Faculty and Staff Notes

John V. Duca, Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics, and Aaron Kreiner '19 had their joint paper published, "Can Machine Learning on Economic Data Better Forecast the Unemployment Rate?" in Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 27, Issue 17, 1434-37.

Joshua Freedman, visiting assistant professor of politics, published an article on Brexit, status loss, and the politics of backlash, in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 

Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Comparative American Studies Meredith Gadsby joins scholars from around the country as well as authors Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tayari Jones, Edwidge Danticat, and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo to celebrate Toni Morrison as Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences hosts a livestreamed reading of her first novel, “The Bluest Eye.”

The Oct. 8 livestream will include more than 80 other readers in a full reading of the novel on the 50th anniversary of its publication. Participants will also hear portions of the book read in French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and will be livestreamed on eCornell, as well as on Facebook. The public can register to attend “The Bluest Eye” event, and people are encouraged to listen to the entire reading or join in at any point during the day.

For more information on all of the Cornell Celebrates Toni Morrison events, visit the Arts Unplugged website. 

Stiliana Milkova's invited review of Elena Ferrante's new novel The Lying Life of Adults was published in Public Books. 

Assistant professor of East Asian religions Andrew Macomber published a chapter in Japanese on aromatics and religious experience in early medieval Japanese Buddhism in the book Yoi no bunkashi: girei kara yamai made 酔いの文化史─儀礼から病まで (The Cultural History of Intoxication: From Ritual to Illness), edited by Itō Nobuhiro, Bensei Shuppan, 2020. 

Gina Perez, professor of comparative American studies, appeared on the roundtable podcast In the Thick to discuss the case of Vanessa Guillen and the issues of sexual assault, structural racism, and a culture of impunity in the United States military.

Stiliana Milkova, associate professor of comparative literature and Italian, edited a special issue of the online journal Reading in Translation dedicated to Elena Ferrante's new novel The Lying Life of Adults. The special issue consists of seven original articles and two first English translations of essays by the Spanish writers Eloy Tizón and Greta Alonso. Professor Milkova also published in The Literary Review a translation from Italian of Tiziano Scarpa's poem "The Philosophy Student."

A prestigious award in the recording arts world features the work of Oberlin Conservatory's Recording Arts and Production program faculty Paul Eachus and Andrew Tripp. The recording "Masterpieces Among Peers—Trios by Frank Bridge and Johannes Brahms," performed the Namirovsky-Lark-Pae Trio, has just been named to the "Bestenliste" as a Quarterly Critics' Choice in the German Record Critics' Award, chamber music category. The recording was made in Oberlin's Clonick Recording Studio. It was engineered and edited by Tripp and produced, mixed, and mastered by Eachus.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Christie Parris published a paper in Social Currents examining perceptions of environmental justice.

Assistant Professor and Chair of Organ Jonathan Moyer recently completed a CD recording entitled "Voices of the Hanse" for the Gothic Catalogue with digital release on Amazon and Naxos on Aug. 28. The recording features music of 17th-century North German composers within the region of the Hanseatic League, recorded on the 1637 organ by Friederich Stellwagen (1603-1660) in the church of St. Jakobi in Lübeck. The recording was completed during Moyer's 2019 sabbatical exchange at the Musikhochschule, Lübeck. The selected composers and their works represent some of the most important churches in the Hanseatic region of northern Germany, illustrating an array of liturgical tradition, musical style, and compositional evolution.