Faculty and Staff Notes
Amanda Schmidt Coauthors Article
June 10, 2020
Associate Professor of Geology Amanda Schmidt coauthored the article “Cuba's clean rivers show the benefits of reducing nutrient pollution” published on the Conversation.
Kristina Mani Publishes Article about the Use of Military on Civil Protests
June 9, 2020
Associate Professor of Politics Kristina Mani wrote a piece in the Conversation about how U.S. should pay attention to what happens when strong democracies use the military to repress civil protests. In it, Mani states that lessons from Uruguay, Venezuela, and Chile are worth recalling now.
Megan Kaes Long Publishes Monograph
June 8, 2020
Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Kaes Long published a monograph, Hearing Homophony: Tonal Expectation at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford University Press). The book, which appears on the series Oxford Studies in Music Theory, explores how the regular rhythms and text setting of sixteenth-century popular song provoked encouraged a kind of listening that we now think of as tonal.
John Duca Publishes Paper on House Price Cycles
June 4, 2020
Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca's paper “What Drives House Price Cycles? International Experience and Policy Issues,” was accepted by the Journal of Economic Literature: It ws co-authored with John Muellbauer and Anthony Murphy.
Stiliana Milkova Publishes Translation of Interview
June 4, 2020
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Stiliana Milkova published a translation from Italian of a long interview with the Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero in the scholarly journal Narrative (2020).
Amanda Schmidt Coauthors Article on Biodiversity
June 1, 2020
Associate Professor of Geology Amanda Schmidt coauthored the article "Deep history in western China reveals how humans can enhance biodiversity" in China Dialogue.
Kara Yoo Leaman Presents
June 1, 2020
Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Aural Skills Kara Yoo Leaman presented a paper at the Music and the Moving Image XVI Remote Conference. The paper was titled, "Swingin' Bach in Ballet: Musical and Visual Rhythms in Balanchine's Concerto Barocco (1941)."
Cortney Smith's Essay Featured
May 22, 2020
Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Cortney Smith's co-authored essay published in Quarterly Journal of Speech was featured in Communication Currents, the National Communication Association’s online periodical for timely scholarship.
Emily Barton Contributes to Article
May 21, 2020
Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton contributed to a Yahoo News article on the future of college education.
Allegra Hyde Publishes Short Story
May 19, 2020
Allegra Hyde, visiting assistant professor of creative writing, recently published her short story "Afterglow" in Guernica.