Faculty and Staff Notes

Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies Baron Pineda published the article "First Surveillance: An Anthropology of Gen Z Parental Internet Supervision" in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (715[1], 138-155, December 2025).

New poetry by Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers was featured on the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Joe Bucciero published three essays on German painting of the 1920s and ’30s: one each in the journals October and 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual and one in the book Carl Grossberg: New Forms in the World of Technology, edited by Adrian Sudhalter ’89.

"Interwoven Literacies: Connecting Libraries, Language, AI, and the Arts in ESOL Education" was presented by Oberlin’s ESOL Program Director Larissa Fekete and Head of the Conservatory Library Kathleen Abromeit at the Ohio TESOL conference on November 20, 2025.

Professor of Geosciences Zeb Page recently published the article "Microscale Variations in Eclogite‐Facies Trace Element Redistribution Controlled by Mineral Banding" in the Journal of Metamorphic Geology. The article is a collaboration with former students Andrea Goltz ’17 and Will Hoover ’14; the new work builds off of results from Goltz's and Hoover's honors theses.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber received a travel grant to do research in Japan this winter from the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, with the support of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. His project is "The Spread and Visualization of Demonic Disease: Illustrated Buddhist Medical Manuscripts in the Medieval Countryside."

Associate Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton was awarded a competitive fellowship by the Hawthornden Foundation. She will spend Winter Term 2026 at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland working on her novel-in-progress.

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jillian Scudder visited Ohio State University on December 3 and 4 for a well-attended special public lecture hosted by the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, followed by a book signing. In addition, she gave a special colloquium for CCAPP on science communication the following day.

Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Joshua Sperling published the article “Tapping the Source: Raoul Peck’s James Baldwin and the archival backstage of I Am Not Your Negro” in the journal Adaptation (Oxford Academic).

At the recent Association for Jewish Studies conference in Washington, D.C., Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Matthew Berkman participated in two roundtables, “Jewish Studies at a Crossroads: Antisemitism, Israel, and the Crisis in Higher Education” and “Powers of Jewish Studies.”