BOONE-Seven faculty members at Appalachian State University who have received teaching awards from the UNC Board of Governors will be recognized during Convocation Sept. 6 in the George M. Holmes Convocation Center.

Melanie Greene, a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was one of 16 professors from UNC System universities receiving the 2007 UNC Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. She received a cash award and medallion during a luncheon held May 11 in Chapel Hill.

Greene has been a faculty member in the Reich College of Education since 1996. She teaches an introductory-level class for all students who are interested in becoming teachers, a middle grades internship class for middle grades majors, and senior-level classes for elementary education and middle grades education majors

At the graduate level, she teaches courses that focus on middle school curriculum and research-based effective teaching strategies, and she works with the college’s doctoral program in educational leadership.

Greene holds baccalaureate and master’s degrees in early childhood education from Appalachian and earned her doctoral degree in educational supervision from East Tennessee State University.

In addition, the UNC Board of Governors provides funding for each campus to recognize the outstanding teaching of individual faculty members.

Steven Millsaps, a professor in the Department of Economics, received the Board of Governors/Appalachian State University Teaching Award.

Receiving one of five Board of Governors Appalachian State University School/College Awards were Anatoly Isaenko, Department of History; Tom McLaughlin, Department of English; Martha Marking, Department of Theatre and Dance; Charlene Sox, Department of Curriculum and Instruction; and Michael Wise, Department of Sociology and Social Work. Each received a cash award.

The awards are part of a program established in 1994 by the UNC Board of Governors to recognize excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level.

Millsaps joined the faculty at Appalachian in 1972. He has a doctorate degree in economics with specializations in industrial organization and statistics from N.C. State University.

Millsaps has been a visiting professor at the University of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia under the sponsorship of the Fulbright Fellows Program. He also was a visiting professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. His work has been published in professional journals and volumes including The Energy Journal, Land Economics, and Public Choice.

Isaenko came to Appalachian in 1995 as a visiting professor in the Department of History. He has a Ph.D. from Moscow State University, and a master’s and bachelor’s degree from North Ossetian State University.

Isaenko’s teaching and research focuses on Russian and Central Asian history. He is a consultant on the Caucasus and Central Asian region to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg. He also is a frequent presenter at international and regional conferences, including the Association of Asian Studies and the International Conference on Social Sciences.

McLaughlin has been a member of the faculty in the Department of English since 1977. He has a Ph.D. and master’s degree from Temple University and a bachelor’s degree from LaSalle College.

McLaughlin teaches courses in literary theory and British literature. His publications include “Give and Go: Basketball as a Cultural Practice,” forthcoming, SUNY Press; “Street Smarts and Critical Theory,” published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1996; and “Critical Terms for Literary Study,” published by University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Marking has a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and an M.F.A. in costume design from Michigan State University. She came to Appalachian in 1987 as a member of the faculty in the Department of Theater and Dance. Marking teaches courses in costume design, production techniques, introduction to theatrical design and stage makeup.

She has been published in Southern Theatre, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Journal, and has presented at United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Convention, Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Convention and North Carolina Theatre Conference (NCTC) Convention.

Marking recently was elected to a second term as president of Appalachian’s Faculty Senate.

Sox earned her doctorate, master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the University of South Carolina. She is program coordinator for the marketing and business education courses in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and teaches courses in office management, classroom management and assessment for secondary teachers and methods classes for business and marketing education.

She also served as the director of computer labs in the Reich College of Education from 1987-93, and was acting chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction from 1995- 96.

Cox has presented her research at the International Conference on Education, International Society of Business Education and the National Academy of Business Education.

Wise has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Sociology and Social Work since 1972. He served as acting chair of the department from 1995-96. He holds a doctorate in sociology and a master’s degree in rural sociology from N.C. State University. He teaches courses in general sociology, research methods, deviant behavior and Appalachian studies.

Wise has had articles or chapters published in The Southern Sociologist, The Sixties in America Encyclopedia of Literature in America, The American Sociologist, The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America and other scholarly publications. He also has presented at annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Southern Sociological Society, and North Carolina Sociological Association.

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