Faculty and Staff Notes

Assistant professor of East Asian religions Andrew Macomber published a chapter in Japanese on aromatics and religious experience in early medieval Japanese Buddhism in the book Yoi no bunkashi: girei kara yamai made 酔いの文化史─儀礼から病まで (The Cultural History of Intoxication: From Ritual to Illness), edited by Itō Nobuhiro, Bensei Shuppan, 2020. 

Gina Perez, professor of comparative American studies, appeared on the roundtable podcast In the Thick to discuss the case of Vanessa Guillen and the issues of sexual assault, structural racism, and a culture of impunity in the United States military.

Stiliana Milkova, associate professor of comparative literature and Italian, edited a special issue of the online journal Reading in Translation dedicated to Elena Ferrante's new novel The Lying Life of Adults. The special issue consists of seven original articles and two first English translations of essays by the Spanish writers Eloy Tizón and Greta Alonso. Professor Milkova also published in The Literary Review a translation from Italian of Tiziano Scarpa's poem "The Philosophy Student."

A prestigious award in the recording arts world features the work of Oberlin Conservatory's Recording Arts and Production program faculty Paul Eachus and Andrew Tripp. The recording "Masterpieces Among Peers—Trios by Frank Bridge and Johannes Brahms," performed the Namirovsky-Lark-Pae Trio, has just been named to the "Bestenliste" as a Quarterly Critics' Choice in the German Record Critics' Award, chamber music category. The recording was made in Oberlin's Clonick Recording Studio. It was engineered and edited by Tripp and produced, mixed, and mastered by Eachus.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Christie Parris published a paper in Social Currents examining perceptions of environmental justice.

Assistant Professor and Chair of Organ Jonathan Moyer recently completed a CD recording entitled "Voices of the Hanse" for the Gothic Catalogue with digital release on Amazon and Naxos on Aug. 28. The recording features music of 17th-century North German composers within the region of the Hanseatic League, recorded on the 1637 organ by Friederich Stellwagen (1603-1660) in the church of St. Jakobi in Lübeck. The recording was completed during Moyer's 2019 sabbatical exchange at the Musikhochschule, Lübeck. The selected composers and their works represent some of the most important churches in the Hanseatic region of northern Germany, illustrating an array of liturgical tradition, musical style, and compositional evolution.

Kara Yoo Leaman, assistant professor of music theory and aural skills, gave a public video lecture for the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University. 

Associate Professor of Politics Kristina Mani was featured in a WOLA Podcast on Latin American civil-military relations. In the podcast, "Civil-Military Relations at a Crossroads in the Americas," Mani is interviewed by WOLA's Adam Isacson, discussing how Latin American militaries have been called to a range of non-defense roles, most recently in the COVID-19 emergency, and what this can mean for state and society in the region.

Assistant Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey's essay, "'And the Jet Would be Invaluable': Blackness, Bondage, and The Beloved" was published in the September 2020 issue of The Art Bulletin.

Professor of Politics Stephen Crowley wrote "The Factory Joins the Square: Putin’s Nightmare Unfolds in Belarus" in The Nation, and "Global Cities versus Rustbelt Realities: The Dilemmas of Urban Development in Russia" in Slavic Review.