Faculty and Staff Notes

Associate Professor of German Jessica Resvick was awarded a fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to support work on her monograph, From Stereotype to Isotype: Media, Individuality, and Society. It will fund three research stays at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin.

Emerita Professor of Music Education Joanne Erwin coauthored the book Cello Companion to Paul Rolland’s Teaching of Action in String Playing with Ida Mercer. It was published by the American String Teachers Association.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Molly Feldman and Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics Amanda Zadorian organized a discussion of "Economic Temporalities and the Frictions of Evaluating Work" at the fifth symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK '26) at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria, on June 24.

Creative writing emerita faculty Pamela Alexander was honored by Marsh Hawk Press for her poem "After We Broke the Sky." She also earned an International Merit Award for Poetry from the Atlanta Review.

Assistant Professor of English Sarah Jane Kerwin recently published a chapter in the edited collection Redefining Land Management in North American Literature and Culture: From Resource to Reciprocity (Routledge 2026) titled "'For sheer joy in wild terrain': Rock Climbing Literature and Public Lands."

Emeritus Professor of History Steve Volk coauthored the chapter "Powers of Attention: To Walk a Fine Line" in Practice Dialogues: Listening to the Wisdom of Care Work (ed. Alice Lesnick; Lever Press, 2026).

Associate Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber presented the paper “Nightmare-Touch: Visualizing Disease Demons in Tendai Buddhist Medical Manuscripts” at "Buddhism and Medicine: People, Paradigms and Perspectives," an international conference held at the University of Bristol, UK, May 21–May 23.

James O'Leary, the Frederick R. Selch Associate Professor of Musicology, was recently interviewed by the New Books Network about his book, "The Middlebrow Musical: Between Broadway and Opera in 1940s America" (OUP, 2025).

Donald R. Longman '32 Professor of Physics Jason Stalnaker and three former Oberlin students have co-authored a paper on a "Search for a solar-bound axion halo using the global network of magnetometers for exotic physics searches" in the journal Physical Review D.

Frederick B. Artz Professor of History Leonard V. Smith published “Violence, Legalism, and the Evolution of Sovereignty in the Mandates, 1923-1939” in Haakon Ikonomou, Karin van Leeuwen, and Morten Rasmussen, eds., Handbook on the League of Nations and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2026): 364-386. The article argues for a reciprocal relationship between violence and the law in reordering the international system.