Faculty and Staff Notes

Associate Professor of Geology Amanda Schmidt is coauthor of a blog post, "Living IN the Greenland ice sheet: The story of Sites I and II, Camp Century’s older, smaller siblings," on the European Geophysical Union website.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber published two book reviews, one on a Korean deity in Japanese Buddhism for Monumenta Nipponica, and another on Buddhism and medicine in premodern in Japan for Asian Medicine.

Professor of Economics Ron Cheung gave expert advice for two articles on credit cards published by MoneyGeek.com: one on credit ratings, and another on credit card rewards points.  

The Journal of the American Viola Society (AVS) celebrates "Fifty Extraordinary Leaders in Fifty Years" with an article that features Oberlin Professor of Viola Peter Slowik, former AVS President and host of International Viola Congress and Associate Professor of Community Engagement and former secretary of AVS Louise Zeitlin.

Professor of Economics Ron Cheung published the article, "Homeowner Associations and City Cohesion," in Regional Science and Urban Economics.

Frederick B. Artz Professor of History Leonard V. Smith has been awarded a three-month, Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute. The institute is located in a villa just outside Florence, Italy. He will begin work on a project comparing law, liberalism, and racial exclusion in 19th century Texas and French Algeria.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca remotely presented "What Drives House Prices: Lessons from the Literature," to the Federal Housing Finance Agency on December 1. Duca also remotely presented the paper, "How New Fed Corporate Bond Programs Cushioned the Covid-19 Recession," at the World Banking and Finance Symposium on December 17.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Alicia Smith-Tran coauthored an article about worker misclassification with two researchers at Case Western Reserve University. The article was published in Critical Sociology.

Professor of Mathematics Jim Walsh coauthored the paper, "Synchronous Glacial Cycles in a Nonsmooth Conceptual Climate Model with Asymmetric Hemispheres," which appeared in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems. The article presents and analyzes a new conceptual model of the Earth's glacial-interglacial cycles in which the dynamics of distinct Northern and Southern Hemisphere ice caps are coupled through an equation representing the annual global mean surface temperature.

Assistant Professor Evan Kresch presented (virtually) in the Egg-timer Session at the 6th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries on December 14, 2021.