Faculty and Staff Notes

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Cortney Smith's article "Ironic Confrontation as a Mode of Resistance: The Homeland Security T-Shirt at the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests" was published in American Indian Quarterly.

Alice Blumenfeld performs as invited guest artist with Clinard Dance at the Chicago Park Districts Night Out In The Parks series held on July 31, 2019.

Professor of Theater Matthew Wright and Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Holly Handman-Lopez collaborated on 33 1/3, a new musical, at Dobama Theater in Cleveland. Wright directed and Handman-Lopez choreographed 33 1/3, which won the Playwrights Guild of Canada Stage West Pechet Family’s Best New Musical Award. This world premiere production ran from June 27 to July 14, 2019.

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology Jennifer Fraser presented the paper “Building Community through Music: Working at the Interface Between Applied Ethnomusicology, Community Music, and Community-Engaged Learning Pedagogy” at the 45th International Council for Traditional Music World Conference held July 11-17, 2019, at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

Professor of Mathematics Bob Bosch presented a paper titled “Exploring Szpakowski’s Linear Ideas” at the 2019 Bridges Conference in Linz, Austria. The paper was coauthored by Abagael Cheng ‘20 and Ari Smith ‘19.

Clayton R. Koppes, professor of history, and David L. Kelly, independent scholar, presented a paper, "On Cats' Paws: America Awakens to AIDS," at the Australia/New Zealand American Studies Association meeting in Auckland on July 15. The paper is part of their ongoing work on the history of HIV/AIDS in the United States. Koppes also gave a presentation in a plenary panel on "populism in America."

Professor of Mathematics Elizabeth Wilmer presented at the 19th International Conference on Random Structures and Algorithms.

Associate Professor of Geology Zeb Page published a paper "Extreme oxygen isotope zoning in garnet and zircon from a metachert block in mélange reveals metasomatism at the peak of subduction metamorphism" in Geology with coauthors Emilia Cameron '15 and Clara Margaret Flood '18.

Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Aural Skills Kara Yoo Leaman presented a paper at the Music and the Moving Image XV Conference in New York City.

Associate Professor of Economics Martin Saavedra presented, "Kenji or Kennet: Pearl Harbor and Japanese-American Assimilation" at the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held in July 2019.