Faculty & Staff

Dr. Davis Hankins: Faculty Member of Distinction, College of Arts and Sciences, Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion

Dr. Davis Hankins- Assistant professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Oct 24, 2017

Dr. Davis Hankins studies religion from a range of personal interests: literature, art, philosophy and psychology. He attributes this resourcefulness ...

Appstate Faculty and staff honored for excellence

Faculty and staff honored for excellence
Aug 31, 2017

Seven faculty and four staff members at Appalachian State University were honored for excellence at the Fall Semester Faculty and Staff Meeting on Aug...

Dr. Gwen Robbins Schug

Dr. Schug awarded Wenner Gren funding for bioarchaeological research in India
Aug 17, 2017

Dr. Gwen Robbins Schug, Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University, received a research award from the Wenner Gren Foundation to conduc...

Davis Hankins, Philosophy and Religion

Hankins’ first book garners Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise
Aug 14, 2017

Dr. Davis Hankins of Appalachian State University is one of 10 winners of the Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise this year. It is a...

Saving the Bees

Saving the bees
Jul 19, 2017

Appalachian student and faculty researchers seek to recover declining honeybee population. Consider this fact from the U.S. Department of Ag...

Dr. Tom Whyte talks with anthropology majors Amanda Neumeyer of Hendersonville and Emma Jones of Reidsville at an archaeology experiment site in Fall 2016. Only 10 percent of archaeology is digging, he tells students – the rest is making meaning of what is found. Photo by Marie Freeman

Dr. Tom Whyte, uncovering human history
Jun 16, 2017

Dr. Tom Whyte was less than a year away from graduating with an art degree from James Madison University when he took a field archaeology class the su...

Judson MacDonald, CAS Outstanding Teacher of the Year photo by Amanda Romjue

College of Arts and Sciences names Outstanding Student Teacher of the Year for 2016-17
Jun 13, 2017

Appalachian State University’s College of Arts and Sciences has named Judson MacDonald the Outstanding Student Teacher of the Year for the 2016-2017...

Dr. Tim Ludwig, keeping workers safe
Jun 12, 2017

Dr. Tim Ludwig is a behavioral psychologist, which means, as he puts it, “I don’t care what you think or feel. I care about what you do.” ...

Susan Lappan, Fulbright

Appalachian’s 2017 Fulbright awards
Jun 8, 2017

Two faculty, one alumna and one graduating senior from Appalachian State University have received awards from the Fulbright Program, the flagship inte...

An interdisciplinary project scheduled for the 2017-18 academic year, “Blurred Boundaries: The Experience of War and Its Aftermath” was funded as part of the NEH’s Dialogues on the Experience of War.

$100K grant from National Endowment for the Humanities provides funds to explore war and its effects through art
May 30, 2017

Three Appalachian State University professors have been awarded a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to bring togethe...