June 2023

Among the Columbian College faculty members getting press during the month of May were the following individuals:

Thomas Guglielmo was featured on C-SPAN in a discussion about “Racism in the U.S. Military During WWII."

The NEXT Festival was featured in the Washington City Paper in the article “NEXT Festival,’’ by WUSA-CBS9 in the article “Graduating art students at George Washington University host annual festival | Get Uplifted,’’ and by The Washington Post “In the galleries: An inspiring annual student showcase of art and media.’’

Tanya Wetenhall was quoted by Women’s Wear Daily in the article “Russian Designer Valentin Yudashkin Dead at 59.’’

Patricia Hernandez was quoted by Science in the article “Tales of The Tongue.’’

Christopher Rollston was quoted by Times of Israel in the article “Academic article on controversial 3,200-year-old ‘curse tablet’ fails to sway experts” and by Biblical Archaeology Review in the article “An Early Israelite Curse Inscription from Mt. Ebal?”

Diana Furchtgott-Roth authored the article “Restoring America’s Energy Renaissance’’ for the National Review.

Steven Hamilton was quoted by Australian Associated Press in the article “Millions on track for budget energy bill relief.’’

Annamaria Lusardi was quoted in The Washington Post in the article “Montgomery County schools consider a financial literacy graduation requirement.’’

Aaron Hamburger was interviewed by the Chicago Review of Books in the article “Queering the ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Coming to America Story” and featured by Electric Literature in the article “Aaron Hamburger’s Grandmother Dressed in Drag to Find Refuge.”

Heidi Eldridge was quoted by DCist in the article “As Budget Vote Looms, Lawmakers At Odds On Future Of D.C.’s Troubled Crime Lab.’’

Lisa Benton-Short was quoted by Spectrum in the article “Garcia bill aims to expand affordable housing by cutting parking minimums.”

Scott Odell was quoted by MIT Climate Portal in the article “How does the environmental impact of mining for clean energy metals compare to mining for coal, oil and gas?” He also authored the article “Cooperate Internationally, Reduce Demand” as part of the Environmental Law Institute’s publication “The Debate: Safely Mining Minerals Needed for Renewables.”

Imani M. Cheers was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “TMZ’s Britney Spears documentary questions star’s post-conservatorship freedom,’’ and spoke to WRC-NBC4 about the legacy of Tina Turner.

David Karpf was quoted by USA Today in the article “Musk's Twitter tries to recapture the political spotlight post Trump with DeSantis 2024 run.”

Anna Lehart was cited by STAT News in the article “ChatGPT in medicine: STAT answers readers’ burning questions about AI.’’

Peter Loge was quoted by Deseret News in the article “Perspective: The Forrest Gumping of Donald Trump,’’ and by Time in the article “Elon Musk Stokes MAGA Unease With His DeSantis Embrace.”

Steven Roberts authored the article “Republicans are being dangerous and irresponsible on debt ceiling crisis’’ for Chicago Sun-Times.

Thomas Shanker was mentioned by The New York Times in Frank Bruni’s newsletter for a book he co-authored. He was also interviewed by NPR's Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition about his book.

Frank Sesno spoke to DW The Day about support for the media and to KCBS-AM, San Francisco about former President Trump’s town hall on CNN. He was quoted by The Associated Press in the articles “Trump forum a big test for CNN, moderator Kaitlan Collins’’ and “CNN faces backlash over chaotic Trump town hall event;” and by The Hill in the articles “Five elite news outfits win two-fifths of all Pulitzer Prizes’’ and “Do humans cause climate change? Even now, only half of Americans say yes.”

Rebekah Tromble was featured on C-SPAN in a discussion on “Swedish Ambassador to the U.S. and Others on Disinformation.’’

Heather Stebbins’ new album was reviewed by Bandcamp in the article “The Best Contemporary Classical on Bandcamp.”

Neil Johnson was quoted by Axios in the article “American extremists linked to Russian sites.’’

Sarah Binder was quoted by Politico in the article The Debt Ceiling Staredown, by Reuters in the article “Powell's legacy tested by inflation, bank crisis, new Fed dynamics," by The Mercury News in the article “Jill On Money: Confidence shaken after banking debacle,” by Vox in the article “Democrats’ intractable Dianne Feinstein problem,” and in Marketplace, about minting a trillion dollar coin to avoid default.

Richard Chasdi was interviewed by Al-Sharq about the Sudan crisis.

Danny Hayes was quoted by Nexstar Media Group in the article “Republican Sen. Tim Scott launches 2024 presidential campaign.’’

Harris Mylonas was quoted by CNN in the segment “Greece's ruling conservatives take lead in elections but fail to secure outright majority” and by Foreign Policy in the article “An Election Won’t End Greece’s Troubles.’’

Joseph Cordes was quoted in the Washington Examiner in the article “Spending caps in debt ceiling deal could be raised later, history shows.”

Bridget Dooling was quoted by Insider in the article “House Republicans are planning the first vote to overturn Biden's student-loan forgiveness next week.’’

Susan Dudley was quoted in The New York Times in the articles “You’ve Never Heard of Him, but He’s Remaking the Pollution Fight’’ and “Little-Noticed Part of G.O.P. Bill Could ‘Make It Impossible to Regulate;" and in the Kansas City Star in the article “From gas stoves to prairie chickens, Missouri Republican declares a war on federal regulators."

Scott Pace spoke to KCBS-AM, San Francisco in the segment “American public is ready to invest in greater space exploration.’’

Sara Rosenbaum was quoted by Axios in the article “Debt ceiling breach would lead to health care meltdown’’ and by Vox in the article “The Republican plan to sneakily cut Medicaid, explained.’’

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was quoted by The New York Times in the article “A College President Defends Seeking Money From Jeffrey Epstein.’’

Sayed Hassan Akhlaq authored the book The Making of Shia Ayatollahs (Rowman & Littlefield).

Michael Svoboda was featured in The Washington Post in the article “Hollywood loves a climate apocalypse. It needs to change the script.”

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