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

American Studies

Thomas A. Guglielmo authored "Desegregating blood: a civil right struggle to remember" (The Conversation).

Richard Longstreth was mentioned in The Chicago Tribune article "Frank Lloyd Wright archives open up for preservation help."

Anthropology

Alison Brooks's work was mentioned in The Wall Street Journal piece "How Humankind Conquered the World."

Mark Edberg co-authored "The new terrorists and the roots they share with gangs and drug lords" for The Conversation.

Economics

Tara Sinclair was quoted in several articles: "Jeb Bush says 'millions' have given up looking for work" (PolitiFact), "More Americans Are Finally Seeing Something New: A Pay Raise" (Associated Press), "Even as US job market picks up, unemployed face frustration" (Associated Press), "Amid Gains in Jobs and Pay, Americans Rejoin the Work Force" (The New York Times), "Jobs Report: U.S. Added 275,000 Jobs in January, Unemployment Up To 5.7%" (Forbes) and "Walmart sends wage signal to US business" (Financial Times).

Joann Weiner wrote the article "The hidden costs of being an Uber driver" for The Washington Post.

English

Herman Carrillo was quoted in The Baltimore Sun article "In literature, new attention to old age, dying."

Thomas Mallon spoke on WAMU-FM's The Diane Rehm Show (audio) about Harper Lee's new novel.

Ayanna Thompson was featured in the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast episode "'Our own voices with our own tongues': Shakespeare in Black and White."

Forensic Sciences

Moses Schanfield was quoted in The Washington Post piece "Police turn to new DNA-powered technology in hopes of finding killer."

History

Eric Arnesen was referenced by New York Daily News in "BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2015: Unions powering civil rights protests for equality." He also wrote "The Lessons of Pullman, A. Philip Randolph, Workers, and America" for We're History.

Kenneth Bowling participated in a discussion on C-SPAN3 (video) about the birth of Washington, D.C.

Christopher Klemek was quoted about political protest in D.C. for The Washingtonian article "The Great Washington Bucket List: 50 Things Every Local Needs to Do."

Marcy Norton was quoted by The Deseret News in "The little-known relationship between religion and chocolate."

Richard Thornton authored "Putin Is Effective and Knows Exactly What He’s Doing," a letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal.

Media and Public Affairs

Sean Aday was quoted in the article "Our failure to communicate: ISIS' message resonates online; America's does not" in New York Daily News.

Imani Cheers spoke with CCTV America in a video accompanying the article "Soaring vinyl sales put music industry in a spin."

P.J. Crowley was quoted by The Hill in "US-China tensions build on cybersecurity."

Steven Roberts was on WAMU-FM's The Diane Rehm Show (audio) to talk about various domestic issues.

Frank Sesno was tapped to speak about Brian Williams and Jon Stewart by several outlets, including: WYAY-FM, Atlanta (audio), BBC World Service (audio), WNEW-FM (audio), CBS Radio (audio: 1, 2, 3) and AP Radio News (audio). He also appeared on CNN (video: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), CNN's Newsroom (video), CNN's New Day (video: 1, 2) and BBC News (video), and was quoted in: "Brian Williams stepping aside for 'next several days'" (CNN), "Comcast's NBC Turns to Holt as Williams's Credibility Is Doubted" (Bloomberg) and "For Brian Williams, questions remain over whether suspension leads to permanent exit" (Associated Press). Sesno also provided commentary about Bill O'Reilly to CNN Tonight (video: 1, 2), CNN's Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield (video), CNN's New Day (video) and The Huffington Post article "Mother Jones Urges Bill O'Reilly to Apologize for 'Violent' Remark After Falkland War Claims Scrutinized." CBS Radio aired his comments on the death of CBS News correspondent Bob Simon (audio).

Tara Sonenshine authored The Huffington Post article "Anne Tyler Threads It All Together" and The Hill pieces "The little engine that couldn't: The story of a Metro mess," "The terror of cancer, the cancer of terrorism" and "The weather wake-up call."

Cheryl W. Thompson wrote "Billy Martin: Washington's go-to lawyer when you're in trouble. Real trouble" for The Washington Post.

Nikki Usher was quoted in the Bloomerberg Business article "Stewart Lets Viacom Shake Up Lake Night Again by Hiring a Woman" and authored the Columbian Journalism Review piece "Will the new Page One meetings finally make the Times digital first?"

Silvio Waisbord was quoted in "VOA, USAID Discuss Importance of Media in Global Health" (Voice of America).

Music

Gisèle Becker was interviewed (audio) about J.S. Bach's St. John Passion on Classical WETA.

Kip Lornell was quoted in the Smithsonian Magazine article "Chuck Brown's Guitar Drove the Musician's Persuasive 'Wind Me Up' Rhythm."

Political Science

Stephen Biddle appeared on KNOW-FM, Minneapolis (audio: 1, 2, 3) to discuss the threat from ISIS and President Obama's request for war powers.

Sarah Binder spoke with NPR (audio) about regular order in the Senate and authored "Why Congressional challenges to the Yellen Fed matter" for The Washington Post blog, The Monkey Cage. She was also cited in "Senate voted on more amendments in January than it did in all of 2014" (PolitiFact), "War On ISIS: How Come Obama And Congress Can’t Get It Together On Authorizing Force?" (International Business Times), "In California, a ‘golden’ political opportunity for U.S. Senate seat carries risks" (McClatchy), "House Republican Top Priority, H.R. 1, Still an Empty Shell" (Bloomberg), "Yellen Hearing Raises Question: ‘Who Is Scott Alvarez?’" (The Wall Street Journal) and "American democracy is doomed" (Vox).

Nathan J. Brown co-authored the article "Mutual escalation in Egypt" in The Washington Post and was quoted by CNN in "The GOP's new favorite Arab leader."

Bruce Dickson was cited by The Wall Street Journal in "Jack Ma, Alibaba Navigate a Tangled Web in China."

Henry Farrell wrote "How social science explains the Silk Road" and co-authored the article "European privacy policy is not a cynical anti-competitive plot" for The Monkey Cage.

Henry Hale was quoted by CNN in "Vladimir Putin's approval rating? Now at a whopping 86%."

Danny Hayes co-authored the Newsweek article "Political Shoo-ins Are Bad for Journalism as Well as Democracy."

Stephen Kaplan wrote "Why China is investing $250 billion in Latin America" (The Washington Post).

Marc Lynch testified on the threat of Islamic extremism (video: 1, 2) at a hearing that aired on C-SPAN2 and C-SPAN3. He was also quoted in "On Terror, Gentle Hand or Iron Fist" (The New York Times) and "The Note: 'An Ugly Lie'" (ABC News). An open letter he penned was quoted in "Powerful Open Letter To John Legend Urges Him To Cancel Upcoming Concert" (ThinkProgress), "John Legend took a strong, moral stand at the Oscars. Now he’s performing in Bahrain" (The Washington Post), "John Legend Rejects Calls to Cancel Bahrain Show Over Rights Abuses" (The New York Times) and "John Legend Got Called Out For Performing In A Country With Huge Human Rights Abuses" (BuzzFeed). He also wrote "The Arab Thermidor" for The Monkey Cage.

Harris Mylonas co-authored "Tsipras’ Greek balancing act begins" for The Washington Post and was quoted in the Voice of America article "Greek Financial Crisis Tests EU Stability."

Henry Nau was cited in The Hattiesburg American article "Expert returns home to honor father/USM professor."

David Shambaugh was paraphrased in "Twin historic traumas shape Xi Jinping’s China presidency" (The Washington Post).

John Sides wrote "Fifty percent of Americans believe in some conspiracy theory. Here’s why" and "A majority in every state favors a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants" for The Monkey Cage.

Robert Stoker authored The Monkey Cage post "Refusing vaccination is anti-social, not irrational."

Caitlin Talmadge published the paper "When War Helps Civil-Military Relations: Prolonged Interstate Conflicts and the Reduced Risk of Coups" in The Journal of Conflict Resolution with graduate student Varun Piplani. She also co-authored "The U.S. just leaked its war plan in Iraq. Why?" for The Monkey Cage.

Public Policy and Public Administration

Dave Brunori was quoted by Forbes in the article "Tax Reform Continues To Sweep Through The South."

Susan E. Dudley authored "Independent Agencies And President Obama" for The Wall Street Journal.

Amit Ronen's commented on Apple's massive solar buy in the Computerworld article "Apple’s $850M Solar Plant Rockets it to First Place Among US Corporations."

Religion

Kelly Pemberton was quoted in "Struggling in Europe, Muslims Look to US for Better Model" by Voice of America

Sociology

Amitai Etzioni wrote "Limiting what political donors can get, not give" (The Hill) and "Debating Bibi's Speech Is a Major Distraction" (The Huffington Post).

Gregory D. Squires was quoted in the Pro Publica article "Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination."

Speech and Hearing Sciences

Shelley Brundage was interviewed about "Real Enough: Virtual Reality with People Who Stutter" on StutterTalk and also published "Real Enough: Using Virtual Public Speaking Environments to Evoke Feelings and Behaviors Targeted in Stuttering Assessment and Treatment" in The American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.

Theatre and Dance

Leslie Jacobson was quoted by The Washington Post in "D.C.’s women’s theaters, emerging on the cheap."

Women's Studies

Heidi Hartmann was featured on WBUR-FM's On Point (audio) to discuss wage inequality and the gender gap.