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

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

 

Anthropology 

Alison Brooks and graduate student Kimberly Foecke were quoted by Chemical & Engineering News in the article “Reconstructing the caveman diet and converting carnivores.”
Sean Roberts was quoted by the Associated Press in the article “Kazakh activist decries official pressure in China spat.”
Bernard Wood was quoted by National Geographic in the article “‘Hobbit’ human story gets a twist, thanks to thousands of rat bones.”

Arts & Design

Biology

Keryn Gedan was quoted by The News-Journal in the article "Sea level rise: Saltwater intrusion laying waste to Delmarva farms." 
R. Alexander Pyron and postdoctoral scientist Vijayakumar Seenapuram Palaniswamy were featured in several media outlets for their discovery of a new frog species in India, including Smithsonian Magazine, Science News, The Guardian, LiveScience and The Hindu. Pyron also spoke to Britain’s talkRADIO about the discovery.

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Immanuel Kim was quoted by The Nation in the article “North Korea Through the Eyes of an American Dissident.”
Young-Key Kim-Renaud appeared on CGTN World Today to discuss the Hanoi summit.

Economics

English

Thomas Mallon’s novel, Landfall, was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. He was profiled in the "Weekend Confidential" feature of The Wall Street Journal.

Forensic Sciences

Victor Weedn was quoted by The Charlotte Observer in the article “A DNA test might help exonerate this man. A judge won’t allow it.’’

Geography

History 

Eric Arnesen was featured on C-SPAN3 in "Containment Policy in Southeast Asia" and on C-SPAN2 in "Land of the Fee."
Diane Cline was interviewed by The Huffington Post (Greek Edition) about her book The Greeks: An Illustrated History.

Media and Public Affairs

Emma Briant was quoted by CNN in the article “Powerful House Judiciary committee sends document requests to Facebook” and interviewed in a ZDF (Germany) documentary on Cambridge Analytica and Brexit.
David Karpf was featured in The New York Times article "Michael Avenatti’s Biggest Case Yet: His Own."
Michele Kimball presented research to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the substandard conditions of privatized family housing. Her findings were cited by the Military Times, The Washington Post, Reuters and CBS. She also appeared on C-SPAN.
Peter Loge was a guest on the "Time4Coffee" podcast episode “How to Break Into Politics & Public Policy.” He spoke to Fox News Channel in the segment “Are Republicans prepared to take on health care reform?
Ethan Porter was featured in the American Prospect article “How to Rebuild the Labor Movement, State by State” and in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article “AT&T’s WarnerMedia restructuring breaks apart Turner Broadcasting.”
Janet Steele appeared on the podcast "The Journalisms of Islam: Contending Views in Muslim Southeast Asia" to discuss her book Mediating Islam
Silvio Waisbord was featured in the Jornal de Negócios (Portugal) article “Silvio Waisbord: O discurso de ódio está em todo o lado.”
William Youmans was quoted by The Atlantic in the article “The Covington Catholic Case Could Turn on ‘Actual Malice'," written by SMPA alumnus Scott Nover, BA ’17, MA ’18. He was interviewed for the Circa News segment “What happened to Napster? The wild story behind the startup that revolutionized music.”

Political Science

John Logsdon was quoted by Scientific American in the article “SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Signals Sea Change in U.S. Spaceflight,” by Business Insider in “SpaceX just successfully launched the first commercial spaceship made for NASA astronauts,” by Forbes in “Canada Makes A Risky Bet On A Giant Robot Arm” and by The Wall Street Journal in “We Were Promised Space Colonies. What Went Wrong?” He spoke to NPR’s All Things Considered in the segment “SpaceX Readies For Key Test Of Capsule Built To Carry Astronauts Into Space” and to Nexstar Media Group about the proposed Space Force. He provided comments on Vice President Pence’s proposal about returning to the moon for the USA Today article “Pence calls on NASA to land astronauts on moon by 2024,” for Fox News Channel in "Are we really in a new space race with China and Russia?" and for BuzzFeed in “The Vice President's Plans To Land Astronauts On The Moon By 2024 Will Cost Billions.”
Marc Lynch was quoted by The Economist in the article “Protests are making a comeback in the Arab world.’’
Mike Mochizuki was quoted by The Asahi Shimbun (Japan) in the article “Okinawa panel to study alternative plans for Henoko base relocation.”

Public Policy and Public Administration 

Regulatory Studies Center

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