Accolades 2022 | Editorial

Dr. J. Dean Farmer

Chair and Associate Professor of Communication Studies
College of Arts & Sciences

Editorial Board

  • Member of the Editorial Board for the Carolinas Communication Annual

Peer Reviewer

  • Peer reviewer for the Journal of Creative Communications. Performed multiple reviews of the submitted article ‘Nobody ever thinks what it’s like to be a guy like me’ How Arthur is Developed in Joker (2019).

Manuscript Reviewer

  • Reviewer for the Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference, Southern States Communication Association.
  • Served as a reviewer for the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division of the National Communication Association.

Editorial work Mentor

  • Faculty mentor for Metcalf, D. J. (2022, April). Is Gracious Submission a Woman’s Role?: An Analysis of the “Go Home” Controversy. Paper presented at the Southern States Communication Association Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference, Greenville, SC.
  • Faculty mentor for Murphy, K. A. (2022, April). Emerging from the chrysalis: Communication implications from an in-betweener. Paper presented at the Southern States Communication Association Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference, Greenville, SC.
  • Faculty mentor for Pifferini, M. S. (2022, April). Understanding the Dominant Group and Coculture memberships through The Office. Paper presented at the Southern States Communication Association Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference, Greenville, SC.
  • Faculty mentor for Wiles, S. R. (2022, April). Trapped and small: An autoethnographic journey of identity and caring to Guardian ad Litem. Paper presented as the Franklin Shirley Award winner (Top Overall Paper) at the Southern States Communication Association Theodore Clevenger Undergraduate Honors Conference, Greenville, SC.

Dr. W. Glenn Jonas

Charles Howard Professor of Religion and Associate Dean 
College of Arts & Sciences 

Editorial Board

  • Baptist History and Heritage

Manuscript Reviewer

  • Reviewed manuscript titled: Binkley: A Congregational History, by Andrew Gardner.  (This forth-coming history from University of Tennessee Press is a history of the Olin T. Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill, NC).

Dr. Laura Lunsford  

Assistant Dean, Professor of Psychology  
School of Education & Human Sciences

Assistant Editor and Reviewer

  • International Journal of Coaching and Mentoring

Dr. Courtney G. Mayakis

Assistant Professor, Assessment Coordinator
School of Education & Human Sciences

Design Editor

  • International Missions Study: Philippines, Children’s Booklet. WMU. 2022.
  • International Missions Study: Philippines, Poster Set. WMU. 2022.

Dr. Bruce McNair

Professor of History
College of Arts & Sciences

Peer Reviewer

  • Reviewer of articles submitted for publication to the scholarly journal Religions, 2021-2022.

Dr. Christopher Moore

Adjunct Instructor of Religion 
Adult & Online Education 

Review

  • Review of A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War, James P. Byrd, in Baptist History and Heritage Journal 56, 3 (Fall 2021).
  • Review of Combat Chaplain: The Life and Civil War Experiences of Rev. James H. McNeilly, M. Todd Cathey, in Reading Religion, August 11, 2021.

Dr. Jim Powers

Associate Dean for Clinical Integration
Jerry M. Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine

Editorial Board

  • North Carolina Medical Journal Editorial Board Member (2-year term).

Sarah M. Steele

Dean of the Library
Wiggins Memorial Library

Editor

  • Design Editor.  International Missions Study: Philippines, Children’s Teaching Guide. WMU. 2022.

Dr. Dorothea K. Thompson

Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

Editor

  • Invited Guest Editor for Bacterial Stress Responses and Antibiotic Resistance Phenotypes, a special issue of the journal Antibiotics (impact factor 4.639).

Manuscript Reviewer

  • Reviewed manuscripts for the following journals:  Antibiotics (impact factor 4.639), Biomedicines (impact factor 6.081), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (impact factor 3.390), Open Forum Infectious Diseases (impact factor 3.835), Vaccines (impact factor 4.422), Viruses (impact factor 5.048), and Archives of Community Medicine and Public Health.