2016 WLP Fall Symposium Program

2016-17 FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS
USF TAMPA FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD
RECIPIENT: Dr. Kyoung Cho
Dr. Kyoung Cho is an associate professor of voice in the School of Music in the College of The
Arts, USF Tampa. She received her degrees from Yonsei University, Korea (BM), Manhattan
School of Music (MM), the University of Memphis (DMA), and post-graduate studies in opera at
Yale University. She is a prolific researcher with 15 research grants to her credits since joining
USF in 2007. She is also an internationally acclaimed soprano and her activities included
lectures, lecture-recitals, solo concerts, publications, teaching master classes, and CD
recordings in Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg, China, Thailand, Cambodia,
Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Serbia, Israel, Canada, Japan, and her
native Korea. Nationally, she has performed in several cities including Carnegie Hall and
Lincoln Center in New York City. Critics hailed her performances as “sublimely beautiful,
transcendent, serene, dazzling, and heavenly.” Her CD recordings on Korean art songs and
Italian opera arias have been critically acclaimed in the U.S., Korea, and Italy. Dr. Cho was
also featured by “Vocal Point” to introduce Korean art songs on WCNY-FM 91.3, New York’s
NPR station, which aired in 2014. As a versatile scholar-artist, her areas of specialization
include opera, oratorio, and art songs of contemporary composers. She is also a leading
performing scholar of Korean art songs and an advocate for the music of Korean women
composers. She plans to continue championing women’s vocal music and telling their stories
through research and creative scholarship, especially in male-dominated regions and other
parts of the world.
USF ST. PETERSBURG FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD
RECIPIENT: Dr. Jill McCracken
Dr. Jill McCracken is an associate professor of rhetoric and writing studies at the University
of South Florida - St. Petersburg, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in
rhetoric, writing, sex work, and gender, sexuality, and feminist theory. Her research interests
include the rhetoric of marginalized communities, in particular that of sex work/trafficking;
public policy; gender; violence against girls and women, ethnography and participatory
research methods and civic engagement. Her book, Street Sex Workers’ Discourse:
Creating Material Change through Agential Choice, is an analysis of street-based sex work
representations, the power of everyday language, and how both influence the material
conditions of individuals involved in street-based sex work.
USF SARASOTA-MANATEE FACULTY RESEARCH AWARD
RECIPIENT: Dr. Melissa Sloan
Dr. Melissa Sloan is an associate professor of interdisciplinary social sciences and
sociology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. She also serves as the
chair of the Department of Social Sciences and the coordinator of the honors program.
Dr. Sloan received her B.S. degree in psychology from Carnegie Mellon University (2000)
and her M.A. (2002) and Ph.D. (2005) degrees in sociology from Vanderbilt University. Her
research is focused on the ways in which social inequalities in the roles and statuses we
hold affect physical and emotional well-being. Dr. Sloan’s recent work examines physical
symptoms and negative emotional experiences that stem from gender-based inequality
in the workplace. She has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the
American Sociological Association, and the American Association of University Women.
Her published work appears in journals including Social Psychology Quarterly, Work and
Occupations, Gender, Work, and Organization, and Social Science and Medicine.
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