Faculty and Staff Notes
Kirk Ormand Publishes in Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
March 29, 2021
Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand has published an article titled "Sex and the City" in the Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens, edited by Jenifer Neils and Dylan Rogers (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Ormand's article gives an overview of the legal, literary, archaeological, and art-historical evidence for marital and extramarital sexual activity in the city of fifth-century BCE Athens. He analyzes the regulations and social expectations governing marriage, sex-work, and the relation of sexual activity to civic membership.
Allegra Hyde publishes essay in The Kenyon Review
March 11, 2021
Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde published an essay, "The Contagious Collective Epiphany'": On Climate Change, Social Change, and the Right to Vote, in The Kenyon Review.
Andrea McAlister earns distinction of Yamaha Master Educator
March 11, 2021
Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy Andrea McAlister has been selected as a Yamaha Master Educator. She is one of only five keyboard educators chosen from across the country.
Danielle Terrazas Williams gives public lecture
March 10, 2021
Assistant Professor of History Danielle Terrazas Williams gave a public lecture at the University of Oregon titled "Who Dared to Question the Word of a Priest?: Free Black Women and Capital in 17th-Century Mexico."
Martin Saavedra appointed to editorial board of Explorations in Economic History
March 10, 2021
Associate Professor of Economics Martin Saavedra now serves on the Editorial Board of Explorations in Economic History.
Saavedra's paper about COVID-19 is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature.
Jody Kerchner to participate in two panels on singing in prison contexts
March 5, 2021
This March, music education professor Jody Kerchner will participate in two panel presentations on the Choral Commons month-long series titled "Gather—Community Music Conversations." The Choral Commons is sponsored in part by the American Choral Directors Association and Chorus America.
The first discussion, on Wednesday, March 10 at 8:00 p.m., features Kerchner's work with the Oberlin Music at Grafton Choir (OMAG). She will be joined by restored citizen and OMAG "founding father" Jerome Thompson.
On Wednesday, March 17 at 8:00 p.m., Kerchner joins prison singing facilitators Cathy Roma, Mary Cohen, Amanda Weber, and Andre DeQuadros to further discuss prison music engagement.
The sessions are moderated and produced for Facebook by Emilie Amrein and Andre DeQuadros. These webinars are held live and recorded for later viewing on the Choral Commons website.
Carl McDaniel publishes memoir about life as a scientist
March 3, 2021
The fifth book by Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies Carl McDaniel, Beauty Won Me Over: A Scientist's Life, was published in February 2021 by Austin Macauley. The book is a memoir about his life as a scientist.
Jillian Scudder interviewed for article in WIRED
March 3, 2021
Assistant Professor of Physics Jillian Scudder was interviewed and quoted in an article in WIRED, commenting on astrophysical research: "Twinkling Black Holes Reveal an Invisible Cloud in Our Galaxy."
Stiliana Milkova edits special journal issue on Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg
March 3, 2021
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Stiliana Milkova edited a special issue for Reading in Translation on the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg that features 15 essays, interviews, and two first English translations of works by Italo Calvino and by Natalia Ginzburg. Milkova co-translated Italo Calvino's essay "Natalia Ginzburg or the Possibilities of the Bourgeois Novel."
Composition by French horn professor Jeff Scott featured on CSOtv
February 23, 2021
Conservatory French horn professor Jeff Scott is also an accomplished composer. CSOtv, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s streaming platform, features his woodwind quintet work Startin’ Sumthin’ this February, part of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago’s Episode 2 broadcast. You can hear the performance at cso.org/csotv/features/black-history-month.