Spring 2015 Faculty Updates

Ruth Marshall Magill Professor of Music Curt Cacioppo heard performances of his work“NayénÄ•zgạni (Monsterslayer)” by the Amernet String Quartet at Haverford and at Florida International University's Urban Studios Gallery in Miami,“Scenes from Indian Country” by the University of Connecticut Symphony Orchestra in Storrs, and the world premiere of“Armed and Dangerous” by pianist Bruce Leto '14 in a return visit to campus.  Cacioppo's new piano quintet,“Women at the Cross,” was aired in its entirety on Easter Eve over WRTI 90.1 FM Temple University, and his“Divertimenti in Italia” featuring the Quartetto di Venezia was broadcast unabridged on WOMR 92.1 FM Provincetown, Mass. Cacioppo also completed his latest work,“Synaesthesis I,” which is part of a multimedia collaboration with Fine Arts Professor Ying Li and filmmaker John Thornton and is supported by the HCAH and the Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, Switzerland.

Associate Professor of Political Science Paulina Ochoa Espejo's book, The Time of Popular Sovereignty, was the subject of a roundtable at the "Articulating Politics: An Author-Meets-Critics Conference" at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago in April.

Assistant Professor of History Andrew Friedman published“The Fabric of Spying: Double Agents and the Suburban Cold War,” in Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America (University of Minnesota Press) in late April.

Assistant Visiting Professor of Psychology Seth J. Gillihan was a guest on both the One Hour at a Time radio show and The Practice Institute's“Meet the Authors” series with co-author Janet Singer to discuss their book, Overcoming OCD: A Journey to Recovery. Gillihan also appeared on the Brave Endurance podcast with Dr. James Kelley for Mental Health Awareness Month. And he gave a conference talk,“Exposure Therapy for PTSD,” at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, in Toronto, Canada, in May.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Gordon presented a poster,“That's Not Funny! Socially Anxious Persons use Less Humor when Asking Partners for Support,” at the Association for Psychological Science's annual convention in May in New York City.

Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Danielle Lillehaugen gave an invited talk,“Collaborative Language Documentation: The Case of a Zapotec Talking Dictionary,” as part of the speaker series at the Linguistics Program at West Chester University of Pennsylvania in April. Lillehaugen also presented two conference papers:“Technology and Collaboration in Language Documentation and Revitalization: The Case of a Zapotec Talking Dictionary,” coauthored with Alex Mannix (BMC '15) and Janet Chávez Santiago, at the“Fourth International Conference on Language Documentation And Conservation” in Honolulu, and“The Morphosyntax of Negation in Colonial Valley Zapotec,” coauthored with Carolyn Anderson (Swat '14), at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) in Portland, Ore.

T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy Danielle Macbeth presented a contributed paper, "Mathematical Meaning in Mathematics Pedagogy,” at the fourth international conference on“Cultures of Mathematics” in Delhi, India, in March. In April, she gave an invited keynote address, "Reasoning in Mathematics and Machines: The Place of Mathematical Logic in Mathematical Understanding,” at the AISB Convention 2015 at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England, which was hosted by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior. At the end of that month, Macbeth gave an invited keynote, "Natural Truth,” at the conference "Sellars in a New Generation,” which was hosted by the Kent State University Philosophy Department. She also presented, by invitation, that same material on“Natural Truth” at the conference "Sellars' Legacy: Consequences, Ramifications, New Directions" at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon in May.

Associate Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan received a program grant from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States for development of The Bridge, which allows instructors and students to create personalized, highly customizable vocabulary lists for Latin and Greek texts. Mulligan also published a review of Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War by Dexter Hoyos for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

Assistant Professor of Physics Kerstin Perez published a paper,“Extended Hard-X-ray Emission in the Inner Few Parsecs of the Galaxy,” in the April 30 issue of Nature. This publication, which describes the discovery of a new source of high-energy emission in the very center or our galaxy using the NuSTAR satellite telescope, generated a lot of media attention, including a NASA press release and articles in i09, Huffington Post, Popular Science, and National Geographic. Perez also received a Cottrell College Science Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement for her proposal“Developing Novel Detectors to Search for the Particle Origins of Dark Matter With the GAPS Experiment.” Three Haverford students, Rui Fang '17, Andrea Gaughan '16, Cora Hersch '16, and Jiayue Wan '16, are participating in that work.

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Deborah Roberts was the keynote speaker at a workshop on“Anglophone Translations and the History of Sexuality” that was held at Durham University in the U.K. in March. Her talk was entitled“ ‘Every Art:' Verbal and Visual Representations of Homosexuality in Limited-Edition Translations.”

Associate Professor of Peace, Juctice, and Human Rights Jill Stauffer attended the Annual Meeting of the Association for Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities at Georgetown Law School in Washington, D.C., in March, and gave both a presentation on her own work (“Evidence of Repair: Hope, Fact and Recovery in International Criminal Proceedings”) and offered commentary on a new book by a colleague (“Strange Necessity: Commentary on James Martel's The One and Only Law”).

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Helen White was awarded a Gulf Research Program Early-Career Research Fellowship, which provides her with $75,000 of unrestricted funding for 2015 through 2017.

Associate Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing gave a talk on“Crises of Secularism in Mali” as participant in“State of Mali: Perspectives on Politics” at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne in April. Also that month, she gave a talk,“So Many Laws, So Little Justice: Pursuing the Rule of Law in Africa,” at Pomona College. Wing also published “A New Hope for Peace, but Challenges Remain in Mali” in The Global Observatory, the publication of the International Peace Institute, on March 10.

Associate Professor of English Christina Zwarg published“Who's Afraid of Virginia's Nat Turner: Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things,” in American Literature.