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Among the Columbian College faculty getting press during the month of June are the following individuals, listed by department:

American Studies

Elisabeth Anker was interviewed on Al Arabiya TV. She was also quoted by The Washington Post in “If Trump is just ‘playing a part,’ then here’s how to understand his brand of theater.”

Calvin Warren discussed safe spaces for members of the LGBTQ community with WAMU-FM.

Anthropology

Robert Shepherd spoke with CNN’s Business Traveller about an authentic travel experience.

Chet Sherwood was featured in the Scientific American article “Does a Newborn's Helplessness Hold the Key to Human Smarts?

Bernard Wood was quoted by The New Yorker in “Digging for Glory.”

Biology

Hartmut Doebel spoke to CCTV America about why honeybees are on the verge of extension.

Gustavo Hormiga was quoted by National Geographic (online) in the article “Love in the Time of Tarantulas: New Spider Shocks Scientists.”

Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Clare Brown discussed an upcoming conference presentation she will be giving on the Society for Experiential Graphic Design blog

Sanjit Sethi was quoted by Art Daily in the article “Corcoran Archives documenting 150 years come to the George Washington University Libraries.”

Economics

Tara Sinclair was quoted by the Tampa Bay Times PolitiFact in the articles “NFIB says 'vast majority' of minimum wage workers get raise in a year,” “Trump misleadingly puts black youth unemployment rate at 59 percent,” and “Donald Trump has floated big tariffs. What could the impact be?” and by Forbes in “Encouraging News For 50+ Job Seekers And Workers.”

Joann Weiner was quoted by Reuters in “Uber and Lyft rivals rush to Texas capital after fingerprint fight.”

English

Ayanna Thompson was interviewed about race and Othello for the Folger Shakespeare Library podcast “Shakespeare Unlimited.”

Geography

Michael Mann spoke to BYU Radio about his research on the causes of wildfires.

Media and Public Affairs

Imani Cheers spoke to CCTV America about the societal impact of pop culture.

P.J. Crowley  authored the article “How Brexit will affect US-UK relations’’ for BBC News (online). He was also interviewed by Voice of America’s Encounter about the mass shooting in Orlando, by CNN’s Tonight With Don Lemon on Hillary Clinton’s remarks about Donald Trump and by BBC Radio on U.S.-British relations following Brexit.

David Karpf authored “The Clickbait Candidate” in The Chronicle of Higher Education. He was quoted by The San Jose Mercury in “Sanders moves to keep his political revolution alive’’ and by The Atlantic in “Thoughts, Prayers, and Facebook Rants Aren't Enough.”

Steven Livingston was quoted in The Hill article “A new phase for Trump’s media war.”

Frank Sesno was interviewed on CNN’s Tonight with Don Lemon about Donald Trump’s relationship with the media. He was also quoted in the following articles: “Early Nomination Call for Hillary Clinton by Associated Press Sent Media Scrambling” (The New York Times), “Guns? Terrorism? Hate crime? Media go to their corners in reporting on Orlando’’ (The Washington Post), “Media spreads Trump's anti-media message” (Sinclair Broadcast Group), “Trump, Clinton take different paths in response to Orlando killings" (Newsday) and  “What Can Ex-Trump Aide Corey Lewandowski Say on CNN?’’ (The Daily Beast)

Nikki Usher spoke to the Tampa Bay Times for the article “How pop culture, people's reactions have changed since mass tragedies like the Orlando shooting” and was quoted by Agence France-Presse in in the article “Media firms lose control of news as tech platforms rise.”

Silvio Waisbord authored the article “Final impredecible para un candidato inesperado” in La Nacion (Argentina).

William Youmans was quoted  by Salon in the article “Little reality in Trump TV: Experts say the GOP front-runner’s reported desire to start a network is a pipedream.”

Physics

Chryssa Kouveliotou and post-doctoral scientist George Younes were quoted  by the International Business Times for the article “In A First, Scientists Discover ‘Wind Nebula’ Around An Ultramagnetic Neutron Star.”

Political Science

Stephen Biddle authored the article “Afghanistan Needs a Settlement, Not Another Troop-Withdrawal Deadline” in Defense One. He was quoted by the Associated Press in “Syria Memo Shakes up Washington but Unlikely to Shift Policy” and by Business Insider in “Iraqi forces have made 'rapid, unexpected' gains against ISIS, but the victories may signal an ominous new reality.”

Sarah Binder authored “Everything you need to know about the Senate Democrats’ filibuster on gun control” in The Washington Post. She was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA article “A Trump OSHA Likely to Enforce Less, Make Fewer Rules,” the Tampa Bay Times Politifact article “Trump wrongly says Clinton filibustered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac legislation” and The Wall Street Journal articles “House Speaker Paul Ryan Calls Donald Trump Comments About Judge ‘Racist’” and “Senate Democrats Cheer On New Guard’s Uprising.”

Nathan Brown was interviewed by Inside Higher Ed for the article “'Universities in a Dangerous World.'’’

Henry Farrell was quoted by the Boston Herald in the article “‘Special relationship’ is put into jeopardy.’’ He authored several articles for The Washington Post, including “The U.S. wants to maintain cross-border data flows. That may be tough,” “The U.K. has voted for Brexit. Here’s what happens next,” “The Obama administration wanted to open up government to citizen input. Why hasn’t it worked?” and  “America’s founders hated general warrants. So why has the government resurrected them?

Danny Hayes was featured in the Orlando Sentinel article “A gender gap in politics? It's not what you expect: The Interview” and Vox mentioned a book co-authored by Hayes in the article “A new political science book makes a provocative argument: women in politics don’t face gender bias.”

Matthew Hindman was quoted by McClatchy Newspapers in “House members’ use of Periscope a milestone for social media.”

Marc Lynch discussed the debate over saying the phrase “radical Islam” on WNYC’s On The Media. His book, The New Arab Wars (Public Affairs, 2016), was reviewed by The New York Times. Lynch also authored the article “What to read this summer about the Middle East” in The Washington Post.

Forrest Maltzman co-authored “The Supreme Court is taking far fewer cases than usual. Here’s why” in The Washington Post.

Cynthia McClintock discussed the Peruvian election with Bloomberg; Foreign Policy; KCET-TV, Los Angeles; The New York Times; the Los Angeles Times; and The Wall Street Journal.

Mike Mochizuki co-authored the article “Repairing U.S.-Japan Ties on Okinawa” in The Wall Street Journal.

Elizabeth Saunders was quoted by The Atlantic in “Hillary Clinton Warns the World About Donald Trump.”

David Shambaugh was quoted by UPI in the article “China aims to grow influence in Australia with propaganda deals’’ and by the Financial Times in the article “China’s $10bn propaganda push spreads Down Under.” The Christian Science Monitor discussed his book, China’s Future (Polity, 2016).

John Sides was quoted by Vox, Voice of America and U.S. News & World Report on Donald Trump’s candidacy. He also wrote The Washington Post articles “Are voters really guided by gender stereotypes? New research says no,” “A deep dive into the news media’s role in the rise of Donald J. Trump,’’ “Will the Orlando attacks help Trump against Clinton? The Paris and San Bernardino attacks didn’t,” “Is Trump threatening the GOP’s Senate majority? Not yet,” “There are lots of dumb predictions about third parties. Here’s a smarter one,” “Do most Americans dislike Clinton and Trump? No, not at all’’ and “Would early attack ads actually hurt Donald Trump?

Garry Young was quoted in The New York Times article “The Changing Face of Urban Power” and by Washingtonian in “DC Wants to Be a State. It’s Going to Have to Do Better Than This Name.

Public Policy and Public Administration

Stephanie Cellini’s research on for-profit colleges was featured in The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, MarketWatch, Mic, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Susan Dudley authored two articles for Forbes: “Speaker Ryan's Call For Regulatory Humility” and “Speaker Ryan's Plan Highlights Regulatory Burdens on Low-Income Households.”

Peter Linquiti was quoted by Governing in the article “Simulating a World Without Climate Change.”

Hal Wolman was quoted by The New York Times in the article “The Changing Face of Urban Power.”

Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures

Abdourahman A. Waberi authored “Le numérique, nouvelle arme pour promouvoir le panafricanisme littéraire” and “L’animisme peut-il sauver le monde?” in Le Monde Afrique.

Theatre and Dance

Leslie Jacobson authored “Myriam, Morocco, My Mother, Me — And George Gershwin” in The Huffington Post.