Fall 2021 Faculty Updates

Visiting Assistant Professor of Health Studies and Writing Eli Anders published a review of Hosanna Krienke's book, Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Afterlife of Victorian Illness, in Social History of Medicine.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Laura Been authored three presentations at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting:  "The impact of postpartum estrogen withdrawal following a hormone-simulated pseudopregnancy on motivational behaviors in adult female mice" with student authors Roy Simamora '22, Brandon Alonso '22 and Leo Costa '23; "The effects of long-term oral tamoxifen administration on anxiety and cognition in Long-Evans Hooded female rats: a potential role for BDNF?" with student authors Sarah Blossom '22 and Amanda Halliday '23; and “Permpartum estradiol fluctuations impact sleep actigraphy and neural plasticity during a hormone-simulated pseudopregnancy in female Syrian hamsters” with student authors Jaclyn Corbin '22 and Clara Merrill '22. Been also published an article, "Hormones and Neuroplasticity: A lifetime of adaptive responses," in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews and gave an invited talk,  "The role of postpartum estrogen withdrawal in neural and behavioral plasticity,"
 at Temple University's Neuroscience Seminar Series.

Associate Professor of Economics Carola Binder published “Household Expectations and the Release of Macroeconomic Statistics” in Economics Letters, and published “The Term Structure of Uncertainty: New Evidence from Survey Expectations” (with Xuguang Sheng and Tucker McElroy) in The Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking. Her paper “Inflation Expectations and Consumption: Evidence from 1951” (with Gillian Brunet) was accepted in Economic Inquiry, and “Time-of-Day and Day-of-Week Variations in Amazon Mechanical Turk Survey Responses” was accepted in The Journal of Macroeconomics. She published "Average Inflation Targeting and Household Expectations” on the Washington Center for Equitable Growth blog. She also appeared on NPR Marketplace several times discussing monetary policy, inflation, and inflation expectations. She was a featured speaker at the Cato Annual Monetary Conference: Populism and the Future of the Fed, the Youth Scholars Initiative panel on writing, and the Sound Money Project conference. She presented research at seminars at Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research, Birmingham Business School, Notre Dame, and Texas A&M. She also continued her service as associate editor of two top journals, The Review of Economics and Statistics and The Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.

Assistant Professor of Linguistics Jane Chandlee published three papers: “Nonderived environment blocking and input-oriented computation” in Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, “Long-distance phonological processes as tier-based strictly local functions” (co-authored with Phillip Burness and Kevin McMullin of the University of Ottawa) in Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics, and “Computational universals in linguistic theory: Using recursive programs for phonological analysis” (co-authored with Adam Jardine of Rutgers University) in Language. She was also an invited speaker at three different conferences. At the 11th North American Phonology Conference, hosted by Concordia University, she spoke on “What Do We Really Mean by (Non)Iterativity?” At NELS 52, hosted by Rutgers University, she presented “Modulating Between Input and Output Locality: A Case Study on Phonological Opacity.” And at Mathematics of Language 2021, hosted by the University of Montpellier, she spoke on “Subregular Phonology and Recursive Program Schemes.” Additionally, Chandlee gave a poster presentation, “Distinguishing Underlying and Derived Triggers in Process Interactions,” at AMP 2021, hosted by the University of Toronto.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian presented at the 2021 Cancer Chemical Biology and Metabolism Director's Career Symposium at the Dana-Farber Institute. She also served as a panelist for the American Chemical Society Polymer Chemistry Division Research with Undergraduate Symposium.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Thomas Devaney is featured in a video exploring mental health and the arts with Yolanda Wisher and ursula rucker. The Healing Verse video project was curated by Philadelphia Poet Laureate Trapeta Mayson for the OC87 Recovery Diaries.  

Associate Professor of Religion Molly Farneth published an essay, "The Wound and the Opening," in the journal Cultural Dynamics. At the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion, she gave a paper, "Masters, Mastery, and Deference," and moderated a roundtable discussion on "Religious Studies and John Rawls's Theory of Justice at 50.”

John C. Whitehead 1943 Professor of the Humanities, and Chair and Professor of Music Richard Freedman presented a paper, “Scholarly Reconstruction: Lessons from The Lost Voices Project” at the Symposium on Scholarly Reconstruction: An Interdisciplinary Discussion on Methods, Outcomes, and Limits of Reconstruction Practices, convened online by Newcastle University. Freedman presented a three-part seminar, "Music Analysis and Digitization: Can Machines Help Us Analyze Polyphonic Music?" at the University of Padua, and presented a paper at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, "“Echoes of Josquin: Counterpoint, Similarity, and the Digital Ear.” He also presented a seminar, "Mapping music: Digital Tools and Collaborative Communities," for the Melbourne (Australia) Data Analytics Platform.

Emily Judson Baugh Gest and John Marshall Gest Professor of Global Philosophy, Professor of Global Philosophy, and Director of Gest Center Ashok Gangadean appeared in a recent Global Connections TV interview, highlighting the significance of his ((1776 Now: Our Unfinished American R-Evolution)) tv series, bringing to the fore the vital importance of globalReason and its evolved human literacy in getting to the deeper source of widespread cultural, personal, and interpersonal dysfunctions and pathologies.

Associate Professor of Spanish Aurelia Gómez Unamuno presented two chapters, "State Violence, Dirty War and Guerrilla in Mexico" and "Disputes of Memory in Mexico," of her book Between Fires: Memory and State Violence at the online seminar organized by Red de Historiadoras del Tiempo Presente (Network of Historian Women of the Present Time). She also presented the book at an online, public event as part of the Seminar of Recent History: Facts, Processes and Actors hosted by the Mora Institute, Autonomous University of Guerrero, and ECOSUR. 

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Daniel Grin was an invited speaker for the Particle Physics /Particle Astrophysics/Cosmology Seminar Series at the University of Delaware, where he spoke on "Ultra-light axions and cosmic microwave background observations." He also gave an invited talk, “Ultra-light axions and CMB anisotropies from degree to arcminute scales,” at the Iranian Conference on High Energy Physics, Deciphering the Universe Ciphers, at the School of Physics at IPM. And Grin gave a talk, “Ultra-light axions and CMB anisotropies from degree to arcminute scales,” via Zoom at the VI SFDM (Scalar Field Dark Matter) Conference at Mexico’s Universidad de Guanajuato.

Executive Director of the Center of Peace and Global Citizenship Eric Hartman was a keynote panelist at the Forum of Education Abroad’s Institute on Centering Justice in Short-Term Faculty-Led Programs. He was also a keynote speaker at Penn State’s Humanities Institute event Re-envisioning Undergraduate Research in the Humanities, where he spoke on “Community-led, Faculty-mentored Innovations in Undergraduate Research.”

Associate Professor of History Darin Hayton taught an evening course, “Technologies of Time,” for the Wagner Free Institute of Science. The course looked at various time-keeping and -tracking technologies in use since antiquity, exploring the ways these technologies produced time and shaped our lives and  thinking about how time has become a moral technology that acts on us in all aspects of our lives.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual Studies Emily Hong’s documentary feature Above and Below the Ground (currently in post-production) was one of 10 films selected to participate in the 2021 Gotham Documentary Lab. Filmmaker Magazine covered Hong’s film’s selection for Gotham Week. 

Professor of Fine Arts Hee Sook Kim was commissioned to create a site-specific installation, Everlasting Playground, for the Philadelphia International Airport, where it is on display in Terminal C through February. Kim’s work was also featured in four group exhibitions: Art Miami and Context’s Mon Share Art, the State Museum of Pennsylvania's Art of the State (at which she also gave an invited lecture), Virginia Beach Art Center’s Third Annual Regional Show, and Mark Arts Gallery’s American Color Print Society Exhibition (where she won an honorable mention). She also won a purchase award for the Local Printmaker’s Collection in Wichita, Kansas, and she created a video for PASIC’s presentation of one-act opera Lost in the Woods at the Indianapolis Convention Center.

Professor Emeritus of History and Visiting Professor in the Writing Program and Quaker Studies Emma Lapsansky-Werner published "Family, Unity, and Identity-Formation: Eighteenth-Century Quaker Community-Building" in Quakerism in the Atlantic World  (Penn State Press, 2021), edited by Robynne Rogers Healey. She was a commenter at the William Still Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Early American Studies, gave a lecture on Benjamin Franklin at the University of Pennsylvania, and was on the consultant-planning team for both the American Philosophical Society and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Lapsansky-Werner was also on the grants review team of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Board of Trustees of both the Pendle Hill Quaker Study Center and the Friends Historical Association, and the School Oversight Committee of Lansdowne Friends School. At Haverford, she was on the Corporation’s Working Group on Engagement, the College’s Restorative Justice in the Classroom Committee, and served as a mentor for the Chesick Scholars. 

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics Michael Levere published an article, "Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Early Impacts from a Multi-Site Random Assignment Evaluation," in Evaluation Review that was co-authored with Ankita Patnaik, Gina Livermore, Arif Mamun, and Jeffrey Hemmeter. Levere also presented at the National Tax Association Annual Conference.

Associate Professor of Linguistics and Haverford Chair of Tri-Co Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen was a part of the team that received an honorable mention from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Innovation Award for Caseidyneën Saën – Learning Together, their Colonial Valley Zapotec Teaching Materials. Lillehaugen also gave a keynote presentation, “Connecting digital language corpora and stakeholders through social media,” at the 5th Annual Developing Infrastructure for CorSAL Symposium, hosted online by the University of North Texas.

Professor of Computer Science Steven Lindell gave an invited talk, “Invariant definability, graph traversals, and logarithmic space computation,” for the Logic and Computation seminar at the University of Pennsylvania.

Director of College Writing Center and Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing Kristin Lindgren gave an invited talk,"Disability Studies Meets Medical Education," via Zoom to the faculty of the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson University. Lindgren, Writing Center Tutor and Multilingual Specialist Susannah Bien-Gund, and Nuria Benitez '22 presented “Linguistic Justice In/and the Writing Center” at the Philadelphia Area Writing Program Administrators Meeting. 

Laurie Ann Levin Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of English, and Chair of Comparative Literature Maud Burnett McInerney published a monograph, Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie.

Associate Professor and Chair of Classics Bret Mulligan delivered a talk on "Finding Accessible Latin Texts Using Readability Scores" at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States.

Assistant Professor of Visual Studies John Muse screened his film Duet at the Athens International Film + Video Festival 2020/21, where it won the Black Bear Award for the best use of sound. Muse also showed four short films—Duet, American Breakfast, Alive, giroscopo (co-directed by Brendamaris Rodriguez)—at San Francisco's "other cinema" as a part of its "Psycho-Geography2" program, curated by filmmaker Craig Baldwin.

Associate Professor of English Lindsay Reckson’s book, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature, was awarded an honorable mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History from the American Society for Theater Research. The Barnard Hewitt Award is awarded each year to the best book in "theatre history or cognate disciplines” published during the previous calendar year.

Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature Deborah Roberts presented an invited paper, "Natural Disaster, Social Change: Volcanic Eruptions in Children's Literature and the Story of Thera" at the online conference "Our Mythical Nature: The Classics and Environmental Issues in Children's and Young Adults' Culture," hosted by the University of Warsaw as part of the ongoing international project "Our Mythical Childhood."

Associate Professor and Director of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Jill Stauffer gave three invited talks: “Resonance and Repair: Rethinking Time in Settler Colonial Law” at symposium called Resonances: The Radical Aesthetics of Peace at Uppsala University; “The self, alone, in a diachronic plot: or, Listening well to difficult stories” at the online symposium Violence in Philosophy and Literature VII hosted by UC Riverside; and “Beginning an Ending: Law, Territory, and the Possible End Times of Settler Colonialism” at Washington and Lee School of Law.

Associate Professor of Psychology Shu-wen Wang published “Implicit support differs across five groups in the U.S., Taiwan, and Mexico” with Laurel Benjamin ‘21 and Xueting Ni ‘19 in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Douglas and Dorothy Steere Professor of Quaker Studies David Watt chaired a panel on “Light in the Eastern Orthodox and Quaker Spiritual Traditions” at the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion. He also attended a reception to honor the two dozen authors who have written books for NYU Press’s North American Religions series. (Along with Laura Levitt and Tracy Fessenden, Watt edits the series for NYU.)

Assistant Professor of Biology Kristen Whalen was a recipient of the 2021 Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in Chemistry. She was also awarded and leading a National Science Foundation grant, "Implications of bacterially driven cross-kingdom chemical interactions," along with co-investigators from the University of New Hampshire, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Washington.

Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Kathleen Wright published “On Eurocentrism: The reception of Gadamer's hermeneutics in or related to Chinese philosophy,” in The Gadamerian Mind (Routledge Press, 2021), edited by Theodore George and Gert-Jan van der Heiden.

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