Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor Evan Kresch both presented a paper "(Not So) Gently Down The Stream: River Pollution and Health in Indonesia" and was a discussant at the Midwest International Economic Development Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.

Assistant Professor Bernard Matambo’s essay “Working the City” was selected for inclusion in the Best American Essays 2017.

Professor Ann Cooper Albright was a fellow at the Interweaving Performance Cultures Research Center at Berlin's Free University during the spring 2017 semester. She also taught a module course on dancing and writing at the University of Salzburg in Austria.

Professor of Politics Stephen Crowley's article "Why Protests Keep Putin Up at Night" was published in Foreign Affairs.

Adrian Bautista, assistant vice president of student life and instructor, Gina Perez, professor of comparative American studies, and Julio Reyes, Multicultural Resource Center assistant director and Latinx community coordinator, were recently awarded a grant from the Great Lakes Colleges Association's Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA) mini-grant program for their “Latina/o/x Oral Histories of Northeast Ohio” course/project. Taught this semester as CAST 335, the project is an ongoing collaboration between Oberlin College students, staff, faculty and Latina/o/x residents and community organizations to document Latina/o/x histories and contemporary experiences throughout Northeast Ohio.

The award includes a mini-grant for course and project development, as well as full support for participation in the OHLA oral history institute this summer at Kenyon College.

Pipo Nguyen-Duy received an Individual Excellence Award for photography from the Ohio Arts Council.

Individual Excellence Awards are peer recognition of creative artists for the exceptional merit of a body of work that advances or exemplifies the discipline and the larger artistic community. These awards support artists' growth and development and recognize work in Ohio and beyond.

Rian Brown-Orso received an Individual Excellence Award for media arts from the Ohio Arts Council.

Individual Excellence Awards are peer recognition of creative artists for the exceptional merit of a body of work that advances or exemplifies the discipline and the larger artistic community. These awards support artists' growth and development and recognize work in Ohio and beyond.

Stiliana Milkova, assistant professor of comparative literature, was interviewed on "Fahrenheit," the leading program about culture and literature which is broadcast on Italian national radio. The interview covered the first international conference about the author Elena Ferrante which took place on April 7, 2017 in Naples, Italy. Professor Milkova was an invited participant at the conference.

The podcast of the interview (in Italian) can be heard here.

Andria Derstine, director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, and Leo Evans, assistant director of the college's Office of Facilities Planning and Construction, received Oberlin Heritage Center's Heritage Guardian Award for conservation work on the King Sculpture Court's ceiling and clerestory inside the Allen Memorial Art Museum. The ceiling and its 100 coffered decorations were a part of architect Cass Gilbert's original plan for the museum building when it opened in 1917. The conservation work included a nearly year-long, full-scale cleaning of the ceiling by ICA-Art Conservation, along with the installation of advanced lighting systems.

Kathy Abromeit, public services librarian in the Conservatory of Music, was appointed editor of the Music Library Association's Basic Manual Series. Abromeit is an author and editor of the forthcoming volume in the Basic Manual Series, Music Information Literacy: Ideas, Strategies, and Scenarios. The Basic Manual Series is a comprehensive set of manuals designed to assist the librarian in dealing with various aspects of the organization, administration and use of a music library.