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Faculty and Staff Notes

Mauricio Betancourt Publishes Article

The journal , recently published the article 鈥淐onflicting outcomes of alternative energies: agricultural methane emissions and hydroelectricity, 1975鈥2015鈥 coauthored by Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Mauricio Betancourt.

Jiyul Kim Cited in Washington Post Article

Visiting Instructor of history Jiyul Kim was cited in a on the reunion of the "Chosin Few" veterans of the Korean War. Kim is writing a new history of the Korean War for Cambridge University Press in collaboration with East Asian Studies Professor Sheila Miyoshi Jager.

Shuming Chen publishes Article in ACS Catalysis

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Shuming Chen recently published an article in , "Cyclometalated Chiral-at-Ruthenium Catalyst for Enantioselective Ring-Closing C(sp3)鈥揌 Carbene Insertion to Access Chiral Flavanones." Co-authors include Peter Choi '23 and collaborators in Marburg, Germany.

Wendy Beth Hyman's Monograph Identified as聽an 鈥淥utstanding Academic Title鈥

Professor of English and Comparative Literature Wendy Beth Hyman's monograph, Impossible Desire and the Limits of Knowledge in Renaissance Poetry (Oxford UP, 2019), was identified as an 鈥淥utstanding Academic Title鈥 by CHOICE 2021. Her co-edited collection, Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now (Edinburgh UP, 2019) has gone into paperback. She recently published an article, 鈥淏eyond Beyond: Cymbeline and the Ontology of Elsewhere,鈥 in 52.3. Along with Jen Waldron, she was guest editor of a special issue of that journal, Theorizing Early Modern Fictions. Finally, an article called 鈥淧atterns, The Shakespearean Sonnet, and Conduits of Scale鈥 appeared in Spenser Studies 36 (June 2022). 

Book Review by Sheila Miyoshi Jager Published in the New York Times

Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager's review of A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955 (Norton, 2022) by Ronald H. Spector was published in the .

Cynthia Taylor Published Interview with Helen Hu

Associate Professor of Computer Science Cynthia Taylor published an interview with Helen Hu on the propagation of Process Oriented Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in Computer Science, in magazine.

Jillian Scudder Receives NSF Grant to Fund Research

Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Jillian Scudder received an of $229,027 to fund her research program understanding galaxies in the nearby universe. This grant was also as one of seven grants coming to Northeast Ohio higher-education institutions.

Annemarie Sammartino Publishes Article in Washington Post

Professor of History Annemarie Sammartino published a piece on Co-op City, a cooperative in the Bronx, and its lessons for affordable housing policy makers and advocates in the Made by History section of the Washington Post. The draws upon her recent book, : Co-op City and the Story of New York (Cornell UP, 2022).

Jenny Garcia Coauthors Article

Assistant Professor of Politics and Comparative American Studies Jenny Garcia published a coauthored article, "The Empowering Effects of Racial Messaging: The Link Between Racial Outreach, Descriptive Representation and Black Political Mobilization," in .

Elizabeth Hamilton publishes a translation and literary-Historical Interpretation

Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of German Elizabeth Hamilton published a translation and literary-historical interpretation of Franz F眉hmann and Dietmar Riemann's Was f眉r eine Insel in was f眉r einem Meer in an open-access digital edition with Lever Press: . First published in East Germany in 1986, the original work depicts residents of the Samariteranstalten, a church-run institution for people with cognitive disabilities, in astonishing black-and-white photographs by Riemann and in probing, poignant writing by F眉hmann.

Hamilton's book was reviewed by Michele Ricci-Bell in Reading in Translation, a journal edited by Stiliana Milkova, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. The review .