Faculty & Staff

The associate professor of history talks with reporter and anchor Bob Buckley about the legacy of a document signed 800 years ago by King John of England. 

The Center for Writing Excellence is offering our first Summer Writing Boot Camp on Wednesday, July 22, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in Oaks 212.

Catherine J. Wasson, associate professor of law and director of Elon Law’s legal method & communication program, has been elected to the executive board of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD).  

For the 800th anniversary of one of the world’s most important documents, Elon Law Dean Luke Bierman writes in a Greensboro News & Record column that “history’s most important and persuasive statements of liberty, justice and equality, including our own U.S. and state constitutions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, derive from that field in Runnymede 800 years ago.”

The professor of English had her column about homelessness in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North Carolina, appeared June 13, 2015, in the (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer.

The assistant vice president for student life co-authored a chapter on the underside of service-learning for the SAGE Sourcebook on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

Comprised of Elon University faculty across a range of departments and schools, including business, communications, computer science, law and political science, speakers will discuss their research and the law and policy concerns they encounter.

Professor Kevin O’Mara, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, received a one year grant for $24,000 from The Coleman Foundation for the Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellows Program.

The assistant professor of law received the 2015 Periclean Award for Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility for her work with the Elon School of Law Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic.

The assistant professor of sport and event management was one of five Elon University faculty and staff members to lead presentations at the 11th annual NCICU Assessment Conference.