Faculty Publication: Exoticising Consumption Assistant Professor of History Justin Rivest and co-editor E.C. Spary have published Exoticizing Consumption: European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740, with the University of Pittsburgh Press. DESCRIPTION Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among…

Faculty Publication: Burn the Losses Professor of Spanish Kate Hedeen and Professor Emeritus of Spanish Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez have published a translation of Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses, with Action Books. DESCRIPTION: Shaped by a childhood during the Spanish Civil War and a youth under…

Faculty Award: Hicks Receives NSF Funding Karen Hicks, ​​Peter Rutkoff Distinguished Professor in Diversity and Inclusion & Professor of Biology, has received National Science Foundation funding for her proposal "RUI: Genetic approaches to uncover mechanisms governing seasonal reproductive…

Faculty Publication: World Literature Today Keija Parssinen, Associate Professor of English, has published two articles in World Literature Today. Her review of Najwan Darwish's No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014–2024 was published in the July-August 2025 issue on "Gaza Voices".…

Faculty Publication: A Conversation among Scholar-Activists about Transnational Solidarity Lin Li, James P. Storer Assistant Professor of Asian History, with co-authors Sona Kazemi, Wang Zheng, and Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, have published "Resisting Multiple Empires, Cultivating Transnational…

Faculty Publication: The Collected Poems of Daniel Mark Epstein Daniel Mark Epstein, Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in IPHS, has published Constellations: The Collected Poems of Daniel Mark Epstein, with LSU Press. DESCRIPTIONDaniel Mark Epstein’s poetry has been in the public eye for nearly…

Faculty Publication: The karma of this place Joy Brennan, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, has published "The karma of this place" in The Imminent Frame, August 27, 2025. SUMMARY The moral problem attendant on many deployments of the concept of karma is that it has been used to “blame the…

López selected to serve on National Fulbright Committee Irene López, Professor of Psychology, has been selected to serve on the National Screening Committee (NSC) for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program expands perspectives through academic and professional…

Faculty Publication: Te Pūrere Orchid Tierney, William P. Rice Associate Professor of Literature, has 3 poems included in the new anthology Te Pūrere: Te Paenga Kōrero ā Ngā Kaitito Toi o Aotearoa/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets from Cold Hub Press. DESCRIPTION There are…

Faculty Publication: Tracking devices impact sparrow flight Natalie Wright, Associate Professor of Biology, with co-authors Katherine Crawford K'22, Olivia Rataezyk K'24, and Abigail Garcia K'24 have published "Tags temporarily decrease takeoff velocity and trajectory in Passer domesticus (House…

Faculty Publication: ‘Not about Orthodoxy and Faith’ David Maldonado Rivera, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, has published "‘Not about Orthodoxy and Faith’: Eunomian Polemic, the Valences of Asceticism, and Ethnic Argument in Philostorgius’s Church History" in Discipline, Authority, and…

Faculty Publication: Beyond Plot: Sentiment Analysis & Narrative Structure Katherine Elkins, Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, has published Beyond Plot: How Sentiment Analysis Reshapes Our Understanding of Narrative Structure in The Journal of Cultural Analytics, volume 10,…

Faculty Publication: False Promises Ric Sheffield, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies, has published False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio, with Swallow Press. DESCRIPTION In False Promises, the fight for Black voting rights in Ohio comes alive through…

Faculty Performance: Before an Immense Sky Kora Radella, Assistant Professor of Dance, is premiering a duet, Before an Immense Sky, with music by Ross Feller, Professor of Music, at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival on September 26th & 27th, 2025 at 7:30 PM. Before an Immense Sky is…

Faculty Publication: la piedra de amolar Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, Professor Emeritus of Spanish, has just published a new book, the nineteenth in his career as a poet, la piedra de amolar (the grinding stone), with RIL Editores. The work was presented on June 20 at the Documenta bookstore in…

Faculty Publication: Daniel Davis and his Manual of Magnetism Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Physics, has published "Daniel Davis, Jr., and his Manual of Magnetism" in the American Journal of Physics, June 2025. ABSTRACT In the preface to his 1842 Manual of Magnetism, the Boston…

Faculty News: A Twist on Ancient Technology Bruce Hardy, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology, will give a talk titled "A Twist on Ancient Technology: Fiber, String, and More" for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Human Origins Today series on September 18, 2025. SUMMARY The…

Faculty Publication: The mitochondrial trans-2-enoyl-coA reductase is necessary for mitochondrial homeostasis in C. elegans Peter Kropp, Assistant Professor of Biology and Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences, with co-authors Katherine Spilsbury K'25, Jing Wu, and…

Faculty Publication: Dear Vase Already Shattered Against the Fragile Floor Michael Leong, Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry, has published a new collection of poetry, Dear Vase Already Shattered Against the Fragile Floor, with Black Square Editions. SUMMARY Dear Vase Already…

Faculty Publication: Translation of Vinitsky’s The Graphomaniac James McGavran, Associate Professor of Russian, has published a translation of Ilya Vinitsky's The Graphomaniac: A Literary-Historical Discussion of Dmitry Khvostov with Northwestern University Press, July 2025. DESCRIPTION The only…

Faculty Exhibition: Serious Play Karen Snouffer, Professor Emerita of Art, has an exhibition titled "Serious Play" at Hammond Harkins Galleries in Columbus, Ohio, from September 5th to 30th, 2025. ARTIST STATEMENT The abstract, two- and three-dimensional works in this show reveal the processes I…

Faculty Publication: ‘Downtown Lowell is a Fun Place to Be’ Henry Tonks, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Department of History, has published “‘Downtown Lowell is a Fun Place to Be’: Postindustrial Regeneration and the Making of the ‘New Liberals,’…

Faculty Exhibition: Branching Out Manami Ishimura, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, has an exhibition with Kristen Tordella-Williams titled "森をつかむ、つつむーBranching Outー" at the Shiga Kogen Roman Museum from July 13 to September 29, 2025. The exhibition explores the intersections of labor, craft,…

Faculty Publication: The Influence of Federalist Society Affiliation on Senator Voting in Federal Judicial Nominations Zachary McGee, Assistant Professor of Political Science, with co-authors Christine C. Bird and Jonathan M. King, has published The Influence of Federalist Society Affiliation on…

Faculty Publication: Evaluating the World Health Organization Toxic Equivalency Factors of Dioxin-Like Compounds Wade Powell, Professor of Biology, has published "Evaluating the World Health Organization Toxic Equivalency Factors of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins, Dibenzofurans, and…

Faculty Publication: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Mathematics and Science Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has published "Let’s Teach More Accurate and Inclusive History! The Case of Islamic Contributions to Mathematics and Science" in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, volume 15,…

Faculty Publication: What’s Left Is Tender Travis Chi Wing Lau, assistant professor of English, has published his first full-length collection of poems, What's Left Is Tender, with Small Harbor Publishing. SUMMARYWhat's Left Is Tender explores tenderness as an act, an affect, a relation, a…

Faculty Publication: Land use determines dust geochemistry in central Ohio, US Ruth C. Heindel, Dorothy & Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, has published "Land use determines dust geochemistry in central Ohio, US" in Atmospheric Environment, with co-authors Sean Scott,…

Blacker Receives Dhira B. Mahoney Prize Jean Blacker, Professor Emerita of French, has been awarded the 2025 Dhira B. Mahoney Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Arthurian Studies from the International Arthurian Society - North American Branch, for her book Arthur, Origins, Identities and the…

Faculty Publication: 50 năm kết thúc chiến tranh Royce Novak, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, has published 50 năm kết thúc chiến tranh: Di sản Võ Thị Sáu dưới ánh sáng tư liệu mới with BBC News Tiếng Việt, translated by Alex-Thái Đình Võ. The article reexamines popular accounts of the…

Faculty Publication: Hidden Politics of the Natural and Social Sciences George McCarthy, Professor of Sociology, has published Shadows of the Enlightenment: The Hidden Politics and Ideology of the Natural and Social Sciences with Monthly Review Press (July 2025). SUMMARY Shadows of the…

Faculty Publication: “Political Determinants of LGBTQ Health” Austin Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, has published "The Political Determinants of LGBTQ Health in the U.S. Southeast" (with coauthors Tiara Giddings, Chase Harless, Tierra James, and Jurni Tollerson) as a chapter in Second…

Faculty Publication: Child Sexual Abuse Victims’ Mental Illness as Influence on Jurors Margaret C. Stevenson, with co-author Yan Wang, has published "Effects of victim mental illness on child sexual abuse case judgements: Expectation violation theory application" in the journal Child Abuse &…

Faculty Publication: Barn Swallow Mating Behaviors Iris Levin, Associate Professor of Biology & Environmental Studies, has published "North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively" (with co-authors Omar J. Morosse '24, Toshie Tsunekage, Heather V. Kenny-Duddela, Drew R.…

Faculty Publication: Additive Skew Polycyclic Codes Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has published "Additive skew polycyclic codes over F_{p^2}" (with corresponding author Amina Delhoum) in Advances in Mathematics of Communications (June 2025). ABSTRACT In this paper we investigate additive…

Faculty Publication: “Sisters Together”: Antiracist Activism and Trans Inclusion Jessica Pruett, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, has published “'Sisters Together': Antiracist Activism and the Fight for Trans Inclusion at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival" in Signs: The…

Faculty Publication: Predicting Nurses’ Compassion Fatigue During Covid-19 Margaret Stevenson, Associate Professor of Psychology, has published (with co-authors Vaishnavi M. Ravipati, Melina R. Singh, and Cynthia T. Schaefer) "Workplace Violence and Patient Suffering Amid COVID-19 Uniquely Predict…

Faculty Publication: Constacyclic Codes Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has published "Constacyclic codes over general mixed alphabets and their applications" (with co-authors Shakir Ali, Pushpendra Sharma, Elif Segah Oztas, and Atif Ahmad Khan) in Designs, Codes and Cryptography, (Springer,…

Faculty Publication: Constacyclic Codes Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has published "Constacyclic codes over general mixed alphabets and their applications" (with co-authors Shakir Ali, Pushpendra Sharma, Elif Segah Oztas, and Atif Ahmad Khan) in Designs, Codes and Cryptography, (Springer,…

Faculty Publication: Juror Sexual Abuse Strengthens Empathy for Child Victims Margaret Stevenson, Associate Professor of Psychology, has published "More Severe Juror Sexual Abuse Strengthens Empathy for Child Sexual Abuse Victims: Meta-Analyses" (with co-authors Tayler M. Jones-Cieminski and Bette…

Faculty Publication: The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings Adam Serfass, Professor of Classics, has published English translations (from the Latin) of Augustine of Hippo, Confessions 8 and Ambrose of Milan, Letter 77 and Letter outside the Collection 1, in The Cambridge Edition of…

Faculty Publication: A Brief History of the Midwest Andrew Grace, Assistant Professor of English, has published a new collection of poems: A Brief History of the Midwest, Black Lawrence Press 2025. DESCRIPTION The poems in A Brief History of the Midwest trace the trajectory of the middle of…

Faculty Publication: Translation of Gisèle Pineau’s Ady, Black Sun Timothy Lomeli, Kenyon College Marilyn Yarbrough Fellow and Visiting Faculty of French, and Tiffane Levick, Associate Professor of Translation and Translation Studies at Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, have published a translation…

Faculty Publication: Militancy and Women’s Participation in the French Revolution Kelly Fleming, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, recently published "Helen Maria Williams on Militancy: Women's Anger and Political Change in Letters From France (1790, 1796)" in Literature…

Faculty Publication: Militancy and Women’s Participation in the French Revolution Kelly Fleming, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, recently published "Helen Maria Williams on Militancy: Women's Anger and Political Change in Letters From France (1790, 1796)" in Literature…

Faculty Award: 2025-2026 Individual Fellowship Alex Novikoff, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded a 2025-2026 individual fellowship at the Israel Institute for Advanced Study. Founded in 1975 and located on the campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the IIAS offers residential…

Faculty Screening: “I Get to Have My Own Private Hope,” MadWorld 2025 Yue Nakayama, Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art, will screen her film "I Get to Have My Own Private Hope" at MadWorld 2025. About Mad World: Mad World 2025 is en route/root! This year’s theme is Queer Ecologies,…

Faculty Keynote: UNESCO’s Regional Office for Egypt and Sudan/Liaison Office for the League of Arab States Katherine Elkins, Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities/Integrated Program in Humane Studies, has been invited to give the keynote address to UNESCO's Regional Office for Egypt…

Faculty Publication: “On the algebraic structure of (σ,a¯)- polycyclic codes” Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has co-authored, with Oussama Kabbouch, El Mahdi Mouloua, Long B. Tran '26, and Trang T.T. Nguyen '26, "On the algebraic structure of (σ,a¯)- polycyclic codes" in the Journal of…

Faculty Publication: On the algebraic structure of (σ,a¯)-polycyclic codes Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has co-authored (with Oussama Kabbouch - Moulay Ismail University, Morocco; El Mahdi Mouloua - Moulay Ismail University, Morocco; Long B. Tran '26; and, Trang T.T. Nguyen '26) "On the…