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Columbian College of Arts & Sciences: Faculty Getting Press
September 2020

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

American Studies
Vanessa Northington Gamble was quoted by TIME in the article “COVID-19 Isn't the First Pandemic to Affect Minority Populations Differently. Here's What We Can Learn From the 1918 Flu.”
Amber Musser was quoted by Vice in the article “Fuck the Police: Why Does Cop Porn Still Exist?”
Gayle Wald appeared on BBC Radio to discuss gospel singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Anthropology
Hugh Gusterson was quoted by Washingtonian in the article “Thanks to Covid, the Washington Grip-and-Grin Is Over. What Will Replace It?”
Sarah Hlubik was quoted by LiveScience in the article “When did humans discover how to use fire?”

Arts & Design
Douglas Boyce was featured in the Virginia Center for the Arts’ “Composer Playlist.”
Alison Crockett spoke to NPR about the death of actor Chadwick Boseman.
Stephanie Travis was quoted by Medium’s OneZero in the article “You Will Never Leave.”

Biology
Catherine Forster was quoted by Smithsonian Magazine in the article “Dinosaurs Suffered From Cancer, Too.”

Economics
Steven Hamilton was quoted by rfi in the article “US job gains may have stalled in July amid coronavirus spike.”
Annamaria Lusardi was quoted by the Los Angeles Times in the article “Column: It’s National Financial Awareness Day. How’s your money game?” and by CNBC in “Millennials missed a decade of financial boom after 2008. It may happen again.”
Jay Shambaugh spoke to Marketplace for the segment “Using coronavirus relief to pay down credit cards.” Financial Times quoted him in “Trump’s executive orders provide little money for jobless.”

English
Holly Dugan was featured on the University of Maryland Department of English website in the article “Professor Launches Series to Pivot Graduate Student Research.”
Edward P. Jones was profiled by The New York Times in the article “Edward P. Jones’s Carefully Quantified Literary World.”

Geography
Dan Malouff authored the article “Here’s why walk-up windows are good urbanism” for Greater Greater Washington.

History
Eric Arnesen was quoted by Jacobin in the article “How Black Pullman Porters Waged a Struggle for ‘Civil Rights Unionism’” and by WJLA-ABC7 in “Professor: Jobs, not 'abstract notion of freedom' were focus of first March on Washington.”
Ed McCord was quoted by Sinclair Broadcast Group in the article “Confucius Institutes on college campuses close as experts warn of China influence.”

Human Services & Social Justice
Michelle Kelso was quoted by Universul.net in the article “Romanian president marks Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. ‘An act of systematic and deliberate murder.’”

Media and Public Affairs
Imani M. Cheers spoke to Canada National about the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate and to CTV News Video Network about President Trump's attacks on Harris. She appeared on WJLA-ABC7 in the segment “The Racial Divide: Time For Change Town Hall - Commitment March” to discuss the March on Washington and was quoted in the articles “7 On Your Side hosts town hall to highlight past and upcoming Commitment March” and “One difference between 1963 march and 2020 march: Black women will have more of a voice.” She was quoted by The Washington Post in “Parents of young ‘Black Panther’ fans struggle with telling children of actor’s death.”
Jesse J. Holland spoke to CBS Radio about the death of actor Chadwick Boseman. The Baltimore Sun quoted him in the article “‘We lost a piece of our culture’: Black Baltimoreans and Marylanders reflect on passing of actor Chadwick Boseman.”
David Karpf was quoted by CNN in the article “Big Tech's QAnon problem is just beginning.”
Steven Livingston was quoted by The Hill in the article “Biden faces calls to be more active with media.”
Peter Loge was quoted by Sinclair Broadcast Group in the articles “How this year's presidential debates may impact the 2020 election” and “Joe Biden's running mate announcement draws closer as convention nears,” by Minneapolis Star Tribune in “Minnesota lawmaker scours TikTok for young voters” and by WISN-ABC12, Milwaukee, in “Joe Biden will not come to Milwaukee for DNC.” He spoke to Spectrum News about gaffes by presidential candidates and to Hearst TV for the segment “2020 Presidential campaign enters final stretch as conventions come to a close.” Scripps Media quoted him in “Campaign 2020: Can virtual political conventions impact voters?”
Ethan Porter was quoted by PolitiFact in the article “Why false claims about Nancy Pelosi being drunk keep going viral — even though she doesn’t drink” and by The Washington Post in “QAnon supporter, with Georgia primary victory, is poised to bring far-right conspiracy theory to Congress,” “Facebook bans some, but not all, QAnon groups and accounts” and “Trump praises baseless QAnon conspiracy theory, says he appreciates support of its followers.” The Economist quoted him in “Political rabbit holes QAnon conspiracy theorists could prove awkward for Republicans.”
Frank Sesno spoke to CGTN America for the segment “The Heat: U.S. presidential politics.” Variety quoted him in the article “Tucker Carlson Sees ‘Never-Ending Assault’ on His Fox News Show. Critics See Racism” and the Associated Press quoted him in “Trump’s audience doesn’t match Biden’s; president hails CNN.”
Rebekah Tromble was quoted by PolitiFact in the article “Why false claims about Nancy Pelosi being drunk keep going viral — even though she doesn’t drink.”

Physics
Neil Johnson was cited by Newsweek in the article “Anti-Vax Posts Against Future COVID-19 Vaccine Steadily Increasing on Social Media, Researchers Warn.” CNN quoted him in “Vaccines are safe. But huge numbers of people around the world say they wouldn't take a Covid jab” and Financial Times quoted him in “Why is the ‘anti-vaxxer’ movement growing during a worldwide pandemic?”

Political Science
Sarah Binder was quoted by PolitiFact in the article “The history of the filibuster as 'Jim Crow relic’,” by CBS News in “Filibuster or bust: How Senate Democrats could get rid of the filibuster,” by Newsweek in “Here's Why Democrats Have An Edge Over Republicans in Stimulus Negotiations” and by The Atlantic in “The Party of No Content.” The Hill quoted her in “Federal Reserve chief to outline plans for inflation, economy,” The Wall Street Journal quoted her in “The Fed Lays Out New Goals, but Its Tools Could Be Lacking” and Politico quoted her in “An activist central bank? Dems push the Fed to fight racial inequality.”
Samuel Goldman authored the article “Republicans Have Another Option. It’s Not Trumpism” for The New York Times.
John Logsdon was quoted by Axios in the article “The risk of branding NASA's wins.”
Mike Mochizuki spoke to PBS NewsHour for the segment “The legacy of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is resigning due to illness.”
Harris Mylonas co-authored the article “Belarus: A Glimmer of Hope?” for the Cambridge Core Blog.
David Shambaugh was quoted by The Wall Street Journal in the article “New Chapter in U.S.-China Ties Marked by Confrontation” and by Malaysia Sun in “With eye on presidential election, Trump takes tough stand on China.”
Christopher Warshaw was quoted by The New York Times in the articles “The Politics We Don’t See Matter as Much as Those We Do” and “2020 Is the Struggle Between Racial Liberalism and Racial Conservatism.”

Professional Psychology
Katherine Marshall Woods appeared on the Rendering Unconscious podcast episode “Dr. Katherine Marshall Woods Psychologist on Film, Diversity, Clinical work, Black Lives Matter.”

Public Policy and Public Administration 
Sara Rosenbaum was quoted by The New York Times in the article “Trump Program to Cover Uninsured Covid-19 Patients Falls Short of Promise.”
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg was quoted by The Chronicle of Higher Education in the article “Admin 101: the Art of Gracefully Accepting Defeat.”

Regulatory Studies Center
Susan Dudley authored the article “The Measure And Mismeasure Of Rule” for Forbes.
George Gray was quoted by Bloomberg Law in the article “Dueling EPA Chemical Numbers to Spur ‘Shopping’ for Helpful Data.”

Religion
Robert Tuttle was quoted by The Wall Street Journal in the article “Hospitals’ Covid-19 Policies Face Religious-Rights Checks by Trump Administration.”

Sociology
Amitai Etzioni authored the article “A dove's call for de-escalation with China” for The Hill.
Glenn Kirschner was quoted by Salon in the article “Mueller prosecutor Glenn Kirschner: Trump is a ‘career criminal’ guilty of ‘negligent homicide.’”
Hilary Silver authored the articles “Thinking outside the ballot box — why not online voting?” and “Cancel culture as social exclusion” for The Hill.
Gregory Squires co-authored the article “Just How Many Cops Are ‘Bad Apples’?” for The Crime Report. He authored the letter to the editor “Affordable Housing, HUD and Local Zoning” which appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Kavita Daiya authored the article “New International Students Should Not Be Barred Entry this Fall” for the Academe blog.
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