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Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Getting Press

November 2016

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

American Studies

James Horton was quoted by Smithsonian Magazine in the article “A Controversial Museum Tries to Revive the Myth of the Confederacy’s “Lost Cause” and spoke to WNYC-FM’s Studio 360 about the Lincoln Memorial and its place in the civil rights movement for the episode “American Icons: The Lincoln Memorial.”

Calvin Warren was quoted by The Chronicle of Higher Education in the article “When Racism Reappears, How Can a Campus Show It Has Made Any Gains?”

Anthropology

Diane Bell spoke to National Geographic Channel about tattoos as an early warning system.

Alison Brooks was quoted by the Associated Press in the article “Rock-smashing monkeys make flakes like early stone tools.”

Bernard Wood was quoted by Nature in the article “Monkey 'tools' raise questions over human archaeological record,” by The Christian Science Monitor in “Scientists say they have found the oldest right-handed human,” and by Smithsonian Magazine in “Two-Million-Year-Old Jaw Has a Lot to Say About the Origins of Human Handedness.”

Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute

Louis Caldera authored a Letter to the Editor in The New York Times “Donald Trump, Unfit to Command,” an article in Dallas News “What Trump fails to understand about modern military strategy,” and an article in Medium “Unfit to Command.”

Classical and Near Eastern Languages

Christopher Rollston was quoted by Channel NewsAsia’s Agence France-Presse in the article “Archaeologists question 'oldest' Hebrew mention of Jerusalem,” in The Jerusalem Post “IAA refutes authenticity accusations of ‘Jerusalem’ papyrus inscription,” and in Live Science’s article “Ancient Hebrew Papyrus Seized from Looters, But Is It Authentic?”

Economics

Anthony Yezer spoke to KNOP-NBC2, North Platte, Neb., and KSNB-NBC5, Lincoln, Neb., about the cost of the death penalty.

Geography

Lisa Benton-Short was quoted by Vox in the article “Why the Lincoln Memorial was almost never built.”

Dan Malouff authored the article “Why we don't have world class BRT in the US, explained with one picture” for in Greater, Greater Washington.

Marie Price was quoted by The Christian Science Monitor in the article “How many people has Obama really deported?’’

Dmitry Streletskiy was quoted by The Guardian in the article “Slow-motion wrecks: how thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities.’’

History

Tyler Anbinder spoke to WNYC-FM’s The Leonard Lopate Show about his book City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). The book was also reviewed by The Boston Globe in “Immigration isn’t new issue but has always been thorny and about American dream,” in The New York Times article “Immigrant New York’s Birth Over 4 Centuries” and highlighted in the Newsday article “‘City of Dreams’ explores 400 years of NYC’s immigrant history.”

Hope Harrison spoke to CNN about Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin.

Jenna Weissman Joselit was quoted by Time in the article, “On Yom Kippur, Here’s How Celebrity Cantors Changed Immigration History.”

Ronald Spector authored the article “The Definitive History of Modern Vietnam,’’ in The Wall Street Journal.

Media and Public Affairs

Sean Aday co-authored The Washington Post article “How social media undermined Egypt’s democratic transition.”

David Karpf was quoted by Popular Science in the article “Six Charts Show Why No One Is Talking About Climate Change,” by The Wall Street Journal in “Donald Trump Attacks on Twitter, and Detractors Tweet Back,’’ and by The Minneapolis Star Tribune in “With control of State Capitol on the line, both sides take to the airwaves.”

Ethan Porter was featured in the NPR article “Who Do You Think Won The Debate? It May Depend Which Network You Watched.” He and Kimberly Gross co-authored “Does Post-Debate Spin Work?” in The New York Times.

Frank Sesno authored the article “Trump Isn't the Only Loser” in U.S. News & World Report. He was quoted by several media outlets, including Variety (“Will Trump Follow Through on Libel Threats to the Media?”), CNN online (“Who won the town hall debate?’’) and The Daily Beast (“Donald Trump Attacks Help Hillary Clinton Forge Truce in Her Long War With the Media” and “The Perils of an AT&T-Time Warner Merger.”) He spoke to CNN’s New Day about the media’s effect on the presidential race and to CNN’s Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield about Donald Trump. He discussed the presidential election on CNN’s Tonight with Don Lemon, CNN’s Tonight with Don Lemon and BBC’s World News America.

Tara Sonenshine authored the article “The Russians are not coming; they're already here” in The Hill.

Christopher Sterling spoke on C-SPAN3 about Sir Winston Churchill’s many visits to Washington, D.C.

Nikki Usher spoke to Gray TV, about newspaper endorsements.

Museum Studies

Kym Rice was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “At 80, Johnnetta Cole reflects on her career and the controversial Cosby exhibition.’’

Music

Kip Lornell was quoted by the Washingtonian in the article “Is Bluegrass Dying in DC?” and was mentioned in an article in The Washington Post, “5 things you’ll find at D.C.’s new REI.”

Organizational Sciences and Communication

David Costanza was interviewed for the article, “Nope, Boomers and Xers Don’t Work Harder Than Millennials” on the How Stuff Works website.

Political Science

Stephen Biddle was quoted by Vox in the article, “Trump’s idea for a “sneak attack” on ISIS in Mosul isn’t actually possible.”

Sarah Binder authored an article in The Washington Post, “These are the House Republicans who have abandoned Donald Trump.” She was quoted by The Los Angeles Times in the article “Gerrymandering helped Republicans take control of Congress, but now it's tearing them apart over Trump,” Philly.com’s article “Presidency isn't enough; Democrats also want Congress” and by McClatchy in the article “Say the Democrats win the Senate and Mitch McConnell is taken down. What then?’’

Henry Farrell authored an article in The Washington Post (“The U.S. has just accused Russia of hacking America’s elections. That’s a very big deal”) and an article for Vox (“How the Chris Hayes book Twilight of the Elites explains Trump's appeal.”)

Evgeny Finkel was quoted on the Quartz website in the article “The heart of a Russian enclave of New York beats strong for Donald Trump.’’

Samuel Goldman was quoted by The Huffington Post in “The Vice Presidential Debate May Not Move The Dial, But It Is Worth Your Time.”

Henry Hale was quoted by The Financial Times (“Azerbaijan’s strongman hankers after greater power”), Voice of America (“US-Russia Relations Go from Reset to Retrograde”) and CBC News (“Trump a 'puppet' of Putin? WikiLeaks target isn't who you may think, Russia experts say.)

Danny Hayes’ research was featured in The New York Times article “Is the Election a Morality Play or Just Reality TV?”

Balla Keita was quoted by The Huffington Post in the article,” Paging Mr. Trump: Ivory Coast’s Looming Crisis Offers A Lesson In ‘Rigged’ Systems.”

John Logsdon provided commentary on President Obama’s plan to send humans to Mars for several media outlets, including USA Today (“President Obama to pitch Mars mission one final time at Thursday conference”), Los Angeles Times (“Getting humans to Mars will require NASA and private companies to team up, Obama says”), American Public Media’s Marketplace (“The next frontier for the Next Frontier”), the Associated Press (“Obama Pushes US Goal to Send Humans to Mars by 2030s”), NPR’s All Things Considered (“Obama Declares Humans Should Go To Mars By The 2030s”), Scientific American (“Blue Planet/Red Planet Politics: Obama's Giant Leap for Legacy”) and WAGM-CBS 8, Presque Isle, Maine.

Marc Lynch spoke with KCRW’s To The Point about Syria pushing United States-Russian relations to a new low.

Kimberly Morgan spoke to NPR’s All Things Considered about the history of subsidized child care.

Elizabeth Saunders was quoted by The San Francisco Chronicle in the article “Where Clinton and Trump stand on foreign policy issues” and by The New York Times in the articles, “How Donald Trump Hacked the Politics of Foreign Policy” and “How Donald Trump Hacked the Politics of Foreign Policy.”

John Sides authored several articles in The Washington Post including, “Poll: Many Americans do not think Donald Trump was born into wealth”; “On Twitter, Hillary Clinton won the debate”; “Is Christopher Columbus truly a villain? This is what the public really thinks”; and co-authored, “Will Donald Trump cost Republicans the House? It’s very unlikely.” He was quoted by Wired in “Trump’s Ground Game Gamble Could Be a Fatal Mistake,” by Voice of America in “2nd Trump-Clinton Debate Unlikely to Affect Her Edge,” and by Bloomberg in “Trump Tries Another Wild-Card Play in Last Clinton Debate.” He also spoke to CBS News about the vice presidential debate.

Psychology

Sarah Calabrese was a speaker at HIVR4P 2016 conference and was quoted in several articles including NAM’s Aidsmap article “Some of the Americans who need PrEP the most face the greatest barriers to getting it,” Medscape’s “Beliefs About Condoms Can Blind Physicians to PrEP Needs” and MedPage Today’s “PrEP Attitudes 'Paradoxical' Among Docs in Training,”

Sarah Shomstein was interviewed on The Not Old Better podcast “Brain the Digital Age."

Public Policy and Public Administration

David Brunori was quoted by the Washington Business Journal in the article “The District is cutting taxes for residents. Again.”

Susan Dudley authored the article “CFPB Court Ruling Is A Victory for Individual Liberty” in Forbes. She was quoted by The Conversation in “Where the parties stand on environmental regulation: Six essential reads,” and by ThinkProgress in “The dismantling of Obama’s climate legacy by a President Donald Trump.”

Scott Pace was quoted by the Associated Press in the article “Obama Pushes US Goal to Send Humans to Mars by 2030s” and by FoxNews in “The European Space Agency will soon attempt a Mars landing,”

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg authored an article in Times Higher Education titled “Solid states: in praise of public universities.”

Roman, German, and Slavic Languages and Literature

Abdourahman A. Waberi authored an article in Le Monde Afrique titled “Ilhan Omar, la première Américaine d’origine somalienne bientôt élue dans le Minnesota.”

Sociology

Amitai Etzioni was quoted by China Daily in the article “Building healthy rhetoric in China-US ties” and by Yonhap News (South Korea) in the article “U.S. expert calls for grand bargain with China on N. Korea.”

Gregory Squires authored the article “Gramm Wrong, Again, on CRA” for the National Housing Institute blog Rooflines in Shelterforce Weekly.

Ronald Weitzer was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “How shutting down Backpage, ‘the world’s top online brothel,’ could hurt sex workers.”

Speech and Hearing Sciences

Adrienne Hancock was in The Washington Post article, “Trump spoke more in the second debate. Why it seemed like Clinton did.”

Theater and Dance

Dana Tai Soon Burgess was interviewed on CCTV America’s Full Frame Close Up.

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