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Fall/Winter 2020 Issue

Feature Story

Confronting Our Past: Slavery, Racism and the Quest for a Just, Humane Community

桃瘾社区 commits to action toward a just, humane, inclusive community. The following stories discuss how members of the 桃瘾社区 Community are confronting the college's past and taking action.

The Union

Alumni

East Lake: Where Bobby Learned to Play by Linton C. Hopkins 鈥61 (2018, Deodara Press, LLC). A journey through the history of East Lake Golf Club, the only course where golfers can match shots with Bobby Jones and Alexa Stirling.

30 Days With Abraham Lincoln by Duncan Newcomer 鈥65 (2019, Front Edge Publishing, LLC). Lincoln scholar and host of the 鈥淨uiet Fire鈥 podcast series Duncan Newcomer collects 30 of his best stories to offer readers a month of inspiration. 

Rescuers from the Sky by W. Lee Fanning, M.D. 鈥66 (2020, FriesenPress). True stories of the Air Medical Rescue Teams of the U.S. Coast Guard who risk their lives to save others, as seen through the eyes of a newly trained flight surgeon (1971-1973).

Milton at Monticello: Thomas Jefferson鈥檚 Reading of John Milton by Kemmer Anderson 鈥67 (2019, Xlibris). With the intuition of a poet, Kemmer Anderson approaches these icons of liberty and reason and shines a light on their subtle kinship.

Search: A Guide for College and Life by Jeff Duffey, M.D. 鈥69, and Barbara Roquemore, Ed.D. (2020, Cairde, Karuna and Hedd Publishing, LLC). A guide to college success and well-being for students and parents, with guidance on topics ranging from relationship skills to avoiding financial pitfalls.

The Contemplative Skeptic: Spirituality for the Non-Religious and the Unorthodox by Barrett A. Evans 鈥93 (2020, Aprocryphile Press). Barrett Evans explores the value of skepticism, a source of solace from harmful forms of religious indoctrination, and a stimulus for more peaceful, authentic and compassionate living.

In Someone Else鈥檚 Country: Anti-Haitian Racism and Citizenship in the Dominican Republic by Trenita Brookshire Childers, Ph.D. 鈥05 (2021, Rowman and Littlefield). In this groundbreaking work, Trenita Brookshire Childers explores the enduring system of racial profiling in the Dominican Republic, where policy changes have created statelessness for hundreds of thousands of people of Haitian descent.


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Africana Studies

Devyn Spence Benson published a book titled with Rowman and Littlefield press. This edited collection is the English translation of the first book written by Black Cuban women intellectuals and activists about Black women鈥檚 experiences in Cuba.

Takiyah Harper-Shipman recently received an American Political Science Association (APSA) Centennial Center Research Grant to fund a multi-institutional and multi-regional workshop on Black women writing on African Politics. Harper-Shipman co-authored the recently published chapter, 鈥溾 in the Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations

Art

Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy launched their online art project, 鈥.鈥 Funded by many organizations, including 桃瘾社区, the Mellon Foundation and UC Berkeley鈥檚 Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and developed with many , the project was exhibited at in Miami and North Carolina State University as part of their Immersive Scholar Project. 

Biology

Karen Bernd was named a visiting fellow for assessment of AP biology in spring 2020. Her work focuses on reviewing current AP Biology curricula and tests and providing the College Board with feedback regarding scope and inclusive design of the AP test and alignment of its content with college introductory biology courses.

Karen Hales published an essay, 鈥,鈥 in the journal CBE-Life Sciences Education.

Sophia Sarafova and Nicole Snyder collaborated on a paper titled, ,鈥 in Macromolecular Bioscience.

Kevin Smith recently published an article with students Madeline Seagle 鈥20, Max Vierling 鈥21, Ryan Almeida 鈥18, Jake Clary 鈥19, Will Hidell 鈥21, Erin Scott 鈥20, and Carlos Vargas 鈥22. The article, 鈥,鈥 was based on DRI- and NSF-funded research and appears in Journal of Medical Entomology.

Dave Wessner has written several articles about COVID-19 for , covering social and scientific aspects of the pandemic.



Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry, in collaboration with Hailey Holck 鈥22 and Luis Montero-Lopez 鈥22, recently published a paper on transition to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The title of the article is titled, 鈥.鈥

Nicole Snyder published a paper with undergraduate coauthors Eddie Palumbo 鈥15 and Jennifer Levine 鈥20 titled, 鈥溾 in the journal Royal Society of Chemistry Advances. Snyder is included in one of seven teams of scientists to have been awarded a grant through the Research Corporation for Science Advancement鈥檚 COVID-19 Initiative: Detecting and Mitigating Epidemics, for Glycomimetics for Inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 Entry.  

Communication Studies

Amanda R. Martinez wrote a review of the book, This Bridge We Call Communication: Anzald煤an Approaches to Theory, Method, and Praxis, published in Women & Language journal鈥檚 spring 2020 volume. 

Economics

Jaya Jha and Fred Smith collaborated with EJ Kelley 鈥20 on a paper that was conditionally accepted for publication at Applied Economics Letters. The paper was a result of EJ鈥檚 independent study.

Vikram Kumar published 鈥溾 in the journal Economic Modelling.

Clark Ross was the special editor for the Advanced Placement edition of the recently published (2020) 22nd edition of the McConnell-Brue-Flynn Economics text.

Shyam Gouri Suresh co-authored the paper 鈥溾 (American Journal of Preventive Medicine), with Stephanie Schauder 鈥15. Gouri Suresh also co-authored with Paul Studtmann (philosophy) the paper 鈥淯niversalizing and the We: Endogenous Game Theoretic Deontology,鈥 forthcoming in the interdisciplinary journal Economics and Philosophy.

Educational Studies

Hilton Kelly co-authored a piece in the GLQ Forum on queer battle fatigue and leadership in the American Educational Studies Association titled, 鈥.鈥 He has been invited to serve on the editorial board of the Western Journal Black Studies and, for a second time, the editorial board of Educational Theory.

English

Suzanne Churchill published the digital scholarly book 鈥.鈥

Brenda Flanagan鈥檚 prize-winning short story, 鈥淎 Dance With My Brother,鈥 has been translated into Russian and included in a book of short fiction, 9 Stories. Flanagan was invited to read from the story and talk about her work as a writer at the annual in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Ann Fox鈥檚 comic, 鈥#crockpotrunner: a not-finished tale of becoming a mid-life athlete,鈥 has been published in . Fox鈥檚 essay, 鈥淒isability, Drama, and the Problem of Intersectional Invisibility,鈥 was recently published in , and her article, entitled 鈥淲hy Do Disability Aesthetics Matter? A Lesson in Porcelain鈥 was published in With Jessica Cooley 鈥05, Fox co-curated an exhibition, entitled "," at the Ford Foundation Gallery. 

Alan Michael Parker鈥檚 story, 鈥淯nemployment Benefits,鈥 won First Place in the Lunate 500 contest. Parker鈥檚 book, The Age of Discovery launched on Oct. 4. He has also published two poems in The American Poetry Review, 鈥淏reakfast鈥 and 鈥淭he Trees of Krak贸w.鈥

Environmental Studies

Brad Johnson published an article, entitled 鈥溾 in the journal Geomorphology

Film and Media Studies

Amanda R. Martinez and series co-editor, Leandra H. Hern谩ndez have published the first book in their Cultural Media Studies series, Dangerous Dames: Representing Female-Bodied Empowerment in Postfeminist Media, by Heather Hundley, Roberta Chevrette, and Hillary A. Jones.

German Studies

Maggie McCarthy published an article, co-written with Katharina Gerstenberger, in Feminist German Studies, 鈥淢apping out the 鈥楥o鈥 in Collaborative Work: External Pressures, Institutional Responses, and Individual Affects.鈥 

History

Robin Barnes participated by invitation in an online seminar organized by the University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History in cooperation with the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. 

Peter Krentz published 鈥淏attle of Salamis: 480 BC,鈥 a solicited and peer-reviewed article, in the Oxford Bibliographies in 鈥.鈥

Sarah Waheed has secured a book contract with Cambridge University Press for her forthcoming publication, tentatively titled Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India. Waheed has been awarded, in addition to the Fulbright for India, an (American Institute of Pakistan Studies) fellowship, which will support Waheed鈥檚 research on the project, 鈥淗er City Disappeared in Black Gold: South Asian Muslim Urbanism Between India, Pakistan, and the Persian Gulf.鈥

Hispanic Studies

Rosalba Esparragoza and Kyra Kietrys teamed up with former 桃瘾社区 connections to support new international collaborations in the face of COVID-19. These initiatives include a program through which SPA 201 students and middle-schoolers from Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy wrote letters to COVID patients and healthcare workers in Spain and Colombia. Kietrys worked with a former 桃瘾社区 international student to create 鈥Ven, Ask Me,鈥 a language collaborative between Hough High School and a public school in Spain. 

Kyra Kietrys co-edited a collection of essays, titled 鈥 [The Hispanic Cultural Tradition in a Global Society],鈥 published by the Universidad de Extremadura Press. 

Anthony Pasero-O鈥橫alley has been offered a book contract with Cambridge Scholars Publishing for a manuscript project, titled Rebels with a Cause: Contemporary Spanish Women Playwrights. Pasero-O鈥橫alley鈥檚 article, titled 鈥淟as chicas no fuman igual: Visibilizing Oppression and Gender-Based Violence through Forum Theatre鈥 has been accepted for publication in the Spanish theatre journal Anagn贸risis: Revista de Investigaci贸n Teatral and is forthcoming this December. 

Luis H. Pe帽a and Magdalena Maiz-Pe帽a published Chapter 12, 鈥淪taging Modernity: Reports on the Murder of Delmira Agustini, Cursed Celebrity,鈥 of Negotiating Space in Latin America.

Magdalena Maiz-Pe帽a recently published 鈥淕eograf铆as interiores, cuerpos-hablantes y texturas visuales de la depresi贸n: el manifiesto corp贸reo nepantlista de Laura Aguilar (1959-2018)鈥 Revista de Estudios de G茅nero y Sexualidades, Special Issue Re-imagining Female Disabilities in Luso-Hispanic Women鈥檚 Cultural Production. Maiz-Pe帽a also wrote the prologue 鈥淐uerpos-textos po茅ticos, memoria enraizada y g茅nero鈥 to introduce Poes铆a reciente de voces en di谩logo con la ascendencia hispano-hablante en los Estados Unidos; Antolog铆a Breve.

Latin American Studies

Russell Crandall and Frederick Richardson published 鈥溾 in Americas Quarterly. Crandall also published 鈥溾 in Americas Quarterly.

Philosophy

Daniel Layman published  with Oxford University Press.

Paul Studtmann and Shyam Gouri Suresh (economics) co-authored the paper 鈥淯niversalizing and the We: Endogenous Game Theoretic Deontology,鈥 forthcoming in the interdisciplinary journal Economics and Philosophy.

Physics

Mario Belloni, Wolfgang Christian and colleagues from Eckerd College, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Jagiellonian University in Poland recently published, 鈥,鈥 in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Education

Tim Gfroerer and Morgan Bergthold 鈥20 published an article entitled 鈥溾 in the American Journal of Physics, which was chosen as the featured article in the of AJP.

Anthony Kuchera co-authored a research paper with Tan Phan 鈥18, titled 鈥,鈥 and another paper titled 鈥淥bservation of T=3/2 isobaric analog states in 9Be using p + 8Li resonance scattering鈥 in the journal Physical Review C. In addition, Kuchera co-authored a paper titled 鈥溾 in the journal Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research, A. Kuchera has been awarded a National Science Foundation RUI Grant titled: 鈥淐ollaborative Research: RUI: Study of exotic nuclei and neutron detector response.鈥 

Michelle Kuchera and Raghu Ramanujan were awarded a National Science Foundation grant for their project, titled 鈥淢achine Learning Approaches for Accelerating Scientific Discovery in Nuclear Physics.鈥 

Political Science

Katherine Bersch鈥檚 book, , has been selected by the International Political Science Association鈥檚 Research Committee on the Structure of Governance as the 2020 recipient of the Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize. Bersch and colleagues recently published, 鈥淩esponding to COVID鈥19 Through Surveys of Public Servants,鈥 in the peer-reviewed Public Administration Review

Melody Crowder-Meyer, with Rosalyn Cooperman, published 鈥溾 in PS: Political Science & Politics. Crowder-Meyer also published 鈥溾 with James Szewczyk in Political Behavior

Psychology

Jessica Good recently published an article entitled "鈥 in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

John Kello and J.A. Allen, co-authored a chapter on workplace meetings, 鈥淭he staff meeting鈥 and beyond鈥 in the book .

Julio Ramirez presented in a virtual webinar the Joseph L. Martinez Jr., and James G. Townsel Endowed Lecture at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass. The lecture was entitled 鈥淏roken Brains and Breaking Barriers.鈥

Laura Sockol has published a manuscript with Katie Little 鈥18, 鈥溾 in Frontiers in Psychology

Laura Sockol and Kristi Multhaup are co-authors with Sarah Kopp 鈥19 on an article in Psychology and Aging. Sarah is the first author on the article, 鈥,鈥 which is based on Sarah鈥檚 senior thesis and was supported by a DRI.

Emily Rounds 鈥21 and Lauren Stutts published an article called 鈥溾 in the Psychology of Popular Media journal. The article was also featured on Psy Post.

Religious Studies

Greg Snyder edited the recently published book

Sociology

Gayle Kaufman鈥檚 book  was chosen as a for September.

Gerardo Mart铆 published his seventh book, . Mart铆 was elected President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion and recently received a $1 million Lilly Endowment Inc. national Thriving Congregations Initiative titled, 鈥淐hurches That THRIVE for Racial Justice.鈥 

Theatre

Ann Marie Costa presented a directing workshop entitled 鈥淩etaining our Embodied Practices in our Directing Courses: Theme Exercise鈥 as one of the featured presenters of a COVID Directs panel for the Directing Focus Group (DFG) of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2020 conference. 

Sharon Green participated in a roundtable discussion, titled 鈥淭heatre and Activism鈥 at the Conversations on Applied Theatre Conference, sponsored by Hollins University鈥檚 Playwright鈥檚 Lab. Green is also a member of a newly convened international Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) working group that is redesigning TO structures for online