GW Arts & Sciences
February 2015
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Among the Columbian College faculty getting recent press are the following individuals, listed by department:

Art Education

Pamela Lawton published the article “The Role of Art Education in Cultivating Community and Leadership through Creative Collaboration" in Visual Inquiry: Learning and Teaching Art.

Chemistry

Stuart Licht and his team were featured in "GWU team uses one-pot process to co-generate H2 and solid carbon from water and CO2; solar fuels" in Green Car Congress.

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Jonathan Chaves was a featured guest on the TV show Window to China on Fairfax Public Access Television.

Economics

Tara Sinclair was quoted in "Government Spending, Edging Up, Is a Stimulus" (The New York Times). PolitiFact also quoted her in: "Mitch McConnell says economic uptick coincides with expectation of GOP Senate takeover," "Obama: Since 2010, U.S. has created more jobs than 'all advanced economies combined,'" "CEO of Carl's Jr. says 'Obamacare has caused millions of full-time jobs to become part-time'" and "Rick Perry, in Iowa, says unemployment rate has 'been massaged, it's been doctored.'" 

English

Alexa Huang was quoted in the Foreign Policy article “Wherefore Art Thou Luomiou?

Thomas Mallon wrote a piece on "Which Literary Figure Is Overdue for a Biography?" for The New York Times.

David Mitchell's experience with a broken wheelchair was mentioned in "Airlines break too many wheelchairs" (Al Jazeera America).

History

Eric Arnesen wrote a book review of All Eyes Are Upon Us by Jason Sokol for The Washington Post. Addtionally, he was quoted in “Historians Skirt Anti-Israel Votes” in Inside Higher Ed and participated in the discussion “Civil Rights After Martin Luther King Jr.” on C-SPAN3.

Erin Chapman was cited in “Scholars: ‘Selma Film Likely to Have Social Justice Impact’” in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

Jenna Weissman Joselit authored “Madame Chaja” for Commentary Magazine.

Mathematics

Max Alekseyev and PhD student Sergey Aganezov published a study "Highly evolvable malaria vectors: the genomes of 16 Anopheles mosquitoes" (Science), which was featured in the Science "Perspective" article "Conundrum of jumbled mosquito genomes." 

Valentina Harizanov co-published the chapter “Computable model theory” in Turing's Legacy: Developments from Turing's Ideas in Logic

Media and Public Affairs

Myron Belkind spoke about the attack on France’s Charlie Hebdo magazine and freedom of the press on CNBC-Europe (video) and took part in a C-SPAN2 panel discussion (video) on media and race.

P.J. Crowley talked with MSNBC (video) about the anti-terrorism march in Paris, as well as with the Fox News show Shepard Smith Reporting (video) about Russia's $35 billion economic plan. He authored the articles “Paris attacks underline persistent threat” and “Yemen back to square one” for BBC News 

Robert Entman was mentioned in The Conversation article "Where social media fall short."

Matthew Hindman took part in a C-SPAN panel discusion (video: 1, 2) on government and Internet. 

Steven Roberts guest-hosted The Diane Rehm Show (audio: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). 

Frank Sesno was quoted in the article "The Challenge Of Fact-Checking North Korea" on NPR, and CNN's Reliable Sources (video) spoke with him about the cover of Charlie Hebdo. He also guest-hosted The Diane Rehm Show (audio: 1, 2, 3, 4).

Tara Sonenshine authored the articles "Love, Marriage, and Raising Kids – Why the Book Us is an Important Read" and "How Does a 'Headline' Society Become Informed?" for The Huffington Post. She also wrote The Hill articles "Ready to read? It’s all in the book" and "US-Belgian initiative is blueprint for Muslim engagement," and the Newsday piece "Congress' risky foray into foreign affairs." 

Cheryl W. Thompson wrote “Dozens in D.C., Maryland paid the ultimate price for cooperating with police” for The Washington Post.

Museum Studies

Kym Rice was quoted in The Detroit News article “Retiring DIA director lauded for museum’s progress.” 

Music

Tzvetan Konstantinov was featured by FestivalDC.com in "GWU Prof. Konstantinov: Preserving A Classical Piano Music Legacy Through the Generations."

Photography

Margaret Holland Adams was chosen by the photography blog Fototazo to select and review five exciting portfolios of work in "Margaret Adams Selects."

Political Science

Stephen Biddle was quoted in the piece “War Against ISIS: 2015 Off to a Troubling Start" in U.S. News & World Report.

Sarah Binder was referenced in the MSNBC article “How a brighter economy changes the GOP playbook.” She was also quoted in: “Crop of Young Outsiders Remakes the Face of Congress” (The Wall Street Journal), “Watching the Keystone XL Kabuki” (New York Daily News) and “Ellmers Says Abortion Ban Went Too Far as House Votes Backup” (Bloomberg). American Public Media's Marketplace (audio) spoke with her about how the Republican-controlled Congress would view President Obama's State of the Union initiatives.

Nathan Brown was quoted in: “New US ambassador ‘incremental step’ in improving US-Egyptian relations: Expert" (The Cairo Post), “Egyptian activist once fired up by Arab Spring abandons politics ahead of polls” (Reuters), “Egypt’s Sisi urges religious moderation, but no space for insulting images" (The Christian Science Monitor) and “Egyptian prosperity, not protests, could define Sisi rule” (Reuters).

Henry Farrell authored the article “Why our success in managing the banking crisis was the mother of failure” in The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage.

Samuel Goldman was interviewed as part of New York magazine's series “Obama History Project.”

Eric Grynaviski wrote the book Constructive Illusions, which was reviewed in Foreign Affairs.

Danny Hayes was mentioned by Rhode Island Public Radio in the article "TGIF: 18 Things to Know About Rhode Island Politics & Media." He was also quoted in "Joni Ernst to brave State of the Union rebuttal" (CNN) and "Pravda on the Plains: Indiana's New Propaganda Machine" (The Atlantic).

Eric Lawrence published "Fair's Fair? Principles, Partisanship, and Perceptions of the Fairness of Campaign Rhetoric" in the British Journal of Political Science.

Marc Lynch had one of his tweets quoted in “The free-speech hypocrisy of some world leaders marching in Paris” (The Washington Post) and “Column: Some Exploiting France’s Tragedy” (Voice of America). He also spoke on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC-FM about the chaos in Yemen and nuclear negotiations with Iran (audio: 1, 2).

Harris Mylonas co-authored the article “Greece goes to the polls, and Europe holds its breath" for The Monkey Cage.

David Shambaugh was noted in The Wall Street Journal's article "Expect No Easing of 'Chinese Whirlwind'" as well as "A newly modest China? Official's reassurances raise eyebrows in US" in The Christian Science Monitor.

John Sides authored "The political scientist Philip Converse has died" for The Monkey Cage. He was also quoted in The Christian Science Monitor's article "Party’s over? Record voters say they’re Independents, reject 'D' and 'R'" and MSNBC's "How a brighter economy changes the GOP playbook."

Public Policy and Public Administration

Avi Dor was quoted in the article “Hospital Report Cards ‘Blunt’ Price Hikes” from U.S. News & World Report.

Joe Cordes was quoted by Marketplace Morning Report in "The President hopes to tax foreign earnings."

Elizabeth Rigby and Megan Hatch, PhD ’14, co-authored “States can fight growing economic inequality through lowering taxes on the poor, and stricter labor market policies” for the London School of Economics and Political Science blog on American Politics and Policy.

Amit Ronen was quoted in “Solar industry jobs are growing at 20 times the national rate” (Computerworld) and “Hawaii utility seeks end to popular rooftop solar incentive; does it signal industry's future?” (ClimateWire).

Religion

Robert Tuttle was cited in The Baltimore Sun article “Church property fight turns on Constitutional issues.”

Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Kathryn Kleppinger spoke with Al Jazeera America's Inside Story (video: 1, 2, 3) and Colombian news show Informativo about the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

Abdourahman Waberi spoke about his new novel La Divine Chanson on France’s La 5 (video) and TV5 Monde (video). 

Sergio Waisman was interviewed in Spanish by Argentina's La Nación for the article "Sergio Waisman: 'El traductor jamás es invisible; no es un mero copista, eso es una falacia.'"

Sociology

Amitai Etzioni authored the article “The Left’s Unpopular Populism" for The Atlantic. In The Huffington Post, he wrote the articles “Corruption Undermines Cybersecurity,” “Start With ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill,’” “Assessing—Threat Assessments” and “Two Islams Are Better Than One.”

Gregory Squires was quoted in the American Banker front page story, “Redlining Cases Persist as Banks Adjust to Postcrisis World.”

Ronald Weitzer wrote “Diversity among police officers is key, but it won't solve the problems with policing” for The Guardian.