GW Arts & Sciences
July 2014
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Among the Columbian College faculty getting recent press are the following individuals, listed by department:

American Studies

Elisabeth Anker published "Freedom and the Human in 'Evolutionary' Political Theory" in Political Research Quarterly.

Anthropology

Alison Brooks was quoted in the National Post article, "Neanderthals actually ate their vegetables, according to study on their fossilized poop."

Biological Sciences

James Clark was mentioned in "USF prof’s team found, named ancient flying reptile" (The Tampa Tribune).

Hartmut Doebel was quoted by ThinkProgress in "How A Rise In Backyard Beekeeping Can Help Teach City-Dwellers About Climate Change."

Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Eric Cline was mentioned in the article "Archaeologists Return to Ancient Megiddo" (Popular Archaeology).

Economics

Tara Sinclair was quoted in the following articles: "‘Solid report all around’ — May jobs reactions" (MarketWatch), "What the ‘Pre-Recession Peak’ Job Numbers Really Mean" (National Review), "Aging Americans Sleep More, Work Less, Survey Finds" (The Wall Street Journal) and "The Companies With The Most STEM Job Openings Right Now" (Forbes).

Joann Weiner wrote "Income inequality is not the biggest economic threat to women" and "What’s not to like about teaching at Harvard? Ask women faculty members" for The Washington Post blog, She the People.

English

Thomas Mallon wrote "When We Read Fiction, How Relevant Is the Author’s Biography?" for The New York Times.

Daniel Moshenberg was on The Diane Rehm Show to discuss "James Joyce And The Centennial Of 'Dubliners.'"

Fine Arts and Art History

Dean Kessman's show, A Layered History of Art: From Semitransparent to Opaque, was reviewed in The Huffington Post.

History

Raymond Batvinis's research was mentioned in the NBCNewYork.com article, "Long Island Home's Secret Role in WWII Espionage Revealed."

Ronald Spector was interviewed on The Diane Rehm Show and WTTG FOX 5 (audio) about the 70th anniversary of D-Day. He was also quoted in "70 years later, Normandy transforms into popular tourist destination" on myFOXdc.com.

Jenna Weissman Joselit wrote "'Fiddler on the Roof' Distorted Sholem Aleichem" for The New Republic.

LGBT Health Policy and Practice

Stephen Forssell was mentioned in "LGBT Health Policy & Practice Program: How George Washington University is helping LGBTQ health 'go mainstream'" (Washington City Paper).

Media and Public Affairs

P.J. Crowley was interviewed (video) by the Sinclair Broadcast Group about the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. CNN also interviewed (audio: 1, 2) him regarding the situation in Iraq.

Major Garrett wrote "Obama Has the Speech, ISIS Has the Territory" for The National Journal.

Steven Roberts was interviewed on KGO-AM about the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (audio) and about Hillary Clinton's new book (audio). He also wrote "Book review: ‘The Closer: My Story,’ by Mariano Rivera with Wayne Coffey" for The Washington Post.

Frank Sesno was featured in a Planet Forward report on Bloomberg (video).

Mike Shanahan authored "Long after my war, seeing their Vietnam with them" for The Boston Globe.

Tara Sonenshine wrote "After Ukraine, Obama Keeps an Eye on the Baltics" (Defense One) and "It's Time Obama Lowered the Bar for Success in Iraq" (The Huffington Post).

Nikki Usher wrote "The New York Times’ digital limbo" in the Columbia Journalism Review and her research was cited in "What Newsroom Spaces Tell Us About the Future of Digital Journalism" (PBS Mediashift).

Music

Alison Crockett's show, Is This It? My American Dream, was reviewed in "With intrepid new one-woman show, Alison Crockett works to ‘start the conversation’ about our divided America" (CapitalBop).

Organizational Sciences and Communication

Lynn Offermann co-authored an article that was mentioned in "How to Curb Office Oversharing" (The Wall Street Journal).

Political Science

Stephen Biddle was quoted by NBC NewsThe Washington Times and Bloomberg about the situation in Iraq and Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. He was also interviewed (audio) about friendly fire deaths in Afghanistan by Associated Press Radio, and about Iraq on The Diane Rehm Show, WCBS-AM (audio) and Morning Edition (audio).

Sarah Binder wrote "Why Cantor lost" for The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.

Nathan Brown co-authored The Monkey Cage post, "Sisi channels Salazar…whoever he was," and was quoted by Voice of America in "Analysts: Future of Political Islam Tenuous."

Alexander Downes was quoted by The Washington Examiner in "The Iraq War was a bipartisan disaster."

Henry Farrell wrote several posts for The Monkey Cage including "The truth behind Ireland’s dead babies scandal" and "The case that might cripple Facebook."

Marc Lynch authored "How can the U.S. help Maliki when Maliki’s the problem?" and "How Arab backers of the Syrian rebels see Iraq" for The Monkey Cage, and was quoted by Al Jazeera America in "Weighing military options in Iraq, US faces legal, tactical challenges."

John Sides wrote multiple posts including "Will Obama drag down the Democratic ticket in 2016?," "Could nominating women help Republicans win women voters?" and "Is Scott Walker really facing any ‘scandal’ at all?" for The Monkey Cage. He was also quoted by Voice of America in "Voters Not Always Kind to Presidential Frontrunners."

Caitlin Talmadge co-authored "Why the Iraqi army collapsed (and what can be done about it)" (The Monkey Cage).

Psychology

Lisa Bowleg was quoted in the Washington City Paper article, "Why D.C.’s AIDS Walk Is Becoming the Walk to End HIV."

Sociology

Fran Buntman was quoted in "Israel and US: Common strategies to control political prisoners" (Al Jazeera America).

Amitai Etzioni wrote "China and the U.S.: Whose Strategic Mistake?" (The Diplomat) and "Repeated Assaults -- And No Remedies" (The Huffington Post), and was quoted in The Intelligencer article, "A year on, support for Snowden still split."

Ivy Ken was quoted by The New York Times in "Parasites, Killing Their Host."