Faculty and Staff Notes

Ana Cristina Perry, assistant professor of art history, had an interview published in The Brooklyn Rail with Raphael Montañez Ortiz, an internationally renowned Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican artist and educator who grew up in New York City and founder of El Museo del Barrio.

Drew Wilburn continued his work with the third grade classes at Oberlin Elementary School, sharing information about archaeology. For the past 5 years, with a small pandemic break, Professor Wilburn has worked with the third grade team as they explore the IB curriculum, "Who we are in Space and Time." Students participated in the analysis of a "Mystery Cemetery," which helps the third graders analyze a series of "graves" from a fictional culture, based in part on teaching tools from the Archaeological Institute of America.

Visiting Assistant Professor Kasia Ozga's solo exhibition OEKOUMENE in L’Angle, Espace d’art contemporain du Pays Rochois in La Roche Sur Foron, France, opens on September 30 and will be on view through November 19.

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lisa Ryno was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation, "Sugar-mediated remodeling of the E. coli transcriptome and its impact on biofilm growth and composition." This $534,002 grant will support student-faculty research on how monosaccharides influence both biofilm growth and composition. Because biofilms play a role in antibiotic resistance, better understanding of the biochemical pathways through which they form could have eventual applications in development of antibiotics or antibiofilm coatings.

Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long published an article, "Reassessing the Plagal Cadence in Byrd and Morley," in the most recent issue of Music Theory Online. The article unpacks the obscure history of the plagal cadence by looking at representative examples from Byrd's compositions and Morley's theory treatise.

Professor Milkova's book Storia delle prime volte is published this week in Italy by the Italian publisher Voland. Written in Italian, it is a book of ten short stories about characters who live between languages, continents, and cultures, negotiating their transnational and nomadic identities.

Emily Barton publishes an essay, "Spaceship," in Mothers Unearthed: The Aster(ix) Climate Issue. The essay is only available in the print edition.

Associate Professor of Economics Evan Kresch publishes an article for VoxDev titled "Targeting relief aid after natural disasters: Should donors work through governments or NGOs?".

John Gruber will perform George Walker's Trombone Concerto with the Akron Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, September 24.

KJ Cerankowski's book Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming was shortlisted for the ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) 2022 Book Prize.