Columbian College of Arts & Sciences: Faculty Getting Press
May 2019

Among the Columbian College faculty getting press during April were the following individuals:

 

American Studies
Thomas Guglielmo was quoted by The Chicago Tribune in the article “Medicine’s racist past makes many African-Americans wary of giving blood — but sickle cell patients have urgent need.” 
Anthropology
Eric Cline was quoted by LiveScience in the article “Was King David Truly a Powerful King?”

Art Therapy
Heidi Bardot spoke to WRC-NBC4’s News4 Today at 4 for the segment “The Power of Art Therapy.”

Arts & Design
Dana Tai Soon Burgess authored the article “Spend a perfect day in Washington, D.C. with tips from a local dancer” for National Geographic.
Kevin Rohde was quoted by DCist in the article “Get To Know 5 Of D.C.’s Local Ceramicists.”
Laura Schiavo was interviewed by The Boston Globe for the article “How museums are responding to an era of alternative facts.”
Sanjit Sethi was featured in the WAMU-FM article “What Questions Does D.C.’s New Cultural Plan Leave Unanswered? Local Artists Respond” and by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in the article "Minneapolis College of Art and Design names new president."

Biology
James Clark spoke to Gizmodo for the article “What if the asteroid never killed the dinosaurs?”

Economics
Dennis Fixler was featured in The Wall Street Journal article "Government to Measure Who Gets What Share of the Economic Pie." 
Tara Sinclair was quoted by PolitiFact in the article “Does teacher pay fall short of the living wage in 30 states, as Kamala Harris said?”

English
Thomas Mallon was featured in The Washington Post article on his novel Landfall.
Lisa Page authored the article “A look at what brought Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes together. And what tore them apart.” for The Washington Post.
Jung Yun contributed a book review to The Washington Post titled “‘Miracle Creek’: a twisty legal thriller that shows how far parents will go for their kids.”

Forensic Sciences
Victor Weedn spoke to The Washington Post for the article “‘Hundreds of pieces of one person’: The death toll in Sri Lanka was wrong — this might be why.”

Geography
Dan Malouff authored the articles “Spot a double-decker commuter bus in DC, this month only” and “Watch this timelapse of 28 years of Virginia sprawl” for Greater Greater Washington.

Mathematics
Daniel Ullman was quoted by Wired in the article “Colorado Tried a New Way to Vote: Make People Pay – Quadratically.”

Media and Public Affairs
Jeffrey Blount was quoted in the ABC News article “Virginia blackface scandals a reminder of racist practice and its traumatic effect on African-Americans.”
Imani M. Cheers spoke to CGTN America about the low number of women in film production.
Dante Chinni co-authored the article “Wide party divide could be opening for independent candidate” for NBC News. He was quoted in the Newsweek article “Who really cares about Mueller report? New poll finds one-third of voters don’t even know who William Barr is.”
Trevor Davis was featured in the Welt (Germany) article “AfD is the most influential German party on Facebook” and quoted by Spiegel Online (Germany) in the article “How the German Right Wing Dominates Social Media.”
Lauren Glickman was featured in the Windpower article “Meet Lauren Glickman: An advocate for clean energy & diversity in the workforce.”
Matthew Hindman’s book The Internet Trap was reviewed in the New America Weekly article “Tough Medicine for Local Journalism.”
David Karpf was quoted in The New York Times article “Michael Avenatti’s Biggest Case Yet: His Own’’ and in the Washington Examiner article “White House petition site relaunches — and then goes dormant.”
Peter Loge was quoted in The Washington Post article “Cory Booker was one of politics’ original social media stars. How much will it help in 2020?" He appeared on the podcast “SoccerLifeBalance” and spoke at the Yale Soccer Conference.
Ethan Porter spoke to The Washington Post for the video “How QAnon, the bizarre pro-Trump conspiracy theory, took hold in right-wing circles online.” He was quoted in the Recode article “It will take more than NewsGuard’s team of journalists to stop the spread of fake news.” His research was cited in the Nieman Lab article “Individually, people aren’t great at judging news sources. En masse, they’re almost the same as professional fact-checkers.”
Steven Roberts was quoted in The Daily Beast article “Why Is CNN Paying John Kasich to Seemingly Trial-Balloon a 2020 Run?" He was interviewed by KOMO (Seattle) for the segment “Media ethics professor takes a look at Bezos/Inquirer story.” He authored the article “Pitching perfect: how baseball wisdom gets passed down” for The Washington Post.
Frank Sesno commented on the findings of the Mueller report to CNN’s “Smerconish,” WCBS NewsRadio 880 AM (New York) and the Associated Press. He spoke to CBS Radio about the sale of the National Enquirer and to Sinclair Broadcast Group on the series “Full Measure With Sharyl Attkisson.” He was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Media must ‘fight their own DNA’ to properly cover the redacted Mueller report,” by The New York Times in “CNN Is Criticized for Hiring Trump Administration Aide as a Political Editor,” by the McClatchy News Service in “Abrams blasts Trump in Democratic State of the Union response," by Politico in “‘Elephant in the room’: 2020 Dems can’t avoid Mueller forever,” by CNN in “Hackers could target the 2020 election. How will newsrooms respond if they release stolen data?” and by the Associated Press in “Sanders goes on offensive defending credibility after report.”
Janet Steele appeared on the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre podcast to discuss her book Mediating Islam. She was quoted in the Time magazine article “The Message Behind Maria Ressa's Cyber Libel Arrest.”
Nikki Usher was quoted by HuffPost in the article “Only The Female Candidates Were Asked About Sexism At CNN’s Presidential Town Hall.”
Silvio Waisbord authored the articles “The political benefit of being incorrect” and “Personalizing tragic news” in Clarin (Argentina). He discussed the power of symbols for the State of the Union on the NTN24 (Colombia) program Poder Latino.

Organizational Sciences and Communication
David Costanza was quoted by Slate in the article “No, Millennials Aren’t Sick of Drinking” and by Pacific Standard in “Are Gen Z’ers That Different From Gen X’ers?"

Political Science
Sarah Binder was quoted by the Financial Times in the articles “Donald Trump’s prospective Fed appointees cause deep unease” and “Prospective Fed pick’s comments on women touch a nerve.” She was quoted by the Associated Press in the articles “Senate GOP game plan means more Trump nominees, fewer bills,” “Impeach or Investigate? Democrats See No Reason to Choose,” and “Some 2020 Democrats work with GOP more than you think” and by USA Today in “‘We're fighting all the subpoenas.’ Congress and Trump prepare to battle over wide-ranging probes.” She authored the article “The Republican Senate went nuclear again to speed up confirming conservative judges” for The Washington Post.
Nathan Brown was featured in the Reuters article “Egypt's parliament backs measures that could extend Sisi's term.”
Henry Farrell was featured in The New York Times article “Cancel Kirstjen Nielsen” and the Vox article “These scholars are trying to stop Kirstjen Nielsen from getting a soft landing.” He authored the articles “The attorney general’s FBI conspiracy theory is all conspiracy and no theory” for The Washington Post and “By Punishing Iran, Trump Is Weakening America” for Foreign Policy.
Danny Hayes was cited in the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) article “Democrats launch ad campaign against GOP state senators, but will it work?”
John Logsdon was quoted in The Los Angeles Times article “SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches its first satellite into a rapidly changing market” and in the Politico article “Can NASA reach the moon safely by 2024?”
Cynthia McClintock spoke to Bloomberg for the article “Peru's Ex-President Dies in Suicide as Police Raid His Home” and to The Wall Street Journal for the article “Former President’s Suicide Puts Peru Probes in Spotlight.”
Mike Mochizuki was quoted by Japan Today in the article “Can U.S. mediate between Japan, S Korea to ensure regional stability?”
David Shambaugh authored the article “When China and the US wage a visa war against each other’s scholars, nobody wins” for South China Morning Post. He was cited in the Voice of America article “Academics Caught in US-China Visa War” and quoted in the War on the Rocks article “Jaw-Jaw: When it comes to China, America doth protest too much, Kang thinks.”
John Sides spoke to Vox for the article “The Pete Buttigieg boom.” He authored the article “Don’t blame our polarized politics on voters. Blame it on who runs for office in the first place” for The Washington Post. He was quoted by The Guardian in the article “Not in it to win it: the dirty little secret of the Democrats' 2020 battle,” by The New Republic in “Women of Substance” and by The New York Times in “How Radical Is Too Radical for 2020 Democrats?” He was cited in the Los Angeles Times article “Trump is staking his reelection on immigration — it’s a risky bet.”
Christopher Warshaw co-authored the article “New research shows just how badly a citizenship question would hurt the 2020 Census” for The Washington Post. His research was cited in the Associated Press article “Immigrant-heavy GOP states OK with census citizen question."

Public Policy and Public Administration 
David Brunori spoke to Governing for the article “Why Cities and Pension Funds are Suing Big Banks (Again).”
Andrew Reamer was cited by several media outlets for his research on the role of the Census in determining the distribution of federal funds, including The Denver Post, WBEZ-FM (online), The Seattle Times, The Baltimore Sun, Spectrum News, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Marketplace, WNYC-FM, C-SPAN, The Chicago Tribune and SFGATE. He was featured in the Education Week article “K-12 Aid at Stake in Suit Over Census' Citizenship Question.”
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was quoted in The Boston Globe article “The wealthy don’t need to cheat to get edge in admissions.”
Robert Weiner was cited in the MarketWatch article “Kuwait finance minister talks up push for economic diversification from oil."

Regulatory Studies Center
Bridget Dooling was quoted by E&E News in the article “Trump's OIRA: more bark than bite” and was cited by Forbes in the article “Here Are The Next Executive Orders President Trump Should Issue On Regulatory Reform.” She authored the article “How independent are government agencies? OMB's move on 'major' rules may tell us” for The Hill.
Susan Dudley spoke to The Wall Street Journal for the article “Justice Department Outsider Would Face Tough Task as Agency’s No. 2.” She authored the Forbes article “Closing The Tax Man's Loophole.”
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