Dr. Gregory Kaufinger, professor of accounting, and Dr. Andrew Vogel, professor of English, have been awarded Kutztown University’s 2025 Chambliss Faculty Research Awards for their extraordinary research and scholarship endeavors. The awards were presented during the university’s Faculty and Staff Convocation and Celebration Friday, Aug. 22.
The Chambliss Faculty Research Award, inaugurated in 2004 through a gift from Dr. Carlson R. Chambliss, professor emeriti of physical science, is meant to recognize the very highest achievement in research and scholarship and can be awarded only once within a person’s career.
Kaufinger has been a professor of accounting at KU since 2018 and has also served as discipline coordinator for accounting and interim MBA director. He earned a Doctor of Business Administration in accounting from Anderson University, a Master of Business Administration in management from Lehigh University, and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Geneva College. Since joining KU in 2018, Kaufinger has authored or co-authored 10 journal articles under the applied integrative/application scholarship (AIS) category and one under the teaching and learning scholarship (TLS) category. He was also the primary author on seven of the AIS publications and the sole author on the TLS case.
He is an accomplished author and editor and has written and edited several books that explore various aspects of mentoring and personal development. These works include “Christ Imitators: 14 Traits We Need to be Like Jesus,” and “Devoted Prayer: Embracing God’s Challenge to Develop a Powerful & Productive Prayer Life,” which reflect his deep commitment to both his professional field and personal values.
His scholarly excellence has also been recognized by the College of Business with the Faculty Researcher of the Year award in 2022.
Vogel has been a professor at KU since 2007, the chair of the English department from 2012-20 and became the KU Honors Program director in 2023.
Since Vogel began at KU, he has been working on a book, “Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893-1921: Ambivalence and Aspiration.” This book has received endorsements from several top researchers and international experts in the field of mobility studies. The book has also been endorsed by scholars in American Modernism for its contributions in that field.
Vogel’s book became possible through the PASSHE Faculty Professional Development Fund. The fund supported his travel to Detroit, where he spent time in the National Automotive History Collection of the Detroit Public Library, the Transportation History Achieve at the University of Michigan and the Benson Ford Research Center at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. The grant also supported him to review archival records at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
He has also published multiple scholarly articles including ones in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Studies in American Naturalism, Studies in Travel Writing, The Critical Insights collection and American Studies that are prominent in his field.
Vogel’s poems have been published in both national and international publications including Poetry East, White Wall Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Roanoke Review, Crab Creek, California Quarterly and Evergreen.
His research has been presented at conferences held at the Sorbonne in Paris, Princeton University, the Institute for Regional Geography in Leibniz and the Bloomsday Centenary James Joyce conference in Dublin, Ireland. He has been involved with the KU faculty-led study abroad program in Ireland since 2018 and won a PASSHE Faculty Professional Development Fund to study the Irish language in immersion programs in Ireland.
