Faculty and Staff Notes

Associate Director of Theater Marya Sea Kaminski earned a Gregory Award nomination for Outstanding Performance for her portrayal of M in Sarah Kane’s play CRAVE at Intiman Theatre in Seattle.

Associate professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin published “Response to Rabbi Perry Nussbaum: Interracial Marriage, Conversion, and Reform Judaism in Jackson, Mississippi, 1968” in the Primary Sources section of the journal Southern Jewish History.

Donald R. Longman ’32 Professor of Physics Jason Stalnaker was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for Exotic Physics Searches with Magnetometer Networks. The grant is a collaboration with Cal State-East Bay University, Bucknell University, and Messiah University. Jason and three recent Oberlin graduates coauthored a paper on a “Multimessenger Search for Exotic Field Emission with a Global Magnetometer Network” in Physical Review X.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Anthropology Jessica Madison Pískatá published an article in the July 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities titled "Radium Palace: Radiation and the Uncanny in the Bohemian Mountains."

Longman Professor of English emerita Sandra Zagarell published the essay "Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson's Activist Literature" in a special issue of Research in African Literatures on Pluralism and the Engaged Humanities in honor of Eileen Julien.

Associate Professor of Financial Economics Udara Peiris presented his paper, “Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy,” at the World Congress of the Econometric Society (August 18-22, 2025, Seoul, South Korea), the society’s flagship meeting, held every five years.

Assistant Professor of Politics Joshua Freedman published "Can Status Competition Save the World? Grafting, Green Energy, and the Climate Crisis" in International Organization. It included valuable research assistance by Anna Silverman ’22, Nathan Englehart ’23, and Sophia Cartsonis ’24.

Department of Psychology Research Technician Peter Naegele will be teaching Oberlin's first course that leverages AI to carry out data analysis using the programming and data analysis software RStudio. Students will learn to perform psychological data analyses using R confidently, understand the logic of programming, and utilize AI to enhance their research workflows.

Professor of Philosophy Todd Ganson presented his paper "The Dual Function of Sensory Systems: Reporting on Stimuli and Affordances" at the Summer Mind Workshop held at Columbia University's Mind Brain Behavior Institute.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Asif Iqbal published Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation (Routledge). A comparative study of 20th- and 21st-century Bengali vernaculars and South Asian anglophone diasporic novels, the book recasts the framing of South Asian cross-border entanglements and fractures in literary postcolonial studies.