July 2022 Noteworthy

July 14, 2022

July 12, 2022

Thomas Braden, MA ’01, (Organizational Management) authored the book A Veteran's Guide to Transition: Active Duty to Government Service.

Graduate Student Yancey Burns (SMPA) screened his film Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting as part of the We The Peoples Before event at the Kennedy Center.

Danielle Gilbert, MA ’16, PhD ’20, (Political Science) spoke to the Global Dispatches Podcast about the Brittney Griner case and hostage diplomacy.

Ana Maria del Rio Gonzalez (Psychology) received the 2022 National Institutes of Health Sexual & Gender Minority (SGM) Research Early-Stage Investigator Award, recognizing investigators who have made substantial and outstanding research contributions in areas related to SGM health.

Susan Dudley (TSPPPA) was cited in Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's concurring opinion in the case W. Virginia vs. EPA.

Kerric Harvey (SMPA) was a delegate at the Royal Anthropological Institute’s virtual conference on “AI and the Future of Human Society,” where she presented her paper: “Pandora’s Robot: Cultural Implications of Morally Autonomous Artificial Intelligence.”

Lisel Hintz, PhD ’15, (Political Science) was awarded Honorable Mention for Best Article by the American Political Science Association’s Middle East and North Africa Politics Section for “The Empire's Opposition Strikes Back: Popular Culture as Creative Resistance Tool under Turkey's AKP.”

Ivy Ken (Sociology) was awarded the 2022 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender and Class Section, for her co-authored work "Not Additive, Not Defined:  Mutual Constitution in Feminist Intersectional Studies" in Feminist Theory. She also co-authored “Regulatory Theater in the Pork Industry: How the Capitalist State Harms Workers, Farmers, and Unions" in the journal Crime, Law, and Social Change

Jakub Kostal (Chemistry) was a panelist for a White House webinar on the best data and tools to inform sustainable chemistry decisions.

PhD candidate Sharanya Rao (Clinical Psychology) won the APA Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation & Gender Diversity Malyon Smith Scholarship Award for her dissertation research on the healthcare experiences of sexual minority women of color.

Eiko Strader (WGSS) was awarded a RAND Faculty Leaders Program Fellowship to participate in a policy analysis summer program organized by the Pardee RAND Graduate School.

Rebekah Tromble (SMPA) discussed social media algorithms on the podcast Fast Company.