Faculty and Staff Notes

Professor Peter Takács's 11-CD set of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas was voted Album of the Year 2022 in the Solo Instrumentalist category by subscribers to the high-resolution streaming platform NativeDSD.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics Shinkyu Lee's article titled “The Political vs. the Theological: The Scope of Secularity in Arendtian Forgiveness” was recently published in the Journal of Religious Ethics.

Alicia Smith-Tran's article recently published in Sociological Perspectives titled, "'There’s the Black Woman Thing, and There’s the Age Thing': Professional Black Women on the Downsides of 'Black Don’t Crack' and Strategies for Confronting Ageism at Work."

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde wrote about her "Year in Reading" for The Millions. 

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Matt Elrod recently published an article in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, "Kinetics Study of Acid-Catalyzed Sulfate Esterification Reactions for Atmospherically Relevant Polyols". The coauthors on this paper are Aziz Mohammed ’23 and Sunniva Sheffield ’22.

Shari Rabin published “‘Jews, Heathens, and Other Dissenters’: Governing Religion in the English Atlantic World, 1614-1790” in the journal Jewish Social Studies.

Amy Berg was interviewed by a journalist at the magazine 1843 (a sister publication of The Economist) about the recent implosion of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and the resulting fallout for the effective altruism movement.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Chanda Feldman read as part of the WBUR and CitySpace hybrid celebration of 50 years of AGNI literary journal on Friday, November 4, 2022. Additionally, Chanda Feldman has published two new poems, "For the picnic in the sculpture garden" and "Shuk", in AGNI Issue 96.

Assistant Professor Jenny Garcia was quoted in an article in the Guardian US about Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries rise to power.

Jillian Scudder's upcoming book, The Milky Way Smells of Rum & Raspberries, was positively reviewed in Publisher's Weekly: "From Saturn’s slowly decaying rings to diamond rain on Neptune, Scudder delivers entertaining pop science, all explained in accessible prose. Armchair astronomers will come away with a renewed sense of wonder at the strangeness of the universe."