Don Dillman, Regents professor, sociology, was appointed by the National Institute of Statistical Standards (NISS) to the Expert Panel for Evaluation of Survey Recruitment Materials used by the National Center for Educational Statistics.
Shannon Tushingham, assistant professor, and Tiffany Fulkerson, doctoral candidate, anthropology, coauthored with a colleague “The peer review gap: A longitudinal case study of gendered publishing and occupational patterns in a female-rich discipline, Western North America (1974–2016)” in PLOS ONE. Tushingham also coauthored “Newly Discovered Studio Photographs of Revolutionary Anthropologist Llewellyn Lemont Loud” in Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology.
Jesse Spohnholz, associate professor, history, delivered the keynote address, “Remembering and Forgetting the Reformation, 1517-2017,” at the annual meeting of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.
David Watkins, emeritus professor, and Jared L. Aurentz (PhD ’14), mathematics and statistics, co-authored with three colleagues Core-Chasing Algorithms for the Eigenvalue Problem (SIAM).
Nathalie Wall, associate professor, chemistry, coauthored “Non-destructive characterization of corroded glass surfaces by spectroscopic ellipsometry” in Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.
Charles Weller, clinical assistant professor, history, edited the new volume 21st-Century Narratives of World History: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Palgrave MacMillan).
Karen and Jeffrey Savage, professors, music, delivered an invited performance and served as judges and workshop presenters at the MusiQuest National Piano Competition and Festival in Pune, India.
John Streamas, associate professor, critical culture, gender, and race studies, authored “The Descent of Man and Everyone Else” at Akashic Books.com.
Marina Tolmacheva, professor, history, authored the chapter “Concubines on the Road – Ibn Battuta’s Slave Women” in Concubines and Courtesans; Women and Slavery in Islamic History (Oxford University Press).
Vilma Navarro-Daniels, associate professor, foreign languages and cultures, presented on Chilean comic author Marcela Trujillo (a.k.a. “Malki 4-Ojos”) at the International Association of Women’s Studies in Hispanic Literature and Culture’s annual congress in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A paper from her research is forthcoming in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos.