Faculty and Staff Notes

The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NCFDD) hired Yveline Alexis, associate professor of Africana studies and Comparative American studies, as one of its coaches for is faculty success program for 2021.

Md Rumi Shammin is currently collaborating with Professor Enamul Haque of East West University (Bangladesh), Professor Pranab Mukhopadhyay of Goa University (India), and Mani Nepal of the South Asian Network of Development and Environmental Economics (Nepal) as coeditors of a volume called Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia.

The book will be published by Springer Nature in 2021 and includes several chapters coauthored by Prof. Shammin that represent a decade of fieldwork and research in climate-vulnerable communities of Bangladesh.

Metaphor and Symbol published an article by Associate Professor of Sociology Greggor Mattson, "Weaponization: Ubiquity and Metaphorical Meaningfulness."

Music theory professor Bryan Parkhurst has been included in the Society for Music Theory's (SMT) 2020 award for Outstanding Multi-Author Collection. This was given for The Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, for which Parkhurst coauthored the lead chapter, "Pitch, Tone, and Note." In the citation for the award, SMT provided, "The eloquent essays gathered together in this volume reflect the unique insights of the contributors as well as the coalescence of a shared vision of its editors. With uniform excellence in depth and clarity, the essays demonstrate that, if we understand and teach these so-called fundamentals as immutable entities, we bypass essential disciplinary questions."

"Protecting The Rights Of People With HIV/AIDS: How the ACLU of Ohio Set a Precedent in 1994," by Clayton Koppes, professor emeritus of history, was published by the Ohio ACLU. The article explores the 1994 landmark AIDS discrimination case in Ohio that secured protection for people with HIV/AIDS under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Margaret Kamitsuka, emeritus professor of religion, gave a plenary address titled “Motherhood—What Would It Mean to ‘Just Say No’?” at an interactive online workshop on motherhood and religion at the American Academy of Religion on Nov. 29, 2020. 

Karl Offen published "English Designs on Central America: Geographic Knowledge and Imaginative Geographies in the Seventeenth Century," in Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 18, no. 4 (2020): 399-460. doi:10.1353/eam.2020.0015.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and LIASE postdoctoral scholar Kip Hutchins wrote a paper, "The Melodious Hoofbeat: Ungulate Rhythms in the Post-socialist Conservatory" that was published in the journal Inner Asia.
 

Assistant Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey's article, "Never at Rest: African Art at the University of Wisconsin" was published in the winter 2020 issue of African Arts. Rarey authored the essay along with Henry John Drewal, Evjue-Bascom Professor Emeritus of Art History and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

An article by Steven Volk, professor of history emeritus, and Beth Benedix, "Liberal Arts Colleges Must Rediscover Their Purpose: To Improve the World," appeared in Times Higher Education (London).