Geography students Brian Sachs, Noah Rothstein and Chris Hart were members of the team that won the National Championship World Geography Bowl in Washington, D.C.
Two students won major awards at the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology conference in Washington, D.C. Senior Ian Sideritis (Organizational Sciences) won the John C. Flanagan Award for Best Student Contribution. Graduate student Lauren Lanzo (Industrial-Organizational Psychology) won the George C. Thornton III Graduate Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Scientist-Practitioner.
Emma Briant (Media and Public Affairs) presented on “Propaganda Machine: The Hidden Story of Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry” as part of the Cyber Innovation and Society Distinguished Speaker series at the University of Virginia.
Christopher Brick (History) received a $196,661 grant from the National Archives and Records Administration in support of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers project.
Sharon W. Chamberlain, PhD ’10, (History) authored the book A Reckoning: Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).
Kavita Daiya (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/English) guest-edited the special issue "South Asia in Graphic Narratives" of the South Asian Review.
Arie M. Dubnov (History) co-edited the book Partitions: A Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Territorial Separatism (Stanford University Press, 2019).
Joseph Gastwirth (Statistics) received the Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society from the American Statistical Association.
Doctoral candidate Jack Hasler (Political Science) authored the article “Huawei is better positioned to spy on us than we think” for The Washington Post.
Peter Linquiti (Public Policy and Public Administration) received a $31,514 grant from the National Science Foundation for research on climate change litigation analysis.
Steven Livingston (Media and Public Affairs) moderated a study group on technology and human rights at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. He co-authored the article “Framing and Strategic Narratives: Synthesis and Analytical Framework” with Jack Nassetta, BA ’20, (Political Communication/History) in the SAIS Review of International Affairs.
Peter Loge (Media and Public Affairs) presented “Lessons for the Basque Country from Political Communication in the United States” at the Agirre Lehendakaria Center in Bilbao, Spain, and “Strategic Communication: A Political and Operational Prerequisite for Successful Peace Operations” for the International Relations and Multidimensional Security research team at the University of Deusto.
Drew Moore, PhD ’17, (Biology) was named an assistant professor in the Anatomical Sciences Department at Stony Brook University.
Mika Natif (Art History) was profiled in the Indian Cultural Forum article “Did Akbar really examine paintings every week? All the World’s a Mughal Stage” for her book Mughal Occidentalism: Artistic Encounters between Europe and Asia at the Courts of India, 1580-1630 (Brill Academic Publisher, 2018).
Qing Pan (Statistics) was chosen an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.
Ethan Porter (Media and Public Affairs) was cited in the Full Fact (UK) report “The backfire effect: Does it exist? And does it matter for factcheckers?”
Davide Prete (Sculpture) was selected to create a public sculpture project at the Capitol View Library.
Kylie Quave (Writing, Anthropology) published Quantitative Anthropology: A Workbook (Academic Press, 2019).
Dan Schwartz (History) authored the book Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy (Brandeis University Press, 2019).
Frank Sesno (Media and Public Affairs) moderated the presentations “A Farmer to Fork Perspective” and “Does Artificial Intelligence Belong In Agriculture?” for The Copernicus Project at South by Southwest, Austin, Texas.
Johan Severtson (Design) was profiled in the University of Minnesota Duluth alumni newspaper.
Janet Steele (Media and Public Affairs) presented seminars on “The journalisms of Islam: contending views in Muslim Southeast Asia” at the University of Sydney Southeast Asian Study Center, Australian National University's School of Asia and Pacific Affairs and Monash University's Herb Feith Center for Indonesian Engagement.
Susan Sterner (New Media Photojournalism) exhibited her multimedia project Estoy por aquí/I am here at the Rowan University Gallery for Art and Social Justice.
Cheryl W. Thompson (Journalism) moderated “Shooting straight: How to use gun data and documents effectively,” spoke on the panel “Advocating for diversity and inclusivity in journalism” and co-taught a master class on interviewing at the Investigative Reporters & Editors Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference.
Alexander van der Horst (Physics) received a $34,911 fellowship from the National Science Foundation to study electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves.
Silvio Waisbord (Media and Public Affairs) co-authored the article “Between Data Capitalism and Data Citizenship” in Television & New Media.