Faculty and Staff Notes

Alice Blumenfeld performed Labyrinths as part of Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations at Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library.

Professor of Politics Eve Sandberg's and Kenza Aqertit's coauthored book Moroccan Women, Activists, and Gender Politics: An Institutional Analysis (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) has been released in paperback.Sandberg and Aqertit analyze how, over the course of 25 years, dedicated, smart, and politically effective Moroccan women, working simultaneously in multiple settings and aware of each other’s work, altered Morocco’s entrenched gender institution of regularized practices and distinctive rights and obligations for men and women.

Professor of Theater and Africana Studies Caroline Jackson Smith directed a reading of a new play by local playwright Margaret Lynch at Playwrights Local in Cleveland.

Danielle Terrazas Williams won the 2019 Kimberly Hanger Article Prize from the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for her work, "My Conscience is Free and Clear’: African-Descended Women, Status, and Slave Owning in Mid-Colonial Mexico."

Assistant Professor of Physics Jillian Scudder's book Astroquizzical: A beginner's journey through the cosmos, published by Icon Books, was released in the U.S. and globally on September 10, 2019. The hardback was released in June 2018.

Visiting Instructor of History Jiyul Kim participated with three visual artists, Mahwish Chishty, Matthew Deibel, and Barbara Koenen, in a panel talk titled "E Pluribus: Reflections on 9/11" at 5:30-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 11, 2019. The panel accompanies the exhibit "E Pluribus: Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11" at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) gallery.

Oberlin College Press Managing Editor Marco Wilkinson's book, Madder, will be published by Coffee House Press.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Taylor published a paper in The International Computing Education Research Conference (ICER '19).

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber interviewed Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Creative Writing Joshua Sperling about his biography of John Berger. The conversation was published in the Brooklyn Rail.

Christina Neilson, associate professor of renaissance and baroque art history, authored  Practice and Theory in the Italian Renaissance Workshop, which was published by Cambridge University Press.