Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin is quoted in an article in the Jewish Telegraph Agency concerning a California synagogue's decision to alter a monument in their synagogue that included the name of a slave-holding, Confederate Jew.

Associate Professor of Geology Amanda Schmidt coauthored the article “Cuba's clean rivers show the benefits of reducing nutrient pollution” published on the Conversation.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Associate Professor of Geology Amanda Schmidt coauthored the article "Deep history in western China reveals how humans can enhance biodiversity" in China Dialogue. 

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)."

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.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Emily Barton contributed to a Yahoo News article on the future of college education.