Faculty and Staff Notes

Deborah Campana, head of the Conservatory Library, gave a lecture at Kendal at Oberlin related to her photography exhibit, Sighting & Resighting. The exhibit, which features photographs from annual road trips to and from Santa Fe, NM, and daily trips into Oberlin, is on view in the Kendal Friends Gallery through February 24, 2019.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Drawing Beverly Acha was highlighted in the quarterly web journal Lookie-Lookie on the subject of her forthcoming book, Artists in the Studio: On Doubt.

Stephen FitzGerald, professor of physics, co-authored a paper in Chemistry of Materials. Read the press release about the paper.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Taylor published a paper titled "Propagating the Adoption of CS Educational Innovations" in The Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE '18 Companion).

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber's piece about Spain's radical right was published in the Nation.

Erik Inglis, professor of medieval art history, published “Media lost and found: the medieval understanding of the history of artistic techniques,” in the journal Quintana Revista do Departamento de Historia de Art Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 16 (2017), 15-52.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Sam Berrin Shonkoff published the article "Metanomianism and Religious Praxis in Martin Buber's Hasidic Tales" in a special issue of Religions edited by Paul Mendes-Flohr.

Associate Professor of Cinema Studies Rian Brown-Orso and Professor of Cinema Studies and English Geoff Pingree screened The Foreigner's Home on Saturday, January 5 in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. The film also screens on January 16 in Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater.

Visiting Assistant Professor Beverly Acha exhibited paintings in THREE, a group show at DC Moore Gallery in New York City. The show runs January 4-26, 2019 with an opening reception on January 10.

Danforth-Lewis Professor of Economics John Duca published the papers "Real Estate and the Great Crisis: Lessons for Macroprudential Policy," (John V. Duca, Lilit Popoyan, and Susan M. Wachter, Contemporary Economic Policy, January 2019) and "Venture capital restrained after Sarbanes-Oxley" (Tyler Atkinson and John V. Duca, Economics Letters, February 2019).