Faculty and Staff Notes

Professor of Theater and Department Chair Matthew Wright was awarded "Best Actor - Musical" by the Cleveland Critics Circle for his role as Nostradamus in Something Rotten at Beck Center for the Arts and is featured in the Cleveland Scene article announcing the 2022 winners.

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."

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.

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."

Professor Stiliana Milkova's book of short fiction written in Italian Storia delle prime volte (Voland 2022) was reviewed in the major Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera. The reviewer compared Professor Milkova's literary style to that of Italo Calvino.

Associate Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Taylor published an interview with Beth Simon in ACM Inroads magazine. The interview discusses how to get people to adopt pedagogical innovations, peer instruction, and the differences between working with K-12 instructors and higher ed instructors on changing pedagogy.