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

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

 

American Studies
Gayle Wald authored the article “Fashion, Statement: The Legacy Of Marian Anderson's Fur Coat” for NPR’s Turning the Tables.
Anthropology
Sean Roberts was quoted by the Financial Times in the article “Turkey’s Uighurs fear for future as China deportations rise.”
Bernard Wood was quoted by The Wall Street Journal in the article “Scientists Put a Face on an Ancient Human Ancestor.”

Arts & Design
Bibiana Obler was quoted by Art Daily in the article “Fashion is 'In' at George Washington University Art Galleries.”

Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Christopher Rollston was quoted by LiveScience in the article “Biblical War Revealed on 2,800-Year-Old Stone Altar,” by Haaretz (Israel) in “Ancient Trove May Attest to Lost Civilization in Puerto Rico,” by The Jordan Times in “Researchers seek to decipher ancient Moabite inscriptions” and by The Times of Israel in “Newly deciphered Moabite inscription may be first use of written word ‘Hebrews.’”

East Asian Languages and Literature
Young-Key Kim-Renaud was quoted by Japan Today in the article “Japan-S Korea rift may change regional economic, security structures” and by Kyodo News in the article “Seoul businesspeople taking critical look at anti-Japan rally.”

Economics
Temesgen Deressa was quoted by Quartz in the article “Planting millions more trees might not be the way to tackle Ethiopia’s environmental problems.”
Annamaria Lusardi was quoted by The Globe and Mail in the article “We shouldn’t be asking if finlit works, but rather how to improve it.”
Michael Moore was quoted by NBC News in the article “Trade and tariffs: What President Trump says versus what economists know.” He spoke to Marketplace about a new round of tariffs on Chinese goods.
Tara Sinclair was quoted by The New York Times in the article “How the Recession of 2020 Could Happen.”
Pao-Lin Tien was quoted by Marketplace in the article “What are negative interest rates?”
Tomas Williams was featured in the Financial Times article “Reaching for yield: the reshaping of the EM corporate debt market.”

English
Lisa Page authored the article “My Family's Gun Wounds: A Tale in Three Acts” for The Atlantic.
Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber appeared on The Kojo Nnamdi Show for the segment “Celebrating Toni Morrison’s D.C. Roots And Legacy.”

Forensic Sciences
Victor Weedn was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Did faulty science, and bad testimony, bring Larry Swearingen to the brink of execution?”

Geography
Dan Malouff authored the articles “Maryland and Virginia’s commuter rail look great together on one map” and “In the 1970s, the National Mall was a literal parking lot” for Greater Greater Washington.

History
Paula Alonso was quoted by Bloomberg in the article “Ghosts of the Past Haunt Argentina’s Politics.”
Tyler Anbinder was quoted by The Washington Times in the article “Thousands from 'huddled masses' rejected as paupers in year poem added to Statue of Liberty.”
Gregg Brazinsky authored the article “How Japan’s failure to atone for past sins threatens the global economy” for The Washington Post.
Benjamin Hopkins was featured in the India Times article “Promoting Hindi: Indian Embassy In The US To Give Free Hindi Language Classes At US University.”
David Silverman was featured in WBUR-FM (Boston) article “11 Books To Read From New England Authors This Fall.”
Daqing Yang was quoted by the Washington Examiner in the article “74 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuke worries still haunt Japan.”
Andrew Zimmerman appeared on C-SPAN3 for a discussion of the international aspects of the Civil War.

Media and Public Affairs
Trevor Davis co-authored the article “Facebook isn’t ready for 2020” for The Washington Post with Matthew Hindman and Steven Livingston.
Matthew Hindman was quoted by Axios in the article “Misinformation haunts 2020 primaries.” He was featured in the New York Times article “In the Trump Era, a Family’s Fight With Google and Facebook Over Disinformation.”
David Karpf was quoted by Vox in the article “People have donated millions to fight the Amazon fires. Will the money help?” Comments he made about New York Times columnist Bret Stephens were quoted in The Washington Post (1, 2), The Daily Beast, Inside Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR’s All Things Considered and USA Today. He authored the article “Op-Ed: I made a joke about Bret Stephens and bedbugs. His response was never about civility” for the Los Angeles Times.
Peter Loge spoke to WRNR-FM (Annapolis) about politics and ethics. He was quoted by The Wall Street Journal in the article “Just How Important Is a Presidential Candidate’s Hair?” and by Sinclair Broadcast Group in “Democrats take aim at the media.”
Frank Sesno was quoted by the Associated Press in the article “Poking and prodding: did CNN debate go too far?”
Rebekah Tromble was quoted by the Associated Press in the article “Customs and Border Protection outage snarls major airports.” She spoke to WNYC-FM’s All of It With Alison Stewart about her research for the segment “Is Civil Discourse Possible on Twitter?"

Physics
Neil Johnson led a research team on tracking how hate travels across the online world. The study was featured in Nature (1, 2), NBC News, CNBC, Scientific American, The Guardian, Science Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Metro (U.K.), Fox News, The Verge and U.S. News & World Report.

Political Science
Celeste Arrington was quoted by The New York Times in the article “Japan Imposes Broad New Trade Restrictions on South Korea” and by The Los Angeles Times in “Japan, Korea and the messy question of how to pay for historic wrongs.”
Sarah Binder was quoted by Vox in the article “The viral video of Lindsey Graham silencing Senate Democrats, explained” and by Salon in “Democrats protest as Lindsey Graham breaks committee rules to ram through Trump asylum bill.” She authored the article “Why is Trump attacking the Federal Reserve? We answer your questions” for The Washington Post.
Henry Farrell co-authored the articles “Japan and South Korea are being pulled into a low level economic war” and “We’re moving toward a world of fortress economies” for The Washington Post. He authored the article “Conservatives remade American state politics. Here’s how they did it” for The Washington Post.
John Logsdon was quoted by Axios in the article “Texas and Alabama are fighting it out for the Artemis lunar lander.”
David Shambaugh was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Friction with China isn’t going away. The U.S. needs a better strategy” and by The New York Times in “China’s Soft-Power Failure: Condemning Hong Kong’s Protests.”
David Szakonyi was quoted by Vice in the article “The New Nuclear Arms Race Is Here. And Russia's Already Paying the Price."

Public Policy and Public Administration 
Jasmine McGinnis Johnson was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “‘A shift that’s happening in D.C.’: Wealth is transforming philanthropy, but some are missing out.”
Leighton Ku was featured in the Associated Press article “NC legislators supporting Medicaid expansion hold hearing.”
Andrew Reamer spoke to Marketplace about the importance of avoiding a census undercount. He was quoted in the HuffPost article “The 2020 Census Is Coming Soon. Some States Don’t Really Seem To Care” and the Associated Press article “Greatest head count in U.S. history is nearly ready for launch.”
Sara Rosenbaum spoke to Marketplace about a new Trump administration rule that would affect immigrants who use government benefits. She spoke to CBS Newspath and Marketplace about Planned Parenthood giving up Title X funding. She was quoted by The Hill in the article “Trump abortion rule could hit rural communities hard” and by KCCI-CBS8 (Des Moines) in “Planned Parenthood leaves federal program, loses funding for low-cost services.”

Regulatory Studies Center
Jerry Ellig was quoted by the Associated Press in the article “Tech firms struggle to police content while avoiding bias.”

Religion
Robert Tuttle was quoted by The Washington Times in the articles “Conservative consultants sue over city's ban on political discrimination” and “Federal appeals court rules county seal with Latin Cross can stay.”

Sociology
Amitai Etzioni was quoted by Nexstar Media Group in the article “Efforts underway to close Facebook gun loophole.”
Gregory Squires authored the article “Trump administration takes giant step backward on racial equality” for American Banker. He was featured in the Chicago Tribune article “Slowik: Changes to fair-housing rules would have dire effects, local agency warns.”
Elizabeth Vaquera was quoted by Spain’s El Pais in the article “Hispanics wake up from the American dream” and by The Washington Post in “Even before the El Paso mass shooting, Latinos said Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric made them feel unsafe."

University Writing
Michael Svoboda was quoted by The New York Times in the article “Why Is Hollywood So Scared of Climate Change?”
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