Kudos: Summer 2019
This spring included some major media mentions for Dickinson, including national coverage of 2019 Commencement speaker Pierce Brosnan. In addition, Dickinson faculty were seen on C-SPAN and HBO’s Vice News Tonight, heard on NPR-affiliate WITF’s Smart Talk and Sirius XM’s Knowledge@Wharton and read in The Wall Street Journal and The Conversation.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Heather Bedi published “Women and Development-forced Evictions: Realities, Responses and Solidarity” in Development in Practice and “ ‘Our Energy, Our Rights’: National Extraction Legacies and Contested Energy Justice Futures in Bangladesh” in Energy Research & Social Science, 41, 168-175. She also completed her time as a Fulbright-Nehru Research and Academic Excellence Scholar working on “An Ethnography of Solar Energyscapes in India” and was a member of the leadership team for the Cumberland County Food System Alliance.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Maggie Douglas was quoted in The Sentinel’s article “5 Questions: Helping Manage the Beescape in Carlisle.”
Instructor in Political Science Kathryn Heard was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor story “Death Penalty With Dignity? Supreme Court Reopens Debate.”
Professor of Political Science Jim Hoefler was featured in C-SPAN’s Lectures in History series in a segment titled “End of Life Care and Death Since the 1800s.”
Visiting International Scholar in International Studies Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob’s op-ed, “Once Captives of Boko Haram, These Students Are Finding New Meaning in Their Lives in Pennsylvania,” was published in The Conversation and republished under Creative Commons by PhillyVoice, San Francisco Chronicle and WESA. Jacob also was quoted in an Eventbrite story on millennial women and activism.
On Earth Day, Center for Sustainability Education Director Neil Leary was a featured guest on WITF’s Smart Talk discussing renewable energy.
Jeff McCausland, retired U.S. Army colonel and visiting professor of international security studies, had two op-eds, “Trump’s North Korea Summit Failed Because He Doesn’t Understand What Kim Jong Un Really Wants” and “Inside the Military’s Battle With White Supremacy and Far-Right Extremism,” published by NBCNews Think.
Associate Professor of German Sarah McGaughey’s newly edited book, A Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch, is available from Camden House.
Professor of English Wendy Moffat established a Dickinson scholarship in memory of her father, acclaimed actor Donald Moffat. The Donald Moffat Scholarship Fund will benefit students with financial need who demonstrate an interest in the literary or dramatic arts, whether through coursework or oncampus activities, such as the Mermaid Players. An award will be made when gifts to the fund reach $50K.
Professor of History Karl Qualls published an op-ed, “We Have to Challenge Injustice and Hatred When We See It, or Risk a Slow Slide Into Genocide,” in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star.
Professor of Mathematics Dave Richeson’s book Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology has been selected to be included in the Princeton Science Library series, a library of classic books on science that are rereleased in a low-cost paperback format. Other Princeton Science Library authors include Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose, Hermann Weyl and George Polya. The PSL edition of Euler’s Gem includes a new preface and was released in July.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Crispin Sartwell’s latest op-ed, “Russian Memes Didn’t Steal the Election,” was published in The Wall Street Journal.
Robert Sider, professor emeritus of classical languages, published “The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus: An Introduction with Erasmus’ Prefaces and Ancillary Writings,” Collected Works of Erasmus, Vol. 41 (University of Toronto Press, 2019).
Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies Greg Steirer was an expert guest on two episodes of Knowledge@Wharton, which airs daily on Sirius XM. One was with a former HBO vice president for a discussion on Disney’s streaming service, and in a second episode he discussed Apple’s decision to start a streaming service.
Assistant Professor of Economics Tony Underwood’s op-ed “A Carbon Dividend Is Better Than a Carbon Tax” was published by Project Syndicate and republished in The Denver Post.
Associate Professor of Music Amy Wlodarski’s new book, George Rochberg, American Composer: Personal Trauma and Artistic Creativity (University of Rochester Press, 2019), was awarded the competitive H. Earle Johnson Publication Subvention from the Society for American Music.
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies Andrew Wolff was interviewed by HBO’s Vice News Tonight for a report marking 70 years of NATO.
President Ensign in the News
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Washington Informer reported on a special forum in Washington, D.C., marking the fifth anniversary of the Boko Haram kidnappings. President Margee Ensign, Visiting International Scholar in International Studies Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob and Bridge student Patience Bulus participated in the forum at the invitation of Rep. Frederica Wilson of Florida. In addition, WITF produced an extensive report on Dickinson’s Bridge program. Ensign, Jacob and Bulus were interviewed. The report aired on NPR member stations statewide.
In April, President Margee Ensign spoke at the 25th Commemoration of the Genocide in Rwanda, a Discussion on Preserving Memory and Prioritizing Prevention, which was organized by the U.S. Senate Human Rights Caucus. Ensign was part of an esteemed panel that offered expert insights into Rwanda’s journey of transformation.
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Published August 15, 2019