Faculty and Staff Notes
Janet Fiskio Awarded Grant
September 25, 2019
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Comparative American Studies Janet Fiskio was awarded a Consortium on High Achievement and Success Grant. The grant will be used to support participation by students in the November 2019 HBCU Climate Consortium Conference in New Orleans. Students will present the results of their community-directed research in Africatown, Alabama and discuss their work on the Africatown Digital Archive, a collaborative community history project.
Sebastiaan Faber Appears on DW News
September 25, 2019
Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber was interviewed on DW News about the decision by Spain's Supreme Court to exhume dictator Francisco Franco's remains from a large mausoleum near Madrid.
Laurie McMillin's Co-Edited Volume Published
September 23, 2019
Laurie McMillin's co-edited volume Spaces and Places in Western India: Formations and Delineations was published by Routledge. The volume examines how spaces are intrinsically connected to people's lived experiences. It explores how spaces in Western India have been constructed over time and how these are reflected in both historical and contemporary settings—in the art, architecture, political movements, and in identity formation. McMillin's chapter explores the history of and conflict at a site in Maharashtra, where an ancient Buddhist rock-cut temple and an active Hindu goddess temple sit side by side.
Eve Sandberg Coauthors Book with Alum
September 20, 2019
Professor of Politics Eve Sandberg and Seth Binder ‘07 coauthored Mohammed VI’s Strategies for Moroccan Economic Development (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2020), which is available in hardback.
Alice Blumenfeld Performs Labyrinths
September 18, 2019
Alice Blumenfeld performed Labyrinths as part of Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations at Case Western Reserve University's Kelvin Smith Library.
Eve Sandberg's Book Available in Paperback
September 17, 2019
Professor of Politics Eve Sandberg's and Kenza Aqertit's coauthored book Moroccan Women, Activists, and Gender Politics: An Institutional Analysis (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) has been released in paperback.Sandberg and Aqertit analyze how, over the course of 25 years, dedicated, smart, and politically effective Moroccan women, working simultaneously in multiple settings and aware of each other’s work, altered Morocco’s entrenched gender institution of regularized practices and distinctive rights and obligations for men and women.
Caroline Jackson Smith Directs Reading of Play
September 16, 2019
Professor of Theater and Africana Studies Caroline Jackson Smith directed a reading of a new play by local playwright Margaret Lynch at Playwrights Local in Cleveland.
Danielle Terrazas Williams Wins Kimberly Hanger Article Prize
September 11, 2019
Danielle Terrazas Williams won the 2019 Kimberly Hanger Article Prize from the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association for her work, "My Conscience is Free and Clear’: African-Descended Women, Status, and Slave Owning in Mid-Colonial Mexico."
Jillian Scudder's Book Released in U.S. and Globally
September 11, 2019
Assistant Professor of Physics Jillian Scudder's book Astroquizzical: A beginner's journey through the cosmos, published by Icon Books, was released in the U.S. and globally on September 10, 2019. The hardback was released in June 2018.
Jiyul Kim Participates in Panel Talk
September 10, 2019
Visiting Instructor of History Jiyul Kim participated with three visual artists, Mahwish Chishty, Matthew Deibel, and Barbara Koenen, in a panel talk titled "E Pluribus: Reflections on 9/11" at 5:30-7:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 11, 2019. The panel accompanies the exhibit "E Pluribus: Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11" at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA) gallery.