Among the Columbian College faculty getting press during the months of August and September are the following individuals, listed by department:

Elisabeth Anker was interviewed on the StatusHour Radio Show about her book Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (audio).

James Oliver Horton was quoted by The Washington Post in the article "Monticello’s whitewashing, continued." He also spoke with PRI's Studio 360 about the Lincoln Memorial's place in the civil rights movement (audio).

Jennifer Christine Nash was featured in the article "A Year of Racial Tumult Brings Potent Lessons — and Risks — to the Classroom" by The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Calvin Warren was quoted in "A Year of Racial Tumult Brings Potent Lessons — and Risks — to the Classroom" by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Sean Roberts was quoted in the Newsweek article "Chinese Persecution of the Muslim Uighurs Could Drive Them to ISIS" and The Globe and Mail article "Thailand bomb blast puts spotlight on China crackdown on Uighurs."

Robert Shepherd was quoted by The Washington Post in "The Myth of Authentic Travel."

Bernard Wood spoke with NPR (audio) and was quoted in the articles "All Ears! What Human Ancestors’ Hearing Was Like" (Live Science), "Remains of Humanlike Ancestors Found in South Africa" (The Wall Street Journal), "New human species discovered" (Science), "Scientists discover new human relative: Homo naledi" (Associated Press), "New Fossil Discovery May Change What We Know About Human Evolution" (Smithsonian), "How Facebook helped unearth a new branch on humans’ ancestral family tree" (Christian Science Monitor) and "New Human Ancestor Elicits Awe – and Many Questions" (National Geographic).

Donna Betts was referenced in The Guardian article "Coloring books for adults: we asked therapists for their opinions."

Tally Tripp was interviewed by The Huffington Post for "Art Therapy Is More Than Just Making Nice Pictures."

Eduardo Castro-Nallar published the article "Composition, taxonomy and functional diversity of the oropharynx microbiome in individuals with schizophrenia and controls" on the PeerJ Computer Science website. 

James Clark was quoted in "Four-legged snake fossil sparks legal investigation" (Nature) and "Investigating the Four-legged Snake Fossil" (The Scientist).

Keith Crandall published the article "Composition, taxonomy and functional diversity of the oropharynx microbiome in individuals with schizophrenia and controls" (PeerJ). He was cited by Newsweek in "Distinctive Microbiome Associated With Schizophrenia." He was also featured in "Unusual throat (and mouth) germs linked to schizophrenia, says two new studies" (The Washington Post), "Microbiomes of human throat may be linked to schizophrenia" (Science Daily) and "People with Schizophrenia have different Throat Bacteria" (Popular Science).

Stuart Licht was featured in numerous media outlets including "Carbon nanofibres made from CO2 in the air" (BBC), "A carbon capture strategy that pays" (Science magazine), "How Science Turns Climate Change Gases Into Planes, Better Batteries, Much More" (Forbes), "'Solar powered' nanofibre factory pulls CO2 out of the air" (Wired), "Scientists Create Carbon Nanofibres Using Nothing But Air" (The Huffington Post), "'Diamonds from the sky': Scientists spin wonder materials from thin air" (The Christian Science Monitor), "Ancient Diamonds Came From Seawater and Future Diamonds Might Come From The Air" (Smithsonian) and "’New method creates less expensive carbon nanofibres, may reduce carbon emissions" (International Business Times). His research was also featured on BBC World Service Newshour (audio: 1, 2, 3), WTOP-FM (audio) and Jornal Hoje (video).

Eric Cline was a guest on Coast to Coast AM, discussing the factors that contributed to the decline and eventual collapse of late Bronze Age civilizations in the Mediterranean, and how the current trajectory of Western Civilizations parallels these failed empires (audio).

Clare Brown discussed 3D storytelling in exhibition design on VoiceAmerica's The Museum Life (audio). 

Sanjit Sethi was featured in "University names first director of Corcoran School of the Arts and Design" (The Washington Post), "GW names head of Corcoran School of the Arts and Design" (Washington Business Journal), "Sanjit Sethi to Head George Washington Varsity’s Arts School" (News India Times) and "Guest List" (Washingtonian).

Jay Shambaugh was featured in "Obama appoints economist Shambaugh to Council of Economic Advisers" (Reuters).

Tara Sinclair discussed various political topics with the Tampa Bay Times (articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and was quoted in The Miami Herald  article "Trump’s claims about the unemployed don’t add up." She was also quoted in "Single-family houses fuel gains in US homebuilding in July" (Associated Press), "Huckabee: U.S. is giving Iran the equivalent of $5 trillion" (Tampa Bay Times), "Tech Workers Are Way Picky About The Cities They’ll Work In" (Wired) and "Residential recovery: New home starts up in Hillsborough" (The Tampa Tribune).

Kavita Daiya contributed the article "Ecologies of intimacy: gender, sexuality, and environment in Indian fiction" in A History of the Indian Novel in English.

Thomas Mallon authored a response to "Can a Virtuous Character Be Interesting?" for The New York Times. He also spoke with WAMU-FM's The Diane Rehm Show about his novel Finale: A Novel of the Reagan Years (audio).

Bibiana Obler was interviewed by the BBC News for the article “Civil War photos raised familiar questions about war dead.”

Tyler Anbinder was quoted by The New York Times in "Joe Biden Reaches Into History, Labeling Donald Trump a ‘Know Nothing.’"

William Becker was referenced in "The shamelessness of Carly Fiorina" (The Boston Globe).

Allida Black discussed Eleanor Roosevelt on C-SPAN3 (video).

Gregg Brazkinsky was quoted by Voice of America in the article "Experts: N. Korean Rhetoric Aims to Probe US Willingness to Talk."

James Oliver Horton was cited by The Washington Post in "Monticello’s whitewashing, continued."

Jozef H. Przytycki was featured in the Polish Mathematical Society's journal Wiadomosci Matematyczne on being named professor of mathematical sciences by the president of Poland. The journal also reviewed his book Knot Theory and related with knots distributive structures.

P.J. Crowley authored "The solution to Syria runs through Moscow" for BBC News. He also spoke with BBC News about the meeting between President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (video) and to Al Jazeera America about the crisis in Syria (video).

Jonathan Ebinger was referenced by The Washington Post in "Twitter solves a routine Metro problem that shouldn’t have existed."

Robert Entman was quoted in the Reuters' article "With '$Cashtags,' Twitter plays greater campaign finance role."

Kerric Harvey was cited in the NPR article "Instagram: The New Political War Room?"

David Karpf was quoted in "The lion, the dentist and the fury: A viral storm" in the Los Angeles Times and "Twitter's new donation tool: How does it stack up in era of big money?" in The Christian Science Monitor.

Jason Osder authored "Here's why Kosovo's Dokufest stands out among documentary film festivals" for Indiewire.

Steven Roberts appeared as a guest host on WAMU-FM's The Diane Rehm Show (audio: 1, 2). He also authored The Washington Post articles "A tale of two ball clubs" and "When the cheering stops."

Frank Sesno was quoted in the articles "What Vester Lee Flanagan and ISIS’s Horror Shows Have In Common" (The Daily Beast), "CNN producers may be tired of Trump, but the coverage continues" (Fortune), "Taking on Donald Trump, and other perils of a year at ‘Meet the Press’ for NBC’s Todd" (Associated Press), "Cable TV News Binges on Trump Coverage" (The Wall Street Journal), "GOP debate will showcase CNN, as well as the candidates" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) and "Education a no-show at GOP debate" (Politico). He authored the Fortune article "Ex-CNN anchor:  The person who won the debate isn’t even alive" and appeared as a guest on CNN to discuss Donald Trump and Jorge Ramos (video).

Janet Steele was interviewed on the Cambodian website Voice of Democracy about the importance of independent media in the transition to democracy (video).

Nikki Usher authored "Does New Jersey have a ‘media desert’ problem?" (Columbia Journalism Review) and "Quick thoughts on teaching with Slack, Twitter and Medium: First day of Class" (Medium). She was also quoted in "Investments heat up online news sector" (Agence France Presse).

Silvio Waisbord discussed the Republican primary and the September 16 debate on CNN en Espanol (video).

William Youmans was quoted in the Los Angeles Times article "The lion, the dentist and the fury: A viral storm."

Michael N. Barnett authored "Thinking beyond the two-state solution" (The Washington Post) and was quoted in "Population parity in historic Palestine raises hard questions for Israel" (Reuters).

Brandon Bartels published "Lawyers' Perceptions of the U.S. Supreme Court: Is the Court a 'Political' Institution?" in the journal Law & Society Review.

Stephen Biddle spoke with NPR about the first anniversary of the air war against ISIS, the B-52 bomber and military spending and Jeb Bush's national security speech at the Ronald Reagan Library (audio: 1, 2, 3). He also spoke with WBUR-FM's On Point about the Taliban seizing the Afghan city Kunduz (audio). Sinclair Broadcast Group quoted him in the article "After Year of Airstrikes, Experts See Long Battle Ahead with ISIS" and Business Insider featured him in "The Taliban takeover over of a key city in Afghanistan mirrors ISIS' strategies in Mosul."

Sarah Binder was quoted in the articles "Conservatives are mad at Mitch McConnell over their own misunderstanding of Senate rules" (Vox), "Hunting celebrity Randy Newberg battles federal lands takeover" (The Billings Gazette) and "John Boehner Legacy: House Speaker Resignation, Harry Reid Retirement Could Make Partisan Divide Worse" (International Business Times). She authored the article "This is why John Boehner’s resignation might not matter much at all" (The Washington Post) and two articles in The New York Times (articles: 1, 2). Binder also appeared on CSPAN3 for a discussion on the evolution of Congress over the past century (video).

Nathan Brown co-authored "Who is running the Egyptian state?" (The Washington Post) and was quoted by BBC News in the article "Why US-Egyptian ties are warming." He also spoke with NPR's All Things Considered about Egypt's new anti-terrorism law (audio). 

Henry Farrell authored The Washington Post articles "Europe is being torn by an angry argument. This time, it’s not the euro’s fault," "Facebook wasn’t great at respecting privacy in the first place. It’s gotten much worse," "This book explains why Jeremy Corbyn now leads Labour. Its author died in 2011," "Why are working class kids less likely to get elite jobs? They study too hard at college," "Facebook is at the center of a huge privacy controversy. For once, it isn’t Facebook’s fault" and "The rediscovery of this writer in the Renaissance opened the way to the modern world (and, more importantly, the invention of political science)."

Harvey Feigenbaum was a guest on Swiss Public Radio for a discussion on actors and politics (audio).

Martha Finnemore was mentioned in The Conversation article "The treatment of Yazidi women highlights a historical issue: what makes someone human?"

Charles Glaser was referenced by The Diplomat in "The Taiwan Problem: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It."

Samuel Goldman was quoted by Politifact in "Bernie Sanders — socialist or democratic socialist?"

Danny Hayes authored the article "Why it’s so hard to pass gun control laws (in one graph)" (The Washington Post) and was quoted by Poynter in "Don’t expect real push for gun control as coverage of Virginia shootings quickly wanes."

Stephen Kaplan authored The Washington Post article "Why the Chinese currency matters to the U.S. economy."

John Logsdon was quoted in "Space experts challenge accuracy of The Martian" (The Guardian).

Marc Lynch authored the articles "Obama and the Middle East" (Foreign Policy) and "The Arab uprisings as international relations" (The Washington Post). He was quoted in "Should Congress Approve the Iran Deal?" (Foreign Affairs) and "The Syria War: A History" (Vox).

Corrine McConnaughy authored the article "Donald Trump wins. Megyn Kelly wins. Girls lose." (The Washington Post) and was quoted by the New York Daily News in "Donald Trump, Megyn Kelly and the man’s business of nasty politics."

Harris Mylonas published "Methodological Problems in the Study of Nation-Building: Behaviorism and Historicist Solutions in Political Science" in Social Science Quarterly and co-authored "Greece just called new elections. Here’s the background you need to understand them" in The Washington Post. He was also quoted by Foreign Affairs in "Is Greece to Blame for the Crisis?"

Henry Nau participated in a discussion of Ronald Reagan and the Cold War on CSPAN3 (video).

Elizabeth Saunders published the article "War and the Inner Circle: Democratic Elites and the Politics of Using Force" in Security Studies.

David Shambaugh was quoted in the articles "To Become the Biggest Economy, China Needs to Stop Fighting Itself" (Bloomberg Businessweek), "Obama and China: Trying to play well with a close ‘frenemy’" (The Washington Post), "Xi Jinping and the Real ‘Asia Pivot'" (Politico), "Xi Jinping’s 21-gun salute belies a rocky turn in US-China relations" (The Christian Science Monitor) and "Foreign investors are scrambling to buy US housing" (Business Insider). 

John Sides is a contributor to The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog. He authored the articles "How Democrats became secular and Republicans became religious. (It's not what you think)," "Can we stop blaming the media for Donald Trump? Nope. Not at all," "Is the media biased against Bernie Sanders? Not really" and "Why is Donald Trump declining in the polls? The media strike again." He was quoted by the New York Daily News, The Christian Science Monitor (articles: 1, 2, 3), CNN, NBC News, Vox (articles: 1, 2), NPR, The New York Times (articles: 1, 2), Bloomberg Politics, Poynter (articles: 1,2), The Huffington Post, The Washington Post (articles: 1,2), Fox News, The Guardian, Tampa Bay Times, Mashable and the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. He spoke with NPR's Morning Edition about Fox's coverage of Donald Trump (audio). He also provided commentary about the first GOP debate. He appeared on national and local media coverage including WTTG-Fox 5 Morning News (video), WAMU-FM's The Diane Rehm Show (audio) CSPAN (video) and Sinclair Broadcast Group (video).

Rachel Stein published "War and Revenge: Explaining Conflict Initiation by Democracies" in the American Political Science Review.

Caitlin Talmadge co-authored The Washington Post article "Why the U.S. (still) can’t train the Iraqi military."

Lori Brainard was quoted in the Smithsonian article "Law and Order: Social Media Unit."

Stephanie Riegg Cellini's work was referenced by Vox in "Our greedy colleges." 

Susan Dudley was paraphrased in the National Journal article "Why Republicans Can't Stop Obama's Executive Actions on Day One."

Leighton Ku appeared on CSPAN2 in a hearing on health care and homelessness (video) and was quoted in the articles "Questions raised about Planned Parenthood cuts" (The Hill) and "Stat check: No, women couldn’t just 'go somewhere else' if Planned Parenthood closed" (Vox).

Kathleen Merrigan was featured in the article "Sustainability crusade began on 'Hamburger Highway'" (Greenwire's Newsmaker). 

Kathy Newcomer authored the blog post "Reply to Kettl: Scholarly interest in public service hasn’t wavered, but the vocabulary has changed" for Governance.

Scott Pace was quoted by the Houston Chronicle in "For the first time Chinese research to fly on NASA's space station."

Elizabeth Rigby was quoted in the Fast Company article "What The 2016 Presidential Candidates Talk About When They Talk About Inequality."

Stephen Trachtenberg was mentioned in the articles "When Considering A Pivot, Take Your Cues From Your Customers" (Fast Company) and "Experts: UI's Harreld will fail without faculty support" (The Des Moines Register).

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was quoted by The New Republic in "The Islamic Climate Change Declaration Could Be More Effective Than Pope Francis's Encyclical."

Robert Tuttle was cited in the Diverse Issues in Higher Education article "Convictions vs. Tax Exemptions: Christian Colleges May Have to Make Choice."

Amitai Etzioni authored The Huffington Post articles "We Can Defeat ISIS," "Hillary Needs a Vision," "The Comic Trainers," "Negotiate an End to the War in Syria," "'Unbridled Capitalism': New Evidence" and "Biden Was Right on Iraq and Afghanistan--and More."

Ronald Weitzer was quoted in "I looked at the best evidence for banning prostitution. It's absolutely terrible" (Vox) and "Conway's claim of a diverse department true" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

Dana Tai Soon Burgess' "We Choose to go to the Moon" was featured in The Washington Post (articles: 1, 2, 3) and The Washingtonian article "Dana Tai Soon Burgess Premieres Fluency in Four in Tribute to His Late Father." Burgess was quoted in "So can Washington dance? Dana Tai Soon Burgess weighs in" (The Washington Post), "A Chat with Globe-Trotting D.C. Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess" (Where Traveler), "Dana's Washington" (Diplomats of Dance Society) and "A Dancer and a Scientist Deliver a New Take on the Moon Walk" (Smithsonian).