Celebrating Scholarship 2022

Article: While a number of studies have investigated the effects of makeup on how people are perceived, the vast majority have used professionally applied makeup. Here, we tested the hypothesis that professional makeup is more effective than self-applied makeup. 

Batres, C., Porcheron, A., Courrèges, S., & Russell, R. 2021. “Professional versus self-applied makeup: Do makeup artists add value?” Perception, 50(8): 709-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211029218 

Article: Tests of theories of mate choice often rely on data gathered in White, industrialised samples and this is especially the case for studies of facial attraction. Our understanding of preferences for sexual dimorphism is currently in flux and a number of hypotheses require testing in more diverse participant samples. 

Boothroyd, L.G., Jucker, J. L., Thornborrow, T., Tovee, M.J., Batres, C., & Penton-Voak, I. 2021. “Testing mate choice hypotheses in a transitional small scale population.” Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 7: 220-244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-021-00173-5 🔓

Article: The behavioral immune system posits that disgust functions to protect animals from pathogen exposure. Therefore, cues of pathogen risk should be a primary driver influencing variation in disgust. Yet, to our knowledge, neither the relationship between current pathogen risk and disgust, nor the correlation between objective and perceived pathogen risk have been addressed using ecologically valid measures in a global sample.  

Hlay, J.K., Albert, G., Batres, C., Richardson, G., Placek, C., Arnocky, S., Lieberman, D., & Hodges-Simeon, C. R. 2021. “The evolution of disgust for pathogen detection and avoidance.” Scientific Reports 11: 13468. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91712-3 🔓

Article: Over the past 10 years, Oosterhof and Todorov’s valence–dominance model has emerged as the most prominent account of how people evaluate faces on social dimensions. In this model, two dimensions (valence and dominance) underpin social judgements of faces. Because this model has primarily been developed and tested in Western regions, it is unclear whether these findings apply to other regions. 

Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L.M., Flake, J.K.,... Batres, C.,... & Coles, N.A. 2021. “To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?” Nature Human Behaviour 5: 159-169.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2 

Article: The status of disgust as a sociomoral emotion is debated. We conducted a stringent test of whether social stimuli (specifically, political outgroup members) can elicit physical disgust, as distinct from moral or metaphorical disgust.  

Landy, J. F., Rottman, J., Batres, C., & Leimgruber, K. L. 2021. “Disgusting Democrats and repulsive Republicans: Members of political outgroups are considered physically gross.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Online first: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211065923 

Article: Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual-level factors (sex, age, parasitic history, conservatism, religiosity, and preferred interpersonal distance) and cultural-level factors (regional temperature, parasite stress, regional conservatism, collectivism, and religiosity) in predicting these affective-touching behaviors.  

Sorokowska, A., Saluja, S., Sorokowski, P.,... Batres, C.,... & Croy, I. 2021. “Affective interpersonal touch in close relationships: A cross-cultural perspective”. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin  47(12): 1705-1721. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220988373 

Article: A wide range of literature connects sex ratio and mating behaviours in non-human animals. However, research examining sex ratio and human mating is limited in scope. 

Walter, K.V., Conroy-Beam, D., Buss, D.M.,... Batres, C.,... & Zupančič, M. 2021. “Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1115 🔓

Article: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes might have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we tested the effectiveness of reappraisal, an emotion-regulation strategy that modifies how one thinks about a situation.  

Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C.A.,... Batres, C.,... & Moshontz, H. 2021. “A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Nature Human Behaviour  5: 1089-1110.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x

Chapter: The chapters in this book share how practitioners teaching in library settings have evolved their personal pedagogies. Each chapter exposes the authors underlying values and beliefs, experiences and experiments, and what the authors have done to evolve their personal pedagogies. 

Boutin-Cooper, Anna. 2021. "No One is Alone: A Critical Feminist Pedagogy," in Library Pedagogies: Personal Reflections from Library Practitioners, edited by Sam Aston and Andrew Walsh. Huddersfield, UK: Innovative Libraries. https://librarypedagogies.wordpress.com/2021/03/05/anna-boutin-cooper

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In this paper, Peter Fields (Biology) and Gabriel Brandt (Chemistry) work with F&M students to try to understand the structure and stability of a coral protein. The reason this is important is that temperature and stability are often linked in proteins, and we know that increases in water temperature are causing coral bleaching throughout the world's oceans. 

Perez, A. M., Wolfe, J. A., Schermerhorn, J. T., Qian, Y., Cela, B. A., Kalinowski, C. R., Largoza, G. E., Fields, P. A., & Brandt, G. S. 2021. "Thermal stability and structure of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from the coral acropora millepora." RSC Advances, 11(17), 10364–10374. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0RA10119B 

Chapter: The Early Church has produced a diversified and influential tradition of commenting on the Bible. The tradition is rich in content, in methods, and in the goals pursued. The present volume offers a selection of papers read at an international colloquium held in Leuven in December 2018.

Cooper, Stephen. 2021. "Ambrosiaster as Paul-Commentator: Exegetical Methods and Aims in His Treatment of Colossians." In Early Christian Commentators of the New Testament: Essays on their Aims, Methods, and Strategies, edited by Joseph Verheyden and Tobias Nicklas,147–190. Leuven: Brepols. https://fandm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1275356285 

Chapter: This extensive volume examines and evaluates Augustine as both a receiver and a source of tradition. The contributors—all distinguished Augustinian scholars influenced by J. Patout Burns and interested in furthering his intellectual legacy—survey Augustine’s life and writings in the context of North African tradition, philosophical and literary traditions of antiquity, the Greek patristic tradition, and the tradition of Augustine’s Latin contemporaries. These various pieces, when assembled, tell a comprehensive story of Augustine’s significance, both then and now. 

Cooper, Stephen. 2021. "Augustine and Marius Victorinus." In Augustine and Tradition Influences, Contexts, Legacy: Essays in Honor of J. Patout Burns, edited by David G. Hunter and Jonathan P. Yates, 289-305. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 

Article: Focusing on political and interpersonal conflict in the U.S., particularly racial conflict, but with an eye to similar conflicts throughout the world, the authors argue that the enactive approach to mind as life can be elaborated to provide an exigent framework for present social-political problems. 

Fourlas, G. N., & Cuffari, E. C. 2022. “Enacting ought: ethics, anti-racism, and interactional possibilities.” Topoi, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-021-09783-w  🔓

Article: Prompted by their commentators, the authors take this response as an opportunity to clarify the premises, attitudes, and methods of their enactive approach to human languaging. 

Cuffari, E. C., Di Paolo, E. A., & De Jaegher, H. 2021. “Letting language be: reflections on enactive method.” Filosofia Unisinos/Unisinos Journal of Philosophy 22(1):117-124. https://doi.org/10.4013/fsu.2021.221.14  🔓

Conference/Presentation:  Cuffari, Elena and Hanne De Jaegher. 2021 "Linguistic Bodies: A Conversation with Authors Elena Cuffari and Hanne De Jaegher," EiDCT: Interdisciplinary Dance, Cognition, and Technology Conference, Universidade Federal Da Bahia (UFBA). Virtual Conference, December 1. 

Conference/Presentation:  Cuffari, Elena. 2021. "Participatory Patterns in Human-Capuchin Interactions." CILC5: 5th International Conference in Interactivity, Language, and Cognition: Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Cognitive and Language Sciences at University of Warsaw. Virtual Conference, September 15-19. https://hill.psych.uw.edu.pl/cilc5/

Article: This study explored the role of information in the consultation process and how it interplayed with the historical context, political pressures, trust, and mistrust among stakeholders and rightsholders. 

Moreland, H.R., De Santo, E.M., and MacDonald, B.H. 2021 “Information source and channel preference in marine policy development: The Nova Scotian Eastern Shore Islands Area of Interest.”  Facets 6: 1539-1569. https://dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0109  🔓

Article: In 2018, Brazil announced the designation of two new Large Scale Marine Protected Areas (LSMPAs), resulting in an increase in protection from 1.5% to 26.36% of the country’s maritime territory. The authors employ an agenda-setting theory to analyze the Brazilian LSMPAs as a causal case study, unpacking the factors that led to their creation, and providing insights about the process of reaching global targets. 

Gonçalves, L.R. and De Santo, E.M. 2021. “Unpacking the process: how agenda-setting theory explains the case of creating large-scale marine protected areas in Brazil.” Environmental Politics 31(2): 205-225. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2021.1915037 

Book Review: Devoted to assessing the state of ocean and coastal governance, knowledge, and management, the Ocean Yearbook provides information in one convenient resource. As in previous editions, articles provide multidisciplinary expert perspectives on contemporary issues. Each new volume draws on policy studies, international relations, international and comparative law, management, marine sciences, economics, and social sciences. 

De Santo, E.M. 2021 Review of Beyond Polarization: Public Process and the Unlikely Story of California’s Marine Protected Area, by Steven Yaffee (2020), for The Ocean Yearbook 35: https://brill.com/view/title/59750 

Chapter: 

Tiller, R., Nyman, E., Mendenhall, E. and De Santo, E. 2022. “The role of humanity’s responsibility towards biodiversity: the BBNJ treaty.” In Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations Theory, edited by Hannes Hansen-Magnusson and Antje Vetterlein, 358-368. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-on-Responsibility-in-International-Relations/Hansen-Magnusson-Vetterlein/p/book/9780367218195 

Chapter:  If an eighteenth-century social reformer were to find himself suddenly in the late twentieth century and surveyed the characteristics of inmates in prison, he could be forgiven for thinking that nothing had happened regarding criminal justice policy in the intervening two-and-a-half centuries. 

Eigen, Joel Peter. 2021. The 'Mad from the Bad' Behind Bars: Men's Mental Illness in Prisons.” In Comprehensive Men's Mental Health, edited by David Castle and David Coghill, 169-76. Cambridge University Press.  https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108646765 

Review Essay: How did English and Welsh medical practitioners enter the common-law courtroom as expert witnesses, and how can one assess their influence on crime-scene investigations and courtroom testimony? 

Eigen, Joel Peter. 2021. Review Essay, "Surgeons at the Bar: From the Crime Scene to the Courtroom," Law and History Review 39 (4): 867-73. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248021000614

Creative Work: Sandra Eula Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who employs a range of unconventional artistic processes to pose questions about form and materiality. Her works use raw elemental materials, which she transforms through a series of deliberative steps. As if she were performing a science experiment, these materials are combined then burned in kilns, smashed together, or otherwise manipulated into a range of creative artifacts. 

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2021. “A Map is Not the Territory.” Exhibition at the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, September 9-October 30. https://www.muhlenberg.edu/gallery/pastexhibitions/sandraeulalee/ 🔓

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2021. A Map is Not the Territory.  Exhibition catalog for the Martin Art Gallery at Muhlenberg College exhibition, September 9-October 30. Allentown, PA: Martin Art Gallery Press. https://www.muhlenberg.edu/media/contentassets/pdf/about/gallery/sandra-eula-lee-catalog.pdf 

Exhibition: Lee, Sandra Eula. 2021. “Darkest Before Dawn.” Exhibition at the Ethan Cohen KuBe, November-January. Beacon, NY.  https://www.artforum.com/artguide/ethan-cohen-kube-19624/darkest-before-dawn-art-in-a-time-of-uncertainty-189290 

Exhibition: Lee, Sandra Eula. 2021. “Mobilizing the Landscape.” Exhibition at the Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, NH, Sept 19-Dec 17. 

Conference/Presentation: Lee, Sandra Eula. 2021. “In Need of Major Support: Building Strong Transitions From Foundations to Specific Majors.” Session 7 at the FATE Conference, UNC Charlotte College of Art and Architecture. https://www.foundationsart.org/2021conference

Conference/Presentation: Lee, Sandra Eula. 2021. “The End or The Reinvention of the Universal Foundation.” College Art Association Conference, New York, NY. https://caa.confex.com/caa/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/7910 

E-Publication: Selected from over 300 applications to Vox Populi’s 2020 Juried Show Open Call, Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed to Be Like This features recent artworks by 51 artists from all over the USA and beyond, offering a plethora of compelling glimpses at creative practice today. Every year for the past 16 years, Vox Populi’s juried exhibition offers audiences and artists alike the opportunity to discover new ideas, shared tendencies, and emerging strategies for exploring pressing aesthetic, social, and political issues. 

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2021. “U-Turn.” “Seeds in a wild garden.” “Artist Statement.” Online exhibition and epublication: Make/Shift: It Wasn’t Supposed to be Like This, 112-114. https://voxpopuligallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MakeShift-HighRes-Vox.pdf            

https://voxpopuligallery.org/exhibitions/make-shift/  

Article: This essay engages critically with the idea of the archive and its postcolonial reconsiderations, to show how, through the work of activists and artists, the objects migrants leave behind during the Mediterranean crossing acquire an afterlife as material reworked into art, and create aspirational spaces of futurity. By analyzing a series of artistic and archival experiences based on migrants’ discarded belongings, this chapter argues that they contribute to creating a heterogeneous, transnational community whose memories establish counter-narratives about migration and displacement. 

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2021. “Migrant stories between the archive and the garbage dump in the Mediterranean." In Transnational Narratives of Migration and Exile: Perspectives from the Humanities, edited by Camilla Erichsen Skalle and Anje Muller Gjesdal, 166-188. Oslo: Scandinavian UP (Universitetsforlaget). https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/9788215042428-2021-09 🔓

Book Review: The posthuman, as this volume articulates it, does not suggest a retreat from an engagement with the world - on the contrary, it shows how the posthumanities are deeply relevant to the social, political, and ecological concerns of our times. which the authors and artists discussed in this volume explore and represent in their work. 

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2021. Review of Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film. Boundaries and Identity, edited by Enrica Maria Ferrara. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.  Arabeschi n. 17:  242-243. http://www.arabeschi.it//uploads/pdf/030%20Faleschini%20Lerner.pdf 🔓

Conference/Presentation: Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2021. "Guest Stars: Performing Hospitality in the Italian Film Industry." The Politics of Casting in Media International Conference at University of South Wales. Virtual Conference, November 20. 

Conference/Presentation: Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2021. "Spike Lee and Black Italians' Film Narratives." Migrations, Citizenships, Inclusion: Narratives of Plural Italy, between Imaginary and Diversity Politics. XXVI International Conference of Film Studies, Roma Tre University. Virtual Conference, May 7. 

Conference/Presentation: Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2021. "A Transnational Approach to the Undergraduate Italian Studies Curriculum: A Case Study."  Transnational Italian Studies Working Group. 2021 MLA Annual Convention. Virtual Conference, January. 

Reference Work: The primary outcome of the GYNOCINE PROJECT: WOMEN FILMMAKERS, FEMINISM, AND FILM STUDIES directed by BARBARA ZECCHI, is to develop an open access online database that offers unique resources related to the production of women filmmakers around the world. 

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2021. "Cecilia Mangini: Documentary Filmmaking as Freedom." Gynocine Project: Women Filmmakers, Feminism, and Film Studies. Ed. Barbara Zecchi. www.gynocine.com/cecilia-mangini 

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2021. "Costanza Quatriglio e il cinema dell'attenzione." Gynocine Project: Women Filmmakers, Feminism, and Film Studies. Ed. Barbara Zecchi. www.gynocine.com/costanza-quatriglio 

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2021. "Paola Randi and the Power of Imagination." Gynocine Project: Women Filmmakers, Feminism, and Film Studies. Ed. Barbara Zecchi. www.gynocine.com/paola-randi 

Blog Post: Most of our students enter college without any Italian at all and a lot of our teaching is devoted to language instruction. This has traditionally been seen as a liability in terms of opportunities for intellectual engagement, but it carries potential in terms of developing new and comprehensive approaches to the Italian curriculum. 

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini, Arianna Fognani and Maya Greenshpan. 2021. "Teaching Italian within a Transnational Framework: Mahmood's "Soldi" in the elementary Italian classroom." Blog post in Blog of the Transnational Italian Studies Working Group. H-Net ItalianDiaspora. November 8, 2021.  https://networks.h-net.org/node/7645/blog/transnational-italian-studies-working-group/8928783/blog-teaching-italian 🔓

Article: To address the legacy effects of human activity on water quality, it is helpful to understand how land managers make decisions that directly impact legacy sources of pollution generated by previous generations, as opposed to current practices. Using data from an economic field experiment, we examine the effect of information about the cause and relative quantity of streambank erosion on rural landowners' willingness to invest in stream restoration initiatives. 

Fleming, P.M., Palm-Forster, L.H. and Kelley, L.E. 2021. “The effect of legacy pollution information on landowner investments in water quality: lessons from economic experiments in the field and the lab.” Environmental Research Letters 16(4): 045006.   https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abea33 🔓

Article: This decision-scenario case study is designed to be suitable for both online and face-to-face instruction in an undergraduate-level agribusiness, agricultural policy, or business strategy course. The case challenges students to assume the role of decision-makers for a struggling family-owned dairy farm to determine whether the farm should scale up, diversify, or exit the industry. 

Savchenko, O.M., Fleming, P.M. and Zambito, K. 2021. “The Future of Four Creeks Farm: Scale-Up, Diversify, or Exit?”  Applied Economics Teaching Resources (AETR) 3(2): 26-38. https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.312080  🔓

Article: In this review, a brief history of the growth of enzymology, its reliance on a reductionist philosophy, and its contributions to our understanding of biological systems is given.  Examples then are provided of research techniques, based on a reductionist approach, that have advanced our knowledge about enzyme adaptation to environmental stresses, including stability assays, enzyme kinetics, and the impact of solute composition on enzyme function. 

Fields, P. A. 2021. “Reductionism in the study of enzyme adaptation.” Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 254: 10574. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpb.2021.110574 

Article: Rotenone is widely used in lake and reservoir management for the eradication of exotic fish. However, nontarget effects of rotenone on freshwater organisms such as zooplankton and macroinvertebrates are of concern because of the ecological importance of these organisms in aquatic food webs as a resource base for fish, especially when rotenone is applied to lakes prior to native fish reintroduction. The objective of our study was to determine the effects of rotenone on nontarget zooplankton and macroinvertebrate species assemblages in a headwater mountain lake where rotenone was applied to remove exotic brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis; Banff, AB Canada). 

Beaulieu, J., D. Trepanier-Leroux, J. M. Fischer, M. H. Olson, S. Thibodeau, S. Humphries, D. J. Fraser & A. M. Derry. 2021. “Rotenone for exotic trout eradication: nontarget impacts on aquatic communities in a mountain lake.” Lake and Reservoir Management 37(3): 323-338.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10402381.2021.1912864 

Book: In this meticulously-researched book, Van Gosse offers a sweeping reappraisal of the formative era of American democracy from the Constitution's ratification through Abraham Lincoln’s election, chronicling the rise of an organized, visible black politics focused on the quest for citizenship, the vote, and power within the free states. Full of untold stories and thorough examinations of political battles, this book traces a First Reconstruction of black political activism following emancipation in the North. 

Gosse, Van. 2021. The First Reconstruction Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: U of North Carolina Press. https://fandm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1229125642 

Article: Despite the emphasis on a sick young woman’s consciousness, a survey of the critical literature on Wings of the Dove suggests that James wrote about consciousness uninflected by an ill female body. 

Goldberg, Shari. 2021. “Invisible Illness.” J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 9(1): 121-128. https://doi.org/10.1353/jnc.2021.0014 

Chapter: A volume of the new Complete Theater of Molière, whose texts are based on the original editions, presented and extensively annotated. For the comedies-ballets, the scores are given. 

Gustafson, Bruce. 2021. "Les Amants magnifiques" [score] in Thèâtre complêt of Jean-Baptiste Molière, edited by Charles Mazouer, 4:337–521. Paris: Classiques Garnier. 

Booklet for Recording: The Complete works for Harpsichord of Jean Henry D Anglebert performed by Karen Flint on the 1627 and 1635 Ioannes Ruckers Harpsichords and the Anonymous c. 1690 Parisian harpsichord inscribed Ioannes Ruckers, 1620 from the Flint Collection of Antique Instruments with notes by Bruce Gustafson. 

Gustafson, Bruce. 2021. Jean Henry D’Anglebert: Complete Works for Harpsichord. (Karin Karen Flint, harpsichordist). Compact disc pamphlet. Plectra Music, PL22101 [4 CDs]. 

Chapter: Augustine of Hippo's The City of God is generally considered to be one of the key works of Late Antiquity.  This Companion volume includes specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars that provide new insights into the text. 

Hammer, Dean. 2021. “Roman Religion and Just Power: Books IV and V of The City of God. ” In The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s City of God, edited by Fr. David Meconi, 81-101. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108505307

Chapter: Reading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day. 

Hammer, Dean. 2021. “Reading Sovereignty in Augustus’ Res Gestae.” In Reading Texts on Sovereignty: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought, edited by Antonis Balasopoulos and Stella Achilleos, 33-40. London: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350099739.ch-004 

Short Story: Fictional short story of teenagers navigating complicated grief. 

Hartman, Kabi. 2021. “The Grief School.”  Short story, published online November 15. https://porterhousereview.org/articles/the-grief-school/  🔓

Creative Work: Acrylic pieces on canvas accepted in HERstory: The Women in Our Lives exhibit at the Art Associates Gallery, Inc. In Albany, NY. Pieces titled Earth Tunes; Praise; and Easter Sunrise Service were accepted into this show that featured seven artists and their works. 

The piece shown is titled Easter Sunrise Service.  Done in a childlike manner that would have been the artist at around 12 yo (Girl in red dress).  The actual home was always full of turmoil that most families dealt with - lack of money, trying to stay off the dole, trying to place church and school at the forefront. We normally took family photographs in front of dad's car while he took the picture. He would then head upstairs to our home while we, children and mother, went to church.  Note the turmoil in the sky, the fox fur drape on mother that was shared with a number of women in our neighborhood to share during special occasions; the large car which was always the center of attention in most photos during this era of the 60's.  But we stand firmly planted to show the world the ideal Black Baptist family. 

Hathaway, Gretchel L. 2022. “Earth Tunes.” “Praise.” “Easter Sunrise Service.” Acrylic pieces on canvas accepted in HERstory: The Women in Our Lives exhibit at the Art Associates Gallery, Inc. In Albany, NY. February 4-28. https://events.timesunion.com/event/-herstory-the-women-in-our-lives--m736c53ui2 

Book: Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means—and importantly how it feels. 

Hirsch, Eric. 2021. Acts of Growth: Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru. Redwood City: Stanford U Press. https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33903

Chapter: Human Rights after Corporate Personhood offers a rich overview of current debates, and seeks to transcend the "outrage response" often found in public discourse and corporate legal theory. 

Jaros, Peter. 2020. “Immortal and Intangible? Corporate Metaphysics in Jacksonian America.” In Human Rights after Corporate Personhood: An Uneasy Merger, edited by Jody Greene and Sharif Youssef, 288-324. Toronto: U of Toronto P. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487535285-011 

Article: Developmental transitions are typically tightly controlled at the transcriptional level. Two of these transitions involve the induction of the embryo maturation program midway through seed development and its repression during the vegetative phase of plant growth. 

Ruiz, K.A., Pelletier, J.M., Wang, Y., Feng, MJ., Behr, J.S., Ðào, T.Q., Li, B., Kliebenstein, D., Harada, J.J. and Jenik, P.D. 2021. “A re-evaluation of the role of the ASIL trihelix transcription factors as repressors of the seed maturation program” Plant Direct 5: e345. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.345  🔓

Chapter: Visualizing Dunhuang: The Lo Archive Photographs of the Mogao and Yulin Caves presents for the first time in print the comprehensive photographic archive—created in the 1940s by James C. M. Lo (1902–1987) and his wife, Lucy L. Lo (b. 1920)—of the remarkable Buddhist caves at Dunhuang. This extraordinary nine-volume set features more than 3,000 of the original black-and-white photographs that provide an indispensable historical record. The final volume is a collection of essays that addresses the complexity and richness of the Lo Archive, and how Dunhuang has been viewed from ancient times to the present.

Kent, Richard K. and Dora C.Y. Ching. 2021. “The Lo Archive's Place in Documentary, Expeditionary, and Art Photography during China's Republican Period” In Visualizing Dunhuang: Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves, edited by Dora C. Y. Ching, 23-67. Princeton: P.  Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691208169/visualizing-dunhuang 

Creative Work: Kent, Richard K. 2021. "Secret Passage" and "Blue Shed, Ohio". Nimrod International Journal 64 (2) (Spring/Summer): 19-20. 

Creative Work: Kent, Richard K. 2021. “Bicyclist & Shops, Lancaster, PA.” Work selected for the Circle Gallery, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD: American Landscapes 2021. 

Creative Work: Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (FAVA), Oberlin, OH: FAVA's Juried Biennial Photography Show 2021 (Juror: Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art. One work selected: New Holland & Franklin, 2nd Series, 7X (from Lessons in Recursion). 

Creative Work: Kent, Richard K. 2021. "Brook Lawn Farm Orchard, 4X (from Lessons in Recursion).” Work selected for the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA: Art of the State. http://statemuseumpa.org/artofthestate/ 

Article: This study highlights how a mismatch between an organization’s goals and its legal form and structure can develop over time, and how a hybrid model may present a solution. 

Kurland, N. B. and Schneper, W. D. 2021. “A social enterprise’s hybridizing journey to reconcile goals and structure with identity.” Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. Ahead of print http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2021.1995029 🔓

Book Review: Hoffman writes a passionate plea for his fellow academics to take heed: Society is devaluing science and we increasingly see more arcane expressions of our expertise published in obscure journals and read by an even more obscure few. 

Kurland, N. B. 2021. Review of The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World by Andrew J. Hoffman. Business and Society Review 126(4): 539-541. https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.12243 

Conference/Presentation: Kurland, N., Ardia, D., Kourelis, K., and Escudero, R. 2021. “Galvanizing engaged scholarship at the organizational level: Experience of a U.S. liberal arts college.” Presented at the 37th EGOS Colloquium “Organizing for an Inclusive Society: Meanings, Motivations & Mechanisms" in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Germany, July 8-10, 2021 (online). (Kurland and Escudero attended and presented.) 

Article: Many of the authors associated with the Nouveau Roman (New Novel) made their first trips to the United States in the early 1960s. These experiences had a profound and lasting effect on their lives and their work. Previously documented in interviews, biographical texts and fictional works, the enthusiastic welcome they received in U.S. academic circles as well as their impressions of American universities are further elucidated in the letters they wrote to one another. This written correspondence also reveals a sense of solidarity that many would later deny. 

Landfried, Carrie C. 2021. "Echanges épistolaires des Nouveaux Romanciers: leur accueil universitaire aux Etats-Unis." In Le Nouveau Roman et les Etats-Unis, dir. Sophie Guermès, 49-63. Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058920 

Book: This volume contains all of the preserved, and mostly never before published, correspondence of seven authors associated with the Nouveau Roman (New Novel) literary phenomenon in France. Beginning with Claude Oliier and Alain Robbe-Grillet's exchanges immediately after the Second World War, the letters detail their entry into the world of editing and publishing and subsequent interactions with Michel Butor, Claude Mauriac, Robert Pinget, Nathalie Sarraute, and Claude Simon. Friendships and alliances are formed, maintained, strengthened, or dissolved and acts of solidarity are followed by estrangements and reconciliations in these missives that allow the reader to see these authors in a new light. 

Landfried, Carrie and Oliver Wagner, editors. 2021. Nouveau Roman, Correspondance 1946-1999. Paris: Gallimard. https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Blanche/Nouveau-Roman#

Article: In Davide Ferrario’s Dopo mezzanotte (After Midnight) (2004) the Mole Antonelliana serves to inspire a story, within which it endures as the central locus of the plot and setting. In Guardami (‘Look at me’) (1999a) a similar role is played by ‘a body’ (belonging to a porn star), while in La luna su Torino (45th Parallel) (2013), such a role is played by ‘a line’. Ferrario’s architecture of cinema thus consists of the adoption of a primary element and formal constraint (the body, the building, the line), which in turn are used as a means of generating a cinematic story. Whether integral to a comedy or to a drama, these stories, thus generated, do not remain sequestered in an isolated aesthetic, but engage powerfully with important questions of our times: What does a ‘balanced’ life look like? How does it feel to adopt a wholly secular view of the human body, to see and live within such a body? 

Lerner, L. Scott. 2019. “Davide Ferrario’s Architecture of Cinema: Body, Building, Line.” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 7(2): 233-248. https://doi.org/10.1386/jicms.7.2.233_1 

Chapter: A collection of essays exploring the importance of Paris in postwar French Jewish writing. 

Lerner, L. Scott. 2021. “Past Imperfect: Mourning and the Work of Memory in Holocaust Memoirs.” In Jewish Shadows in the City of Lights, edited by Sara R. Horowitz and Amira Bojadzija-Dan Julia Creet, 141-159. SUNY UP.  Book link: https://sunypress.edu/Books/S/Shadows-in-the-City-of-Light

Review Essay: Review of 5 publications in a short essay. The journal is behind 2 years; the publication appeared in 2022. 

Lerner, L. Scott. 2020. “La società cristiana nello specchio dell’ebraismo visibile.” La rassegna mensile d’Israel 86.1: 205-209. https://doi.org/10.1400/286658

Video Overview: In the video (below photo) I talk about three, overlapping areas of scholarly activity: (1) studio research and exhibition (i.e. publication) (2) historical research (resulting in a major institutional grant and exhibition) (3) exhibition curation (spanning both studio and historical). Rather than a "deep dive," the talk is more of a "broad swim." 

Podcast: Maksymowicz, Virginia and Blaise Tobia. 2021. "The Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) – When Cultural Workers Were Paid Salaried Workers." Podcast: Story Search From Special Collections, The Free Library of Philadelphia, July 17, 2021. S2 Episode 1. https://anchor.fm/freelibraryofphiladelphia/episodes/S2-Episode-1-The-Comprehensive-Employment-and-Training-Act-CETA--When-Cultural-Workers-Were-Paid-Salaried-Workers-e14ju9b>  🔓

Webinar: Maksymowicz, Virginia, Blaise Tobia, and Colleen Hooper. 2021. "CETA and the Arts," Art Department, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Wednesday, December 15. Webinar done in conjunction with the library exhibition, "For The Greatest Number: The New Deal Revisited." Webinar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLOJUVep1OI>  🔓

Panel Presentation: Maksymowicz, Virginia, Blaise Tobia, Larry Racioppo, Meryl Meisler, Rochelle Slovin. 2021. "Artists Look Back for a Path Forward.” Panel Presentation (Radio Broadcast and Podcast). April 14. https://wfuv.org/content/artists-look-back-path-forward>  🔓

Exhibition: Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2021. “Don’t Shut Up.” Exhibition at the Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY,  August 21-December 31. http://dontshutup2021.com/ 

Exhibition: Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2021. Curatorial project and an exhibition of works at “Sbagliato (Mistaken), from Rome to Philadelphia” exhibition held at the America-Italy Society of Philadelphia. October. https://www.aisphila.org/sbagliato.html 

Exhibition: Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2021.“Immersion.” Exhibition at The Art Trust, West Chester, PA August 11- September 24. https://www.thearttrust.org/2021-exhibits-to-date 

Exhibition: Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2021. “PSSST.”  Exhibition at the Tri-State and Philadelphia Sculptors, Wilma W. Daniels Gallery, Wilmington, NC https://philasculptors.org/pssst 

Exhibition: Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2021. Exhibition of works at the “Unprecedented Times: A Socially Distanced Art Project" exhibition held at the Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. February 11-April 30. https://sciencecenter.org/news/exquisite-corpse-for-unprecedented-times-a-socially-distanced-art-project 

Exhibition: Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2021. Exhibition of works and Installation of exhibit at the Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, Green Line Studios, Philadelphia, PA. October. https://www.philaopenstudios.org/artist-profile/tandm-arts 

Chapter: In this new essay collection, opposing ideas that often define Buddhist communities—secular versus religious, modern versus traditional, Western versus Eastern—are unpacked and critically examined. 

McMahan, David L. 2021. “Buddhism and Secular Subjectivities: Individualism and Fragmentation in the Mirrors of Secularism.” In Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition, edited by Richard Payne, 56-78. Boulder: Shambhala. https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/papers/buddhism-and-secular-subjectivities_mcmahan-david 

Book: Presents a unique 'theory of change' to account for how PB programs theoretically produce social and political change. 

Wampler, Brian, Stephanie McNulty, and Michael Touchton. 2021. Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective. Oxford University Press. 

Book: Gerrymandering: The Politics of Redistricting in the United States unpacks the complicated process of gerrymandering, reflecting upon the normative issues to which it gives rise. Tracing the history of partisan gerrymandering from its nineteenth-century roots to the present day, the book explains its legal status and implementation, its consequences, and possible options for reform. 

Medvic, Stephen K. 2021. Gerrymandering: The Politics of Redistricting in the United States.  Medford, MA:  Polity Press. https://fandm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1201671588 

Article: Spectral reflectance properties of eight hydrated minerals including zeolites, sulfates, and silica-rich sinter were investigated under simulated Mars surface conditions. 

Turenne, Nathalie, Parkinson, Alexis, Applin, Daniel, Mann, Paul, Cloutis, Edward, and Mertzman, Stanley. 2022. “Spectral Reflectance Properties of Minerals Exposed to Martian Surface Conditions: Implications for Spectroscopy-Based Mineral Detection on Mars.” Planetary and Space Science 210, (January): 105377.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2021.105377 

Article: We undertook a Mars rover-like deployment at a terrestrial analogue site consisting of active and relict perennial hypersaline springs at the East German Creek site in west-central Manitoba, Canada. This site serves as an analogue for possible long-lived springs on Mars. 

Cloutis, E., Applin, D., Connell, S., Kubanek, K., Kuik, J., Parkinson, A., Ramirez, M., Turenne, N., Mertzman, S. 2021 “A simulated rover exploration of a long-lived hypersaline spring environment: The East German Creek (MB, Canada) Mars analogue site.” Planetary and Space Science 195: 105130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2020.105130 

Article: The exploration of Mars can benefit from rover-like exploration of terrestrial analogue sites. We undertook such a study of the Lake St. Martin (LSM) impact structure in Manitoba, Canada. 

Cloutis, E., Stromberg, J., Applin, D., Connell, S., Kubanek, K., Kuik, J., Lechowicz, A., Parkinson, A., Ramirez, M., Turenne, N., Cieszecki, J., Germinaro, M., Kum, R., Parson, R., Walker, R., Wiens, E., Wiens, J. Mertzman, S. 2021.  “The Lake St. Martin impact structure (Manitoba, Canada): A simulated rover exploration of a sulfate-bearing impact crater.” Planetary and Space Science 208: 105336. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2021.105336 

Article: Ilmenite is an important mineral for understanding lunar evolution. Ilmenite is also a primary ore of titanium on the Earth. Here we present a comprehensive examination of the spectral-compositional-structural relationships of ilmenites and related FeTi oxides. 

Izawa, Matthew R. M., Applin, Daniel M., Morison, Matthew Q., Cloutis, Edward A., Mann, Paul, Mertzman, Stanley A. 2021. “Reflectance spectroscopy of ilmenites and related Ti and Ti-Fe oxides (200-2500 nm): Spectral – compositional – structural relationships.” Icarus 362: 114423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114423 

Article: The rock type most commonly associated with komatiite throughout Earth’s history is tholeiitic basalt. Despite this well-known association, the link between komatiite and basalt formation is still debated. We present major and trace element data for tholeiitic basalts (∼7·5 wt% MgO) and dunites (46–48 wt% MgO) from the Palaeoproterozoic Winnipegosis Komatiite Belt (WKB), which, along with previous data for WKB komatiites (17–26 wt% MgO), are utilized to explore the potential links between komatiite and basalt via crystallization processes. 

Waterton, P., Pearson, D. G., Mertzman, S. A., Mertzman, K. R., and Kjaregaard, B. A. 2020. “A fractional Crystallization Link between Komatiites, Basalts, and Dunites of the Paleoproterozoic Winnipegosis Komatiite Belt, Manitoba, Canada.” Journal of Petrology 61(5): egaa052. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa052 

Chapter: From German unification in 1871 through the early 1960s, confessional tensions between Catholics and Protestants were a source of deep division in German society. Engaging this period of historic strife, Germany and the Confessional Divide focuses on three traumatic episodes: the Kulturkampf waged against the Catholic Church in the 1870s, the collapse of the Hohenzollern monarchy and state-supported Protestantism after World War I, and the Nazi persecution of the churches. It argues that memories of these traumatic experiences regularly reignited confessional tensions. Only as German society became increasingly secular did these memories fade and tensions ease.

Mitchell, Maria. 2021. “Gender and the Imperfect Interconfessionalism of the CDU, 1945-1965.” In Germany and the Confessional Divide, 1871-1989, edited by Mark Ruff and Thomas Großbölting, 170-193. New York, Providence: Berghahn Books. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/RuffGermany 

https://fandm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1276901948 

Book: Neuromatic is a wildly original take on the entangled histories of science and religion that lie behind our brain-laden present: from eighteenth-century revivals to the origins of neurology and mystic visions of mental piety in the nineteenth century; from cyberneticians, Scientologists, and parapsychologists in the twentieth century to contemporary claims to have discovered the neural correlates of religion. 

Modern, John. 2021. Neuromatic, or; a Particular History of Religion and the Brain. University of Chicago Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo105080439.html

https://fandm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1227789878

Book Review: Review of Jasper K. Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017). 

Modern, John. 2021. “In the Age of Cybernetic Systems What Like a Bullet Can Undeceive?,” Political Theology Network (April 29, 2021). https://politicaltheology.com/in-the-age-of-cybernetic-systems-what-like-a-bullet-can-undeceive/  🔓

Series Editor: The series aims to renew the study of religion as a field of inquiry that is open in terms of disciplinary affiliation. It publishes scholars and writers from every academic division and intellectual vantage. What defines the series are a few fundamentals: experiment in conceiving the stories that engage the past and the present, interest in questions of voice and authority, and attention to the quality of writing. 

Lofton, Kathryn and John Modern, series editors. 2021. Class 200: New Studies in Religion. Chicago: Chicago U Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/CLA200.html 

Chapter: This volume serves as a useful guide for faculty invested in teaching South Asian women writers or those who might be considering inclusion of these writers in existing courses on other topics. 

Mongia, Padmini. 2021. “Contemporary Chick Lit in Indian English.” In Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers, edited by Deepika Bahri and Filippo Menozzi, 172-181. New York: MLA. https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Options-for-Teaching/Teaching-Anglophone-South-Asian-Women-Writers 

Article: A personal essay on friendship, told through the lens of a new graduate student in the 1980's.  

Mongia, Padmini. 2021. “All routes to death’: A personal essay of friendship with Agha Shahid Ali in the early 1980s in USA.” Scroll.in November 27, 2021. https://scroll.in/article/1011441/all-routes-to-death-a-personal-essay-of-friendship-with-agha-shahid-ali-in-the-early-1980s-in-usa 🔓

Book: On January 6, 2021, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in America, while the U.S. Capitol is under attack, Nicholas Montemarano drives six hundred miles to see his mother, who is hospitalized with COVID pneumonia and in a critical state. For ten days he lives in a hotel minutes from the hospital, alternating between hope and helplessness. This is the story of those ten days. 

Montemarano, Nicholas. 2022. If There Are Any Heavens: A Memoir. New York: Persea Books. https://www.perseabooks.com/if-there-are-any-heavens 

Book: In A Student’s Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 10, Shawn O’Bryhim offers an insightful and concise examination of the literary, grammatical, and textual matters integral to Book 10 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Expanding the scope of more traditional textbooks on Book 10, the author explores the archaeological, religious, and cultural elements of the work as it relates to Greece, Rome, and the Near East. 

O'Bryhim, Shawn. 2021. A Student's Commentary on Ovid, Metamorphoses 10. Wiley Blackwell. 

Book: A far-reaching account of what is meant by the human spirit, and its relevance to the worldwide efforts being made to meet the challenges that define this historical moment.  In a Bahá’í-inspired approach to these issues, the unique perspectives contained in the Bahá’í writings are explored alongside the rich diversity of other philosophical, epistemic, and moral traditions that have contributed to our understanding of the nature and needs of the human spirit over the ages. 

Penn, Michael. 2021. Our Common Humanity: Reflections on the Reclamation of the Human Spirit. Oxford: George Ronald. 

Article: This paper presents a critique of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) that standardize the use of race as a proxy for biological difference in medical settings. The authors also describe broader implications and make recommendations for the conceptualization and implementation of future research in the sociological study of race, health, and medicine. 

Rondini, Ashley C. and Rachel H. Kowalsky. 2021. “First Do No Harm: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Meso-level Structural Racism, and Medicine’s Epistemological Reckoning.” Social Science and Medicine 279: e113968. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113968 

Article: Racial inequities in outcomes of medical care are the consequence of intersecting, multidimensional factors. These factors include the implicit biases that influence interactions between individual doctors and patients at the micro level, as well as the macro-level manifestations of racism related to housing, environmental hazards, labor market participation, policing, and other structural forces. In between these micro-level and macro-level societal inequities, however, there are meso-level mechanisms (see Sewell 2016; Ray 2019) that also contribute to the patterned reproduction of inequitable medical care (see Vyas et al. 2020) and that, as such, merit ethical interrogation. 

Rondini, Ashley C., Rachel S. Kowalsky, and Miranda R. Waggoner. 2021. “Addressing Meso-Level Mechanisms of Racism in Medicine.” The American Journal of Bioethics 21 (2): 66-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2020.1861372 

Article: This article highlights that the standardization of medical care in the U.S. relies on clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), which indicate institutionalized norms about when and under what circumstances it is appropriate to administer specific medical tests and courses of treatment. However, when CPGs in medicine derive from medical research that was informed by since-debunked ideas about race, they may also facilitate structural racism. 

Rondini, Ashley C. 2021. “Meso-Level Racism in Medicine.” Contexts: Understanding People in Their Social Worlds 20(3): 56-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/15365042211035342 

Article: Previous examinations of the scope of moral concern have focused on aggregate attributions of moral worth. However, because trade-offs exist in valuing different kinds of entities, tabulating total amounts of moral expansiveness may conceal significant individual differences in the relative proportions of moral valuation ascribed to various entities. We hypothesized that some individuals ("tree-huggers") would ascribe greater moral worth to animals and ecosystems than to humans from marginalized or stigmatized groups, while others ("human-lovers") would ascribe greater moral worth to outgroup members than to the natural world. 

Rottman, J., Crimston, C. R., & Syropoulos, S.* 2021. “Tree-huggers versus human-lovers: Anthropomorphism and dehumanization predict valuing nature over outgroups.” Cognitive Science 45(4), e12967. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12967 

Article: There are two questions central to this article: First, can the news media effectively communicate a sense of moral conviction to the mass public? Second, if so, what are the factors that cause these attitudes to become morally convicted? 

Ciuk, D. J., & Rottman, J. 2021. “Moral conviction, emotion, and the influence of episodic versus thematic frames.” Political Communication, 38(5), 519–538. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2020.1793847 

Article: Global levels of violence are declining, yet gun violence and other instances of instrumental violence still occur. While previous research has examined motivations for owning firearms, cognition about firearms—and in particular, perceptions of weapons as affording safety or as affording danger—has remained largely unexplored. The authors conducted a cross-national mixed-methods investigation involving the United States and three European countries (France, Spain, and Greece). 

Syropoulos, S.*, Rivera-Rodriguez, A., Gómez, A., Baka, A., Cros, S., Martel, F. A., & Rottman, J. 2021.”Deadly but protective: Americans’ unique perception of weapons.” Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 27(1): 81–84. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000507 

Article: Lee and Schwarz propose grounded procedures of separation as a domain-general mechanism underlying cleansing effects. One strong test of domain generality is to investigate the ontogenetic origins of a process. Here, we argue that the developmental evidence provides weak support for a domain-general grounded procedures account. Instead, it is likely that distinct separation procedures develop uniquely for different content domains. 

Gerdin, E., Venkatesh, S., Rottman, J., & DeJesus, J. M. 2021. “Developmental antecedents of cleansing effects: Evidence against domain-generality.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44: e7. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X20000515 

Article: What is the relationship between religious affiliation and conceptions of the moral domain? Putting aside the question of whether people from different religions agree about how to answer moral questions, here we investigate a more fundamental question: How much disagreement is there across religions about which issues count as moral in the first place? 

Levine, S., Rottman, J., Davis, T., O’Neill, E.,  Stich, S., & Machery, E. 2021. “Religious affiliation and conceptions of the moral domain.” Social Cognition, 39(1), 139–165. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2021.39.1.139 

Article: What causes people to change their beliefs about right and wrong? Coherence-based interventions can change people's moral beliefs about abstract moral principles (Holyoak & Powell, 2016), but it is unclear whether these interventions would be similarly effective for everyday moral beliefs that can impact routine behavior. In the present research, we examined whether coherence-based “memes” highlighting the moral similarities of pigs and dogs can shift moral beliefs about consuming meat. 

Horne, Z., Rottman, J., & Lawrence, C. 2021. “Can coherence-based interventions change dogged moral beliefs about meat-eating?” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology  96, 104160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104160 

Article: As climate change increasingly wreaks havoc, sustainability is becoming a moral imperative. Yet, the strength of individuals’ moral obligations to engage in sustainable actions may vary in accordance with their societal positions. In three studies (total N = 614), we investigated how moral obligations vary as a function of socioeconomic status (SES). 

Lerner, M.*, & Rottman, J. 2021. “The burden of climate action: How environmental responsibility is impacted by socioeconomic status.” Journal of Environmental Psychology, 77: 101674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101674 

Article: In this paper, the authors compare 5- to 7-year-old children's and adults’ attributions of free choice to a robot and to a human child by using a series of tasks measuring agency attribution, action prediction, and choice attribution. 

Flanagan, T., Rottman, J., & Howard, L. H. 2021. “Constrained choice: Children’s and adults’ attributions of choice to a humanoid robot.” Cognitive Science 45(10): e13043. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13043 

Article: These studies examine developmental changes in the elicitors of disgust by examining adults' and children's ideas of what is disgusting. 

DeJesus, J. M., Gerdin, E., Venkatesh, S., & Rottman, J. 2021. “Considering uncontaminated food as an early-emerging and previously ignored disgust elicitor.” Emotion 21(7): 1522–1536. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001042 

Article: Gossip (evaluative talk about others) is ubiquitous. Gossip allows important rules to be clarified and reinforced, and it allows individuals to keep track of their social networks while strengthening their bonds to the group. The purpose of this study is to decipher the nature of gossip and how it relates to friendship connections.  

Yucel, M., Sjobeck, G. R., Glass, R.*, & Rottman, J. 2021. “Being in the know: Social network analysis of gossip and friendship on a college campus.” Human Nature 32: 603–621. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-021-09409-5 

Article: Romanticism offers a fruitful area to reevaluate well-studied themes of Mexican history, particularly its complex relationship with nationalism, modernization, gender, and the politics of ethnicity and race. 

Shelton, Laura. 2021.  "Romanticism in Mexico." in The Oxford Handbook of Mexican History, edited by  William Beezley, 1-22. OUP. http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190699192.013.17 

Article: Issues of power, inequality, and representation in the production of knowledge have a long history in transnational feminist research. And yet the unequal relationship between ethnographers and participants continues to haunt feminist research. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with the cooperative Sulá Batsú in Costa Rica between 2015 and 2019, in this essay I argue that centering solidarity and working through discomfort creates relationships that can reinvent and endure the persistent imbalance of power between researcher and participant. 

Shokooh Valle, Firuzeh. 2021. “‘How Will You Give Back?’: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 50(6) (December 1, 2021): 835–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416211021631 

Article: Neoclassical economics is sometimes said to overlook the institutional character of markets, treating them as ‘natural.’ The author addresses whether this criticism applies to Léon Walras. 

Silverman, Mark. 2021. “Conceptions of the Natural and the Social in Walras's Economic Thought." Review of Political Economy 2021: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2021.1967017 

Blog Post: This post is part of a symposium on the future of cost-benefit analysis. Read the rest of the symposium here. 

Silverman, Mark. 2021. Blog post "The Value of a Statistical Life: Reflections from the Pandemic." Law and Political Economy Project. October 18, 2021. https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-value-of-a-statistical-life-reflections-from-the-pandemic/ 

Chapter: Ranging across space and time, this book brings together up-to-date research on the socio-cultural phenomenon of caravans. It shows that caravans for long-distance trade in arid lands are present in both the Old and New Worlds. 

Smith, Scott C., Maribel Pérez Arias, and Adolfo E. Pérez Arias. 2021. “The Politics of Connection: Caravans and Political Development in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia.” In Caravans in Socio-Cultural Perspective: Past and Present, edited by Persis Clarkson and Calogero Santoro, 193-211. London and New York: Routledge. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003179276-12 

Article: In this systematic review of 57 studies comprising more than 250, 000 survivors of COVID-19, most sequelae included mental health, pulmonary, and neurologic disorders, which were prevalent longer than 6 months after SARS-CoV-2 exposure. 

Groff, D., Sun, A., Ssentongo, A. E., Ba, D. M., Parsons, N., Poudel, G. R., ... & Chinchilli, V. M. 2021. “Short-term and long-term rates of postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review.” JAMA network open 4(10): e2128568-e2128568. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.28568 🔓

Article: Over 1 billion individuals worldwide experience some form of sleep apnoea, and this number is steadily rising. Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) can negatively influence one’s quality of life and potentially increase mortality risk. However, the association between OSA and mortality has not been reliably estimated. This meta-analysis estimates the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in individuals with OSA. 

Heilbrunn, Emily S., P Ssentongo, VM Chinchilli, J Oh, A. E. Ssentongo. 2021. “Sudden death in individuals with obstructive sleep apnoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” BMJ Open Respiratory Research 8(1): e000656. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2020-000656 🔓

Article: In situations of increased need, such as mass casualty incidents (MCIs) and COVID-19, donated blood products are in shortage across the United States. Medical students are a potential pool for blood donors. The aim of this study was to determine overall attitudes of medical students at a single academic institution toward blood donation during times of increased need. 

Khatun,R., BW Otaibi, A. Ssentongo, JP Hazelton, AB Cooper. 2021. “Medical Student Attitudes Toward Blood Donation in Times of Increased Need.” The American Surgeon, 00031348211011083. Online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031348211011083 

Article: Patients with obesity are also at risk for sarcopenia, which is difficult to recognize in this population. Our study examines whether sarcopenic-obesity (SO) is independently associated with mortality in trauma. 

Oh, John S., Anna E. Ssentongo, Paddy Ssentongo, Thomas Dykes, Laura Keeney, Scott B. Armen, David I.Soybel. 2021. “Image-based assessment of sarcopenic obesity predicts mortality in major trauma.” The American Journal of Surgery, in press.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.06.007 

Article: People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) must contend with a significant burden of disease. However, current studies of this demographic have yielded wide variations in the incidence of suicidality (defined as suicidal ideation, suicide attempt and suicide deaths). 

Pelton M, Ciarletta M, Wisnousky H, Lazzara N, Manglani M, Ba DM, Chinchillli VM, Du P, Ssentongo AE, Ssentongo P. 2021. “Rates and risk factors for suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and suicide deaths in persons with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” General Psychiatry 34(2): e100247. https://doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2020-100247 🔓

Article: There is a renewed interest in the use of whole blood (WB) to manage patients with life-threatening bleeding. We aimed to estimate mortality and complications risk between WB and blood component therapy for haemostatic resuscitation of major bleeding. 

Ssentongo, Anna E., Paddy Ssentongo, Emily Heilbrunn,Lacee Laufenberg Puopolo, Vernon M Chinchilli, John Oh, Joshua Hazelton. 2021. “Whole blood versus component therapy for haemostatic resuscitation of major bleeding: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.” BMJ Open 11(10): e04396.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-043967 🔓

Article: The objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) using the 2006–2018 cross-sectional nationally representative demographic and health surveys (DHS) data and to explore the sources of regional variations. 

Ssentongo, P., Ssentongo, A. E., Ba, D. M., Ericson, J. E., Na, M., Gao, X., ... & Schiff, S. J. 2021. “Global, regional and national epidemiology and prevalence of child stunting, wasting and underweight in low-and middle-income countries, 2006–2018.” Scientific Reports 11(1): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84302-w 

Article: Despite the high prevalence of childhood protein-energy malnutrition and vitamin A deficiency in sub-Saharan Africa, their association has not been explored in this region. A better understanding of the epidemiologic link could help define effective preventive strategies. We aimed to explore the association of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) with stunting, wasting, and underweight among preschool children in Uganda. 

Ssentongo, P. Djibril M. Ba, Anna E. Ssentongo, Claudio Fronterre, Andrew Whalen,Yanxu Yang, Jessica E. Ericson, IVernon M. Chinchilli. 2021. “Association of vitamin A deficiency with early childhood stunting in Uganda: A population-based cross-sectional study.” PLOS One 15(5): e0233615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233615 And corrected in PLOS One 16(4): e025138. https://10.1371/journal.pone.0250138 

Article: Susceptibility to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and the risk of mortality among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) (PLWHA) is largely unknown. 

Ssentongo, P., Heilbrunn, E.S., Ssentongo, A.E. et al. 2021. “Epidemiology and outcomes of COVID-19 in HIV-infected individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” Scientific Reports 11, article # 6283: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85359-3 🔓

Article: Estimating the risk of pre-existing comorbidities on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality may promote the importance of targeting populations at risk to improve survival. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to estimate the association of pre-existing comorbidities with COVID-19 mortality. 

Ssentongo, P., Ssentongo, A. E., Heilbrunn, E. S., Ba, D. M., & Chinchilli, V. M. 2020. “Association of cardiovascular disease and 10 other pre-existing comorbidities with COVID-19 mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis” PLOS one 15(8): e0238215. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238215 

Article: The prevalence of HIV/AIDS is high and is associated with psychiatric morbidity and suicide risk. The objective of this study will be to assess the rates of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and suicide deaths in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). 

Wisnousky H, Lazzara N, Ciarletta M, Pelton M, Chinchilli VM, Ssentongo AE, Ssentongo P. 2021. “Rates and risk factors for suicidal ideation, suicide attempts and suicide deaths in persons with HIV: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.” BMJ Open 11(2): e037154. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-037154 🔓

Book: This book is a collection of comprehensive background essays coupled with carefully edited Supreme Court case excerpts designed to explore constitutional law and the role of the Supreme Court in its development and interpretation. Well-grounded in both theory and politics, the book endeavors to heighten students’ understanding of this critical part of the American political system. 

Stephenson, Grier, and Alpheus Thomas Mason. 2021. American Constitutional Law: Introductory Essays and Selected Cases (18th ed.) Routledge. https://fandm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1245956581 

Article: This project highlights both the value and complexities of managing legacy data; the many lessons learned to set a precedent for future paleomagnetic data recovery efforts. 

Jones, Shelby A., Eric Blinman, Lisa Tauxe, J. Royce Cox, Stacey Lengyel, Robert Sternberg, Jeffrey Eighmy, Daniel Wolfman, Robert DuBois. 2021. “MagIC as a FAIR Repository for America's Directional Archaeomagnetic Legacy Data.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 126(10).  https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022874 

Book: The Symphonies are quintessential works of modernist innovation in which Bely developed an evocative mythology and distinctive aesthetics. Influenced by Russian Symbolism, Bely believed that the role of modern artists was to imbue seemingly small details with cosmic significance. 

Bely, Andrei. 2021. The Symphonies. Translated by Jonathan Stone. New York: Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-symphonies/9780231199094

Article: This conceptual essay pivots on the following problem: Tethered to a context of Muslim empire, how is the legacy of the premodern Islamic legal tradition engaged and negotiated in the modern colonial moment in South Asia, marked by the loss of Muslim political sovereignty and the emergence of South Asian Muslims as a minority community? It engages this question through the example of intra-Muslim debates and contestations on the boundaries of friendship between Muslims and non-Muslims in modern South Asia, with a focus on the thought of certain prominent traditionalist ‘ulama’. 

Tareen, SherAli. 2021. “Thinking the Question of Religious Minorities in Colonial India: Some Notes on Intra-Muslim and Hindu-Muslim Encounters.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 41(3) (December 2021): 370-377. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9407910 

Article: In this post, SherAli Tareen responds to the discussants of the book symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity by centering the questions and paradoxes of sovereignty in the theo-political context of nineteenth-century South Asia. 

Tareen, SherAli. 2021. "Sovereignty and its Afterlives in Muslim South Asia": A response. Contending Modernities Forum. https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/sovereignty-and-its-afterlives/  🔓

Article: For more than 125 years, teachers and amateur naturalists have sought early Cambrian fossils, emerging from scattered, unimpressive outcrops of shale in southeastern Pennsylvania. Prizing their finds, they have regularly made their most scientifically significant specimens available to professionals for study and incorporation into museum collections. This activity has played a key part in establishing the fauna of the Kinzers Formation as an important record of the early Cambrian diversification of marine life. Today, a new generation of collectors is building on this tradition, continuing to discover new and evolutionarily significant fossils. 

Thomas, Roger D. K. 2021. “Documentation by Citizen Scientists /Naturalists of the ‘Cambrian Explosion’ in Pennsylvania.” Geology Today 37(2): 56–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12343 

Creative Work: ARCH - A song of glowing hypnotic layers. The proscenium dissolves. A solo performer moves through undetermined space. The dancer and the sequence melt into multiple movers, positions and perspectives. They transcend time, place and individuality. The deconstruction of hierarchy begins with conscious collaboration. Here, both the performer and the editor are choreographers. Co-directed with Pamela Vail. 

Selected to screen at the following:

• InShadow – Lisbon Screendance Festival, Portugal (2021)

• San Diego Underground Film Festival, CA (2021)

• Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco, CA (2021)

• Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City, NY (2021)

• Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland (2021) 

Moss, Jeremy and Pamela Vail. 2021. ARCH. http://www.jeremymoss.org/films#/arch/ 

Book: Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture’s early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre’s significance in Filipino American communities is often overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music, dance, and visual art to create their worlds. 

Villegas, Mark R. 2021. Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture. University of Illinois Press. 

Article: In this study, the authors describe the fossil wood flora from the Chattian (late Oligocene) and Aquitanian (early Miocene) deposits that crop out on the Tym River at Kompasky Bor, Russia. 

Dolezych, M., LePage, B.A. and Williams, C.J., 2021. “A Chattian-Aquitanian wood flora from the West Siberian Plain: Implications for regional palaeobiogeography.” Palaeontographica Abteilung B 32(1-6): 37-169.  https://doi.org/10.1127/palb/2021/0074

Article: One year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, governments around the world adopt similar practices in containing the COVID-19 spread. Using Taiwan’s quarantine policy as an example, this article illustrates three aspects to craft an effective compliance regime to fight public health crises like COVID-19: (1) a comprehensive policy mix to reduce heterogeneous compliance barriers that impact different social groups; (2) constant and various policy communication with heterogeneous target audiences; and (3) leveraging and integrating street-level bureaucrats in the policy implementation stages. 

Yen, Wei-Ting and Liu Li-Yin. 2021. "Crafting Compliance Regime under COVID-19: Using Taiwan’s Quarantine Policy as a Case Study." Global Policy 12(4): 562-567. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12967 

Article: Despite increasing economic integrations with China, worries exist in China's neighboring countries about China's implicit political intention. Do people view trading with China differently? 

Yen, W., Kay, K., & Chen, F. 2021. “Is Trading with China Different? Self-Interest, National Pride, and Trade Preferences.” Journal of East Asian Studies 21(1): 97-115. https://doi.org/10.1017/jea.2020.29