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Columbian College of Arts & Sciences: Faculty Getting Press

November 2020

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

American Studies

Elisabeth Anker spoke with Al Jazeera English about the presidential election.

Gayle Wald was mentioned in The New Yorker in the article “When Public Television Had a Little ‘Soul!’”

Anthropology

Jeffrey Blomster was quoted by ABC News in the article “Leather-covered balls in Chinese graves evidence of 3,000-year-old sport: Study’’ and Smithsonian Magazine in the article “These Hair-Filled Leather Pouches Are the Oldest Balls Found in Eurasia’’

Arts & Design

Douglas Boyce appeared on an episode of Composers, At Home, Maybe Drinking Coffee.

Loren Kajikawa was quoted by Inside Higher Ed in the article “Scholarly Rap.”

Tanya Wetenhall was quoted by The Washingon Post in the article “A woman, 90, watches gym classes from her window all day. When the gym found out, they painted her a mural’’

Matthew R. Wilson appeared on the Planet Shakespeare podcast episode “Talking with Matthew R. Wilson about commedia and comedy.”

Biology

Amy Zanne was quoted by Science Daily in the article “Tackling alarming decline in nature requires 'safety net' of multiple, ambitious goals’’

Economics

Steven Hamilton was quoted by The New York Times in the article “Anxious for a Lifeline, the U.S. Economy Is Left to Sink or Swim” and by CNBC in “Kelly Evans: The start-up surge.”

Jay Shambaugh was quoted by The New York Times in the articles “Workers Face Permanent Job Losses as the Virus Persists” and “Anxious for a Lifeline, the U.S. Economy Is Left to Sink or Swim.” Marketplace quoted him in “Without more relief spending, the recovery’s likely to stall.” Tampa Bay Times quoted him in the article “The push for a $15 minimum wage in Florida was winning. Can it survive COVID-19?’’

Tara Sinclair was quoted by The New York TImes in the article “Economy’s Big Rebound Leaves a Shortfall as Progress Slows.’’

English

Lou Bayard authored the article “In ‘Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise,’ working-class Archie Leach becomes a Hollywood legend” for The Washington Post.

Robert McRuer appeared on Al Jazeera English to discuss voting rights and the disability movement.

Forensic Sciences

Victor Weedn was quoted by Undark in the article “Autopsy Rates Were Falling for Years. Then Covid-19 Came Along.”

Geography

Aman Luthra authored the article "To fight pollution, expand Ujjwala to urban, industrial India" for Hindustan Times.

History

Gregg Brazinsky was quoted by Korea Times in the article “Quadrilateral alliance and Korea.”

Christopher Brick was interviewed in the CNN series “First Ladies.”

Hope Harrison spoke to Germany’s Deutsche Welle about the 30th anniversary of German unification.

Media and Public Affairs

Dante Chinni spoke to WAMU-FM’s 1A in the articles “President Trump Is Trying To Appeal To Suburban Voters. But Urban Suburban Voters Are Still Leaning Left,” “Wide Streets, Narrow Margins: President Trump’s Appeal In White Working Class Suburbs” and “The Vote In The Exurbs Isn’t As Red As It Looks”

Robert Entman’s research was mentioned in The Los Angeles Times in the article “Op-Ed: Trump conservatives think they are loathed by ‘elites.’ Are they?”

Matthew Hindman was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Inside the ‘Malarkey Factory,’ Biden’s online war room’’

Jesse Holland was quoted by CNN in the article “A look back at the Million Man March, 25 years later.’’

Sarah Isgur authored the article "What surge of early voters tells us about 2020" for CNN.

David Karpf was quoted by CNN in the article “Conservatives push to discredit Facebook, Twitter and Google just days before the election.’’

Peter Loge was featured in the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Media Engagement research article “Setting the Terms of the Debate." CommonWealth quoted him in “Galvin tones down his name-dropping.” Sinclair Broadcast Group quoted him in the article “Trump points to crowd sizes as evidence he's on a roll, says polls are wrong.’’ WSPA News 7 quoted him in the article "Battling false information: Where to go for facts before Election Day." He also spoke with Sinclair Television Group’s “Full Measure With Sharyl Attkisson” about online campaigning.

Ethan Porter was quoted by The Washington Post in the article "As QAnon grew, Facebook and Twitter missed years of warning signs about the conspiracy theory’s violent nature,” by USA Today in “Fact check: False claim that Pelosi drunk in 2016 photo with Obama” and by Agence France-Presse in “As false info hits 'boiling point,' ads warn US voters.” He also spoke with PBS’ “The Day” about stopping the spread of misinformation on social media.

Frank Sesno was quoted by The Wall Street Journal in the article “Debate Ratings: First Contest Draws 73.1 Million TV Viewers.” He was also quoted by Variety in the article “How Savannah Guthrie Helped Salvage NBC’s Risky Bet on Town Hall.’’ WHIOTV7 quoted him in the article "Show your work: AP plans to explain vote calling to public."

Janet Steele was quoted by USA Today in the article “The vice presidential debate proves that moderators need the power to cut the mics.”

Rebekah Tromble co-signed a letter in TechCrunch titled “We need universal digital ad transparency now.” She was quoted by Fox Business in the article “Facebook seeks shutdown of NYU research into political ad targeting.’’

Physics

Neil Johnson was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “The pandemic is amplifying the U.S. anti-vaccine movement — and globalizing it” and featured in the Newsweek article “As QAnon Conspiracy Theories Draw New Believers, Scientists Take Aim at Misinformation Pandemic”

Political Science

Brandon Bartels co-authored the article “Why Americans are perfectly willing to undermine the integrity and independence of the Supreme Court’’ for The Washington Post.

Sarah Binder was quoted by PolitiFact in the article “President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden “left me 128 judges to fill. You just don’t do that,” by USA Today in “Supreme Court: Could COVID-19 infections and Democratic delays torpedo Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation?,” “Senate Judiciary Committee approves Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, full Senate vote on Monday,” “Senate Democrats will boycott Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court confirmation hearing vote as GOP vows to move forward,’’ by The Boston Globe in “Amid White House coronavirus outbreak, here’s where Trump’s Supreme Court nomination stands” and by The Wall Street Journal in “How the Senate’s Rules Might Play Out in the Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court Confirmation.” She authored the article “Yes, Senate Republicans could still confirm Barrett before the election” for The Washington Post. The Washington Post cited her in “Chat Transcript: Breaking down the VP debate.” She spoke to CNBC and BBC World Service about the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Bloomberg Law quoted her in the article “Mnuchin Says Trump to Lean on McConnell If Stimulus Deal Reached.” She was also quoted by Vox in the article “What’s next for Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination’’ She was quoted by The New York Times in the article “Congratulations, You’ve Won the White House. Now What?” Marketplace quoted her in the article “A president and his Fed chair clash. Sound familiar?’’ She was quoted by Spectrum News in the article “Democrats Mull Nixing Filibuster if they Win in November.’’

Richard Chasdi spoke with Al Jazeera about Saudi Arabia’s failure to win a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council and the normalization of ties between Israel and Sudan.

John Logsdon was quoted by Nature in the article “What a Joe Biden presidency would mean for five key science issues,” by The Atlantic in “Can we still go to Mars?” and by National Geographic in “How the 'right stuff' to be an astronaut has changed over the years.”

Christopher Warshaw was quoted by The New York Times in the article “A Corporate Court,"The Philadelphia Inquirer in the article “Easier? Not for all,” and Buzzfeed News in the article, "Trump And Republican Senators Are Losing Votes Due To Coronavirus Deaths, A New Study Says."

Professional Psychology

Lara Sheehi appeared on the Mental Health Workers' Inquiry webinar “Race, Imperialism and the Contradictory Clinic."

Public Policy and Public Administration

David Brunori was quoted by Washington Business Journal in the article “D.C.'s speed camera revenue has dropped significantly as a result of Covid-19.”

Sara Rosenbaum was quoted by Bloomberg Law in the article “Covid `Long Haulers’ Ask Who Pays When Sickness Just Won’t End.”

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg authored the article “The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education, by Michael Crow and William Dabars” for Times Higher Education.

Regulatory Studies Center

Jerry Ellig was quoted in the Savannah Morning News article “Railroads official: Bipartisan rail reform continues to benefit Savannah and Georgia.’’

Sociology

Hilary Silver authored the article “To end homelessness, follow the science’’ for The Hill.

Gregory Squires authored the article “HUD’s disparate impact rule is a ‘get out of jail free’ card” for American Banker."

University Writing

Paul Hayes spoke to WTTG-Fox5’s “Morning News” about virtual debates. He was interviewed by Brut about the second presidential debate. He also authored the article “Trump-Biden debate will have muted mics. That's bad for the candidates, and voters’’ in the THINK Newsletter for NBC News.

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Kavita Daiya authored the article “5 Ways to Financially Survive the Pandemic” for Inside Higher Ed.

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