UCA faculty news

John Vanderslice, assistant professor of writing at UCA, has had his short story collection Island Fog selected as a semifinalist for the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, sponsored by Eastern Washington University Press.

Michael B. Hargis, assistant professor in UCA’s Department of Marketing and Management, will present a manuscript entitled “Work-family conflict or segmentation? A meta-analytic comparison of opposing theories” at the annual conference for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in San Francisco in April. The manuscript, co-authored with Jesse Michel of Michigan State University, has been recognized as one of the top 20 submissions to the conference and will be showcased during the feature session at the conference.

Jesse Butler, an assistant professor in UCA’s Department of Philosophy and Religion, recently had an article entitled “Cancer, HIV, and Terrorism: Translating Public Health Models for Prevention and Control to Counter-Terrorism” accepted for publication in the first issue of the new international interdisciplinary journal Critical Studies on Terrorism. The article is co-authored with Morris Foster, a medical anthropologist at the University of Oklahoma.