (10/29/96)
- Volunteer
for PSC Department's Northland Cable TV election-night coverage (1996)
Departmental
Service
Committees,
General:
- Advisory
Committee, Fall 2007 (Co-chaired committee reviewing Dr.
Chris Ludowise)
- Tenure and
Promotion Committee, 2004-2005 (Chair);
2002-2003 (Committee member)
- General
and Special Advisory Committee 1998-1999, 1997-1998 (Committee member)
- Ad
Hoc Committee to Review JS Curriculum 1998-1999 (Committee
member)
- Bylaw
Committee 1996-1997 (Chair)
- Homecoming
Committee 1999-2000, 1998-1999, 1997-1998, 1996-1997 (Committee member)
- Justice
Studies Semester Conversion 1996-1997, 1997-1998 (Committee member)
Committees,
Search:
- Justice
Studies Search, 1999 -2000 (Committee chair)
- International
Studies/Comparative Politics Search 1998-1999 (Committee member)
- Justice
Studies Director Search, 1997-1998 (Committee member)
Committees,
Student:
- MPA
internship review committee Fall 1999 and Summer 1999
- Chair:
29 Justice Studies internship committees
- Committee
member: 94 Justice Studies internship committees
Faculty
presentations and lectures
- Advising
Workshop for new faculty (1999)
- Intro
to PowerPoint; Creating Your Own Web Page (1998)
- Guest
lecturer for Drs. Ratan, Balleck, Burruss, Ludowise, Harrison, Ferguson,
Cox, Novotny, and Sabia
Technology-related
support
- Designed
and continue to maintain Political Science Department web pages
- Organized
and coordinated the development of three Political Science Department
Smart Rooms (1999; 1998; 1997)
- Computer
inventory (1998 - 2002)
- Produced
digital promotional video for the MPA program (Spring 1998)
- General
provision of computer support for faculty members (1997
- 2003)
Public
relations/recruiting
- Designed
and manned Political Science Department booth on Technology in the
Classroom, Southern Says Thanks Day: 2000
- Career
Services pre-law liaison
- Represented
Justice Studies Program and/or Pre-Law Advising Services on Spring Visitation
Day and/or Open Houses (2003 - present)
Other
- Invited
speaker: Justice Studies Club; Political Science Club
- Co-chaperoned
Justice Studies Club trip to Washington in Spring 1995
Community
Service
- 2000-2003:
publication to the Internet of district, circuit, county, individual,
and general self-help web sites (see http://www.georgiacourts.org/courts/
and http://www.georgiacourts.org/aoc/selfhelp/)
for the Georgia judicial system, funded by grants from the Administrative
Office of the Courts.
- Presentations
on Judge Faye Sanders Martin biography to Bulloch County Historical
Society, Friends of Statesboro Library, Rotary Club of Statesboro; book
clubs, girl scout troop
- Judge:
Student Oratorical Contest (Mid-Day and Morning Optimist Clubs) 2005,
2003
- Habitat
for Humanity.
- Committee
member: Film premier
- Helped
plan and execute Georgia Southern University reception and showing
of Statesboro film "Now and Then"
- Student
Disability Resource Center
- Volunteer:
reading for the visually impaired
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