People & Places: March 2023
People & Places is a monthly highlight of the ongoing professional activities and achievements of faculty, staff, and students of the College.
Alexis Hart, Professor of English and Director of Writing, delivered an opening plenary address titled “Reassemble and Renew” for the Writing with Current, Former, and Future Members of the Military pre-conference workshop at the 2023 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago.
Shannan Mattiace, Professor of Political Science and International Studies and Chilean co-author Carla Alberti’s paper “Indigenous autonomy and Latin American state security in contexts of criminal violence: the cases of Cauca in Colombia and Guerrero in Mexico” has been published in Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies.
Alberti hosted Mattiace at Chile’s Catholic University during a Fulbright semester there in 2019. This paper is the first of two collaborations.
Judson Herrman, Professor of Classical Studies and the Frank T. McClure Professor of Greek and Latin, has been awarded a visiting fellowship at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, for Michaelmas Term (October-December) 2023. While in residence at Oxford, Herrman will be editing, translating, and annotating political and courtroom speeches from ancient Athens, to appear as three volumes of Attic Orators in the Loeb Classical Library.
The library’s mission is “to make Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers,” and authors are invited to contribute by a foundation that commissions volumes based on the needs of this wide audience, not the profits of the press.
As a sign of their confidence in him, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation has additionally awarded professor Herrman a stipend of three-eighths of his salary for his sabbatical in the academic year 23-24.
Lauren Fugate ’20 and John MacNeill Miller, Associate Professor of English, were awarded the inaugural Environmental Humanities Best Article Prize for their co-authored article, “Shakespeare’s Starlings: Literary History and the Fictions of Invasiveness,” which appeared in the journal in 2021.
In the official announcement of the award, the journal’s editors describe Fugate and Miller’s piece as a groundbreaking article that “question[s] the previously unquestionable…Their investigation will rewrite the standard starling tale.”
Charlotte Allen ’25, Ashleigh Dolan ’24, Emily Mullen ’24, and Associate Professor of Psychology Lydia Eckstein attended the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Boston, MA, March 2–4, to present their poster, “Yoga, Meditation, and Me: Do (Some) Relaxation Techniques License Unethical Behavior?”
The following community members recently published the article, “Prescribed Browsing by Goats Controls Multiflora Rose in a Black Cherry–Red Maple Deciduous Forest at the Erie National Wildlife Refuge in Northwestern PA,” in the Journal of Natural Areas:
- Richard Bowden, Professor of Environmental Science and Sustainability
- Alton Caylor ’22
- Grace Hemmelgarn ’22
- Megan Kresse ’22
- Ally Martin ’22
- Melissa Althouse, US Fish and Wildlife Service
The work describes the initial success of goats as a control for an invasive plant that threatens biodiversity at the refuge, especially in vulnerable habitats where herbicides should not be used. The research was conducted by students in an Environmental Research Methods and a Forest Ecology and Management course.
Kaitlyn Royal ’24 presented a workshop titled “The Intersection of Environmental Health and Public Health” at the 2023 PAEE Conference on March 13.
Tim Bianco, Assistant Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Bruce R. Thompson Center for Business and Economics, was invited to present his research at a seminar in the Department of Economics and Finance at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.
He presented joint work with Beau Sauley (MSU) and Gary Cornwall (Bureau of Economic Analysis) titled “Financial Reform and Mortgage Lending in Americas Heartland.”