Kudos (Winter 2022)
While Dickinson faculty and staff continue to have a consistent presence in outlets like The Wall Street Journal and NBC News, this fall their expertise also was featured in TeenLife, Vogue and The National Law Review.
Featured Faculty
Visiting Assistant Professor of Data Analytics Eren Bilen was quoted in an Inside Higher Ed article on academic integrity and how colleges can contain cheating.
Research by Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology Maria Bruno published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences was highlighted in The Financial article “The Superfoods That Fueled Ancient Andeans Through 2,500 Years of Turmoil.”
Professor of Psychology Marie Helweg-Larsen was quoted in the story “Why the Danish Art of ‘Pyt’ Could Be Your Cure to Post-pandemic Society,” published in Vogue Scandinavia.
Visiting Professor of International Security Studies Jeff McCausland was a live guest on CNN International, speaking about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the Capitol Hill testimony of Gen. Mark Milley. Additionally, McCausland’s latest op-ed, “Trump Has No Idea Who Colin Powell Really Was,” was published by NBCNews THINK. He also discussed American and European thinking around the Ukraine crisis on The John Batchelor Show, which airs on select CBS radio stations nationwide.
Associate Professor of Political Science Sarah Niebler discussed voter turnout with FOX43.
The renaming of Spradley-Young Hall and Pinkney Gate garnered coverage including multiple articles in The Sentinel, The Patriot-News, WITF-FM and online; several local TV stations and TV and radio stations in Memphis, Tenn.; Topeka, Kan.; Richmond, Va.; Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre and Sunbury; and Insight Into Diversity. Professor of History Matthew Pinsker featured heavily in the coverage, as did interim President John E. Jones III ’77, P’11 and students Caroline Eagleton ’23, Charlotte Goodman ’23, Jordyn Ney ’23 and Amanda Sowah ’22. Pinsker was also mentioned in a Washington Post story on the journalist who inspired Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.
Professor of History Karl Qualls published “Politicizing War Memorialization in Soviet and Post-Soviet Sevastopol” in The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, ed. David Hoffmann (Routledge, 2021), and “Soaring to New Heights: Problematic Policy, Planning, and Unintended Consequences” in Russian Review, Vol. 80, No. 4 (October 2021).
Associate Professor of Spanish Jorge R. G. Sagastume recently published two peer-reviewed articles: “Logic, Symbolic Forms and Translation in Two Stories in The Book of Sand, by Jorge Luis Borges,” in Bulletin of Contemporary Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool Press, and “The Silence Maker, by Antonio Di Benedetto: Language, Silence and Communication,” in Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures, Syracuse University, published by Taylor & Francis Inc.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Crispin Sartwell published an op-ed, “Yes, Justice Sotomayor, the Court Will ‘Survive,’ ” in The Wall Street Journal.
Administrator Accolades
Associate Provost and Executive Director of the Center for Global Study & Engagement Samantha Brandauer ’95 was featured in Latitudes, an e-newsletter on global education written and produced by Karin Fischer of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Additionally, Brandauer was quoted in the PIE News report on Dickinson’s renewed partnership with the Forum for Education Abroad.
Vice President for Enrollment and Dean of Admissions Catherine McDonald Davenport ’87 was quoted in The Patriot-News discussing international enrollments bouncing back after a dip during the start of the pandemic. The National Law Review referenced the story in an article about international enrollments. Davenport also published a blog on TeenLife about the value of summer study abroad and the positive ways such work is viewed by college admissions counselors.
Vice President and Dean of Student Life George Stroud spoke with U.S. News & World Report about the importance of oncampus housing.
College Archivist and Co-Director of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center Jim Gerencser ’93 was among the people interviewed for the new Independent Lens/PBS documentary film Home From School: The Children of Carlisle, which explores the efforts of the Northern Arapaho tribe to repatriate the remains of three children who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in the 1880s. Gerencser also spoke on a panel at the film’s premiere. Assistant Professor of American Studies Darren Lone Fight also was part of the panel. Gerencser also discussed the center’s work and how it relates to Home From School on WITF’s Smart Talk. Additionally, Gerencser appeared as an in-studio guest on WGAL-TV’s In Focus discussing the work of the center to make documents on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School easily available. The CIS Digital Resource Center was mentioned in a Voice of America article explaining how the center helped a New Jersey museum better tell the story of Native children sent to work on white families’ farms. Gerencser was quoted in the Native News Online story “Army to Begin Returning the ‘Unknowns’ at Carlisle Indian Industrial School.”
Interim President John E. Jones III ’77, P’11, discussed the educational work of the PA Commission on Judicial Independence on This Week in Pennsylvania, which was broadcast on six TV stations across the commonwealth, including WPHL in Philadelphia and ABC27 in Harrisburg. He also discussed the initiative in an article for PennWatch. Jones also appeared on WITF’s Smart Talk, discussing how the judicial system can better respond to extremism, a follow-up to his role on a panel at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh in October. In addition, Jones and Center for Sustainability Education Director Neil Leary were quoted in an article announcing the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as the recipient of the 2022 Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism. The article appeared in more than 200 outlets, including Yahoo! Finance and Marketwatch.
Director of West Coast Recruitment Phil Moreno was featured in an article in LAist, the online magazine from KPCC-FM (NPR/Los Angeles).
A piece in Baltimore Magazine featured the story of George and Jennifer Ward Reynolds ’77, who have created the Reynolds Leadership Scholars program, which offers four-year, $160,000 scholarships to Dickinson for high-achieving Maryland students. The students will be part of a cohort who will have access to a built-in professional network aimed at growing their leadership skills.
Rabbi Marley Weiner of the Asbell Center appeared on ABC27 and CBS21 to discuss how the Dickinson community responded to an act of anti-Semitism and racism.
Kudos as of Dec. 17, 2021
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Published March 2, 2022