Summer 2004

Carvill Replaces Luegenbiehl As Department Head For Humanities And Social Sciences

Veteran Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology American literature professor Caroline Carvill has been named head of the college's humanities and social sciences department by Art Western, vice president of academic affairs. She began her new duties on July 1.

Carvill replaces Heinz Luegenbiehl, who is returning to a full-time teaching position within the department.

A member of the Rose-Hulman faculty since 1989, Carvill received the Dean's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1994, served as associate dean of faculty in 1996- 1998, and served as interim department head in 2002-2003. She also was division chair of the American Society for Engineering Education's Liberal Education Division in 2001-2002.

Carvill was also named the Triangle fraternity's Teacher of the Year in 1992, has been director of Rose-Hulman's service learning education program, and was named an honorary Rose-Hulman alumnus in 2003 by the college's Alumni Association.

Active as a community volunteer, Carvill received a Terre Award in 2000 for outstanding community service. She has served as a leader for the Council on Domestic Abuse, the United Way, and Wabash Valley Habitat for Humanity, and coordinated efforts as students constructed a Habitat for Humanity house in 2002-2003.

Carvill earned her bachelor's, master's and doctorate from the University of Arkansas. Her academic areas of specialty include 20th century American literature, modern southern fiction and composition.