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April 2018

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

 

American Studies

Melani McAlister was quoted by The Atlantic in the article “A New Generation Redefines What It Means to Be a Missionary.”

Dara Orenstein spoke to NPR about free trade zones. 

Anthropology

Alison Brooks was featured in The Associated Press article “Stone tools from Kenya give early glimpse of human behavior,” by The Washington Post in “Scientists find evidence of paint, complex tools and climate chaos at the dawn of humanity,” by NPR in “Scientists Are Amazed By Stone Age Tools They Dug Up In Kenya,” by Reuters in “Earliest Homo sapiens exhibited unexpected sophistication” and by The Atlantic in “A Cultural Leap at the Dawn of Humanity.” She was quoted by Voice of America in the article “Scientists: Early Humans Were Not as Simple as One Would Think.” She spoke to Public Radio International’s Science Friday about her discovery of stone tools. 

Eric Cline was quoted by The Weather Channel in the article “Ancient Egyptians Prepared For Climate Change 3,000 Years Ago, Scientists Find” and by The New York Times in “Faced With Drought, the Pharaohs Tried (and Failed) to Adapt.”

Art Therapy

Arts & Design 

Biology

Keryn Gedan was quoted by The Atlantic in the article “The Slow-Motion Catastrophe Threatening 350-Year-Old Farms.”

Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute 

East Asian Languages and Civilizations 

Young-Key Kim-Renaud was featured in a discussion on CGTN (China Global Television Network) America. She was quoted by El Mercurio in the article “Kim invita a Presidente surcoreano a Pyongyang para una cumber de alto nivel” and by Infobae in “El asombroso giro de kim jong un y que se puede esperar de las cumbres con trump y corea del sur.”

Kim Seong-kon authored the articles “If you want peace, prepare for war” and “The art of the deal: Trump vs Kim” for The Nation

Economics 

Michael Moore was quoted by Vox in the article “The White House’s war over steel tariffs, explained.” He spoke to CBS Newspath about tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. He was featured in the Associated Press articles “AP FACT CHECK: Trump says trade war ‘easy’; maybe not” and “Fact check: Trump misrepresents Orlando attack, economic growth stats.”

Tara Sinclair was quoted by The New York Times in “Are Wage Gains Picking Up? Stalling? Questionable Data Makes It Hard to Say.”

Forensic Sciences 

Walter Rowe spoke to McClatchy Newspapers for a video accompanying the article “After 31 years behind bars, state gave innocent man $75. Now he has a million more.”

Moses Schanfield was featured in the WVTF, Virginia Public Radio, article “Criminal Injustice?

Geography

Marie Price was quoted by CityLab in the article “Who Maps the World?

History

Katrin Schultheiss authored the article “Ghost Advising” for The Chronicle of Higher Education. 

Media and Public Affairs

Imani Cheers was quoted by the Chicago Tribune in the article “Hollywood, black actresses and the squishy metrics of who gets paid what.”

Matthew Hindman authored the article “How Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook targeting model really worked – according to the person who built it” for The Conversation. He was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Why Facebook users’ data obtained by Cambridge Analytica has probably spun far out of reach” and by Nature in “The scant science behind Cambridge Analytica’s controversial marketing techniques.” 

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,’’ by NPR in “Trump Powers Small Dollar Donor Surge For Democratic Fundraising Site’’ and the All Things Considered segment “Resistance To Trump's Presidency Is Helping Groups On The Left Raise Money," by The Atlantic in “The Grim Conclusions of the Largest-Ever Study of Fake News,” by The Washington Post in “‘Speaking as a friend only’: The odd media moment when Jim Cramer named Larry Kudlow to become Trump’s top economic adviser,” by PolitiFact in “Comparing Facebook data use by Obama, Cambridge Analytica,” by Medill News Service in “The After-Bern: Will Bernie Sanders Make Another Run for President?” and by the Los Angeles Times in “Was Cambridge Analytica a digital Svengali or a snake-oil salesman?

Shelley Kimball authored the article “Shelley Kimball: To engage in government, show up” for The Virginia-Pilot.

Steven Livingston was quoted by La Stampa (Italy) in the article “The case of Facebook - Cambridge Analytica can also become a problem for scientific research.”

Ethan Porter co-authored the article “When It Comes to Fake News, People Aren’t As Dumb as You Think” for The Daily Beast. He spoke to BBC News in the segment “Gun control debate: Why this mass shooting is different - the evidence.” He was quoted in the Oxford Education Blog article “Facts matter after all: rejecting the ‘backfire effect’” and in the Psychology Today article “Self-Correction: The Methodological Revolution in Psychology.”

Frank Sesno spoke to Headline News’ Across America With Carol Costello about whether people want to work in the Trump White House. He was interviewed by WGN Radio and was quoted by The Washington Post (“NBC’s questioning of Ivanka Trump was more than appropriate. It should be just the start”), The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (“Chris Cuomo of CNN stays on prime time permanently”), The Boston Globe (“How Stormy Daniels is beating Trump at his own game”) and The Daily Beast (“Dan Rather Denounces Sam Nunberg’s Trump TV Meltdowns as ‘Sad Day for Journalism’”). 

Janet Steele was quoted in the Warta Ekonomi (Indonesia) article “Janet Steele: Indonesia Beruntung Punya UU Pers.” Her new book Mediating Islam: Cosmopolitan Journalisms in Muslim Southeast Asia was featured by BBC Indonesia, Anadolu Agency (Turkey), Antara News (Indonesia), BeritaSatu (Indonesia) and Republika (Indonesia).

Nikki Usher was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Scoop. Denial. Scoop confirmed. That’s business as usual for writers covering the Trump White House,” by Real Simple in “How to Get Along With Someone You Completely Disagree With,” by Columbia Journalism Review in “Managing a 21st-century newsroom workforce: A case study of NYC news media” and by Sinclair Broadcast Group in “'60 Minutes' interview nowhere near the end of Daniels storm for Trump, experts say.”

Political Science

Steven Balla was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle article “A return to earmarks could grease the wheels in Congress.”

Stephen Biddle was quoted by The Associated Press in the articles “Amid Little Scrutiny, US Military Ramps up in Afghanistan” and “US Defense Secretary Mattis Arrives in Afghan Capital” and by CNBC in “Trump's tariffs spark national security concerns over possible strain in relationships with allies.” 

Sarah Binder authored the article “Three things we learned from the omnibus spending bill” for The Washington Post and co-authored “The Fed’s next big appointment will probably be another white man. Here’s why it struggles to diversify its leadership” for The Washington Post. She was quoted by The Fiscal Times in “What We Learned from the Omnibus Spending Deal,” by The Washington Post in “The Federal Reserve’s leadership is 80 percent male and 87 percent white” and by Financial Times in “Fed chair Jay Powell faces his first political test.”

Henry Farrell authored the articles “Donald Trump says trade wars are ‘good, and easy to win.’ He’s flat-out wrong” and “Most lawyers don’t understand cryptography. So why do they dominate tech policy debates?” for The Washington Post

Samuel Goldman authored the article “With the Embassy Move to Jerusalem, a Biblical Trump?” for The New York Times. He was featured in the Lexington-Herald Leader in article “Evangelicals recast Trump as an Old Testament king. Will he usher in second coming?

Henry Hale was quoted by The Washington Post in the article “Putin won reelection yesterday. Now he’s a ‘lame duck.’ What will that mean?

James H. Lebovic authored the article “For Trump, the art of the deal isn’t the art of diplomacy” for The Washington Post

Marc Lynch was quoted by PBS’ NewsHour in the article “What to know about Egypt’s presidential election.”

Cynthia McClintock was quoted by The Associated Press in the articles “Judge may consider barring Peru leader from leaving country” and “Lawmakers lambaste Peru's president in bitter debate,” by The Wall Street Journal in “Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Resigns” and by The New York Times in “A Low-Profile Engineer Is Set to Take Power in Peru.”

Michael K. Miller authored the article “How the U.S. can prepare for a major election hack” for The Washington Post

Elizabeth Saunders was quoted by The Washington Post in “Could Mike Pompeo actually succeed as secretary of state?,” by Vox in “Rex Tillerson has been fired. Experts say he did damage that could last “a generation” and by New Republic in “You’ll Miss Him When He’s Gone.”

David Shambaugh was quoted by the South China Morning Post in the articles “Can China avoid sliding back into strongman politics as Xi Jinping reshapes charter in his own image?” and “China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are putting strongman politics back on the map.” He spoke to Public Radio Tulsa in the segment “David Shambaugh of George Washington University on "Assessing China's Future.”

John Sides authored the articles “New poll: Most teenagers and adults think arming teachers is dangerous, favor minimum age for buying assault rifles,” “The Pennsylvania special election was another great night for the Democratic Party” and “New study finds increase in support for democracy — but weaker support among politically disengaged and conservatives” for The Washington Post. He was featured in the Washington Post article “The ‘value divide’ between Democrats and Republicans is getting bigger and bigger.”

David Szakonyi authored the article “Here’s what you can expect from Putin’s next 6 years” for The Washington Post

Public Policy and Public Administration

Stephanie Riegg Cellini was quoted by Forbes in the article “For-Profit Colleges' Teachable Moment: 'Terrible Outcomes Are Very Profitable.’” Her research was highlighted by Inside Higher Ed in the article “Forging New Territory Online.”

Andrew Reamer was quoted by ThinkProgress in the article “The 2020 Census citizenship question will affect your health care” and by The New York Times in “New York Has 7 Billion Reasons to Worry About a Census Question.” He spoke to American Public Media’s Marketplace about the 2020 Census. 

Regulatory Studies Center

Romance, German and Slavic Languages and Literatures 

Sociology

University Writing

Gordon Mantler was quoted by The Associated Press in the article “MLK tackled many issues in his lifetime. Where are we now?

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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