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Fall/Winter 2021 Issue
Fall/Winter 2021 Issue
Feature Story
Grateful for Time
Find out how Ken Menkhaus, 桃瘾社区's C. Louise Nelson Professor of Political Science, and Andrea Lytle Peet '03 are making their marks in the world of ALS advocacy after being diagnosed with the disease.
Feature Story Time to Act
桃瘾社区 alumni, students, staff and faculty are tackling environmental challenges, including the widespread impacts of climate change.
Language Brings Culture to Life Through New Textbook
A few years ago, Arab Studies Professor and Chair Rebecca Joubin and her students conspired to create their dream textbook. Now, that dream has become a real textbook used at 桃瘾社区 and beyond.
President's Letter Dare to Know
President Carol Quillen reflects on her time as a student in Jock Weintraub鈥檚 class and shares lessons she learned from a teacher with a style very different from her own.
The Well
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A Study in Nature
It was a spectacular 桃瘾社区 fall. Students breathed crisp air as they studied, wrote papers and tossed Frisbees. The college added more outdoor tables for al fresco dining and teachers brought their classrooms outside. Bright sunshine offered a refreshing respite from COVID-19 pandemic weariness, and a hopefulness that this strange time will one day be just a memory.
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The Hits Keep Coming
The 桃瘾社区 volleyball program wrapped up its best regular season in seven years with a 14鈥12 overall record. The 'Cats also clinched a berth to the Atlantic 10 Championship. In this photo, middle blocker Lauryn Albold 鈥22 rises above the net.
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The Union
Bookshelf
Alumni
I Love to Tell the Story: Selected Sermons of Christian Faith by Reverend J. Harold McKeithen Jr. 鈥56 (2021, Botetourt Press). A collection of some of the best sermons by the Reverend J. Harold McKeithen, published posthumously by his family, Melissa, Dan and Lucy McKeithen. Compiled and edited by family friend and journalist, Wilford Kate.
The Assassination of James Forrestal by David Martin 鈥65 (2021, McCabe Publishing). Who killed our nation鈥檚 first Secretary of Defense? A work of revisionist history, Martin delves into the motives for murder behind Forrestal鈥檚 death.
The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation by David Martin 鈥65 and Hugh Turley (2018, McCabe Publishing). Did Thomas Merton die by accidental electrocution? Or did the CIA play a role in the death of the Trappist monk, one of the most prominent Roman Catholic thinkers and writers of the 20th century?
The Murder of Vince Foster: America鈥檚 Would-Be Dreyfus Affair by David Martin 鈥65 (2020, DCD Publishers). Martin explores the conspiracy behind fellow 桃瘾社区 alum and Bill Clinton鈥檚 deputy White House counsel Vince Foster鈥檚 suicide.
Sacred Source: One Man鈥檚 Journey of Reunion with the Divine Feminine by Freeman Allan 鈥67 (2012, Mountain Magic Press). A memoir focused on connection to the divine feminine and its power to lead a new generation to a radical re-envisioning of what it means to be human.
Jennifer and William鈥檚 ENORMOUS Adventure: A recycling adventure for children young and old by Richard Freeman Allan 鈥67 (2014, Mountain Magic Press). An eco-fable intended to awaken young peoples鈥 desire to protect planet Earth.
Our Older Friends: A Guide for Visitors by Joel T. Keys 鈥69 (1983, Fortress Press). A guide for creating quality experiences with older people. Learn about the gifts you can share and receive by spending time with the elderly.
Closed for Repairs with Plumbing Problems by David G Scott 鈥70 (2021, Draft2Digital). A book of clean comedy, one-liners, humorous observations, standup routines and short silly screenplays.
Journalism Education for the Digital Age: Promises, Perils, and Possibilities by B. Creech 鈥05 (2021, Routledge). Pressing debates about how and why journalism education should examine its relationship to the digital age and the changes it spurs.
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Faculty Notes
Africana Studies
Takiyah Harper-Shipman co-edited a special forum with K.Melchor Hall titled, 鈥淪tripping Away the Body: Prospects for Reimagining Race in IR鈥 for International Studies Review.
Anthropology
Laurian Bowles has been elected President of the Association for Africanist Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. She will serve as president-elect from 2021-22 and president from 2022-2024.
Art
Joelle Dietrick created a mural next to Dickinson College鈥檚 Goodyear Gallery. This fall, she and Owen Mundy also exhibited their online project, Tally Saves the Internet, at Digitale D眉sseldorf 2021 and Athens Digital Arts Festival.
Biology
Mark Stanback had four students present at national conferences: Julia Barnfield 鈥22, 鈥淥range Nectar Bats Avoid Foraging Near O鈥檖ossums鈥 for the Animal Behavior Society; Adam Gelman 鈥21, 鈥淗ow does the Color and Texture of Foreign Objects, and the Prior Experience of Eastern Bluebirds, Influence the Ejection of Foreign Objects from Nests?鈥 for the American Ornithological Society; Max Rollfinke 鈥21, 鈥淒o Eastern Bluebirds Guard Nest Boxes During the Fall and Winter?鈥 for the American Ornithological Society; and Max Saucier 鈥21, 鈥淓astern Bluebird Ejection of Model Brown-headed Cowbird Eggs Influenced by the Number of Host Eggs鈥 for the American Ornithological Society.
Communication Studies
Amanda R. Martinez published an article titled, 鈥淩epresentation Matters: Theorizing Health Communication from the Flesh,鈥 in Health Communication journal. Martinez has also accepted an invitation from the incoming lead editor of Communication Monographs (a flagship journal) to serve as one of four associate editors.
Digital Studies
Mark Sample鈥檚 workplace horror game Content Moderator Sim was a featured work in the curated COVID E-Lit digital media exhibition organized by Aarhus University in Denmark. Over the summer Sample also taught a week-long workshop on creative coding for the University of Pennsylvania鈥檚 digital humanities lab.
Economics
Clark Ross gave three College Board-sponsored, one-week, Advanced Placement institutes for high-school teachers of micro and macroeconomics this summer. One of these remote sessions was coordinated by 桃瘾社区 and two by the University of South Florida.
Caleb Stroup鈥檚 research, 鈥淢acroeconomic Research Present and Past,鈥 is forthcoming in The Journal of Economic Literature. The paper, co-authored with economists at Williams, Kenyon, and Wake Forest, interrogates the epistemological evolution of macroeconomics during the past 40 years.
Educational Studies
Brittany Murray was the keynote speaker for the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society annual meeting. She gave a talk titled, 鈥淲hen Flight Is Not an Option: White Parent Collective Involvement and the Subversion of Desegregation Policy.鈥
English
Brenda Flanagan has been named as a reviewer for the August Wilson Journal, a publication that focuses on articles about plays written by one of America鈥檚 most esteemed playwrights, August Wilson.
Ann Fox presented a short video entitled, 鈥淭eaching Graphic Medicine as Disability Art During COVID-19鈥 as part of the Graphic Medicine International UnConference. Fox鈥檚 comic, 鈥#crockpotrunner: a not-finished tale of a midlife athlete鈥 is part of Menopause: A Comic Treatment (ed. MK Czerwiec), which won the 2021 Eisner Award for best comics anthology at Comic-Con International San Diego. 鈥淚ndisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA,鈥 an online exhibition co-curated for the Ford Foundation Gallery by Fox and Dr. Jessica Cooley 鈥05, premiered its sixth video commission in September.
Alan Michael Parker鈥檚 story, The Bridge, has been awarded Third Place in the River Styx 2021 Microfiction Contest, from among approximately 1,200 entries. Published bi-annually since 1975, River Styx is a prominent independent literary journal based in St. Louis.
Andrew Rippeon鈥檚 artist鈥檚 book, Post-Oak, has been placed on exhibition in the Burroughs Wellcome Gallery at East Carolina University鈥檚 School of Art and Design. Rippeon鈥檚 work includes a series of prints made from hand-cut cross-sections of a 98-year-old post oak that fell during heavy rains. The book is bound in a 鈥渇lutter鈥-style so that multiple page-spreads may be viewed simultaneously.
German Studies
Burkhard Henke, Emily Frazier-Rath, and Scott Denham received a $7,870 grant for programming and events this fall from the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., as part of the nationwide initiative 鈥淭ime to Act.鈥 Programming at 桃瘾社区 will include a German elections watch party, ongoing programming and speakers connected to the Black German Heritage Research Association, a talk by Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Winner Sharon Dodua Otoo, a week focused on Jewish life in Germany in the context of newly discovered archives, and an afternoon of German board games, framed historically.
Emily Fraiser-Rath, together with Sundi Richard, Daniel Lynds, Maddy Page, and Emmanuel Atia 鈥24 in the Digital Learning Center, created 鈥淯npacking Activism for 桃瘾社区 EdX.鈥 Frazier-Rath is executive director of the BGRHA Institute.
History
Jane Mangan was one of 11 scholars invited to present their work at an international, interdisciplinary symposium sponsored by the British Academy and the University of York in July. The event was entitled 鈥淭he Matter of Silver: Substance, Surface, Shimmer, Trauma,鈥 and Mangan鈥檚 contribution was 鈥淩eflections in Silver: Colonial Identities and Material Culture in the Silver City of Potos铆,鈥 part of an ongoing research project on material culture and colonialism in the Andes.
Rose Stremlau has won a 2021-22 Howard Fellowship to support the completion of her book manuscript Barbara Hildebrand Longknife: A Cherokee Life in the Age of American Empire. Stremlau also co-authored an article entitled 鈥淧sychosocial Aspects of Historical and Cultural Learning: Historical Trauma and Resilience Among Indigenous Young Adults,鈥 which appears in the May 2021 Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
Latin American Studies
Britta Crandall and Russell Crandall reviewed David Edmond鈥檚 鈥淭he Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle鈥 for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books.
Russell Crandall published 鈥淭he US-Mexico Border: Asylum, Fear and Trump鈥 in Survival. Crandall reviewed Suzanna Reiss鈥 鈥淲e Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of U.S. Empire鈥 for the Journal of Cold War Studies; and Simon Hall鈥檚 鈥10 Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s鈥 for Hispanic American Historical Review 101. Crandall discussed his book, Drugs and Thugs, on the 鈥淗istory as it Happens鈥 podcast. Crandall also published 鈥淩eview of John Washington The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border鈥 and 鈥淩eview of The Border and Its Bodies: The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-Mexico Line鈥 for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books.
Music
Marcus Pyle was invited to present a doctoral forum colloquium at The Juilliard School with a talk titled, 鈥淗eterot(r)opic Black Bodies.鈥 He guest lectured at New York University as part of their Public Humanities Initiative, and performed Dvo藰r谩k鈥檚 String Sextet in A major with Quartet131 and Chamber Music Society musicians at Bohemia National Hall, in celebration of Dvo藰r谩k鈥檚 180th anniversary.
Neuroscience
Julio Ramirez presented in person the 2021 Dr. Joe L. Martinez Jr. and Dr. James G. Townsel Endowed Lecture at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) at Woods Hole, Mass. The lecture was titled 鈥淏roken Brains and Breaking Barriers: Lessons from the Hippocampal Formation and Life.鈥 He also presented professional development workshops at MBL, titled 鈥淗abits of Successful Scientists鈥 and 鈥淛immy Buffett鈥檚 Got Nothin鈥 on Us: Teaching at an Undergraduate Institution.鈥
Physics
Anthony Kuchera presented an invited talk titled 鈥淪earch for 15Be via 12Be+3n鈥 at the Neutron Unbound Systems Around the Dripline workshop hosted by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. He also gave an invited talk titled 鈥淯nderstanding Neutron Scattering in Plastic Scintillators and the Future of MoNA-LISA鈥 at the 2021 Neutron Detector Workshop hosted by the Center for Excellence in Nuclear Training And University-Based Research (CENTAUR) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics & Applications (JINPA). Kuchera and Robbie Seaton-Todd 鈥20 published a research article titled 鈥淣eutron-unbound States in 31Ne鈥 in Physical Review C.
Michelle Kuchera co-authored a paper with Braden Kronheim 鈥21, 鈥淭ensorBNN: Bayesian Inference for Neural Networks using Tensorflow,鈥 for Computer Physics Communications. Kuchera also co-authored a paper with Evan Pritchard 鈥22, Michael Robertson 鈥20, and Ryan Strauss 鈥19, titled 鈥淪imulation of Electron-proton Scattering Events by a Feature-Augmented and Transformed Generative Adversarial Network (FAT-GAN),鈥 in the Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Kuchera and Prof. Raghu Ramanujan also co-authored a paper with John Blue 鈥21 and Braden Kronheim 鈥21, titled 鈥淐onditional Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks for Fast Detector Simulation鈥 for the 25th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP).
Kristen Thompson, Shane Winner 鈥24 and Allura Baker (Community School of 桃瘾社区 鈥23) published an article titled 鈥淎strometric Measurements of WDS 17103-7523鈥 in the Journal of Double Star Observations. Kristen Thompson and a Wingate collaborator published an article titled 鈥淎strometric Analysis of Binary Star WDS 07508-1854鈥 in the Journal of Double Star Observations.
Political Science
Katherine Bersch was the co-organizer and served as discussant/chair of Oxford鈥檚 Brazilian Studies talk on 鈥淜eeping One Job Versus Doing One鈥檚 Job.鈥 She was also invited to present at the Latin American Studies Association鈥檚 Charlemos Series, 鈥淭he Story Behind Critical Research in Latin America,鈥 on the topic of 鈥淓xpanding State Capacity in Latin America: A Conversation with Lapis鈥檚 Recent Award Winners.鈥
Melody Crowder-Meyer published 鈥淗ow Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Their Intersections Shape Americans鈥 Issue Priorities鈥 in the Journal of Women, Politics & Policy.
Shelly Rigger published a book in June entitled The Tiger Leading the Dragon: How Taiwan Propelled China鈥檚 Economic Rise (Rowman & Littlefield).
Psychology
Kristi Multhaup has been elected president of the American Psychological Association Division 3, Society for Experimental Psychology & Cognitive Science. She will serve as president-elect 2021-22, as president 2022-23, and as past president 2023-24. Multhaup is also a co-PI on an NSF Standard Grant ($49,937) 鈥淲omen in Cognitive Science: Networking, Visibility, and Career Pathways,鈥 with Catherine M. Arrington (PI, Lehigh University), Joo-Hyun Song (Brown University), & Nazbanou Nozari (Carnegie Mellon University).
Public Health
Dave Wessner and students Alexis Pheng 鈥20 and Abby Miller 鈥20 published an article titled 鈥淢elding Art and Science to More Fully Explore Issues of Public Health鈥 in IMPACT: The Journal of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning.
Sociology
Gayle Kaufman is part of an editorial team for the International Network on Leave Policies & Research. They have published a report that provides information on parental leave for 47 countries and has summary comparison tables for quick comparisons of maternity, paternity, parental, and other leave entitlements across countries. The report is: Koslowski, A., Blum, S., Dobroti膰, I., Kaufman, G. and Moss, P. (2021) International Review of Leave Policies and Related Research 2021.
Gerardo Mart铆 was a featured guest on several podcasts this summer, including an extensive discussion of Pastor Rick Warren and the development of the American megachurch on 鈥Quick to Listen鈥 as well as still continuing episodes of the prestige podcast on Pastor Mark Driscoll on 鈥淭he Rise and Fall of Mars Hill.鈥 Both podcasts are produced by Christianity Today and available on all platforms.
Theatre
Ann Marie Costa and Olanike Oyedepo 鈥20 presented at the Directing Focus Group pre-conference for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. The presentation was titled 鈥淪hifting Gears: Addressing Racism and Intolerance at Your Institution Through Performance.鈥 The talk zeroed in on the directing process of 鈥淯nveiled and Unvarnished: Original Stories of Intolerance and Racism amongst Us,鈥 which was produced in March 2021 at 桃瘾社区. Costa was also invited to join the Association for Theatre in Higher Education鈥檚 DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Consulting Working Group.
Sharon Green was an invited speaker at the International Federation of Theatre Research: Galway (virtually), where she spoke on a book launch panel titled, Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women: The Early Twenty-First Century. She spoke about her chapter in the forthcoming book. Sharon鈥檚 collaborative research project (completed with 4 students), 鈥淭he Count for Liberal Arts Colleges: Data on Gender and Race in the Production Seasons of 桃瘾社区 and Its Peers,鈥 has been included in a national initiative called, 鈥淐ounting Together鈥.
Writing Program
Jason Blum published an article, 鈥淏eyond Methodological Axioms,鈥 in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.