FGP
October 2018

Among the Columbian College faculty getting press during August are the following individuals:

 

American Studies 

Elisabeth Anker spoke to Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post about David Pecker, the latest of Trump's allies to cooperate with the Mueller investigation.

Anthropology 

Arts & Design 

Jodi Kanter was quoted by The Associated Press in the article “DeVos' rocky Senate confirmation hearing turned into theater.”

Economics 

Paul Carrillo’s research was featured in several news outlets, including CBS News (“The whiter the neighborhood, the greater the penalty black renters pay, study shows”), Slate (“Black Space, White Blindness”) and the Miami Herald (“Black renters pay more in a white neighborhood, study finds. But just how much more?”).

Michael Moore was quoted by NBC News in the article “Trump just slapped new tariffs on $200B of Chinese imports — and these ones will impact your wallet.”

Stephen Smith was quoted in a USAID Feed the Future article “Low-Cost Improvements Through Agricultural Extension Lift Food Security in Uganda” featuring his research in Uganda on improving food security for families of smallholder women farmers.

English

Jennifer Chang’s poem “The Winter Wife” was featured in The New York Times article “Being Women: Imagery and Poetry.”

Thomas Mallon authored the article “Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat” for The New York Times Book Review and “Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy?” for The New Yorker

Geography

Declan Cullen authored the article “Taking Back the Wheel” for Dissent Magazine.

Michael Mann’s research was featured in the Sacramento Bee article “Homes in rural enclaves offer stunning views - and severe fire risk. Should they be built?

History

Tyler Anbinder spoke to KPCC-FM’s Air Talk in the segment “New census data: Asians lead rise of foreign-born immigrants.”

Media and Public Affairs

David Karpf authored the article “25 Years of WIRED Predictions: Why the Future Never Arrives” for Wired

Steven Livingston was quoted by The New Yorker in the article “How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump” and by The Hill in the article "The Memo: NYT becomes news story on Kavanaugh, Rosenstein."

Ethan Porter was quoted by Roll Call in the article “Twitter Battles Over Kavanaugh Nomination Roar.”

Frank Sesno was quoted by The Associated Press in the article “Times grants anonymity to administration official for essay” and by Politico in “Conservatives claim media, Dems ignoring allegations against Ellison.” He spoke to Headline News’ Across America With Carol Costello about the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 

Janet Steele was interviewed by Voice of America about journalism and nationalism and the two Reuters journalists convicted of violating the Official Secrets Act in Myanmar.

Organizational Sciences and Communication

Political Science

Sarah Binder authored the article “4 reasons why the Kavanaugh hearings have become a stalled tropical storm” for The Washington Post. She was quoted by Vox in the article “The fight over the release of Kavanaugh documents as hearing gets underway, explained,” by Newsday in “Senate panel to begin hearings on Kavanaugh” and by PBS NewsHour in “Is the hyper-partisan Supreme Court confirmation process ‘the new normal’?” 

Adam Dean authored the article “Trump says he wants to protect steelworkers. Why are they unhappy?” for The Washington Post

Corrine McConnaughy was featured on WNYC-FM’s The Brian Lehrer Show in the segment “1991 and Today: Latest in Kavanaugh Hearings.” She spoke to CNN’s Smerconish and was quoted by The New York Times in the article “On Kavanaugh, a Changed America Debates an Explosive Charge” and by Politiken in the article “Anklage om et seksuelt overfald splitter USA og åbner et 27 år gammelt sår

David Shambaugh was quoted by The New Republic in the article “The Other Political Correctness.”

John Sides was quoted by Vox in the article “The public thinks the Supreme Court is more liberal than it is,” by The Washington Post in “A fresh look back at 2016 finds America with an identity crisis” and by The Hill in “Will gerrymandering play role in which party controls Congress?

Public Policy and Public Administration

David Brunori was quoted by Washington City Paper in the article “Traffic Tickets: the District Profits and Residents Pay.”

Andrew Reamer was quoted by U.S. News & World Report in the article “Hard-to-Count Populations Will Lose Federal Funding,” by KUT-FM, Austin, Texas, in “Researchers Say The 2020 Census Could Undercount Rural Residents In Texas” and by Reuters in “Worried About Undercount, States and Cities Spend to Promote 2020 Census.”

Regulatory Studies Center

Susan Dudley authored the article “Happy Birthday, Executive Order 12866!” for Forbes. She was quoted by Politico about a tax-rules-review agreement in the Morning Tax roundup.

Hal Singer was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Are Google and Facebook too powerful? Washington: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” and by The Washington Post in “Trump’s antitrust chief questions whether there’s ‘credible evidence’ Big Tech is harming innovation.”

Sociology 

Gregory Squires co-authored the article “The right to stay put” for The Washington Post

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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