See the CCAS faculty that received press coverage last month!
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Columbian College of Arts & Sciences: Faculty Getting Press
December 2021
Among the Columbian College faculty getting press during November were the following individuals:

Arts & Design
A. Scott Wood was featured by Voice of America in the segment “An Orchestra Returns.”

Biology
Catherine Forster was quoted by Lifehacker in the article “There Were Billions of T-rexes, and 9 Other Things You Never Knew About Dinosaurs.” 

Economics

Diana Furchtgott-Roth authored the article “Bad News On Airline Safety,” for Forbes. She was quoted by The New York Times in the article “Years of Delays, Billions in Overruns: The Dismal History of Big Infrastructure,” and by Marketplace in the article “Checking the roads and bridges to grandmother’s house.”
Steven Hamilton co-authored the article “Vaccinating children is the final frontier in Australia’s COVID battle,” for The Sydney Morning Herald. He was also quoted by The Sydney Morning Herald in the article “Tax cut election pledge on the cards, blowing another hole in the budget.”
Albert Keidel was quoted by China’s Xinhua News Agency in the article “China's WTO entry benefits U.S., global growth."
Joann Weiner spoke to BBC Radio about what President Biden is doing about inflation. 

English
Maria Frawley was quoted by Smithsonian Magazine in the article “The Victorian Woman Writer Who Refused to Let Doctors Define Her.”
Alexa Alice Joubin was quoted by Canada’s CBC Radio in the article “How translating Shakespeare's plays reveals new ideas — from China to Afghanistan."
Jung Yun’s new book, O Beautiful, has been mentioned in 28 articles and reviewed by seven publications. 

Geography
Dmitry Streletskiy was quoted by Bloomberg in the article “Russian scientists have a mammoth plan to fight Arctic warming.”

History
Benjamin Hopkins was quoted by Axios in the article “6. Audiences Build Their Own Solutions to Gaps in Media.”
Davild Silverman was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “The battle over critical race theory is as American as pumpkin pie,” and by The Guardian in the article “‘The gooey overlay of sweetness over genocide’: the myth of the ‘first Thanksgiving.’” He also spoke to KCBS-AM, San Francisco.

Media & Public Affairs
Jesse Holland spoke to the Black News Channel about a second amendment case before the Supreme Court, about the next steps in the Jan. 6 investigation, about white male vigilantism.
Peter Loge was quoted by Agence France-Presse in the articles “Biden calls for an end to inaction in Congress after brutal elections,” and “Trumpism Without Trump: The Republican Playbook For 2022?”
Ethan Porter wrote about his research in the article “Fact checks actually work, even on Facebook. But not enough people see them,” for The Washington Post.
Steven Roberts’ book was featured by CNN’s “State of the Union.” He was also quoted by Forbes in the article “My Wife, Cokie Roberts.”
Frank Sesno authored the article “Young People Are Telling Their Climate Stories. World Leaders Must Listen | Opinion,” for Newsweek.
Silvio Waisbord co-authored the article “Media scandals: sound and fury, but in the end, little changes,” for The Conversation.

Political Science
Sarah Binder was quoted by The Boston Globe in the article “With little margin for error, Democrats in Washington scramble to enact Biden’s agenda and save their slim congressional majorities,” and by The Associated Press in the article “Biden Asking Democrats Do So Much With So Little in Congress.” She also authored the article “Three reasons Congress finally passed an infrastructure bill,” for The Washington Post. In addition, she was quoted by The Associated Press in the article “US-funded child care aid nearing reality with Biden bill,” and by The Financial Times in the article “‘A dangerous man’: the messy politics of Fed chair nominations.” She co-authored the article “Powell or Brainard? Why Biden’s Pick to Lead the Fed Matters Now,” for The New York Times. She was quoted by The Associated Press in the articles “Fed’s Powell will aim to win a high-stakes bet in 2nd term,” and “Biden aims to do what presidents often can't: Beat inflation.” Additionally, she was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Biden reappointed Republican Jerome Powell to head the Fed. Why didn’t he pick a Democrat?”
Richard Chasdi spoke to Al Araby TV about Algeria and Morocco tensions, to al-Jazeera about the Ethiopia crisis, and to al-Sharq about US-Israel-Arab state naval exercise to confront Iranian drones.
Samuel Goldman’s book was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “How conservatives can get nationalism right.”
Iris Malone was quoted by WHYY-NPR, Philadelphia in the article “Police, constables in Pa. joined ‘anti-government’ Oath Keepers.”
David Shambaugh was quoted by Taiwan’s Taipei Times in the article “Climate and China’s soft power,” and by Christian Science Monitor in the article “Biden and Xi ‘meet’ and agree: US-China competition, not conflict.” He also spoke to CNN’s “Special Report: China’s Iron Fist.”
Christopher Warshaw was quoted by The Associated Press in the article “Gerrymandering Surges as States Redraw Maps for House Seats,” and by The Tulsa World in the article “How to gerrymander a political map.”

Public Policy and Public Administration 
Leah Brooks was mentioned by Greater Greater Washington in the article “Getting there: A video recap from Part 1 of our series on transportation patterns in the Washington region.”
Stephanie Riegg Cellini was quoted by The New York Times in the article “Democrats’ Bill Would Deny For-Profit College Students Extra Aid,” and by Reuters in the article “Providing aid to for-profit colleges is not a matter of racial justice.” She authored the article “Expanding Pell Grants to for-profit colleges benefits institutions, not students,” for The Hill. She was also mentioned by The Washington Post in the article “For-profit colleges fight exclusion from Pell Grant increase in Biden’s spending bill.”
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was quoted by CNN in the article “Former dean of Temple University convicted of fraud for using fake data to boost its national ranking.”

Sociology  
Terrie Gale authored the letter to the editor “Unarmed Drivers Killed by Police in Traffic Stops,” for The New York Times. 
Sangeeta Prasad was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “A football player couldn’t find a therapist who understood Black, urban trauma. So, he decided to become one.”
Gregory Squires was quoted by The Scope in the article “Affordable housing advocates say that implementing inclusionary zoning policies could be a fix.”
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