Assistant Professor of History Justin Rivest and co-editor E.C. Spary have published Exoticizing Consumption: European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740, with the University of Pittsburgh Press. DESCRIPTION Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe.

Professor of Spanish Kate Hedeen and Professor Emeritus of Spanish Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez have published a translation of Antonio Gamoneda's Burn the Losses, with Action Books. DESCRIPTION: Shaped by a childhood during the Spanish Civil War and a youth under the censorious Franco dictatorship, Antonio Gamoneda’s poetry chronicles both memory and oblivion with an intensity and strangeness that pushes back against all oppressive forces that seek to flatten and reduce our experiences, our language.

Karen Hicks, ​​Peter Rutkoff Distinguished Professor in Diversity and Inclusion & Professor of Biology, has received National Science Foundation funding for her proposal "RUI: Genetic approaches to uncover mechanisms governing seasonal reproductive development in Physcomitrium patens." DESCRIPTION: Seasonal information, including temperature and daylength, is used by many plant and animal species to coordinate their reproduction with the environment, so that their offspring are produced at an appropriate time of year.

Keija Parssinen, Associate Professor of English, has published two articles in World Literature Today. Her review of Najwan Darwish's No One Will Know You Tomorrow: Selected Poems, 2014–2024 was published in the July-August 2025 issue on "Gaza Voices". Described by The New York Review of Books as "one of the foremost contemporary Arab poets," Darwish is a resident of Haifa.

Lin Li, James P. Storer Assistant Professor of Asian History, with co-authors Sona Kazemi, Wang Zheng, and Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, have published "Resisting Multiple Empires, Cultivating Transnational Solidarity: A Conversation among Feminists-of-Color Scholar-Activists," in International Feminist Journal of Politics, September 2025. DESCRIPTION Framed around the concept of “multiple empires,” the discussion examines how various imperial formations – US, Chinese, and Iranian – collude in suppressing feminist and queer resistance.

Daniel Mark Epstein, Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in IPHS, has published Constellations: The Collected Poems of Daniel Mark Epstein, with LSU Press. DESCRIPTIONDaniel Mark Epstein’s poetry has been in the public eye for nearly sixty years, since the magazine publication of the poems in his groundbreaking first book, No Vacancies in Hell (1973). Constellations collects, for the first time, the nine books of poems published by a modern master of lyric, dramatic, and narrative poetry.

Joy Brennan, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, has published "The karma of this place" in The Imminent Frame, August 27, 2025. SUMMARY The moral problem attendant on many deployments of the concept of karma is that it has been used to “blame the victim.” That is, karma has been used to explain the suffering of those who are victims of events—like social oppression, disease, war, and famine—as in fact of their own making.

Irene López, Professor of Psychology, has been selected to serve on the National Screening Committee (NSC) for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program expands perspectives through academic and professional advancement and cross-cultural dialogue. In partnership with more than 140 countries worldwide, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers unparalleled opportunities in all academic disciplines to passionate and accomplished graduating college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals from all backgrounds.

Orchid Tierney, William P. Rice Associate Professor of Literature, has 3 poems included in the new anthology Te Pūrere: Te Paenga Kōrero ā Ngā Kaitito Toi o Aotearoa/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets from Cold Hub Press. DESCRIPTION There are myriad Aotearoa New Zealand poets who live overseas; several eminent, others relatively unknown. This significant anthology is the first to give voice to these expatriate Kiwi and their distinct perspectives, widening the parameters of New Zealand poetry well beyond its shores.

Natalie Wright, Associate Professor of Biology, with co-authors Katherine Crawford K'22, Olivia Rataezyk K'24, and Abigail Garcia K'24 have published "Tags temporarily decrease takeoff velocity and trajectory in Passer domesticus (House Sparrow)" in Ornithology, September 16, 2025. ABSTRACT We examined how mock tracking devices impact takeoff flight velocity, wingbeat frequency, trajectory, and change in body mass using 84…

David Maldonado Rivera, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, has published "‘Not about Orthodoxy and Faith’: Eunomian Polemic, the Valences of Asceticism, and Ethnic Argument in Philostorgius’s Church History" in Discipline, Authority, and Text in Late Ancient Religion: Essays in Honour of David Brakke, edited by Ellen Muehlberger and Bradley K. Storin. BOOK DESCRIPTION This collection of essays on religious practice in the Mediterranean, Near East, and Middle East (ca.

Katherine Elkins, Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, has published Beyond Plot: How Sentiment Analysis Reshapes Our Understanding of Narrative Structure in The Journal of Cultural Analytics, volume 10, issue 3, September 2025. ABSTRACT Sentiment analysis, particularly with the advent of large language models, is reshaping our understanding of narrative. Emotional arcs in both fictional and non-fictional narratives surface latent structures that challenge traditional notions of plot and character.

Ric Sheffield, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies, has published False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio, with Swallow Press. DESCRIPTION In False Promises, the fight for Black voting rights in Ohio comes alive through narratives of men of color who defied the state’s nineteenth-century restrictions on suffrage. Though ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment ostensibly extended the franchise, state election laws still forced men of color into a perilous struggle for full citizenship. Ric S. Sheffield depicts their courage and determination, revealing their humanity through stories of sacrifice, resistance, and hope.

Kora Radella, Assistant Professor of Dance, is premiering a duet, Before an Immense Sky, with music by Ross Feller, Professor of Music, at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival on September 26th & 27th, 2025 at 7:30 PM. Before an Immense Sky is danced by Kenyon seniors Dasha Aminia and Diego Connolly and is one of eight dances chosen out of 169 festival submissions. 

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, Professor Emeritus of Spanish, has just published a new book, the nineteenth in his career as a poet, la piedra de amolar (the grinding stone), with RIL Editores. The work was presented on June 20 at the Documenta bookstore in Barcelona, and will have a second presentation on October 21 at the Universidad de Los Andes in Santiago, Chile.

Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Physics, has published "Daniel Davis, Jr., and his Manual of Magnetism" in the American Journal of Physics, June 2025. ABSTRACT In the preface to his 1842 Manual of Magnetism, the Boston scientist and manufacturer of electrical apparatus, Daniel Davis, Jr., wrote, “Magnetism and Electricity have become related sciences within such a short a period, and their growth has been so rapid, that many important facts which have been observed have not been collected in any scientific treatise, and the amount of unwritten knowledge has been constantly increasing.” His book served as a companion to the apparatus that he manufactured, and it supplied the scientific background to experiments using these instruments. This paper traces the development of some of these instruments and explains their operation, showcasing their ingenuity and inspiring demonstrations for contemporary physics classes.

Bruce Hardy, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology, will give a talk titled "A Twist on Ancient Technology: Fiber, String, and More" for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Human Origins Today series on September 18, 2025. SUMMARY The early archaeological record consists primarily of two things- stones and bones. And yet, we know that the material culture of the past had to be predominantly organic in nature.

Peter Kropp, Assistant Professor of Biology and Harvey F. Lodish Faculty Development Chair in the Natural Sciences, with co-authors Katherine Spilsbury K'25, Jing Wu, and Michael Reidy, has published "The mitochondrial trans-2-enoyl-coA reductase is necessary for mitochondrial homeostasis in C. elegans" in Genetics, August 19, 2025. ABSTRACT Fatty acids function not only as signaling molecules and for energy storage, but also as essential cofactors for mitochondrial enzymes.

Michael Leong, Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry, has published a new collection of poetry, Dear Vase Already Shattered Against the Fragile Floor, with Black Square Editions. SUMMARY Dear Vase Already Shattered Against the Fragile Floor is the third volume in a projected pentalogy that draws on literary collage, formal constraint, and rhetorical complication to concentrate, transform, and re-release the contingencies of chaos.

James McGavran, Associate Professor of Russian, has published a translation of Ilya Vinitsky's The Graphomaniac: A Literary-Historical Discussion of Dmitry Khvostov with Northwestern University Press, July 2025. DESCRIPTION The only Russian Count of Sardinia, Dmitry Ivanovich Khvostov (1757–1835) didn’t achieve fame in his lifetime—he achieved infamy. Pathologically prolific and delusionally dedicated to a craft for which he had no talent, the count was renowned for his compulsive output, driven by a passion for poetry that was as strong as his abilities were weak.

Karen Snouffer, Professor Emerita of Art, has an exhibition titled "Serious Play" at Hammond Harkins Galleries in Columbus, Ohio, from September 5th to 30th, 2025. ARTIST STATEMENT The abstract, two- and three-dimensional works in this show reveal the processes I utilize repeatedly while working in the studio, not unlike that of young children who play seriously, full of intense focus, willing to experiment, mine the imagination and even fail (whatever that may mean to a child).

Henry Tonks, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Department of History, has published “‘Downtown Lowell is a Fun Place to Be’: Postindustrial Regeneration and the Making of the ‘New Liberals,’ 1974–1992” in Modern American History, July 2025. ABSTRACT In the 1970s, deindustrialization and urban decay forced national, state, and local policymakers to focus more intensely on public-private partnerships as mechanisms of economic regeneration.

Manami Ishimura, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, has an exhibition with Kristen Tordella-Williams titled "森をつかむ、つつむーBranching Outー" at the Shiga Kogen Roman Museum from July 13 to September 29, 2025. The exhibition explores the intersections of labor, craft, and technology, mainly using Uchiyama washi paper. Both artists invited community participation and amassed communal memories of the landscape for the exhibition.

Zachary McGee, Assistant Professor of Political Science, with co-authors Christine C. Bird and Jonathan M. King, has published The Influence of Federalist Society Affiliation on Senator Voting in Federal Judicial Nominations in The Journal of Law and Courts, August 15, 2025. ABSTRACTWe argue affiliation with an American conservative legal movement key player, the Federalist Society (FedSoc), provides a low-cost, high-information cue to senators voting on nominees.

Wade Powell, Professor of Biology, has published "Evaluating the World Health Organization Toxic Equivalency Factors of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins, Dibenzofurans, and Biphenylsfor Applicability to Amphibians using an In Vitro Ah Receptor Transactivation Assay" with co-authors Cameron H. Collins, Nonnie E. Cook, and Jon A. Doering in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. ABSTRACTThe World Health Organization (WHO) coordinated an expert meeting to streamline ecological risk assessments for complex mixtures of dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) by establishing 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) equivalency factors (TEFs) for mammals, fishes, and birds.

Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has published "Let’s Teach More Accurate and Inclusive History! The Case of Islamic Contributions to Mathematics and Science" in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, volume 15, issue 2 (July 2025). ABSTRACT Schools commonly teach a history of mathematics and science that is Eurocentric. This selective version of the history of science, called Classical Narrative by some, is rooted in colonial times and mindset, and has reinforced certain negative opinions about other cultures.

Travis Chi Wing Lau, assistant professor of English, has published his first full-length collection of poems, What's Left Is Tender, with Small Harbor Publishing. SUMMARYWhat's Left Is Tender explores tenderness as an act, an affect, a relation, a sensation, a theory. In a series of lyric and formal experiments, this collection interrogates how tenderness is often at the very intersections of disability, queerness, and race and how often that tenderness can also simultaneously mean struggle, discomfort, and even trauma.

Ruth C. Heindel, Dorothy & Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, has published "Land use determines dust geochemistry in central Ohio, US" in Atmospheric Environment, with co-authors Sean Scott, Ansley Grider K'22 and Sadie Richards K'24. Abstract:Anthropogenic dust is often enriched in heavy metals and limiting nutrients, exacerbating the consequences of dust deposition and human exposure to dust.

Jean Blacker, Professor Emerita of French, has been awarded the 2025 Dhira B. Mahoney Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Arthurian Studies from the International Arthurian Society - North American Branch, for her book Arthur, Origins, Identities and the Legendary History of Britain. Arthur, Origins, Identities and the Legendary History of Britain addresses how Arthurian histories incorporating the British foundation myth responded to images of individual or collective identity and how those narratives contributed to those identities.

Royce Novak, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, has published 50 năm kết thúc chiến tranh: Di sản Võ Thị Sáu dưới ánh sáng tư liệu mới with BBC News Tiếng Việt, translated by Alex-Thái Đình Võ. The article reexamines popular accounts of the life of Võ Thị Sáu, a young female martyr known throughout Vietnam, to reconstruct a new, more historically sound narrative of her life.

George McCarthy, Professor of Sociology, has published Shadows of the Enlightenment: The Hidden Politics and Ideology of the Natural and Social Sciences with Monthly Review Press (July 2025). SUMMARY Shadows of the Enlightenment sheds light on the deeply political agenda underlying Western science from the so-called “Age of Reason” to the present. George McCarthy uncovers the economic, social, and historical origins of modern science, and illuminates the a priori and innate features which furnish the justifications for the technical domination and control of nature and humanity.

Austin Johnson, Associate Professor of Sociology, has published "The Political Determinants of LGBTQ Health in the U.S. Southeast" (with coauthors Tiara Giddings, Chase Harless, Tierra James, and Jurni Tollerson) as a chapter in Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality (June 2025). Abstract In this chapter from the Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality, we analyze original survey data from over 4,100 LGBTQ Southerners to examine how political climates shape self-rated physical and mental health.

Margaret C. Stevenson, with co-author Yan Wang, has published "Effects of victim mental illness on child sexual abuse case judgements: Expectation violation theory application" in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect (Vol 167, September 2025). ABSTRACT Background Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a risk factor for mental illness, which might influence jurors' judgments in CSA trials.

Iris Levin, Associate Professor of Biology & Environmental Studies, has published "North American barn swallows pair, mate, and interact assortatively" (with co-authors Omar J. Morosse '24, Toshie Tsunekage, Heather V. Kenny-Duddela, Drew R. Shield, Kaleigh P. Keller, and Rebecca J. Safran) in Behavioral Ecology (28 May 2025). Morosse is Levin's former Honors Student.

Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has published "Additive skew polycyclic codes over F_{p^2}" (with corresponding author Amina Delhoum) in Advances in Mathematics of Communications (June 2025). ABSTRACT In this paper we investigate additive skew polycyclic codes over F_p^2, where p is a prime. We study the structure and the generator polynomials of these codes when they are induced by a vector in (F_p)^n and in (F_{p^2})^n  .

Jessica Pruett, Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, has published “'Sisters Together': Antiracist Activism and the Fight for Trans Inclusion at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival" in Signs: The Journal of Women in Culture and Society (Summer 2025). ABSTRACT The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (Michfest), an annual lesbian feminist cultural event, held its last gathering in 2015 after forty years of existence.

Margaret Stevenson, Associate Professor of Psychology, has published (with co-authors Vaishnavi M. Ravipati, Melina R. Singh, and Cynthia T. Schaefer) "Workplace Violence and Patient Suffering Amid COVID-19 Uniquely Predict Nurses’ Compassion Fatigue" in the journal Traumatology (APA PsycNet advance online publication, June 2025). ABSTRACT Healthcare professionals faced elevated risk of both exposure to workplace violence and patient death and suffering amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has published "Constacyclic codes over general mixed alphabets and their applications" (with co-authors Shakir Ali, Pushpendra Sharma, Elif Segah Oztas, and Atif Ahmad Khan) in Designs, Codes and Cryptography, (Springer, June 2025). ABSTRACT Let q be a prime power and let fi (wi ) be polynomials of degree…

Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has published "Constacyclic codes over general mixed alphabets and their applications" (with co-authors Shakir Ali, Pushpendra Sharma, Elif Segah Oztas, and Atif Ahmad Khan) in Designs, Codes and Cryptography, (Springer, June 2025). ABSTRACT Let q be a prime power and let fi (wi ) be polynomials of degree…

Margaret Stevenson, Associate Professor of Psychology, has published "More Severe Juror Sexual Abuse Strengthens Empathy for Child Sexual Abuse Victims: Meta-Analyses" (with co-authors Tayler M. Jones-Cieminski and Bette L. Bottoms) in Child Maltreatment, the official journal of APSAC (American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children), a Sage publication (June 2025). ABSTRACT Jones et al. (2020) showed that compared to non-abused others, sexually abused jurors are more likely to empathize with child sexual abuse (CSA) victims, perceive victims as credible, and convict defendants in CSA mock trials.

Adam Serfass, Professor of Classics, has published English translations (from the Latin) of Augustine of Hippo, Confessions 8 and Ambrose of Milan, Letter 77 and Letter outside the Collection 1, in The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Vol. 5: Community, edited by Bradley K. Storin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 14–38, 155–179.  SUMMARY: AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO…

Andrew Grace, Assistant Professor of English, has published a new collection of poems: A Brief History of the Midwest, Black Lawrence Press 2025. DESCRIPTION The poems in A Brief History of the Midwest trace the trajectory of the middle of America from its colonization to the present day. Hardships that range from loneliness to the opioid crisis to the largest earthquake in U.S.

Timothy Lomeli, Kenyon College Marilyn Yarbrough Fellow and Visiting Faculty of French, and Tiffane Levick, Associate Professor of Translation and Translation Studies at Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, have published a translation of Gisèle Pineau's Ady, Black Sun. SUMMARY When Man Ray, forty-four, and Adrienne Fidelin, nineteen, cross paths at the Bal Colonial on Rue Blomet during Paris’ roaring twenties, an intense four-year love story is born.

Kelly Fleming, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, recently published "Helen Maria Williams on Militancy: Women's Anger and Political Change in Letters From France (1790, 1796)" in Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 2. Abstract Across the eight volumes of her Letters from France, Helen Maria Williams closely attends to women's participation in the French Revolution. This essay explores Williams's views on militancy by examining her representations of women's participation in the first and final insurrections of the Revolution: the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and the coup of Prairial III (May 20–23, 1795).

Kelly Fleming, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, recently published "Helen Maria Williams on Militancy: Women's Anger and Political Change in Letters From France (1790, 1796)" in Literature Compass, Volume 22, Issue 2. Abstract Across the eight volumes of her Letters from France, Helen Maria Williams closely attends to women's participation in the French Revolution. This essay explores Williams's views on militancy by examining her representations of women's participation in the first and final insurrections of the Revolution: the storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 and the coup of Prairial III (May 20–23, 1795).

Alex Novikoff, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded a 2025-2026 individual fellowship at the Israel Institute for Advanced Study. Founded in 1975 and located on the campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the IIAS offers residential fellowships to distinguished scholars and scientists to pursue their own research without the demands and distractions of university obligations. During his residency, Prof.

Yue Nakayama, Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art, will screen her film "I Get to Have My Own Private Hope" at MadWorld 2025. About Mad World: Mad World 2025 is en route/root! This year’s theme is Queer Ecologies, inspired by Staten Island’s Queer Ecologies Garden by the New York Restoration Project and Alice Austen House. The project celebrates the history of gardens as secret meeting places and sanctuaries for queer people, and features the planting and interpretation of non-binary and sex-changing species, such as ferns.

Katherine Elkins, Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities/Integrated Program in Humane Studies, has been invited to give the keynote address to UNESCO's Regional Office for Egypt and Sudan/Liaison Office for the League of Arab States 4th webinar on "artificial intelligence and culture," 29th April 2025.

Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has co-authored, with Oussama Kabbouch, El Mahdi Mouloua, Long B. Tran '26, and Trang T.T. Nguyen '26, "On the algebraic structure of (σ,a¯)- polycyclic codes" in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, April 2025. The paper introduces a new class of linear codes called (σ,a¯)-polycyclic codes. By examining their algebraic structure, we obtain certain basic properties of these codes.

Noah Aydin, Professor of Mathematics, has co-authored (with Oussama Kabbouch - Moulay Ismail University, Morocco; El Mahdi Mouloua - Moulay Ismail University, Morocco; Long B. Tran '26; and, Trang T.T. Nguyen '26) "On the algebraic structure of (σ,a¯)- polycyclic codes" in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing, April 2025. The paper introduces a new class of linear codes called (σ,a¯)-polycyclic codes.