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Fellowships
CELIA is a major force for continuing the development of a highly engaged, inspired, and enthusiastic community of scholars and creatives on the Wright State campus. Through the CELIA Fellows Program, arts, humanities, and social science faculty from the College of Liberal Arts develop innovative projects in a multidisciplinary think-tank atmosphere. The mission of each semester’s team of Fellows is to collaborate as a whole or in small groups to produce original compositions, performances, presentations, courses, and/or scholarly writings focused on fresh approaches and/or solutions for any of a myriad of topical issues. Outcomes are developed by team members in consultation with the CELIA director and other faculty mentors (many of them faculty emeriti), who will act as moderators of weekly brainstorming and project development sessions.
Fellows are encouraged to share ideas with colleagues and to engender the idea of community and conversation campus-wide among faculty and students.
Tangible creative outcomes are required at the end of each semester and are presented in print, performance or exhibit, and/or at the annual CELIA conference.
Application
2018-19 CELIA Fellows Program Application (DOCX)
Fellows
Dr. La Fleur Small
Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Recognition Year:
2020
Dr. La Fleur Small is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Wright State University, which includes Anthropology and Sociology; African and African American Studies; Crime and Justice Studies; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Applied Behavioral Science master programs.
Joe Deer
Chair, Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures
Recognition Year:
2020
Joe Deer is chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Motion Pictures and Director of The Musical Theatre Initiative at Wright State University.
Nicole Carter
Director, Women's Center
Nicole Carter, Ph.D., is the director of the Wright State University Women’s Center. She also teaches in various fields including the Student Affairs and Higher Education program and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.
Cynthia Marshall Burns
Senior Lecturer, English
Recognition Year:
2020
Cynthia Marshall Burns is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literatures and program coordinator for the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.
Gretchen McNamara
Senior Lecturer, Music
Recognition Year:
2020
Gretchen McNamara, D.M.A., is the trombone instructor at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, a position she has held since 2007.
Kimberly Warrick
Professor and Coordinator of Vocal Studies and Opera Theatre
Kimberly Warrick, D.A., soprano, has been with Wright State University, coordinator of vocal students and director of opera theatre, since 1995.
W. Stuart McDowell
Artistic Director and Professor, Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures
Recognition Year:
2018
W. Stuart McDowell, Artistic Director and Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures, is the Frederick A. White Distinguished Professor of Professional Service for 2018.
John Hogan
CELIA Visiting Artist
Recognition Year:
2017
John Hogan is the Mary Jo and Ted Shen Installations Director and Archivist for Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings at Yale University Art Gallery. He has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Gerald Noble
Instructor of Music
Recognition Year:
2017
Jerry Noble is Coordinator of Percussion at Wright State University and a Dayton Philharmonic member.
Gina Walther
Associate Professor of Dance
Recognition Year:
2017
Gina Walther is in her tenth year at Wright State University, where she teaches Choreography, Modern Dance and Jazz Dance.
Matthew Benjamin
Resident Lighting Designer for the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures
Recognition Year:
2016
Professor Matthew Benjamin is in his nineteenth year at Wright State University, where he serves as the resident lighting designer for the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures.
Nancy Mack
Professor of English
Recognition Year:
2016
Nancy Mack is a full professor of English at Wright State University where she teaches undergraduate courses for pre-service teachers and graduate courses in composition theory, memoir, and multigenre writing.
Sharon Lynette Jones
Professor of English Language and Literatures
Recognition Year:
2015
Sharon Lynette Jones is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University.
Dr. Carol Mejia LaPerle
Associate Professor and Honors Advisor for the Department of English Language and Literatures
Recognition Year:
2015
Dr. Carol Mejia LaPerle is Associate Professor and Honors Advisor for the Department of English Language and Literatures at Wright State University.
Scott D. Peterson
Assistant Professor of Communication
Recognition Year:
2015
Scott D. Peterson is an assistant professor at Wright State University in the Department of Communication.
Dr. Andrew Strombeck
Associate Professor of English Language and Literatures
Recognition Year:
2015
Andrew Strombeck began teaching courses in American literature, history, and culture in Wright State's Department of English in 2007, after earning his PhD in English at the University of California, Davis.
Dr. Paul Lockhart
Professor of History
Recognition Year:
2014
A native of Poughkeepsie, New York, Paul Lockhart has been teaching European and military history at Wright State for twenty-four years. During that time, his research interests have changed somewhat.
Barry Milligan
Professor of English Languages & Literatures
Recognition Year:
2014
Barry Milligan began teaching courses in British literature, history, and culture in Wright State's Department of English in 1994 after earning his PhD in English at Duke and serving as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell.
Christopher Oldstone-Moore
Senior Lecturer of History
Recognition Year:
2014
A native of Wisconsin, Christopher Oldstone-Moore earned his PhD in British history at the University of Chicago, and has been teaching the history of Europe and the British Empire at Wright State since 2001.
Dr. Crystal Lake
Recognition Year:
2013
Crystal completed her PhD at the University of Missouri in 2008, specializing in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature. From 2008-2011, Crystal was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
