Hunter, Gabriella “Claire”
Gabriella “Claire” Hunter
Executive Assistant to the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management
Archives: Staff Members
May, Robert (Pryce)
Robert (Pryce) May
Administrative Coordinator for the Lucas Center
Thompson, Larry D.
Larry D. Thompson
Executive in-Residence
School of Business and Public Management
School of Business and Public Management
Larry D. Thompson serves as Counsel to the Atlanta law firm of Finch McCranie, LLP. Mr. Thompson retired in December 2014 as Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for PepsiCo, Inc. Mr. Thompson assumed this position with PepsiCo in July 2012, with responsibility for the company’s worldwide legal function, as well as its government affairs and public policy organizations. He also oversaw the company’s global compliance function and served as President of the PepsiCo Foundation.
Mr. Thompson previously served as PepsiCo’s Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary from 2004 to 2011. He served as a Senior Fellow with The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and his government career includes serving in the U.S. Department of Justice as the former U.S. Deputy Attorney General under George W. Bush (2001-2003). In 2002, Attorney General John Ashcroft named Mr. Thompson to lead the National Security Coordination Council. Also, in 2002, President Bush named Mr. Thompson to head the Corporate Fraud Task Force. Mr. Thompson led the establishment of the Department of Justice’s Attorney Outreach Program which resulted in the recruitment of attorneys from a wide range of ethnic, economic, geographic, and racial backgrounds.
Previously, Mr. Thompson was a partner in the Atlanta, Georgia law firm of King & Spalding. From 1982-1986, Mr. Thompson served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In that role, he directed the Southern Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and served on the Attorney General’s Economic Crime Council. In July 1995, Mr. Thompson was appointed Independent Counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development Investigation by the Special Panel of U.S. Circuit Court Judges appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court. In April 2000, Mr. Thompson was selected by Congress to chair the Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control. Mr. Thompson joined the Atlanta, Georgia law firm of Finch McCranie, LLP as Counsel in July 2015.
Committee of the Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company), and currently serves on the Board of Franklin Templeton Mutual Series Funds and the George W. Bush Foundation Board. He is an elected Fellow of the American Board of Governance Counsel, and the American Board of Criminal Lawyers and has served as a Trustee on the Chautauqua Institute Board since 2014. Mr. Thompson was elected to the Council of the American Law Institute and serves on the Georgia Historical Society Board of Curators. Mr. Thompson is an elected member of the American College of Governance Counsel. He is the recipient of the Edmund Jennings Randolph Award for outstanding contributions to the accomplishment of the Department of Justice’s mission, Outstanding Litigator Award by the Federal Bar Association, and the A.T. Walden Award for outstanding accomplishments to the legal profession by the Gate City Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia. In 2017, Mr. Thompson was honored with the first-ever William T. Coleman, Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award by the African-American Managing Partners Network. Mr. Thompson was elected as a Trustee to the University of Georgia Foundation in June 2016. Mr. Thompson has served on the University of Georgia School of Law’s faculty as the holder of the John A. Sibley Chair of Corporate and Business Law. In 2016, Mr. Thompson was named Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ethics Research Center (ERC), the research arm of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI). In 2014, Ethisphere magazine recognized Mr. Thompson by noting that as “the outgoing General Counsel of one of the world’s most well-recognized corporations [Thompson] has set the bar high for GC’s everywhere. [His] background in both public and private sectors earned him the trust and respect of his peers worldwide as he demonstrated how ethics and integrity are essential components of business success.”
In 2017, Mr. Thompson was appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice as the Independent Corporate Compliance Monitor and Auditor for Volkswagen AG.
Larry holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Culver-Stockton College, a Master’s degree from Michigan State University and a Law degree from the University of Michigan, an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Pace University in New York, and an Honorary Doctorate from St. Louis University. Larry’s first book, Quiet Counsel, was released in November 2024.
Clark, Robert
Dr. Robert Clark
Associate Professor of English
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of Georgia
M.A. in English, University of Georgia
M.A. in Secondary English Education, Furman University
B.A. in English, Wheaton College (IL)
Teaching and Research Interests / Recent Publications or Scholarly Output
Dr. Clark’s research interests include American literature, science fiction, the short story, anime and animation, memetics, and interactive media.
Selected Publications:
Book:
American Literary Minimalism. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Articles and Book Chapter:
“Silence, Implication, and Style in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Bloodchild’.” Science Fiction Studies 52, no. 2 (2025). 211-229.
“Raymond Carver: ‘A Small, Good Thing’ and ‘Cathedral’.” In The Handbook of the American Short Story. Ed. Erik Redling and Oliver Scheiding. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. 493-511.
“Lydia Davis’s Psychological Minimalism.” Studies in the American Short Story 1, no. 1 (2020): 38-52.
“A Reverence for Untrendy Human Troubles: David Foster Wallace’s ‘Good People,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Hills Like White Elephants,’ and American Minimalist Narration.” Amerikastudien/American Studies 62, no. 3 (2017).
“Keeping the Reader in the House: American Minimalism, Literary Impressionism, and Raymond Carver’s ‘Cathedral’.” Journal of Modern Literature 36, no. 1 (2012): 104-118.
“Toreo, Ritual, and Nationalism: The Cultural Context of María Cristina Mena’s ‘The Emotions of María Concepción’.” South Atlantic Review 75, no. 4 (2010): 73-90.
“At the Corner of Bourbon and Toulouse Street: The Historical Context of Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s ‘M’sieu Fortier’s Violin’.” American Literary Realism 41, no. 2 (2009): 163-79.
“Papa y El Tirador: Biographical Parallels in Hemingway’s ‘I Guess Everything Reminds You of Something’.” The Hemingway Review 27, no. 1 (2007): 89-106.
Nelson, Katherine
Katherine Nelson
Student Solution Center Specialist
Evans Jr., Dr. Johnny L.
Dr. Johnny L. Evans, Jr.
President
Dr. Johnny L. Evans, Jr. was named the seventh President of the College of Coastal Georgia on January 14, 2025. Prior to that, he served as the College’s Interim President.
Dr. Evans assumed the role of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the College of Coastal Georgia on January 1, 2019.
Known for his dedication to fostering strong academic programs that deliver transformative educational experiences, Dr. Evans prioritizes student success, drawing from his own formative years as a student at Georgia College. He attributes much of his academic success to the deep care and mentoring provided by his faculty mentors.
Dr. Evans is a distinguished scholar. He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Georgia College and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Florida. His academic journey includes postdoctoral research roles at Oak Ridge National Labs and Savannah River Labs.
Dr. Evans spent the first 13 years of his academic career at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, where he was a Professor of Chemistry and Physics and the Chemistry Program Coordinator. Before joining Coastal Georgia, Dr. Evans held leadership positions as the Dean of Math and Science and subsequently as the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College from 2013 to 2019.
Outside of his professional endeavors, Dr. Evans finds joy in the outdoors and expresses his creativity as an avid artist and metal sculptor. His artwork, crafted from steel, brass, and copper, reflects his passion for capturing the beauty of nature through sculpture.