Faculty and Staff Notes

Associate Professor of Integrated Media Julia Christensen's project, Upgrade Available, with the LACMA Art + Technology Lab and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was featured in this video. Christensen's work to envision artwork for a long-term, interstellar space mission was also highlighted in the LACMA blog, Unframed.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy Remei Capdevila-Werning presented a paper titled “Renegotiating Globality: Catalan Architecture in a Transnational Context” at the 17th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (NACS), celebrated at the University of Chicago from April 25 to 27, 2019.

Professor of English T.S. McMillin was invited to contribute an essay to The Arithmetic of Compassion. “'Songs to Affect and Balance the World': Poetry, Place, Home" is drawn from his research on the Los Angeles River.

Associate Professor of Music Theory Andrew Pau reviewed a DVD of the Metropolitan Opera's 2016 production of Georges Bizet's opera Les Pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) in Nineteenth-Century Music Review.

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber co-wrote an analysis "In a Polarized Spain, Voters Give the Socialists Another Chance" in the Nation and spoke with the Real News Network about Spain's center-left Socialist Party win.

Assistant Professor of Economics Evan Kresch was invited to present, "Greener on the Other Side? Property Tax Collection and Horizontal Inequality" at the Spring 2019 Economic Development Seminar at Michigan State University, April 24, 2019.

Assistant Professor of History Danielle Terrazas Williams won the 2019 Judith Lee Ridge prize on April 26, 2019, from the Western Association of Women’s Historians for her article, “‘My Conscience is Free and Clear”: African-Descended Women, Status, and Slave Owning in Mid Colonial Mexico,” published in the Americas.

Professor of Hispanic Studies Sebastiaan Faber published "Chronicling the Age of Hobsbawm: A Q&A With Historian Richard Evans" in the Nation. 

Clarinet professor Richard Hawkins was recently named to the 2019 University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame was established to recognize and honor individuals who have made outstanding contributions to society, their profession, or the university. Hawkins has been on the Oberlin Conservatory faculty since 2001. In addition to his teaching and performing career, Hawkins has been influential in the design and manufacturing of clarinets and clarinet mouthpieces for the music industry since 1990. 

Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager appeared on a major new documentary, Korea: The Never-Ending War. The documentary, narrated by John Cho, examines the Korean War as part of a conflict that continues to this day.  Jager has served as an advisor of the documentary from its inception in 2015.  It is produced by WETA, the PBS affiliate in Washington, DC, in association with Ark Media and the BBC, and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, and PBS. It will be broadcast nationally at 9 p.m. on Monday, April 29 2019 on PBS.