Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant Professor of Politics David Forrest published an essay about Steven Lubet and urban ethnography in Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies Paul Brehm presented at the SEA Annual Conference (November 21-23, 2020, virtual). He presented joint work with Professor Margaret Brehm, "Drill, Baby, Drill: Resource Shocks and Fertility, Evidence from Indonesia” and chaired the session.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Robin Beth Schaer's poem "The Long Now" was just published in the anthology New Poetry from the Midwest from New American Press. The expansive collection brings together work by 171 poets across the Midwest. Schaer's poem is a dialogue between a mother and child about the night sky and mortality.

Dustin Evatt-Young, interim director of the Career Development Center, co-authored an article in the Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, a peer-reviewed journal published by the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE). The article titled "White Higher Education Leaders on the Complexities of Whiteness and Anti-Racist Leadership" examines the manifestations of whiteness in higher education and offers insight into the development of anti-racist policies, practices, and tools.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lisa Ryno gave the keynote presentation, "The Impact of Undergraduate Research: A Personal Vignette" for Trinity University's 2021 Summer Experiential Learning Symposium. An alumna of TU (Class of 2008), Ryno was honored to reflect on some of the most meaningful aspects of undergraduate research as a student and how she now applies them as a mentor to undergraduate researchers in her lab.

Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies Paul Brehm presented at the AERE Annual Summer Conference (June 2-4, 2021, virtual). He presented joint work with Professor Margaret Brehm, "Drill, Baby, Drill: Resource Shocks and Fertility, Evidence from Indonesia.” 

Assistant Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies Paul Brehm presented at the MEA Annual Conference (March 22-26, 2021, virtual) in an AERE session. He presented joint work with Yiyuan Zhang, "The Efficiency and Environmental Impacts of Market Organization: Evidence from the Texas Electricity Market,” and chaired a separate session.

William Parsons, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and six recent Oberlin graduates (Charlotte Andrews '19, Joaquin Cardozo '20, Alyssa Chow '20, Jennifer Crainic '20, Nicholas Rutland '20, and Brendan Sheehan '19) published an article title "Development of succinimide-based inhibitors for the mitochondrial rhomboid protease PARL" in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Allegra Hyde interviewed author Matt Bell about his new novel, Appleseed, for BOMB Magazine.

Billy Hart, the conservatory's longtime associate professor of jazz percussion, was named a 2022 Jazz Master. This is the nation’s highest honor for jazz musicians, bestowed annually by the National Endowment for the Arts. He will be honored at the Jazz Masters Tribute Concert on Thursday, March 31, 2022.

A member of Oberlin's faculty since 2000, Hart has performed on more than 600 recordings. This June he released the album All Things Are (Smoke Sessions Records) alongside pianist Kevin Hays and bassist Ben Street. It was recorded live—for a streaming audience, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic—at New York’s Smoke Jazz & Supper Club in December 2020.