Littlejohn holds the Ph.D. from Baylor University and has done post-doctoral work at the University of Chicago, the University of Hawaii, the University of Arizona, Harvard University, Notre Dame University, and the Pennsylvania State University. He is the past Chairman of the Board of ASIANetwork, a consortium of over 170 liberal arts colleges and universities in the U.S., and he now serves as one of its two Development Officers to manage $1million in grant funds annually. He is Co-Director of the Tennessee National Consortium for Teaching about Asia, which is a multi-year initiative to encourage and facilitate teaching and learning about East Asia in elementary and secondary schools nationwide, serving more than 1,000 teachers yearly. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Association of Regional Centers for the Asian Studies Development Program of the East West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Littlejohn is a member of the Board of Directors of the award winning Education about Asia magazine, published by the international Association of Asian Studies. He has served in leadership positions in the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, the Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America, the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, and the Early China Roundtable of Scholars.

His field research since 1998 has been with Zhengyi Daoist lineages in several provinces of China. He was one of three American scholars chosen to give a Keynote Presentation at the First International Forum on Laozi and Daoist Culture in Beijing in November 2009, and he gave one of the dedicatory addresses for the Laozi and Daoist Culture Center at the traditional birthplace of Laozi in Luyi County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, P. R. China. In 2010, he presented “Daoism,” in the nationally broadcast television series, Belief Systems and Religions in East Asia sponsored by Columbia University. He was the Editorial Consultant for China’s sacred sites in Sacred Journeys: National Geographic (Special Edition) (January 2011). He has been Director of Belmont University’s China and Hong Kong Summer Travel Studies and Exchange Programs since 1998 and Director of undergraduate student travel studies in China from 2000 to the presnt. He has been Director of Belmont short-term student Study-Away Programs at University of Hawai’i/East West Center in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and in Belmont’s Maymester study away format with the University of Hawai’i since 2013.

He has many teaching awards to his credit, including the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Tennessee Professor of the Year Award 2015 and Virginia M. Chaney Distinguished Professor Award 2013.

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His research includes one textbook contribution, two book chapters, several peer reviewed journal articles and many international and national conference presentations. His primary areas of interest are Business Education, Management, Human Resource Management, Strategic Management, Leadership, and Organizational Development.

He currently teaches undergraduate students in the Management and Business Administration Departments within the School of Business at Flagler College. Dr. Barclay also serves as the Coordinator for the International Business Program. His international teaching and research experiences include working in Australia, Finland, China, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Spain, Puerto Rico, and England. In addition, he is the faculty advisor to the Sigma Beta Delta business fraternity and faculty liaison to the Business Advisory Board.

Prior to his current position, he served as the Department Chair for the School of Business at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota. In this job he worked closely with both undergraduate students and graduate students. He also taught in the MBA program at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Dr. Barclay has received many accolades throughout his career. He was honored to earn the 2012 Jentz Fellowship at the University of Colorado, Graduate School of Banking; the 2014 Online Consortium Program Grant for online programing; the 2015 Confucius Institute Beijing Delegate Travel Grant; and the 2019 New Faculty Member of the Year award at Flagler College.

In addition to his academic service, he is a proud relief foster parent for Seamark Ranch in Jacksonville, Florida.  Prior to this, he spent several years as a board member for the University of Minnesota Federal Credit Union and the University of Minnesota Financial System User Network. In addition, he worked as a Training Development Coordinator for the University of Minnesota and is a proud veteran of the US Coast Guard.

Dr. Skoog has conducted national choral festivals at the Kennedy Center, and in 2017 had his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall. Internationally, he has conducted choral festivals in Dublin, Paris, Salzburg, Vienna, Rome, Lucerne, and Prague in the prestigious Dvorak Festival. He is the author of several articles for Choral Journal, the Music Educators Journal, and the Cambridge Scholars Press. His most significant publication is a book entitled The Choral Works of Jennifer Higdon, Choral Kaleidoscope, published in 2021 by Cambridge Scholars Press, and he is currently under contract with them for a publication entitled The Choral Works of Dave Brubeck. Bill is the father of three grown children and has four grandchildren. He resides in Shelby County, Tennessee with his wife Elaine.

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh is Professor of History at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, Canada, where she teaches the history of health care, Canadian and American women’s history, and North American Popular Culture. Dr. Warsh served as long-term Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, and co-Editor of Gender & History.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, and a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and Queen’s University at Kingston, Dr. Warsh was an Associated Medical Services/Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine Scholar and a Fulbright Fellow at Duke University, and the inaugural recipient of the Vancouver Island University Distinguished Researcher Award. In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for her contributions to Canadian medical history, and currently serves as Chair of the RSC Academy of Arts & Humanities, Fellows Nomination Committee.