Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber published the chapter “Corpses as Pathogenic Agents in Early Medieval Japan” for the book Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World: Images, Objects, and Remains (Arc Humanities Press, 2025).

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

Assistant Professor of German Jessica Resvick co-organized the panel series "Photobooks, Photo Essays, and the Body" at the Annual Conference of the German Studies Association. She also delivered a paper, "Physiognomy and Photography: August Sander's Typological Archive," for which Dlisah Lapidus '26 provided research support.

Lecturer and Program Director for Community-Engaged Research and Learning Jo Line coauthored the chapter “We Do Not Need Leaders, We Need Coactors,” which was published in Reimagining the Gendering of Sport, edited by Vikki Krane and Tanya Prewitt-White.

Professor of Politics Kristina Mani wrote a piece in The Conversation that looks at how recent domestic deployments of U.S. armed forces risk politicizing the military and how U.S. steps reflect harmful ones countries in Latin America took in the past that led to the breakdown of democracy.

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.