This past summer, Shippensburg faculty members published high-quality research and were selected for competitive programs, such as the AEJMC Jennifer McGill fellowship. Ship is proud to recognize the following faculty members who published research this summer 2025:
Viet Dao, Accounting and Information Systems & Analytics
Dr. Dao presented a paper titled “Extracting and Coding Digital Sustainability Data using Text Mining and AI: A Design Science Approach” at the 2025 Americas Conference on Information Systems. He also co-chaired a mini-track “Digital Sustainability for Business and Resilient Supply Chains” at AMCIS 2025.
Christine Anne Royce, Teacher Education
Dr. Royce had a chapter published in an international book focusing on the future of education globally. Her chapter, “Shaping Future Educators: Embracing Change for the Future of Teaching”,was one of seven chapters selected for Futuristic Insights on Education, which was guided, edited, and produced by the Regional Center for Educational Planning through a collaboration between the government of the UAE and UNESCO.
Alice Armstrong, Computer Science; Josefine Smith, Library; Misty L. Knight, Communication Studies and Women & Gender Studies
Dr. Armstrong, Ms. Smith, and Dr. Knight recently published their co-authored journal article on new methods in media analysis, capping off four years of work on the project. The article, “What’s going on down there? Subtitle sexism and gender representation in Masters of the Universe: Revelation,” presents a new methodology for analyzing film and television scripts using freely available subtitle files and commonplace spreadsheet tools. It analyzes gendered communication patterns in animated television programming and details step-by-step instructions with links to instructional videos. Results obtained using this new methodology are used as part of an ongoing research project on the representation of female characters in the Netflix series, Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021–present).
Jordan Windholz, English
Dr. Jordan Windholz has published The Single Life: Unpatriarchal Manhoods in English Renaissance Literature (University of Alabama Press, 2025). It is the first book of its kind to examine how the literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented single men to rescript patriarchal ideals of manhood.
Luis Melara, Mathematics
Dr. Melara published the paper “Optimal bandwidth selection in stochastic regression of Bio-FET measurements” in the Journal of Mathematical Biology. The paper was published on June 10, 2025. The Journal of Mathematical Biology publishes peer-reviewed research with a focus on scientific advancements in mathematical modelling and analysis of biological systems.
Melara also recently co-organized the session entitled “Emerging Technologies in Biomedical Computational Modeling and Measurement” at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting 2025 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He presented the talk “Optimal Bandwidth Selection in Bio-FET Measurements” on July 16, 2025.
Dhiman Chattopadhyay, Communication, Journalism & Media
Dr. Chattopadhyay recently completed his term as a 2024-25 AEJMC Jennifer McGill Fellow – a competitively selected national program that mentors, trains and guides tenured faculty members identified as future administrative leaders in their field. The fellowship included a year-long mentorship during which Dr. Chattopadhyay spent a week as an in-residence fellow at Temple University, where he attended meetings, shadowed multiple associate deans, and attended workshops with his mentor, Provost David Boardman. The fellowship also led to multiple one-on-one and small group sessions with deans, program directors, finance heads, and CFOs from over 20 U.S. universities; attending the annual ACEJMC accreditation committee meetings in Chicago; and being inducted as a member of ASJMC – the association of higher education administrators in the field of media and communication. Dr. Chattopadhyay is the first PASSHE faculty to win this fellowship.
