Faculty and Staff Notes

Associate Professor of Music Theory Megan Long gave an invited talk titled "What Do Signature Signify: The Curious Case of Seventeenth-Century English Key" on February 21, 2020 at the University of Chicago.

Professor of Theater and Africana Studies Caroline Jackson Smith served as a panelist at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage for a discussion about black theater, with a focus on the history of African-American theater in Northeast Ohio. The talk was held in connection with the Maltz's special exhibit Leonard Music: The Power of Music .

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt ’12 published a story about the future of amusement parks for the Ringer. The story was also recognized on Longform, an aggregator of top literary journalism stories.

Associate Professor of Sociology and Comparative American Studies Rick Baldoz published the essay "Migration and the Remains of US Empire" in the digital magazine, Public Books.

Assistant Professor of History and Comparative American Studies Tamika Nunley gave a talk on Feb. 22 titled, “(Freed) Women: Mobilizing Emancipation, Citizenship, and Self-making in Wartime Washington, DC” at the American Civil War Museum. The talk airs on C-span in spring 2020.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton reviewed Kiran Millwood Hargrave's novel "The Mercies" for the New York Times.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway gave an invited lecture titled "Figure (of Personhood) Drawing: Pictorial Representations of Signing and Signers in Nepal" on February 15, 2019 at The University of Michigan.

Professor of Mathematics Robert Bosch gave a talk about "Opt Art" at Google's New York City office on January 23, 2020.

Associate Professor of Economics Viplav Saini published an essay, "The Balancing Acts of Vijay Seshadri," in the American Poetry Review. 

Alice Blumenfeld, visiting assistant professor of dance, was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for 2020 in the choreography category.