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

Chad Heap’s lecture on the origin of the gay rights movement was broadcast on C-SPAN.

Hugh Gusterson was interviewed by the website Five Books on the best books on drone warfare.

Sarah Wagner authored The Washington Post article “How fallen service members, and their families, became politically sacred.”

Bernard Wood was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Lucy, our hominid cousin, may have died in a tragic fall from a tree” and by The Christian Science Monitor in “Piltdown Man: Scientists finally get to the bottom of notorious scientific forgery.”

Hartmut Doebel appeared in a Washington Post photograph that accompanied the article “In a fight between environmentalists and farmers, the bees lose. And that stings.”

Arnaud Martin was quoted by Nature in the article “CRISPR's hopeful monsters: gene-editing storms evo-devo labs.”

Mel Chin was featured in the Gothamist article “Did You Know The Props On 'Melrose Place' Were Covert Works Of Art With Coded Meanings?”

Tara Sinclair was quoted in the USA Today articles “Fed minutes show rate hike could come 'soon'” and "Fact check: Kaine vs. Pence on unemployment,’’ and in the Tampa Bay Times PolitiFact articles “Gwen Graham says Rick Scott boasts about Florida's low wages” and “Donald Trump exaggerates youth unemployment in Reddit AMA.”

Stephen Smith was quoted by the Associated Press in “AP Big Story Study: With goats, chickens, program helps poorest get by.”

Walter Rowe was quoted by McClatchy Newspapers in the article “Exonerations in America are at a record high, but not because of DNA.”

Marie Price spoke to The Fiscal Times for the article “Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Plan Would Close the Gateway to Muslim Refugees.”

Eric Arnesen was featured in a C-SPAN 3 discussion of African Americans in the workforce.

Peter Konwerski was quoted by Forbes magazine in “10 Freebies For College Students That Will Save You Thousands” and by The Huffington Post in “What is the Student Experience at a College or University?”

Kimberly Gross co-authored “Democrats played up the flag at their convention. Was that risky?” in The Washington Post.

Javier Lesaca commented for The Huffington Post article “High-Ranking ISIS Spokesman Killed In Aleppo, Group’s Amaq Agency Says.”

Steven Livingston authored “Classroom technologies narrow education gap in developing countries” for Brookings’ TechTank blog.

Jason Rezaian was featured as an SMPA fellow in Politico and the Adweek website Fishbowl.

Frank Sesno was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Influential, shrewd and quirky, Arianna Huffington changed the Web” and by the Associated Press in “Pundits Or Trump Campaign Coaches? A Twist In News Coverage.” He also spoke to CNN about who will moderate the presidential debates (1) and about media coverage of Donald Trump (2).

Silvio Waisbord was quoted by La Nacion (Argentina) in the article “Yo opino, tú opinas, él opina. La conversación pública en la era de las redes.”

Nikki Blacksmith spoke to HealthDay for the article “Job Seekers, Employers Agree: Face-to-Face Interviews Are Best.”

Evangeline Downie commented for the International Business Times article “The ‘Proton Radius Puzzle’ Is Very Real, New Experiment Confirms.”

Stephen Biddle co-authored the article “The Problem With Vows to 'Defeat' the Islamic State” in The Atlantic. He spoke to AP Radio about American soldiers in Afghanistan and was quoted by The Diplomat in the article “A New War in the Pacific Could be ‘Trench Warfare’ at Sea.”

Sarah Binder was quoted by U.S. News & World Report in “Agreeing on Change” and by McClatchy Newspapers in “Running as terror expert, Sanchez misses many anti-terror panel meetings.”

Bruce J. Dickson authored the article “Op-Ed Democracy in China? It's in the eye of the beholder” in the Los Angeles Times. He was quoted by The Wall Street Journal in “The People’s Republic.” His book, The Dictator’s Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party’s Strategy for Survival, was discussed in the Diplomat article “The Communist Party of China's Recipe for Success.”

Alexander Downes was interviewed by the Boston Review for the article “NATO Has Problems, But Trump Won’t Fix Them.”

Henry Farrell authored the article “Why U.S. taxpayers may pay most of the bill for Apple’s $14.5 billion tax judgment” in The Washington Post.

Danny Hayes spoke to Voice of America’s International Edition about Donald Trump. He was quoted by Quartz in the article “If millennials truly want to start a political revolution, they’ll need to vote” and by The Washington Post in “Google wants to help you vote. Could it affect the election?”

Stephen Kaplan spoke to American Public Media’s Marketplace about difficulties in Venezuela.

Marc Lynch authored “How Arab authoritarian regimes learned to defeat popular protests” in The Washington Post.

Henry Nau authored the National Review article “The World We Have; the World We Want” and spoke to WABC’s The John Batchelor Show about the presidential campaign. He was quoted by the Washington Examiner in the article “U.S. ransoming hostages: It's not the first time” and by Japan Today in “Ex-Reagan aide hopes Abe has strategic vision to match Nakasone's.”

Elizabeth Saunders was quoted by The Atlantic in “The Inverted Politics of American Exceptionalism” and “Why Is Hillary Clinton Courting Republican Foreign-Policy Heavyweights? ” and by U.S. News & World Report in “The Reasoning Behind Republicans for Clinton.”

David Shambaugh co-authored the Foreign Policy article “An Alternative History for China.” He was quoted in the Deutsche Welle (Germany) article “China's confusing media ties with Australia” and the South China Morning Post article “The Singapore political system may prove a difficult model for China, whatever the West thinks.” Reuters reviewed his book, China’s Future.

John Sides authored several articles for The Washington Post: “How many votes will Trump give up by not running a professional campaign? A lot”; “Republicans currently have just a 38% chance of keeping their Senate majority ”; “The odds for third-party success this year are getting better and better”; “Why Donald Trump’s ‘rigged elections’ warning could actually make his supporters less likely to vote”; “White Christian America is dying”; and “Never forget: The 2016 presidential election is supposed to be one that Republicans can win.” He was also quoted in articles by The Atlantic, The Hill, The New York Times, Vox and The Washington Post.

John Philbeck was quoted by LiveScience in the article “Why Taller People May Be Better at Judging How Far Away Things Are.”

Stephanie Cellini’s research was profiled in the Forbes article “Keep Coding Bootcamps Great: Don't Give Them Taxpayer Money.”

Susan Dudley authored three articles for Forbes: “For Trump And Clinton, Some Campaign Promises Will Be Harder To Keep Than Others,” “Republican Platform: Free The EPA” and “EPA Inspector Calls Agency Out On Ethanol Mandate.” She was quoted by Politico in “Obama agencies bet on Clinton win” and by Business Insider in “Trump could undo Obama's big criminal-justice reforms.” A study co-authored by Dudley was mentioned in The Hill article “Growth of red tape outpaces economy.”

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was quoted by The Washington Post in “Universities in D.C. avoided $111 million in local taxes last year” and by The Des Moines Register in “How friendly is too friendly with regents, presidents?”

Seyyed Hossein Nasr was quoted by The New York Times in the article “Saudis and Extremism: ‘Both the Arsonists and the Firefighters.’”

Abdourahman A. Waberi authored the article “Que sont les photographes de quartier devenus?” in Le Monde Afrique.

Ronald Weitzer was quoted in the SF Weekly article “SFPD Mulls a Publicist for Image Control.”

Dana Tai Soon Burgess was featured in the danceviewtimes article “Small Space, Big Picture.”

Leslie Jacobson was featured in a video by Higher Education Today.