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Faculty members included in Who's Who of American Women
September 1, 2004
CARROLLTON, GA - Four faculty members at the University of West Georgia will be included in upcoming publications of Who’s Who in America.
Who’s Who of American Women will include Dr. Janet Clark, professor of political science and department chair; Elena Mustakova-Possardt, associate professor of psychology; and Dr. Mary Sheesley, professor of art.
Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare will include Dr. Partha S. Ray, associate professor of chemistry.
Clark teaches gender politics, state and local government and also teaches in the MPA program. She is the former editor of Women & Politics, a journal of research and policy studies. Her most recent publications include book chapters entitled “The Reserved Seats System in Taiwan” in Democracy and the Status of Women, “Gender Gap and Voting Patterns” in Encyclopedia of Women in American Politics, “The Gender Gap in 1996: More Meaning Than a 'Revenge of the Soccer Moms’” in Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders, and “Esther Hobart Morris” in American National Biography.
Mustakova-Possardt teaches courses at UWG on Personal Relationships, Life-Span Development, Global Citizenship, Moral and Social Development, and Holistic Approaches to Counseling and Community Development. She began the Latino Initiative project in 2000, a collaboration that works to enhance the well-being of the Latino immigrant population. This project was selected as winner of the 2003 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community collaboration.
Sheesley teaches art with a Ph.D. in Art Education. She teaches education majors how to integrate art with other academic areas, how to teach discipline based art education to Pre-K through high school students, in addition to teaching graduate courses in art education. She founded the Global Art Exchange Program in 1994, which is a program for exchanging student art with students at other schools internationally. Other memberships include FLOAT (Florida League of Art Teachers), GAEA (Georgia Art Education Association) and the NAEA (National Art Education Association.)
Ray teaches chemistry with a Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. He has been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1985, and his professional services include Grant Reviewer for the National Science Foundation, and Petroleum Research Fund (American Chemical Society), as well as Journal Reviewer for Tetrahedron, and Journal of the American Chemical Society. He has numerous publications, the most recent one being “An Unexpected Dimer Formation From a 4-(2-Amino-ethylamino)-5-formylpyrimidine Intermediate.”
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