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R. Nugent

Department Chair

R. Nugent

Department Chair

Associate Professor

Academic Appointment(s)

Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Department of History, Anthropology and Philosophy

  • RMCCLEL1@augusta.edu
  • (706) 729-2204
  • AH E210

Education

  • Ph.D., History, General Dalhousie University, 2000

  • BA, History, General Franklin College of Indiana, 1993

Awards & Honors

  • Caught in the Act of Promoting University Value "Inclusion" Office of Faculty Development and Teaching Excellence, 2017

  • "Caught in the Act of Great Teaching" 2016

  • Nominated for Faculty Teaching Award Augusta State University, 2011

  • Most Valuable Professor Augusta State University Ambassadors, 2010

  • Most Valuable Professor Augusta State University Ambassadors, 2008

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • HIST 4940

    Historiography

  • HIST 4950

    Selected Topics

  • HIST 4960

    Undergrad Internship

Teaching Interests

Witchcraft, Piracy, Canadians, Historiography.

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

  • "Will the Real Dr. Psycho Please Stand Up?" Finding the Origins of Wonder Woman's Golden Age Characters , 2018
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • The Not So Golden Age: Gender, Race, and Nostalgia in All-Star Squadron 1981-1987, 2017
    Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
  • Women on the US Home Front in World War II . [Research and Content Consultant. In Press.], 2015
    Book, Non-Scholarly-New
  • "Steve Trevor, Equal? Wonder Woman in an Era of Second Wave Feminist Critique" in, 2013
    Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New
  • "The Amazon Mystique: Subverting Cold War Domesticity in Wonder Woman Comics" in Comic Books and the Cold War: Essays on Graphic Treatment of Communism, the Code, 2012
    Book, Chapter in Scholarly Book-New

Research Interests

Gender, Race, National Culture and Popular Culture, Wonder Woman, Women in WW II, 17th/18th century women.

Department Service

  • Various scholarly service to colleagues 2008 - Present

    Role: Other

  • Misc. Department Committees, ad hoc groups, working groups 2006 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • G2C HIST 2111 2018 - 2020

    Role: Committee Chair

  • Covid-related service 2020 - 2020

    Role: Committee Member

  • Various Guest Lectures in Department 2006 - 2018

    Role: Other

College Service

  • Classroom Refresh Working Group 2020 - Present

    Role: Committee Chair

  • Pamplin College Dean's Faculty Council 2020 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • Ad Hoc Group in support of ordering Gale databases 2017 - 2018

    Role: Committee Member

  • Integrated Studies Advisory Board 2017 - 2017

    Role: Committee Member

  • Triota 2015 - 2017

    Role: Faculty Advisor

University Service

  • Pamplin Dean Search Committee 2020 - 2021

    Role: Committee Member

  • Deputy Director of WGST 2017 - 2021

    Role: Other

  • Jaguars for Justice 2018 - 2018

    Role: Guest Speaker

  • Women's History Month Film Series 2018 - 2018

    Role: Session Chair

  • Women's History Month Film Series 2018 - 2018

    Role: Program Organizer

Professional Service

  • Reacting to the Past COnsortium 2019 - Present

    Role: Reviewer

  • Flickforsk: International Girlhood Studies Network 2009 - Present

    Role: Member

  • American Historical Association 2005 - Present

    Role: Member

  • H-Minerva Participant 2004 - Present

    Role: Member

  • Popular Culture Association 2004 - Present

    Role: Member

Public Service

  • Circles Task Force for Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta 2020 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • UUCA 2019 - Present

    Role: Guest Speaker

  • Unitarian-Universalist Association of Augusta 2018 - Present

    Role: Other

  • Augusta Unitarian-Universalist Church 2017 - Present

    Role: Committee Member

  • Augusta University Vaccine Clinic Volunteer (non-clinical) 2021 - 2021

    Role: Other