Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Getting Press
October 2017

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

 

American Studies
Elisabeth Anker spoke to Al Jazeera about the use of private email accounts by some Trump administration officials.

Art Therapy
Donna Betts was quoted by The Baltimore Sun in the article “Yumi Hogan launches art therapy program at UM children's hospital.”

Arts & Design
Karen Ahlquist authored the article “File this under 'technology, undemocratic'” for The Washington Post. 
Dana Tai Soon Burgess was featured in The Washington Diplomat article “Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dancers Give Life to ‘Face of Battle’.”
Laura Schiavo was quoted by Smithsonian in the article “Stereographs Were the Original Virtual Reality.”

Biology 
Arnaud Martin’s research on the genetic roots of butterfly wing colors and patterns was covered by several media outlets including The New York Times, BBC News, The Atlantic, Nature, The Washington Post, Xinhua News Agency (China) and Deutsche Welle (Germany).

Economics
Tara Sinclair was quoted by PolitiFact in the articles “So what is the debt ceiling all about anyway?” and “How strong has job growth been on Donald Trump's watch?”
Steven Suranovic was quoted by The Chicago Tribune in the article “Sorry, Ald. Beale. Regulating Uber and Lyft surge pricing would hurt consumers.”

English
Jeffrey J. Cohen was quoted by Inside Higher Ed in the article “A Schism in Medieval Studies, for All to See” and by The Chronicle of Higher Education in “A Debate About White Supremacy and Medieval Studies Exposes Deep Rifts in the Field.”
Jonathan Hsy was featured in the Inside Higher Ed article “Occupation of Hum 110.”
Thomas Mallon authored two articles for The New York Times Book Review: “The Man Lincoln Called 'Mars'” and “Should a critic aim to be open-minded or to pass judgment?” He also wrote “Least Likely to Succeed” for The New Yorker. 

Forensic Sciences
Victor Weedn was interviewed by CNN for the segment “North Korea denies torturing American student.”

History
Eric Arnesen was featured on a C-SPAN2 discussion of the Cold War.
Edward Berkowitz was quoted by Agence France-Presse in the article “Storms? North Korea? Trump? Americans keep calm and go shopping.”
Gregg Brazinsky was featured in a C-SPAN3 discussion of “U.S.-China Competition During the Cold War.”
Diane Cline was quoted by The Daily Beast in the article “Is ‘The Lost City of Alexander the Great’ Actually Alexander’s?”
Dane Kennedy reported on a panel of historians discussing "Is Civilian Control of the Military Eroding?" on the blog AHA Today.
Shawn McHale was quoted by Voice of America in the article “New Effort to Honor Khmer Krom Fighters Allied With US in Vietnam War.”
Leo Ribuffo's article, "Donald Trump, Richard Nixon, and the 'F***ing Jews'" appeared on the History News Network website.

Media and Public Affairs
P.J. Crowley was quoted in The Boston Globe article “Harvard rescinds Chelsea Manning’s invitation, draws fresh criticism.’’
Robert Griffin was quoted by The Hill in “Parties struggle with shifting coalitions” and “Fury fuels the modern political climate in US.’’
David Karpf was quoted in the Vox article “Verrit, the new website for Hillary Clinton superfans, explained” by The Christian Science Monitor in “What's really important about Facebook Russia Ads” and by CBC News (Canada) in “'Bigger than football': NFL, long a conservative league, dodged activism. Then came Trump.’’
Patricia Phalen was quoted by the Sinclair Broadcast Group in the article “Despite Dems' deals with Trump, Hollywood resistance holds firm at Emmys.’’
Carol Richards was featured in a C-SPAN2 discussion of the book Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box.
Frank Sesno was quoted in The Washington Post article “The hypocrisy of Steve Bannon’s decision to do that ‘60 Minutes’ interview.”
Nikki Usher was quoted in the Time magazine article “'Please Send Help.' Hurricane Harvey Victims Turn to Twitter and Facebook’’ and by The Washington Post in “A journalist on the crime beat becomes the subject of some skeptical journalism” and “RTs = endorsements? Trump’s retweets of outlandish memes a signal to his base.”
William Youmans authored the article “‘Taking the knee’ and America’s unhealed racist wound” for Arab News (Saudi Arabia).

Philosophy
Mark Ralkowski was quoted by The Los Angeles Times in the article “'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is back and so is Larry David, TV's greatest philosopher.”

Political Science
Celeste Arrington was quoted by The Washington Post in “Why Japan is losing its battle against statues of colonial-era ‘comfort women.’”
Sarah Binder co-authored the article “How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve” for Bloomberg. She was quoted by Philly.com in the article “The fate of 790,000 immigrants rests in the hands of a deeply divided Congress,” by The Financial Times in “Trump handed rare opportunity to reshape Federal Reserve,” by The Seattle Times in “Sen. Patty Murray is working with Republicans on Obamacare fix,” by The Washington Post in “All about ‘regular order’ and why it could make or break Republicans’ Obamacare repeal,” by Vox in “Graham-Cassidy needs to pass this final test before it can come to a vote” and by The Toledo Blade in "The fleeting feeling of bipartisan bliss has come and gone." She spoke to Marketplace about budget reconciliation and the health care bill. 
Bruce Dickson was quoted by The New York Times in the article “After Toiling in Rural China, Protégé of Xi Jinping Joins Party’s Top Tiers.”
Henry Farrell authored the article “A liberal think tank has just pushed out an employee who criticized Google. That’s worrying” for The Washington Post. He was quoted by Politico in the article “Are think tanks doomed?” and by U.S. News & World Report in “Harvard Disinvites Manning.”
Danny Hayes was quoted by NPR (online) in the article “Study Finds Women See Female Lawmakers As More Competent, Having More Integrity.” He was featured in Poynter article “Did Twitter elect Donald Trump?”
Marc Lynch was quoted by The New York Times in the article “The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.”
Corrine McConnaughy was featured in the HuffPost article “The Latest Wave Of NFL Protests Is Likely To Be Unpopular. That Shouldn’t Be A Surprise” and The New York Times article “What We’re Reading.”
Harris Mylonas coauthored the article “The Volatile State of Greek Politics” for Foreign Affairs Snapshot.
Henry Nau spoke to WABC’s The John Batchelor Show for the segment “Trump the conservative-internationalist.”
Elizabeth Saunders authored the article “Five things Trump did on his summer vacation: A foreign policy roundup” for The Washington Post. She was quoted by Vox in the article ““He took the job and made it smaller”: how Rex Tillerson failed the State Department.”
David Shambaugh was quoted by The Christian Science Monitor in the article “China's North Korea stance: laggard or leader?” He was featured in a debate on Minnesota Public Radio News in the segment “Intelligence Squared debate: Foreign policy in the Trump era.”
John Sides was quoted by Salon in “The great Hillary Clinton paradox,” by Time magazine in “Bernie Sanders: I did everything I could to get Hillary Clinton elected” and by Vice in “Regretful Trump Voters: 'I Don’t Understand How It Could Be Worse.” His research was featured in The Hill article “Don't be fooled by the Clinton-Sanders feud, Dems are united.” He spoke to CBC News, Canada National, about the rise of white identity politics in the United States. 

Public Policy and Public Administration
Nancy Potok spoke to Federal News Radio in the segment “Women of Washington: Data science and machine learning in government.”
Amit Ronen was featured in the interview “Live Interview on China's Solar Ambitions” on Global Business America and in the segment “Amit Ronen of GW Solar Institute Talks About Solar Energy in China” on China 24. He was quoted by Time magazine in the article “How China Floated to the Top in Solar” and by CNN in “China is crushing the U.S. in renewable energy.”

Regulatory Studies Center
Susan Dudley authored the article “Bipartisan Commission Offers Evidence-Based Reform Ideas” for Forbes. She was featured in The Washington Examiner article “Trump is more serious than you think about building the border wall.”

Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures 
Abdourahman Waberi authored the article “Will Ngugi Wa Thiong'o be the next Nobel of literature?” for Le Monde. 

Sociology
Amitai Etzioni authored the articles “Donald Trump And The Art Of Foreign-Policy Bluffing” and “China And India: A Lesson In Conflict Resolution” for HuffPost and “The Shame of Myanmar” for The Diplomat. He was quoted by Daily Mirror (UK) in “US rhetoric on ‘freedom of navigation’ Sri Lanka should beware of becoming another South China Sea.”
Gregory Squires was quoted by The Associated Press in the article “Hurricane Harvey racial optics much different than Katrina.”
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