Faculty-Staff Achievements, Oct. 26, 2015

Activities

Jennifer Castellani, associate director of the Skidmore Fund, successfully defended her dissertation in educational leadership-higher education administration at the University of Dayton Oct. 19 and has earned a Ph.D. degree. Her dissertation is titled “Deconstructing Eve:  A Critical Feminist Analysis of Female Mid-Level Administrators at Conservative Evangelical Universities.”

Publications and Exhibitions

David Byers, lecturer in social work, is co-author of a blog entry titled “Do the New APA Guidelines for Transgender Care Go Far Enough?” published Aug. 28 in Slate.

‪Wendy Allison Lee, assistant professor of English, co-edited a collection of essays about the Back to the Future trilogy on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the release of the first film. The essays were published between June 30 and July 5 at Avidly, an online channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her essay, "Back to an Asian Future," considered the unexpected Asian presence in Part II's depiction of the future. The collection included work by two Skidmore colleagues. Claudia Calhoun, Mellon Fellow in Media and Film studies, wrote "Westward Expansion" that examined how Part III revisits the tropes and ideology of 1950s Westerns. Maggie Greaves, assistant professor of English, contributed "Disintegrating Einstein," which examined Part I and explored the afterlife of 1950s Cold War containment and invasion narratives.

Jeffrey O. Segrave, professor of health and exercise sciences, is the author of “The Sport of Love:  Tennis in Literature,” included in Aethlon:  The Journal of Sport Literature, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2015.

Sarah Sweeney, associate professor of art, was had her iPhone app The Forgetting Machine included in an invitational exhibition for Bucharest Art Week in mid-October. The theme of the week was “Laughter and Forgetting” based around a Milan Kundera book. While in Romania she gave a  talk titled Digital Forgetting at the National Library in Bucharest.

In the News

Joerg Bibow, professor of economics, is the author of “Time to end Europe’s disgrace of holding Greek people hostage” published June 10 in The Conversation.

Jim Kennelly, Ross Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and professor of international business, had an opinion essay about the importance of Ireland’s cultural assets published May 27 in The Irish Examiner.

“Millhauser’s bizarre wit on display in new story collection,” a review of Voices in the Night: Stories, the new book by Steven Millhauser, Tisch Professor of Arts and Letters, was published May 31 in postandcourier.com

Dan Nathan, professor and chair, Department of American Studies, was a source for “Question for the Panel:  Summer Readings on Sports History” published May 28 on theallrounder.com

Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology, was cited in an article titled “Atheists Inspire Thoughts of Death in Many Americans,” published May 19 on livescience.com

“Steve Stern finds magic in old Jewish Memphis for latest novel, ‘The Pinch,’” a review of the new novel by Steve Stern, professor of English, was published May 29 in commercialappeal.com

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