Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón’s short story “Escena en un restaurante de comida rápida” was included in The Hay Festival’s anthology Bogotá39: Nuevas voces desde Latinoamerica. The anthology has been published in Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Uruguay, Perú, and Ecuador by a series of independent publishers. It was also translated into English as Bogotá39: New Voices from Latin America and published by British imprint Oneworld Editions.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Cal Biruk presented at paper at the Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting in Sydney, Australia and also presented work at the National Science Foundation-funded AfricaSTS pre-conference.

Visiting Assistant Professor Sam Berrin Shonkoff's edited volume on Martin Buber was published by Brill.

Professor of Dance Ann Cooper Albright performed as part of the opening plenary “provocation” panel at the Dance Studies Association conference in Valletta, Malta in July. The conference theme was “Contra: Dance and Conflict,” and the opening provocation was titled “Working It Out with The Flaming Bitches” in honor of her first feminist study group at Oberlin College in the early 1990s.

Professor of Dance Ann Cooper Albright published the essay “Touching History” in The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory published by Wesleyan University Press.

Associate Professor of Religion Margaret Kamitsuka presented at the Societas Ethica Conference in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Assistant Professor of Physics Jillian Scudder’s book, Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree, was reviewed in the August edition of Physics World.

Cynthia Taylor published a paper titled "Identifying Student Difficulties with Basic Data Structures" in the proceedings of the 2018 International Computer Education Research Conference (ICER) in Espoo, Finland, August 2018.

Associate Professor of Sociology Greggor Mattson presented two papers and was on one invited panel at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the pre-conference of the ASA Section on Sexualities, August 9-14, 2018. His research papers covered his current book project on gay bars in the United States, including the fates of bars in small cities and those owned by or serving LGBT people of color. The panel was about how to share sociological insights with the general public via blogging and journalists.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Cal Biruk was awarded an Engaged Anthropology grant from the Wenner Gren Foundation.