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March 2018

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

 

American Studies

Thomas Guglielmo authored the article “Desegregating blood: A civil rights struggle to remember” for The Conversation

Melani McAlister authored the article “Why Billy Graham Was Determined to Globalize Evangelicalism” for The Atlantic

Anthropology

Arts & Design 

Jodi Kanter was cited in the DC Metro Theater Arts article “Review: ‘Translations’ at The George Washington University.”

Maida Withers and Kei Takei were featured in the article “Kei Takei & Maida Withers” in Critical Dance

Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute 

Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures

Christopher Rollston was quoted by National Geographic in the article “Have Archaeologists Discovered the 'Signature' of a Biblical Prophet?”; by International Business Times in “Ancient Seal, Possibly Signed By Prophet Isaiah, Found In Jerusalem”; and by Smithsonian in “Is This the Seal of the Prophet Isaiah?

Katherine Wasdin spoke to CNN Newsource about the history of Valentine’s Day cards.

Economics 

Michael Moore was quoted by CNN Money in the article “Trump tariffs on steel would hit China -- and the entire global trading system.” He spoke with NPR’s All Things Considered in the segment “U.S. Allies Could Be Affected By Trump Administration's Proposed Tariffs.”

Jay Shambaugh was quoted by ThinkProgress in the article “Economists throw cold water on pundits’ celebration over wage growth” and by The Los Angeles Times in “Wages are finally starting to rise, but not for the middle class.”

Tara Sinclair was quoted by The Associated Press in the article “Wages up by most in 8 years as US adds a robust 200K jobs.”

History

Eric Arnesen was featured on C-SPAN3 in a discussion of U.S. foreign policy since World War I.

Denver Brunsman was featured on C-SPAN3 in a discussion of founding era documents.

Hope Harrison authored the article “Why the Marshall Plan spooked the Soviets and sparked the Cold War" in The Washington Post. She was quoted by Curbed in the article “8 places to see the Berlin Wall in D.C.” 

Media and Public Affairs

Imani Cheers spoke to CTV News Channel (Canada) and CGTV (China) about the movie Black Panther.

Robert Entman was cited in the Salon article “Crime is down, so why do most Americans believe the opposite?

David Karpf was quoted by Vox in the articles “Arming teachers isn’t just a ridiculous idea. It’s a deliberate distraction” and “MSNBC and CNN took the NRA’s bait on arming teachers,” and by NPR in “Trump Powers Small Dollar Donor Surge For Democratic Fundraising Site.” He spoke to NPR’s All Things Considered for the segment “Resistance To Trump's Presidency Is Helping Groups On The Left Raise Money.”

Javier Lesaca was featured in the Economist article “Russian disinformation distorts American and European democracy.”

Ethan Porter joined the You Are Not So Smart podcast for the episode “The Backfire Effect - Part Four” and his research was cited in The Washington Post article “What happened to the State of the Union address? Originally, it helped the president and Congress deliberate.” He was quoted in the Vox article “A new working paper might explain why teleprompter Trump comes off as 'presidential'” and featured in The Hankyoreh (Korea) article “Fake News and Fact Check.”

Steven Roberts authored the article “Why a fanatical Milwaukee Brewers’ fan dressed as the Rally Banana" in The Washington Post and spoke to WTOP-FM about President Trump’s State of the Union address.

Frank Sesno hosted CNN's Reliable Sources, was interviewed on HLN's Across America with Carol Costello and was quoted by The Associated Press in the article “Pundits fight the urge to stay away from 'presidential',” by Politico in “CNN draws raves for emotional town hall” and by The Washington Post in “NBC’s questioning of Ivanka Trump was more than appropriate. It should be just the start.”

Nikki Usher spoke to Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Germany) for the article “'Project Veritas’ - new US ‘journalism’?
Silvio Waisbord authored “El nuevo conservadurismo cultural” in The New York Times en Español.

Organizational Sciences and Communication 

Katrina L Pariera was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition in the segment “'Friends' Star David Schwimmer Makes Anti-Sexual Harassment PSA.” 

Political Science

Sarah Binder authored the articles “This is why Congress will still have a hard time legalizing DACA” and “Three reasons you should expect congressional gridlock on gun control” for The Washington Post. She was quoted by Vox in the article “What to expect from this week’s Senate immigration debate” and by Reuters in “Fed's Powell, a Republican, may tread less rocky road in Congress.”

Henry Farrell authored the Washington Post articles “Trump is a typical conservative. That says a lot about the conservative tradition,” “The surprise Mueller indictment tells us how we’ve been wrong about Russian trolls,” “Amazon’s next big TV series is based on Iain Banks’s Culture novels. What are the Culture novels?” “This simple technological fix helped veterans get health benefits” and “Any new gun control would need to address norms, as well as laws.” He co-authored “Our Hackable Political Future” for The New York Times. He was quoted by The New Republic in “Stop Inflating the Russia Threat” and by The Christian Science Monitor in “From fake news to fabricated video, can we preserve our shared reality?

Evgeny Finkel co-authored the article “Poland’s new Holocaust law is just the latest attempt to officially redefine its history” for The Washington Post

David Shambaugh was quoted by the South China Morning Post in “In ending presidential term limits, ‘Xi Jinping is thinking global and acting local.”

John Sides was featured in articles by Bloomberg (“Election Analysts Discover Even More White Voters”), U.S. News & World Report (“Playing the Odds”) and The Hill (“Democrats will lose this fall by fighting over immigration now”). He was quoted by NPR in the article “How Immigration Policy Motivates Voters” and spoke to NPR about his survey of voters’ attitudes in a segment on immigration reform.

Christopher Warshaw was quoted by The Allentown Morning Call in the article “Here's the science behind the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's gerrymandering ruling” and by Wired in “The Geeks Who Put A Stop To Pennsylvania’s Partisan Gerrymandering.”

Public Policy and Public Administration

Stephanie Riegg Cellini was quoted by Inside Higher Ed in the article “The Cost of Attending For-Profits” and by MarketWatch in “Job-training programs at for-profit colleges make students worse off.”

Regulatory Studies Center

Susan Dudley authored two articles for The Wall Street Journal: “The Story Behind the IRS’s Exemption From Oversight” and “The steps to making Trump’s bump stock regulation a reality” (with Sofie Miller) and “Reading Past The Headline In OMB's Report To Congress” for Forbes. She was quoted by Scientific American in the article “Has Trump Killed More Regulations Than Any Other President?” and by The Wall Street Journal in “Tax Regulations at Center of GOP Dispute.”

Sofie Miller was quoted by The Hill in the article “WH quietly issues report to Congress showing benefits of regulations.” She co-authored the Wall Street Journal article “The steps to making Trump’s bump stock regulation a reality" with Susan Dudley.

Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures 

Sociology

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