Sabbatical

The Sabbatical Leave program provides an opportunity for Clemson University faculty to continue their professional growth and development by engaging in significant scholarship-related projects that will enhance their future contributions to the mission of the University.

Applications for sabbaticals beginning in the Fall semester should be submitted to the departmental committee no later than January 31. Applications for sabbaticals beginning in the Spring semester should be submitted to the departmental committee no later than May 1. 

For more detailed process regarding due dates, consult the calendar of dates and deadlines.

The following Sabbatical Form is an electronic, fillable form and should be used for all sabbatical submissions. All sabbatical applications must be submitted to the Provost's Office with departmental and dean-level approvals as one compiled pdf. For information on how to create a pdf portfolio, to add files to the signature form below, please visit https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/create-customize-pdf-portfolios.html. 

Upcoming and Recent Sabbaticals 

  • College of Agricultural, Forestry and Life Sciences

    Anthony Keinath

    Professor, Plant and Environmental Sciences
    Fall 2023

    To submit manuscripts for publication while also visiting low country organic vegetable farms.

    R. David Lamie

    Professor, Agricultural Sciences
    Fall 2023

    To develop research-based training content, identify case studies of innovative agritourism operations and support systems, strengthen the research network for domestic and global agritourism service providers and stakeholder organizations, create a draft strategic plan for Southern Heritage Crops development, and develop project enhancements.

    Brandon Peoples

    Associate Professor, Forestry and Environmental Conservation
    Fall 2023

    To complete a book project entitled Common Biota of Eastern North American Streams, author research publications, and begin another book project.

  • College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities

    Linda Dzuris

    Professor, Performing Arts
    Fall 2023

    To attend the World Carillon Congress in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

    Ulrike Heine

    Associate Professor, Architecture
    Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

    To research characteristics and priorities for the field of sustainable or environmental responsive design, focusing on data from winning schools of the ACSA AIA Cote Top Ten Competition since 2015 and to generate recommendations for the current teaching faculty in the field and work on publication of conference papers.

    Elizabeth Jemison

    Associate Professor, Philosophy and Religion
    Fall 2023

    To undertake research for a second scholarly monograph, Christian Motherhood: Race and Southern Churchwomen’s Organizing during Segregation.

    Salvador Oropesa

    Professor, Languages
    Fall 2023

    To complete book-length monograph project, El Rizoma Verde: Guardia Civil y Constitucionalismo en la Serie Vila-Chamorro de Lorenzo Silva (The Green Rhizome: Civil Guard and Constitutionalism in the Vila-Chamorro Series by Lorenzo Silva).

    Stephanie Barczewski

    Professor, History and Geography
    Spring 2023

    To finalize a book proposal for a project entitled A History of British National Parks, produce journal articles and book chapters and submit conference papers.

    James Burns

    Professor, History and Geography
    Spring 2023

    To make progress on a digital monograph Cinema and Society in the South Asian Diaspora.

    Megan Eatman

    Associate Professor, English
    Spring 2023

    To complete a book proposal for a second monograph that centers on the appropriation of scientific language and research processes in vernacular discourse.

    Andrea Feeser

    Professor, Art
    Spring 2023

    To research and work on articles for two projects centered on Wedgwood’s 1787 Abolitionist Medallion and amalgamated images of Native Americans, slaves, and white colonizers in eighteenth-century America.

    Michelle Smith

    Associate Professor, English
    Spring 2023

    To conduct archival research necessary for a second book project tentatively titled Second Life: A Rhetorical History of Rosie the Riveter.

    Valerie Zimany

    Professor, Art
    Spring 2023

    To travel and collect field data, develop collaborations and create a new portfolio of artwork expanding a "Dirt x Digital: Profiles, Patterns, and Print Phenomena" project for national and international presentation.

    David Donar

    Professor, Art
    Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

    To research and develop an animation film and music based on the Acadian/Cajun/Creole culture of Southwestern Louisiana and Nova Scotia, Canada.

  • College of Behavioral, Social and Health Sciences

    Elizabeth Baldwin

    Associate Professor, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management
    Fall 2023

    To expand a research agenda, to advance publications from research work and formalize a growing network of collaborators interested in the examination of a knowledge exchange network for school and university forests nationally.

    Gregory Cranmer

    Associate Professor, Communication
    Fall 2023

    To conduct field implementation and assessment of bystander intervention toward concussion reporting, advance research projects to publication, and submit grant proposals for external funding.

    Katherine Amber Curtis

    Associate Professor, Political Science
    Fall 2023

    To write and submit multiple articles for publication using original Political Attitudes and Identities Survey (PAIS) conducted in nine countries and publicly share the research through the University of Michigan's Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and the Harvard Dataverse.

    Jeffrey Peake

    Professor, Political Science
    Fall 2023

    Expand research activities, to begin new research project, develop a State Department grant, and prepare a course on the U.S. presidency.

    Darren Linvill

    Associate Professor, Communication
    Spring 2023

    To plan and develop Clemson's Media Forensics Hub initiative and to travel to Brisbane Australia to work with Queensland University of Technology's Digital Media Research Centre.

  • College of Business

    Daniel Greene

    Associate Professor, Finance
    Fall 2023

    To develop new research manuscripts, travel to conduct and disseminate research, and create case studies for classroom use.

    Erica Walker

    Associate Professor, Graphic Communications
    Fall 2023

    To further research and creative pursuits related to research and teaching, connect with industry members and alumni, and improve course material with knowledge gained during these pursuits.

  • College of Education

    Nicole Sinwell

    Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
    Fall 2023

    To concentrate on research activities for funded interdisciplinary projects, submit manuscripts for publication, and apply a metacognitive lens to one's research agenda and scholarly trajectory.

    Philip Wilder

    Associate Professor, Education, Health and Development
    Fall 2023

    To complete research for a Tanzanian school project, submit proposal for Spencer foundation grant, complete book proposal for Teachers College press, and submit manuscripts and conference proposals.

    Jacquelynn Malloy

    Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
    Spring 2023

    To conduct research involving elementary education graduates in South Carolina, to transform assessment formats, to design a website for classroom teachings and to complete writing projects.

  • College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Science

    Ioannis Karamouszas

    Associate Professor, Computing
    Fall 2023

    To develop new approaches for socially-compliant robot navigation by conducting two extended visits at INRIA-Rennes, France and CIMAT-Guanajuato, Mexico.

    Mary Beth Kurz

    Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
    Fall 2023 and Spring 2014

    To conduct proposal writing, grant work and research activities in warehousing / internal logistics topical areas as part of changing roles from more service-intensive activities.

    Lawrence Murdoch

    Professor, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
    Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

    To purse a new research topic related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

    David Neyens

    Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
    Fall 2023

    To expand a research portfolio in human factors in health care by engaging clinicians and hospital systems, resulting in research publications and grant applications.

    G. Kumar Venayagamoorthy

    Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Fall 2023

    To complete a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program and Research Collaborations, engage in large funding proposal development including NSF ERCs and US DOE Centers, publish two book projects entitled Wireless Sensor Networks: Computational Intelligence Applications and Distributed Artificial Intelligence for Complex Systems, and develop a graduate level course related to this research.

    Rajendra Bordia

    Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
    Spring 2023

    To conduct two extended research visits at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India and the University of Bayreuth in Bayreuth, Germany.

    Kapil Chalil Madathil

    Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering
    Spring 2023

    To generate a broad interdisciplinary proposal focused on approaches for remote heart failure monitor, to collaborate with colleagues at other universities and to submit manuscripts for publication.

    Sarah Harcum

    Professor, Bioengineering
    Spring 2023

    To develop a competitive Engineering Research Center proposal to the National Science Foundation focused on Integrated Continuous Biomanufacturing.

    Ashok Mishra

    Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
    Spring 2023

    To pursue emerging research topics and implement them to extreme climate events, to develop new multidisciplinary proposals for federal agencies and attempt to submit larger proposals and to produce manuscripts for publication.

    Pierluigi Pisu

    Professor, Automotive Engineering
    Spring 2023

    To build new skills and conduct research in the area of machine learning, quantum computing and cyber-security of cyber-physical systems with particular applications to automated vehicles and vehicle to grid interactions at the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy.

     

  • College of Science

    Shitao Liu

    Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
    Fall 2023

    To focus on two ongoing research projects on inverse problems for partial differential equations and prepare an NSF proposal to be submitted to the Applied Mathematics program.

    Catalina Marinescu

    Professor, Physics and Astronomy
    Fall 2023 and Spring 2024

    To pursue research projects with collaborators at University of Rejkyavik, Iceland and the Romanian Institute of Materials Physics.

    Ramakrishna Podila

    Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy
    Fall 2023

    To build a new lab and repurpose existing lab equipment and extend existing expertise to study energy storage solutions in extreme environments.

    Derek Andrew Brown

    Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
    Spring 2023

    To visit researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Georgia Institute of Technology to build collaboration and establish new projects and lines of research that will result in publications and grant funding opportunities.

    Xian Lu

    Associate Professor, Physics
    Spring 2023 and Fall 2023

    To advance model capability, disseminate scientific results and collaborate with colleagues.

    Matthew Saltzman

    Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
    Spring 2023

    To visit Sandia National Laboratory to collaborate on research and develop software tools and research publications.

    Yuyuan Ouyang

    Associate Professor, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
    Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 

    To engage in collaborative research activities with scholars at the Georgia Institute of Technoloy and develop research manuscripts in the specific areas of stochastic algorithms, distributed optimization, and machine learning.