Winter 2024 Faculty Update

Edwin E. Tuttle 1949 Professor and Chair of Fine Arts Markus Baenziger was included in the group exhibition Luminous Reveries, curated by Premjish Achari, at Travancore Palace, New Delhi, India.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Tom Donahue won a $3,000 Small Grant from the American Philosophical Association for the project “Engaged Political Theory for Our Americas: Philosophizing the Black and Spanish Pacifics.” With co-investigators Juan Espíndola (UNAM) and Ashwini Vasanthakumar (Queen's Law), the project will bring together thinkers who study how Spanish-speaking and Black actors — among others— connected the whole Pacific. Thereby, they tied the Americas to Austronesia, the Sinosophere, and the Malay worlds.

The project is part of the larger enterprise, “Reconnecting Theory: ‘The Margins’ as Entangled Centers.” That has received generous support from the American Political Science Association, the Haverford Provost's Office, and the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.

The Emily Judson Baugh Gest and John Marshall Gest Professor of Global Philosophy Ashok Gangadean was the inaugural guest on a new podcast called Philosophia Universalis. The hosts, two local high school students, discovered Gangadean’s pioneering work in Global Philosophy and invited him to participate in a discussion focused on issues of diversity and dialogue.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Visual Studies Emily Hong’s film Above and Below the Ground was awarded a $100,000 production and impact grant from the Doc Society Climate Story Unit.

The C.V. Starr Professor of Asian Studies; Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics; Director of Chinese Language Program Shi-Zhe Huang presented “Cross-linguistic comparisons on distributive universal quantification: each/every vs. mei” (Shi-Zhe Huang, Tyler Knowlton, and Florian Schwarz) at the Linguistic Society of America’s 2024 Annual Conference in New York, January 5-7.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Charles Goldhaber delivered a talk entitled “Layered Irony in Sor Juana and Hume’s Compositions on Skepticism” to audiences at the University of Sheffield and Bilkent University.

He also gave two sets of comments at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (APA) in New York — one on Martina Favaretto’s “What Is It to Incorporate an Incentive into a Maxim?” and the other in an Author Meets Reviewer session organized by Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews on Michael Bergmann’s Radical Skepticism and Epistemic Intuition. Additionally, he organized and chaired a session at the APA for the Hume Society on “Hume and Moderation of the Passions,” which featured two speakers and two commentators.

Finally, his book review of Nathan I. Sasser’s Hume and the Demands of Philosophy: Science, Skepticism, and Moderation was published in the Journal of Scottish Philosophy.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Alvin Grissom II contributed with Emily M. Bender the chapter “Power Shift: Toward Inclusive Natural Language Processing” in Inclusion in Linguistics. The book will be available through open access from Oxford University Press on March 30.

Grissom also had his paper “Rapidly Piloting Real-time Linguistic Assistance for Simultaneous Interpreters with Untrained Bilingual Surrogates” accepted for publication. Its authors are Grissom, Jo Shoemaker, Benjamin Goldman ’21, Ruikang Shi ’21, Craig Stewart, C. Anton Rytting, Leah Findlater, and Jordan Boyd-Graber. It will be presented in May at the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING) held in Turin, Italy.

Updates from Professor of Fine Arts Hee Sook Kim:

Grants and awards
2024 Global Art Virtuoso Award, Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award, Contemporary Art Collectors
A023 Otto Lambert Grever Lithography Award, ACPS, Philadelphia, PA

Art video (with live performers)
2023 Folk Theater Pungryu, Gyeonggi Gayageum Ensemble, “Paradise Between 1,” Seoul, Korea

Group exhibitions
2024 Art Mora Gallery, Prints, Ridgefield Park, NJ
2024 Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Explorations: Print Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Art Mora Gallery, The Dream Salon, Ridgefield Park, NJ
2023 The Plastic Club, ACPS Fall Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

Publications and reviews
AATONAUI, “Hee Sook Kim: Painting a Path from Seoul to Philadelphia,” by Bianca Cahn, February 10, 2024
Al TIBA 9 Contemporary Art, “Interview: Hee Sook Kim,” January 18, 2024
Review, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, Hee Sook Kim, January 14, 2024

Edmund and Margiana Stinnes Professor of Global Studies James Krippner and Douglas and Dorothy Steere Professor of Quaker Studies David Harrington Watt published the monograph Henry Cadbury: Quaker, Pacifist, and Skeptic.

Professor Emeritus of History and Visiting Professor in the Writing Program and Quaker Studies Emma Lapsansky-Werner gave several presentations this fall:

*Presentation on Black Women in American Revolution for Gilder Lehrman teachers' workshop, September 6.
*Presentation on William Still for the Pennsylvania Historical Society, October 8.
* Presentation on Christiana Resistance (1851) for Haverford’s Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, September 18.

Lapansky-Werner also contributed the introduction to Friendly Connections: Philadelphia Quakers And Japan Since The Late Nineteenth Century, published by Rowan/Littlefield, and the afterword to Quaker Women, 1800-1920, published by Pennsylvania University Press.

Lapansky-Werner is Chesick Scholars advisor and a board member for Friends’ Central School and the Friends’ Historical Association.

Assistant Professor of Music Mei-ling Lee presented her paper, titled “Exploring Data-Driven Instruments in Contemporary Music Composition,” at the WOCMAT (Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology) National Conference on December 21 in Taiwan.

The paper illustrates the concept of data-driven instruments and their connection to conventional musical instruments. It examines three original compositions written by the author to demonstrate the utilization of data-driven instruments in musical contexts, emphasizing the application of sonic materials and data mapping strategies.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Ryan Lei published two papers (Haverford College undergraduate co-authors are denoted with an asterisk.)

Lei, R.F., Cohen, A.J.*, Wong, P., & Hudson, S.T.J. (2024). “Investigating hair cues as a mechanism underlying Black women’s intersectional invisibility.” Developmental Psychology.

Lei, R.F., Li, N.J.*, Pham, P.T-P., Szanton, E.C.*, & Frazer-Klotz, Z.* (2024). “Examining whether and how Black and Asian parents engage in collective racial socialization.” Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Updates from Associate Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen:

Grant
2023. Mellon Foundation, Humanities for All Times Grant, Together with Humanities: Language, Community, and Power, Grant #2302-14814. Haverford College. PI Brook Danielle Lillehaugen, Co-PIs Jane Chandlee and Ana Lopez-Sanchez. December 1, 2023—June 30, 2027; $1,500,000.

Publications
Riestenberg, Katherine J., Allison Freemond, Jonathan North Washington & Brook Danielle Lillehaugen. 2024. “Prioritizing Community Partners’ Goals in Projects to Support Indigenous Language Revitalization.” In Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson & Mary Bucholtz (eds.), Decolonizing Linguistics, 389—403. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Plumb, May Helena, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Moisés García Guzmán, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen & Felipe H. Lopez. 2024. “Growing a bigger linguistics through a Zapotec agenda: a Ticha Project case report.” In Anne Charity Hudley, Christine Mallinson & Mary Bucholtz (eds.), Decolonizing Linguistics, 359—374. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Invited talks
2023. “Ticha: archival texts, linguistic analysis, and language activism.” Linguistics Program Colloquium Series, Princeton University, November 28.

Chávez Santiago, Janet and Brook Danielle Lillehaugen. 2023. “Ticha to Dixza: from the Archive to Lo Gedx.” Stepping into the Work: 2023 Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative Institute, Haverford College, November 10.

2023. “Centering Language(s) & Linguistics in a Social-Justice Oriented Humanities.” Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Conference, Rutgers University, September 29.

T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy Danielle Macbeth gave an invited talk entitled “Thinking Beyond Logic” for the Argument, Cognition, and Language Lab Research Colloquium at the Nova Institute of Philosophy, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. Macbeth also conducted a workshop, “Notations in Mathematics and Logic,” for the ArgLab Research Group.

Professor and Chair of Physics and Astronomy and Director of Marian E. Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center Karen Masters attended the American Astronomical Society Meeting in New Orleans January 8-12.

As well as attending many sessions, Masters presented a poster on her work observing galaxies with the Green Bank Radio Telescope and led a session run by the AAS Education Committee on Graduate and Undergraduate preparation for careers in Astrophysics. Masters was also there to accompany several students from her research group Petra Mengistu ’24, Indy Srijumnong ’24, Sophia Lanava BMC ’24, Mick Mayer ’25, Margaret Yang ’26 and Masa Kilibarda ’26. A few other students also attended. The group also enjoyed an informal gathering with Haverford alums for lunch.

Professor of Mathematics and Statistics and William H. and Johanna A. Harris Chair of Computational Science Robert Manning published “Energy-minimizing configurations for an elastic rod with self-contact energy close to the inextensible–unshearable and hard-contact limits” (R. Manning, K. Hoffman, M. Merkle, L. Fan '22, A. Sharma '22) in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering in February.

In January, Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan delivered “Bridge/Stats: a Tool for Discovering, Visualizing, and Comparing Textual Readability” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies.

Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Kevin Quin was awarded a Tri-College Faculty Forum Brainstorming Grant from the Mellon Tri-College Faculty Forum. The grant will support the Black Queer Studies Working Group’s efforts to bolster interdisciplinary teaching and research in the Tri-Co through collaboration between faculty in Africana Studies at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, and Black Studies at Swarthmore College.

Quin also presented a paper entitled “Daring to be our African Selves: Black Queer and Feminist Challenges to Cultural Nationalism” at the Tri-Co Social Sciences Colloquium at Swarthmore College on February 22.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology Zeynep Sertbulut has been invited to present a paper on media censorship in Turkey at the Society and Cinema Studies annual conference in April and at the annual meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society in May. Her review of Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic was published by Anthropologica, Canada’s oldest anthropology journal, on February 20.

Bertrand K. Wilbur Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of Creative Writing Asali Solomon was invited to write the introduction to the latest reissue of the Harlem Renaissance novel Quicksand by Nella Larsen. This new edition, part of the Modern Library’s Torchbearers Series, was published on January 30.

Douglas and Dorothy Steere Professor of Quaker Studies David Harrington Watt was awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society.

The Connecticut Humanities has awarded the Florence Griswold Museum a $25,000 grant for assistance in planning the exhibition Seeing Past: African American History Photographed by William Earle Williams, scheduled for spring 2025. The exhibition features new works by the Museum’s latest artist-in-residence, Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Fine Arts William Earle Williams.

For this residency, Williams has created new photographs of Old Lyme and other sites in Connecticut. Working with Associate Curator Jenny Parsons, Williams will co-curate an exhibition about sites of importance to African American history in Connecticut and across the United States.

Associate Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing published the monograph Governance and Intervention in Mali: Elusive Security (Oxford: Routledge, 2024).

Professor Emeritus of English Christina Zwarg published a review of “Beyond This Narrow Now” Or, Delimitations of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler in Modern Language Review, 119, Part I (January 2024), 148-150.