Faculty and Staff Notes

Meredith M. Gadsby joins the board of the Fund for Our Economic Future (FFOEF) as a Civic Member. FFOEF is a funding alliance made up of more than 40 organizations and individuals dedicated to advancing economic growth with equitable access to opportunity for the people of Northeast Ohio.

Chanda Feldman, assistant professor of creative writing, published the poem "To the Old Square," in the 2020 anthology, Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, from Northwestern University Press.

Associate Professor of Politics Kristina Mani was one of seven women scholars interviewed in a piece about gender equality in the field of International Relations.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Christie Parris gave an invited talk on February 27, 2020, at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Preconference on Sustainability. The talk outlined her ongoing research regarding environmental concerns among U.S. residents who identify as Black and/or African American.

Economics Professor Barbara Craig was invited to participate at the Women in Economics Symposium at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland on February 27, 2020. Professor Craig was part of the panel, "The Road to a PhD" with Margaret Jacobson '11 and others.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch published "Political Determinates of Investment in Water and Sanitation: Evidence from Brazilian Elections" in the Journal of Economics Letters. 

Associate Professor of Physics Jason Stalnaker coauthored a publication that appeared in the journal Physics of the Dark Universe. The paper describes an analysis method for detecting dark matter using a network of optical magnetometers. Oberlin student P. Claire Segura ’20 is also a coauthor on the paper.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and Creative Writing Joshua Sperling's book A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger has been translated into Korean.

Clayton Koppes, professor of history, presented a paper "I Feel Your Pain: Bill Clinton, AIDS, and the Politics of Disappointment" at the American Historical Association annual meeting in New York City on Jan. 3, 2020. His co-author and co-presenter was David L. Kelly, an independent scholar from Palm Springs, California.

They will present another paper, "The Plague and the Presidents: Reagan, Bush, Clinton and AIDS Avoidance" at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on April 3.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Hal Sundt's story "Pythons of the Everglades" was published in the Bitter Southerner. The story was made possible by funding through a grant-in-aid from Oberlin College.