Faculty-Staff Achievements
Olivia Cammisa-Frost, special events and publications manager of the Tang Teaching Museum, recently appeared
as a contestant on the game show “Jeopardy!” Her episode will air Oct. 19.
Kris Covey, assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, contributed to the Al Jazeera program The Stream.
Monica Das, associate professor of economics, co-authored the blog post “Mobilizing actions for inclusion in times of pandemic” as part of an initiative by UNESCAP, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission
for Asia and the Pacific.
Michael Dunn, assistant professor of management and business, has received a three-year National
Science Foundation Collaborative Research award in the amount of $160,360 for his
project with Syracuse University entitled “Collaborative Research: HCC: Small: The Market is the Interface: Online Labor Platforms
and Contingent Knowledge Work.” The longitudinal study examines the ways in which online labor platforms are reshaping
work, with a focus on how they sustain their market-making roles, and how workers
and employers adapt to these changes.
Ruth Hernández-Ríos, teaching professor of sociology, published the chapter “They took a piece of my flesh”: transnational motherhood and activism in Tlaxcala,
Mexico” in the Handbook of Culture and Migration (Cheltenham, Glos: Edward Elgar Publishing
Limited).
Eliza F. Kent, professor of religious studies, published the essay “Gender and the Social Boundaries Between ‘Hindus’ and ‘Christians’” in The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations (2021), edited by Chad Bauman
and Michelle Voss Roberts.
Evan Mack, senior teaching professor of music, received a positive review from Opera News for
his album "The Travelled Road." The article described the album as "thoroughly convincing … melodically memorable
and dramatically compelling ... inspired, in its concept, composition, and performance."
Kenneth Sider, visiting assistant professor of education studies, appeared on the radio segment
“The Academic Minute.” He discussed “Confronting Whiteness in the Teacher Education Classroom” on the program.
Benjamin Van Wye, research associate of music, published the first part of his translation of François
Sabatier’s “Interrelations between Liturgy, Music and Organbuilding in France from
the Middle Ages to Vatican II” in the October issue of The American Organist. The remaining parts will follow in November and December.
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