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Honored for their excellence in teaching and scholarship, their contributions within the community and their passion for inspiring excellence in others, Virginia Wesleyan proudly recognizes a new class of Batten Professors.
Joyce Blair Easter, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Director of the 
Honors & Scholars Program, received a B.S. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Duke University. She was the recipient of the 2002 Samuel Nelson Gray Distinguished Teaching Award. Active in the American Chemical Society, she is currently a member on the Hampton Roads Section executive board, the SOCED Task Force for Undergraduate Programming at National Meetings, and the Legislative Action Network, and has previously served as Editorial Board Advisor for the ACS publication, In Chemistry. Recipient of the 2005 Mednick Grant for a biodiesel fuel project, her research projects recently presented at ACS national meetings include "Campus biodiesel fuel production" and "Isolation of Annexin14 protein from Neurospora crassa."
Christopher Haley, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences and chair of the
Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. He has authored numerous papers and reports on the Cretaceous geologic history of the Montana Rocky Mountain region. The most recent, Geology of the Briggs Ranch 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, included VWC students and will be published in 2006. In 2002 he was the principal investigator for an NSF grant to institute Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across the Earth Sciences curriculum, and he presented the results at the 2004 Geological Society of America national meeting. He trains area earth science teachers in GIS and worked with the Portsmouth school district to obtain a grant to increase the number of high quality earth science teachers in Hampton Roads.
Pianist Lee Jordan-Anders is Professor of Music and Artist-in-Residence. 
She received both her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University where she studied piano with Pauline Lindsey. She joined the Virginia Wesleyan faculty in 1986 after living in Europe for five years, a period devoted to performing extensively as both soloist and chamber musician. She continues to perform regularly in the U. S., often creating programs illustrating the connection between music and the visual arts. She recently returned from a two-month residency at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris where she created a program featuring the music of Claude Debussy and Erik Satie accompanied by artworks of Monet, Rodin, and Degas. Her second CD, "In A," will be released in the fall of 2006.
Daniel S. Margolies, Associate Professor of History and Director of Winter
Session, received a Ph.D. in United States history and a M.A. in European history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.A. from Hampshire College. His first book, Henry Watterson and the New South: The Politics of Empire, Free Trade, and Globalization, will be published in 2006. He was an Institute Scholar at the 2006 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Regional Study and the Liberal Arts: An Appalachian Exemplar," at Ferrum College. He regularly publishes articles on traditional music in the South and is currently studying immigrant Mexican regional music in the American southeast. His next book traces governance and extraterritoriality in United States foreign economic policy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
2005 Batten Professors
David G. Garraty
Joyce Bernstein Howell
Lawrence D. Hultgren
2004 Batten Professors
Karen A. Bosch
Clayton J. Drees
Steven M. Emmanuel
Kathy Merlock Jackson
Paul M. Resslar
Craig S. Wansink