Faculty and Staff Notes

Sheila Miyoshi Jager, professor East Asian studies, signed a contract with Harvard University Press for the publication of her next book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia. The book is slated for publication in 2021 as a trade book.

Sheila Miyoshi Jager, professor East Asian studies, received a travel grant from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies in support of research for her next book, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia.

Professor of East Asian studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager was interviewed by Neal Conan, former host of National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation, for an episode on U.S. policy toward North Korea in Conan's new program, Truth, Politics & Power. The program addresses "the context and meaning that underlie" the "unprecedented series of questions and challenges" presented by the election of President Trump by placing "the new administration policies and practices in historical perspective."

Jager was interviewed along with Michele Flournoy, CEO of Center for New American Security and former undersecretary of defense for policy, and Ambassador Chris Hill who has previously held positions as ambassador to Macedonia, Poland, South Korea, and Iraq, as assistant secretary of state for East Asian & Pacific affairs, and is currently the dean of Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

The interview was recorded at WOBC with assistance from third-year TIMARA major Joe Misterovich and second-year English major Cena Loffredo.

Emeritus Professor of Biology and Neuroscience Catherine McCormick published the article, “Mechanosensory Lateral Line Nerve Projections to Auditory Neurons in the Dorsal Descending Octaval Nucleus in the Goldfish, Carassius auratus,” in Brain Behavior and Evolution, Vol. 88 August 2016 and Cover. McCormick and her co-authors, Shannon Gallagher ‘10, Evan Cantu-Hertzler ‘10, and Scarlet Woodrick ‘11, used confocal microscopy to reveal multi-sensory components of the primitive central scaffolding of the auditory system.

Janet Fiskio, associate professor of environmental studies and comparative American studies, published two articles, “Dancing at the End of the World: The Poetics of the Body in Indigenous Protest” in Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies. Ed. Salma Monani and Joni Adamson. New York: Routledge.101-118 and “Building Paradise in the Classroom” in Teaching Climate Change in Literary and Cultural Studies.  Ed. Stephanie LeMenager, Shane Hall, and Stephen Siperstein. 101-109.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Crystal (Cal) Biruk presented a paper on March 31, 2017 at the American Ethnological Society's meetings at Stanford University.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Crystal (Cal) Biruk delivered an invited lecture on their forthcoming book, Cooking Data: Culture and Politics in an African Research World on April 2, 2017 at University of Cincinnati's Taft Research Center.

Marco Wilkinson, managing editor of Oberlin College Press and instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition, has received a full scholarship to attend the Breadloaf Orion environmental writer's conference this summer.

Margaret Kamitsuka, associate professor of religion, presented “Abortion and the Maternal Authority to End Fetal Life” at the Duquesne Women in Philosophy 2017 Conference on March 24, 2017 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Greggor Mattson, associate professor of sociology, was interviewed about his research on Dutch prostitution politics by the Brazilian publication Veja, the largest weekly news magazine in Brazil and Latin America. The interview focused on a recent interpretation by government ministers that exchanging sex for driving lessons, while "undesirable," did not constitute prostitution.