Faculty and Staff Notes

"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).

What I Remember of My Love Affair with the Bird and Other Stories, a chapbook collection of short fiction by Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Tom Hopkins, was published on November 20 by The Cupboard Pamphlet, a small press based in Denver and Cleveland. Three of the five writers who wrote advance praise for the book are Oberlin alumni: Gary Shteyngart ’95, Matthew Sharpe ’85, and Abbey Mei Otis ’11.

Yveline Alexis is part of a team that planned a fundraiser for Ayiti Community Trust. We raised funds to help support organizations based in Haiti that are headed by Haitians.  View the full global program in multiple language formats. 

Conservatory Technical Director and Lecturer Abby Aresty and Rachel Gibson '20 presented a workshop on STEAM education and experiential, community-engaged learning at the 2020 AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Henrique Veras gave a virtual presentation of his paper, "Wrong Place, Wrong Time: The Long-Run Effects of In-Utero Exposure to Malaria on Educational Attainment in Brazil" at Skidmore College on October 28, 2020. On November 6, 2020, Veras presented virtually "Pull Up a Chair: Municipal Council Size and Local Taxes in Brazil" at the annual NEUDC conference (North East Universities Development Consortium) at Dartmouth University. This paper is joint with Oberlin Associate Professor of Economics Evan Kresch and economics research assistant Meredith Walker '22.