Faculty and Staff Notes

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.
 

Matthew Bahar was honored with a 2018 John Lyman Book Award from the North American Society for Oceanic History. Bahar's work, Storm of the Sea: Indians & Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail, won in the U.S. Maritime History category.

Assistant Professor of Politics and Comparative American Studies Jenny Garcia published an article, "Responding to Racial Resentment: How Racial Resentment Influences Legislative Behavior," with Political Research Quarterly.

Professor of Environmental Studies Karl Offen presented "Robert Hodgson of the Mosquito Shore: Mapping a Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Imperial Life" at the Omohundro Institute's Early American History Annual Conference at the University of Pittsburgh in June, 2019.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca was invited to present a paper at the European Real Estate Society Conference held July 3 through 6, 2019.

Associate Professor of Music Theory Jan Miyake presented a talk "Syntax and Form in Haydn’s Symphonic Last Movements" at the international research workshop Corpus Research as a Means of Unlocking Musical Grammar.

Adrian Bautista, assistant vice president and senior associate dean for strategic initiatives, recently participated on a panel titled "Recovering the History of the Latinx Catholic Midwest" at the Fifth Annual Midwestern History Association Conference. Bautista joined Deborah Kanter, chair and John S. Ludington Endowed Professor of History at Albion College. Kanter is the parent of León Pescador '18 and author of the forthcoming Chicago Católico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican (University of Illinois Press).

Science Librarian Alison Ricker gave an invited talk at the Special Libraries Association annual conference in the workshop, Making Science Relevant.

Rabbi Megan Doherty, director of Hillel and Jewish campus life, was named by Alma as one of the "15 Rabbis to Follow on Twitter Who Will Change the Way You Think About Rabbis."

Associate Professor of Anthropology Cal Biruk organized and co-hosted, with Alister Munthali of the University of Malawi, a two-day workshop focused on research with key populations in Malawi. The workshop was funded by a Wenner Gren Community Engagement Grant and was held June 20-21, 2019 at University of Malawi’s Centre for Social Research.