My USC Union

• Art Room Gallery online juried open theme art show (March) https://www.artroomgalleryonline.com/exhibitions/2021/march_2021.html
• Spartanburg County Library 8^th Annual Juried Exhibition (August-October)
• Literary Festival website creation for the virtual presentation of the 2021 Festival usculiteraryfestival.com
• USCU Art Club first Student Art Show: created a USCU Arts website and hosted the exhibition virtually on the website due to Covid (uscunionart.com)
• Bullets and Band Aids Travelling Art Project (September)

• Published The Slow Undoing: Race, Law, and Civil Rights in South Carolina, 1940-1970. University of South Carolina Press, 2021
• Appeared on the South Carolina Lede podcast, August 14, 2021
• Scheduled to appear on SCETV Radio’s Walter Edgar’s Journal, September 16, 2021

Grants (funded)

• Jackson, C.*, Lowell, R. (2021). Meditation as a means of reducing aggression and racial implicit bias with an eyetracking shoot/no-shoot task. Magellan Scholar Grant Program, Office of Undergraduate Research, USC Columbia, $2,900.00 awarded.

Presentations

• Jackson, C.*, & Lowell, R. (April, 2021). Meditation as a means of reducing aggression and racial implicit bias within an eyetracking shoot/no-shoot task. Poster presented at Discover USC, Online. (Also presented at USC Union Research Club Colloquium in April, 2021, online)
• LaChance, T.*, Jackson, C.*, & Lowell, R. (March, 2021). Personality, social media, and meditation. Poster accepted for presentation at the virtual annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (Committee on Equality of Professional Opportunity), Online. (Also presented at USC Union Research Club Research Colloquium, November, 2020, online)

Peer Review of Scholarship

• Invited Peer Reviewer for article submission to Reading Research Quarterly

Grants

• PRAGDA: Spanish Film Club, Film Festival Grant, awarded $1500 to show 5 Latin American films at USC Union. (2021)-Funded

• GFL Assessment using the AAPPL. Pilot study funded in the amount of $15,000 to assess World Languages taught at the University of South Carolina Palmetto College campuses using the ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL). Funded by the Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Analytics at the University of South Carolina. (2021)-Funded

Academic Presentation

• “Education, Contact, and Competing Priorities: Literary Reactions to Public Administrative Reforms in 19th Century Spain”-Presentation at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference (MIFLC). To be held virtually. October, 2021

Honors and Awards

• Honorary Member of Alpha Sigma Lambda (2021)

• Second Runner-up for Teacher of the Year at U of SC Union (2021)

 

2021 Publications

• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (June 15, 2021).  “Escaping Atonement in Sunni Islam: Death by Jihad for Deliverance.”  Expeditions (Marine Corp University). https://doi.org/10.36304/ExpwMCUP.2021.03 
• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (May 25, 2021).  “Homegrown: ISIS in America.”  By Alexander Meleagou-Hitchens, Seamus Hughes, and Bennett Clifford.  The Strategy Bridge.  https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2021/5/25/reviewing-homegrown-isis-in-america
• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (May 21, 2021).  “Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare: Just War Theory and the Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems.”  By Steven C. Roach and Amy E. Eckert (Eds). Perspectives on Politics 19(2).  https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S1537592721000396

2021 Awards

• Chris Plyler, Excellence in Service Award ($2500.00), University of South Carolina Palmetto College, 2021-2022.

2021 Conference Presentations

• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (2021).  “Escaping Atonement in Sunni Islam: Death by Jihad for Deliverance.”  To Be Presented at the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Annual Conference, November 13-15, 2021, Washington DC.

• Fusion Art 5^th Anniversary Virtual Art Exhibition (Juried)
• The TRAC Studio (May)
• USC Lancaster Research Club Colloquium virtual presentation 2020
• USCU Research Club – Virtual Colloquium Presentation 2020
• Co-Presenter/co-creator advising module in PCAM course offered to faculty/advisors for professional development

• Published “White Subversion of Public School Desegregation in South Carolina, 1963-1970,” American Journal of Legal History, American Journal of Legal History, Volume 60, Issue 2, June 2020, Pages 223–246, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njaa003
• Published a review of James O. Heath, To Face Down Dixie: South Carolina’s War on the Supreme Court in the Age of Civil Rights, The South Carolina Historical Magazine, January 2018: 57-59 (written and published in 2020)

Publication

• Lowell, R., Pender, K.*, & Binder, K. (2020). Impact of informative context’s meaning consistency during incidental vocabulary acquisition. Reading Research Quarterly, 55(4), 679-697. DOI: 10.1002/rrq.295

Award

• Distinguished Research Service Award, from the USC Columbia Office of the Vice President for Research.

Presentations

• Bradley, D.*, Granger, K.*, Lowell, R., & Neal, A. (April, 2020). Understanding the relationship between personal accounts of sexual violence and readers’ perceptions and memories of those accounts. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (Committee on Equality of Professional Opportunity), New Orleans, LA. Conference canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic; poster uploaded to virtual repository in lieu of conference.
• LaChance, T.*, Lee, N.*, Jackson, C.*, & Lowell, R. (April, 2020). Personality, meditation, and social media. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (Committee on Equality of Professional Opportunity), New Orleans, LA. Conference canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic; poster uploaded to virtual repository in lieu of conference.
• Sligh, K.*, & Lowell, R. (April, 2020). Relationships between color perception and mood. Poster accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (Committee on Equality of Professional Opportunity), New Orleans, LA. Conference canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic; poster uploaded to virtual repository in lieu of conference.

Peer Review of Scholarship

• Invited Peer Reviewer for 2 article submissions to Reading Research Quarterly

Published Academic Translations

• “The Circuits of Anti-Communist Repression between Asia and Latin America during the Second Cold War: Paraguay and the World Anti-Communist League.” In Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina Vol 31, No 1. Published July 25, 2020. Translation of article by Ignacio Araujo and Ernesto Bohoslavsky. Translated from Spanish to English. <In press> http://eial.tau.ac.il/index.php/eial/issue/view/114

• “Criminalized Racism, Anti-Racist Pedagogical Proposals, and Teacher Dissidence in Montaña de Guerrero, Mexico.” In Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash. Translation of Book Chapter. 2020. By Mariana Moro Bayo and Jaime García Leyva. Translated from Spanish to English. <In press>

• “Estamos Em Marcha! Anti-racism, Political Battles and The Protagonism of Black Brazilian Women.” In Black and Indigenous Resistance in the Americas: From Multiculturalism to Racist Backlash. Translation of Book Chapter. 2020. By Luciane O. Rocha. Translated from Portuguese to English. <In press>

Academic Presentations

• “Meus antepassados não eram racistas: The intersection of Confederate and Brazilian Race Ideologies in the Construction of Confederado Identity”- Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Austin, TX, March, 2020.
• “Making the Case for Quality: Increasing Interpreter Effectiveness through Educational Outreach and Advocacy”-Presentation at the 61^st American Translators Association Annual Conference. Held virtually. October, 2020.

2020 Publications

2020 Grants

2020 Interviews

2020 Conference Presentations

•  Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (2020).  “Targeted Killing: The Constitutionality of Killing American Citizens.”  61^st Annual British International Studies Association (BISA), June 17-19, 2020, Newcastle-Upon-Thyne, England (Cancelled due to Corona Virus and presented virtually).
• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (2020).  “The Boys of the Stabbing Intifada: The Third Palestinian Intifada.”  61^st Annual International Studies Association (ISA), March 25-March 30, 2020, Honolulu, Hawaii (Cancelled due to Corona Virus).

• Solo Show “Propagation” at The Union County Arts Council; Union, SC

Awards

• USC Union Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award Winner
• Poster Presentation Award Winner by Graduation with Leadership Distinction (GLD) Mentees, Kelsey Granger and Bryana Vaughan (Research pathway; and Diversity and Social Advocacy pathway, respectively), at Discover USC in Columbia

Grants (funded)

• Granger, K.*, Lowell, R., & Neal, A. (2019). Understanding the relationship between personal accounts of sexual violence and readers’ perceptions and memories of those accounts. Magellan Mini-Grant Program, Office of Undergraduate Research, USC Columbia, $500.00 awarded.
• LaChance, T.*, & Lowell, R. (2019). Exploring connections between social media, personality, and meditation. Magellan Mini-Grant Program, Office of Undergraduate Research, USC Columbia, $500.00 awarded.

Presentations

• Lowell, R., & Aziz, M. (May, 2019). Retrieving new words following incidental vocabulary acquisition: Impact of contextual constraint on native Arabic speakers learning English. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
• Granger, K.*, Lowell, R., & Neal, A. (April, 2019). Readers’ perceptions of sexual conflict. Poster presented at Discover USC, Columbia, SC. [Award Winner] (Also presented at USC Union Research Club Colloquium, April, 2019; and USC Union Partnership Board meeting, May, 2019)
• Vaughan, B.*, Lowell, R., Aziz, M., & Pisano, A. (March, 2019). How culture in the South affects facial perception. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Jacksonville, FL. (Also presented at USC Union Research Club Colloquiums in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019; at USC Union Partnership Board meeting in May, 2019; and at Discover USC in Columbia, SC, in April, 2019 [Award Winner])
• LaChance, T.*, & Lowell, R. (March, 2019). Personality and social media. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Jacksonville, FL. (Also presented at USC Union Research Club Colloquiums in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019; and at Discover USC in Columbia, SC, in April, 2019)
• Means, E.*, Glenn-Toland, M.*, & Lowell, R. (March, 2019). The impact of news media on bias. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association, Jacksonville, FL. (Also presented at USC Union Research Club Colloquiums in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019)

Peer Review of Scholarship

• Invited Peer Reviewer for article submission to Reading Research Quarterly
• Reviewer for abstract submissions to annual Southeastern Psychological Association (SEPA) conference

Miscellaneous

• Invited Name Reader for GLD Cording Ceremony, USC Columbia (2019)

Public Health Report

• “Spartanburg County Community Health Needs Assessment.” 2019. As researcher. With Kara Davis, Ed., MSI Director, Janet Christy, MSI Fellow, Nicky Cabrera, MSI Researcher, Dr. Steven Lownes, MSI Fellow, Dr. Andrew Beer, MSI Faculty Fellow, Kiersten Mills, MSI Data Entry Fellow. <In press and online>    

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a33e576b7411c1532a31412/t/5dfa845db5d24a35631c9f3c/1576698982138/CHNA%2BPublic%2BReport_2019.pdf

Academic Presentation

• “Achieving and Assessing Global Citizenship for Your Graduates: How to Take Command of this Elusive Goal”-Joint Presentation with Daniel Diaz and Gina Johnson. NAFSA Region VII Conference, Orlando, Florida, November, 2019.

   Grants

• PRAGDA: Spanish Film Club, Film Festival Grant, awarded $1500 to show 5 Spanish-language films at USC Union. (2019)-Funded

• Timken Foundation, awarded $100,000 to purchase new microscopes for the virtual laboratory at USC Union. Co-authored with Annie Smith and Dr. David Hudson. (2019)-Funded

2019 Publications

• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (June 2019). Sexual Jihad: The Role of Islam in Female Terrorism.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (Summer 2019).  “The Intelligence Cycle of Targeted Killing in the United States.”  Solicited by Senior Staff Editor Lauren Michaels for the Fletcher Security Review 2019 special issue on Technology and Security 6(1).
• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (June 2019). “Sixta Rinehart on Walsh and Schulzke’s ‘Drones and Support for the Use of Force’” By James Igoe Walsh and Marcus Schulzke.  H-Net.  https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/reviews/4194852/rinehart-walsh-and-schulzke-drones-and-support-use-force

2019 Grants

•  ASPIRE I –Innovation, Track IV (Advanced Support for Innovative Research Excellence) Grant ($11,000), University of South Carolina, Office of the Vice President for Research, The Fiscal Costs of American Drone Warfare, July 1, 2018-September 30, 2019, to research Blood Money: The Fiscal Costs of American Drone Warfare (Title changed to: Drop the Hate: The Fiscal Costs and Explanation of American Drone Warfare).  Balance extended due to COVID. 

2019 Conference Presentations

• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (2019).  “The Concept of Atonement in Jihad: Death for Deliverance.”  Presented at the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Annual Conference, October 31-November 2, 2019, Washington DC.

• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (2019).” The Stabbing Intifada: The Third Palestinian Intifada or an International Terrorist Tactic?”  Presented at the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Annual Conference, October 31-November 2, 2019, Washington DC.

• Rinehart, Christine Sixta. (2019). “If you’re Not First, You’re Last: Female Suicide Bombers and the Recalcitrance of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.”  Presented at the CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference, June 17-June 19, 2019, Belgrade, Serbia.

• Rinehart, Christine Sixta.  (2019). “Palestinian Girls and Aichmomania: A New Era of Palestinian Terrorism?”  Presented at the 60^th Annual International Studies Association Conference (ISA), March 27-March 30, 2019, Toronto, Canada.