Winter 2016 Faculty Update

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Anne Balay gave a talk, "Labor and Delivery: From Steel Mills to Big Rig Culture," on the Plenary Panel of the 18th Annual Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College in March. In February, she gave two talks, "Wordfest Lecture: LGBTQ Steelworkers in NW Indiana" at Valparaiso University, and "John the Uptight Trucker, or, How everything changes when you start to see working-class and poor people’s lives and bodies" at Davidson College. Balay also published "Surprised by Activism: The Effects of One Oral History on its Queer Steelworking Narrators" in Oral History Review and co-authored a New York Times op/ed piece on long-haul trucking.

Haverford College President and Francis B. Gummere Professor of English Kim Benston co-edited the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature, 3rd Edition.

Assistant Professor of Economics Carola Binder authored a policy report, "Rewriting the Rules of the Federal Reserve for Broad and Stable Growth," published by the Roosevelt Institute. She gave a presentation to the Washington Center for Equitable Growth on culture and inequality, and presented to Philadelphia Federal Reserve President and staff on monetary policy and inequality. Binder gave a statement to the U.S. Congress on proposed legislation on the Federal Reserve. She also published, "Estimation of Historical Inflation Expectations,” in Explorations in Economic History.

Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo had five premieres and several additional performances of his music. His works were heard in Italy at the Ateneo Veneto in Venice and at the Palazzo di Cultura in Messina, in Costa Rica at the Teatro Eugene O'Neill in San José and at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Heredia, at Gerald R. Daniel Recital Hall in Long Beach, Calif., at the Juilliard School, and at Haverford.  In conjunction with several of these events, he offered pre-concert dialogues and commentaries and appeared on-stage as narrator. He completed his Bernini Elegy for bass-baritone and piano and his Variations on a Theme of Mozart for solo piano, and he created new recitation texts for his Lyric Visions from the Pawnee.  His piano skill is showcased in a new YouTube video featuring his Sonata transfigurata. The audio track is accompanied by a poetic and visual narrative, including artwork of Professor of Fine Arts Ying Li. Two recent videos of Cacioppo’s organ music, performed by Robert Gallagher and Scott Dettra, are also available. (More information is available on his website.) Cacioppo also lectured on his music and performing experience to a combined audience of composition and piano students and faculty at the Cole Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach.

Associate Professor of Spanish Roberto Castillo Sandoval’s book of chronicles and essays, Antípodas (Cuarto Propio, 2014), was chosen as one of three finalists, among hundreds of entries, for the City of Santiago Premio Municipal de Literatura, Chile's oldest and most prestigious literary prize.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian published a paper, "Comprehensive curation and analysis of fungal biosynthetic gene clusters of published natural products,” in Fungal Genetics & Biology. The work was incorporated into an upper-level Haverford chemistry course ("Topics in Bioorganic Chemistry"), and was conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Stanford Genome Technology Center. The paper includes 19 Haverford and Bryn Mawr undergraduate students as co-authors.

Professor of Psychology Rebecca Compton’s book, Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children, was published by Oxford University Press.

Lecturer Kathryne Corbin published "Women on All Fronts? Personal Wartime Experience as Front-Page News (France 1870-1918)" in a special issue of Romance Notes, “At War: Spaces of Conflict, 1860-2015,” edited by Jessica Tanner. In November, Corbin gave a presentation, “Contagious Criminality? Reporters Without Borders and the Sensationalist Fait Divers in the Fin-de-siècle Press," at the 41st Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium at a session entitled "'Contagion intellectuelle': Criminality, the Press and the Invasion of Littérature industrielle.”

Associate Professor Kaye Edwards and five students from the "Senior Seminar in Health Studies" flew to Phoenix on March 6 for a six-day excursion through Arizona and New Mexico, where they visited hospitals, community health programs, museums, and national parks. Through conversations with health care providers at Indian Health Service, private, and Navajo Nation hospitals, with NIH researchers, educators, public health workers, and with citizens of the Navajo, Hopi, and Apache Nations, they learned about the resilience of Native cultures and about programs to improve the health and well-being of American Indians in the Southwest. Their trip took them 787 miles from Phoenix to Albuquerque, with stops in Flagstaff, Tuba City, Second Mesa, Chinle, Ganado, Window Rock, and Gallup. This field study was funded by the CPGC and inspired by Dr. Ana Maria Lopez, BMC '82, who connected the team with her colleagues.

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies Hank Glassman was named the Janet and Henry Ritchotte 1985 Professor of Asian Studies. In February, Glassman presented "Women’s Remains, Buddha Relics, and the Iconography of Stone Grave Markers: Still More on the Gorintō" at a conference at Columbia University, “Empowering Objects: Kamakura-period Buddhist Art in Ritual Contexts,” in conjunction with Asia Society New York's exhibition, Kamakura: Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan. He also contributed an essay to the exhibit's catalog. In March, Glassman presented "Image, Text, and Performance in the Creation of the Japanese Children’s Limbo," at the Association for Asian Studies' annual meeting in Seattle, and "Grave as Reliquary: Notes on Women’s Remains, Embodiment, and Ancestorhood," at the “Women, Rites, and Objects in Pre-modern Japan Conference” at the University of Pittsburgh.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Myron Gray wrote a review of Catherine Jones' Literature and Music in the Atlantic World, 1767–1867 (Edinburgh, 2014), for Common-place. He also published "Renaud de Chateaudun’s ‘Queen of France’ and the Royalist Lament in Federal Philadelphia: A Study in Atlantic Musical Politics" in American Music.

"Winter Light," a piece for solo violin and string orchestra by Associate Professor of Music and Director of the Bi-College Orchestra Heidi Jacob, was performed by the I Solisti Veneti, conducted by Claudio Scimone in Padua, Italy. Jacob's was the only score by an American chosen by the Foundazione Adkins Chiti Donne in Musica for this performance.

Associate Professor of Physics Suzanne Amador Kane attended the annual meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) in Portland Or., where she and her students presented their research on ”Hawks Take Flight: diurnal raptor take-off kinematics," with co-author Paul Mundell ’16, and "The biomechanics of the peacock's courtship display,” with Drexel University co-op student Owen McCrossan.

Associate Professor of Fine Arts Hee Sook Kim is staging a solo exhibition, Paradise Between, at Causey Contemporary Gallery in New York City through April 10.

Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen gave two invited talks: "Collaboration in language documentation and revitalization: digital tools in the field," as part of the colloquium series at the University of Delaware's Department of Linguistics on Feb. 19; and "Endangered languages, modern philology, and digital humanities: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec," at the Thursday Thoughts talk series of the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Linguistics on Feb. 25.

Assistant Professor of Spanish Ana Lopez-Sanchez published an edited volume, Multiliteracies in World Language Education (Routledge, 2015). Lopez-Sanchez co-authored the book’s introductory chapter ("Advancing Multiliteracies in World Language Education”), the afterword, and an additional chapter ("Redesigning the Intermediate Level of the Spanish Curriculum Through a Multiliteracies Lens").

T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy Danielle Macbeth gave an invited talk, "Revolution in Philosophy," for the Wittgenstein Workshop at the New School for Social Research in New York. She was commissioned to write a paper on the state of analytic philosophy; that paper, "Waiting for the Revolution," was published in the online journal Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities. Macbeth also published "Frege and the Aristotelian Model of Science" in Early Analytic Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Tradition (Springer).

Associate Professor of Political Science Stephen McGovern edited a textbook, Urban Politics: A Reader, that was published by Sage Publications in February.

Associate Professor of Political Science Barak Mendelsohn published his book, The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences, via Oxford University Press. He also published two journal articles: ”Israel and Its Messianic Right: Path Dependency and State Authority in International Conflict,” which appeared in International Studies Quarterly; and "Threat Identification and the UN’s 1267 Sanctions Committee,” which appeared in Terrorism and Political Violence. His "Divide and Conquer in Syria and Iraq: Why the West Should Plan for a Partition" appeared in Foreign Affairs on Nov. 30, and "Experts Weigh In: What is the future of al-Qaida and the Islamic State?" was published by the Brookings Institution on Jan. 7.

Professor of Biology Philip Meneely published a paper, "Pick your Poisson: An educational primer for Luria and Delbruck's classic paper," in Genetics. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Genetics Society of America, the board invited Meneely to write an educational primer to introduce current students to one of the seminal papers published in the journal in the last century.

Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Weiwen Miao gave a seminar, "New Statistical Tests for Detecting Disparate Impact Arising from Two-State Selection Process," at Villanova University in February.

Director of Haverford MI3 and Visiting Assistant Professor Economics Shannon Mudd participated in Ashoka's Exchange U in New Orleans in February. The annual conference hosts 750 educators, social entrepreneurs, and students from around the world to share their mission, programs, and best practices in moving campuses to become hubs for social innovation. In a panel on "Investing in Social Impact,” Mudd discussed the innovative experiential learning component of his "Impact Investing" class, in which students perform due diligence for equity investments into early stage social enterprises with the intent to invest and generate both a financial return and a positive social and/or environmental benefit. He also presented on lessons learned from Mi3's ongoing partnership with Investors' Circle, a national impact angel investing network with a local chapter in Philadelphia.

Associate Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan organized and chaired a panel on "Imitation in Medieval Literature" at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies. Mulligan also delivered a paper, "Building a Born-Digital, Print-Ready Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses 3," at the 111th Annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, in Williamsburg, Va.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Zachary Oberfield gave an invited talk at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's Research Summit at American University. He spoke about what government leaders and managers can do to build more inclusive diversity climates, information that came from his recently published article in Public Management Review, "Why Are Some Agencies Perceived As More Committed To Diversity Than Others? An Analysis Of Public-Sector Diversity Climates.”

Assistant Professor of English Lindsay Reckson wrote an article, "Touching a Button," that was published in the March 2016 issue of American Literature. Reckson also published a short essay on "Gesture" for the Keywords for American Cultural Studies hybrid print-digital project.

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Deborah Roberts published an essay, "Translating the Forbidden: the Unexpurgated Edition and the Reception of Ancient Obscenity," in the volume Ancient Obscenities: Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds (University of Michigan Press), which was edited by Dorota Dutsch and Ann Suter.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Adam Rosenblatt gave a talk, "Family Opposition to Human Rights Exhumations: The Need for Interdisciplinary Research on a Question of Science, Politics, and Consent,” at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences annual meeting in Las Vegas in February. The talk was was part of an interdisciplinary panel on the contributions sociocultural anthropology can make to forensic investigation, and explored what happens when families of victims don't share the same perception of forensic science’s relationship to truth and justice that is held by scientists, lawyers, and human rights advocates. Rosenblatt’s book, Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science After Atrocity (Stanford University Press, 2015), was named a 2015 Outstanding Academic Title by Choice, the review publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier presented a departmental seminar, "Gas Separation with '2D' Membranes," at the Department of Chemical Physics of the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in December. Also that month, he organized and chaired a two-day symposium on "Data Mining and Machine Learning Meets Experiment and First-Principles Simulation for Materials Discovery" in addition to giving talks on "Bilayer silicatene: Glassy defect structures and gas separation properties" and "Bioinspired electroactive organic molecules for aqueous redox flow batteries" at International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, in December in Hawaii. In March, Schrier attended the 251st ACS National Meeting and Exposition in March in San Diego, Calif., where he presented a talk, "Using drug discovery methods to accelerate the search for better battery materials," and lead a panel discussion on "Materials genome and materials informatics."

Associate Professor of Anthropology Jesse Weaver Shipley gave a keynote address, "Trickster Citizenship: Staging Uncertainty in an Age of Revolution," at the Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures at Jadavpur University in Kolkata in January.

John R. Coleman Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of History Paul Smith offered an invited seminar on literature and history at Yale, based on his 2006 article "Shuihu zhuan and the Military Subculture of the Northern Song, 960-1127." That seminar was prelude to his public lecture, "'Starting wars is easy, ending them hard:' The politics of peace and war in 11th century China."

Visiting Associate Professor of Independent College Programs Carol Solomon contributed a chapter, "Street Art and the Tunisian Revolt,” to The Birth of the Arab Citizen and the Changing Middle East (Olive Branch Press).

Associate Professor and Director of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Jill Stauffer wrote an essay, "Listening to the Archive / Failing to Hear," that appeared as a chapter in the book Law, Memory, Violence: Uncovering the Counter-Archive (Routledge, 2016). Stauffer gave a talk, "Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard," at the Center for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte, on Feb. 11. She also gave a talk, "Failures of hearing: Trauma, recovery and learning to listen well," in Drexel Medical School's Medical Humanities Series on Feb. 16.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Shu-wen Wang published "Implications of emotion expressivity for daily and trait interpersonal and intrapersonal functioning across cultural groups" in the Asian American Journal of Psychology and "Mutual and non-mutual social support: Cultural differences in the psychological, behavioral, and biological effects of support-seeking” in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.  She also published "Who gives to whom?: Testing the support gap hypothesis with naturalistic observations of couple interactions” in the Journal of Family Psychology.

The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded the Print Center of Philadelphia a $15,000 publication grant to develop a book of photos by Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities William Earle Williams. The book will be called William E. Williams: Philadelphia Pictures and will feature the photographer’s Philadelphia party pictures from the 1970s and 1980s accompanied by text by The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Edith Newhall and John Caperton, from the Print Center.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Helen K. White published a paper,"Deep-sea coral δ13C: A tool to reconstruct the difference between seawater pH and δ11B-derived calcifying fluid pH," in Geophysical Research Letters with collaborators from Nanyang Technological University. White also was an author on a book chapter, "Applications of Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography (GC×GC) in Studying the Source, Transport, and Fate of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in the Environment," published by Elsevier in Standard Handbook of Oil Spill Forensics. White and Haverford undergrads Brenna Boehman '16, Katie Rowlett '16, Alana Thurston '16, and Nora Weathers '16 presented their research at the 2016 Ocean Sciences meeting in New Orleans, La.