Faculty-Staff Achievements

Yelena Biberman-Ocakli, associate professor of political science, has created a five-part podcast for Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. “How to Kill a Superpower: Lessons from the USSR” was produced with support from Skidmore’s John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative (MDOCS) and was the product of a collaboration with Zach Troyanovsky ’21. The podcast series tells the story of the mysterious weekend in December 1991 that ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. 

Catherine Golden, professor of English, participated in a virtual roundtable presentation entitled "Nineteenth-Century Material Culture:  Paper" on Friday, Oct. 29. The roundtable was sponsored by the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and included presenters from the United States, Canada, and Switzerland. 

Andrew M. Lindner, associate professor of sociology, published two articles about the intersection between sports and politics. The first, "Does Protest ‘Distract’ Athletes From Performing? Evidence From the National Anthem Demonstrations in the National Football League," was co-authored by Brianna Cochran ’18 and appears in the Journal of Sport & Social Issues. It debunks the idea that athletes who protest perform worse in games. The second, "America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football," appears in Social Problems and focuses how attitudes about encouraging youth to play football are unusually divided along political and class lines.

 

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