Celebrating Scholarship 2023

Creative Work: 

Abravanel, Genevieve. 2022. “Backwards T-Shirt.” The Normal School, February 23, 2022. https://www.thenormalschool.com/blog/2022/2/23/genevieve-abravanel

Book: Narrative description and comprehensive music examples guide the reader through all six of Dvořák's works in this genre, revealing a significantly under-appreciated side of the composer's immense creative skills. 

Adams, Julia. 2022. Musical Humor and Antonín Dvořák's Comic Operas. Eastern European Studies in Musicology, vol.23. Frankfurt: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1244690

Article: Positronium (Ps) is an exotic hydrogenic atom composed of an electron bound to a positron via the Coulomb force. Being composed of two low-mass leptons, positronium is, for all practical purposes, fully described by quantum electrodynamics (QED). ... In the last three decades, there have been significant experimental advances in positron and positronium physics which open up the possibility to test QED bound-state theory with unprecedented precision. Here we present the current state-of-the-art in experimental positronium spectroscopy, and discuss explicitly how such measurements can be used to test bound-state QED theory, and how such tests may contribute to the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. 

Adkins, G. S., D. B. Cassidy, & J. Perez-Rios. 2022. "Precision spectroscopy of positronium: Testing bound-state QED theory and the search for physics beyond the Standard Model." Physics Reports 975: 1-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2022.05.002 

Book: This book introduces readers to a variety of topics surrounding quantum field theory, notably its role in bound states, laser physics, and the gravitational coupling of Dirac particles. It discusses some rather sophisticated concepts based on detailed derivations which cannot be found elsewhere in the literature. 

Jentschura, Ulrich D. & Gregory S Adkins. 2022. Quantum Electrodynamics: Atoms, Lasers, and Gravity. World Scientific, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1142/12722 

Article: The divisor sequence of an irreducible element (atom) α of a reduced monoid H is the sequence (Sn)n∈N where, for each positive integer n, sn denotes the number of distinct irreducible divisors of αⁿ. We investigate which sequences of positive integers can be realized as divisor sequences of irreducible elements in Krull monoids. In particular, this gives a means for studying nonunique direct-sum decompositions of modules over local Noetherian rings for which the Krull–Remak–Schmidt property fails. 

Baeth, N.R. 2022. Terri Bell. Courtney R. Gibbons. Janet Striuli. "Divisor sequences of atoms in Krull monoids." J. Commut. Algebra 14(1): 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1216/jca.2022.14.1

Article: We study direct-sum decompositions of torsion-free, finitely generated modules over a (commutative) Bass ring R through the factorization theory of the corresponding monoid T(R). Results of Levy–Wiegand and Levy–Odenthal together with a study of the local case yield an explicit description of T(R). The monoid is typically neither factorial nor cancellative. Nevertheless, we construct a transfer homomorphism to a monoid of graph agglomerations—a natural class of monoids serving as combinatorial models for the factorization theory of T(R). As a consequence, the monoid T(R) is transfer Krull of finite type and several finiteness results on arithmetical invariants apply. We also establish results on the elasticity of T(R) and characterize when T(R) is half-factorial. (Factoriality, that is, torsion-free Krull–Remak–Schmidt–Azumaya, is characterized by a theorem of Levy–Odenthal.) The monoids of graph agglomerations introduced here are also of independent interest. 

Baeth, N.R., & Smertnig, D. 2022. “Lattices over Bass Rings and Graph Agglomerations.” Algebr Represent Theory 25: 669–704. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10468-021-10040-2 🔓

Article:  Factorization-theoretic aspects of semigroups of matrices have received much attention over the past decade. Much of the focus has been on the multiplicative semigroups of nonzero divisors in rings of matrices; that is, factorization in rings of matrices. More recently, factorizations of upper triangular matrices over the nonnegative integers and over more general semirings have been considered. Here, we continue the study of the semigroup Tn (ℕ0)∙ of upper-triangular matrices over the nonnegative integers as well as the larger semigroup Mn (ℕ0)∙ of all square n × n matrices over the semiring of nonnegative integers. We extend the notion of divisor-closed semigroups to a noncommutative setting and show that each m ≤ n, Tm (ℕ0)∙ and Mm (ℕ0)∙are almost divisor-closed in Mn (ℕ0)∙. After giving a characterization of irreducible elements in these matrix semigroups, we use the almost divisor-closed result along with precise computations, often in T2 (ℕ0)∙ and M2 (ℕ0)∙, to determine arithmetical invariants that measure the degree to which factorization in these semigroups is nonunique.

Baeth, N.R., H. Chen, G. Heilbrunn, R. Liu & M. Young. 2022. “Semigroups of non-negative integer-valued matrices.” Communications in Algebra 50(3): 1199-1219. https://doi.org/10.1080/00927872.2021.1979569

Article: A subsemiring S of ℝ is called a positive semiring provided that S consists of nonnegative numbers and 1 ∈ S. Here we study factorizations in both the additive monoid (S,+) and the multiplicative monoid (S∖{0},⋅). In particular, we investigate when, for a positive semiring S, both (S,+) and (S∖{0},⋅) have the following properties: atomicity, the ACCP, the bounded factorization property (BFP), the finite factorization property (FFP), and the half-factorial property (HFP). It is well known that in the context of cancellative and commutative monoids, the chain of implications HFP ⇒ BFP and FFP ⇒ BFP ⇒ ACCP ⇒ atomicity holds. Here we construct classes of positive semirings wherein both the additive and multiplicative structures satisfy each of these properties, and we also give examples to show that, in general, none of the implications in the previous chain is reversible.

Baeth, N.R., Chapman, S.T. & Gotti, F. 2021. “Bi-atomic classes of positive semirings.” Semigroup Forum. 103: 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00233-021-10189-8

Article: Guest-animal feeding programs (GFPs) in zoological institutions aim to foster human-animal connections. The growing establishment of animal welfare science emphasizes the assessment of GFPs as permanent environmental inputs to habitats that require analysis of behavioral output. This study assessed the role of space allocation on giraffe participation and interactions in GFPs in two Florida zoos. 

Ramis, F., Mohr, M., Kohn, G., Gibson, Q., Bashaw, M., Maloney, D., Maple, T. 2022. “Spatial design of guest feeding programs and their effects on giraffe participation and social interactions.” Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science 25: 224-243. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2020.1824787

Article: One specific aspect of facial appearance affected by makeup is apparent skin evenness. Here, we tested the notion that makeup makes facial skin look more homogeneous in part because of changes made not to the skin, but to the facial features. 

Batres, C., Russell, R., & Workowski, M. 2022. “Makeup applied to facial features increases perceived skin evenness.” Vision Research 202: 108144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2022.108144 

Article: Makeup is commonly attributed with increasing attractiveness in female faces, but this effect has not been investigated in male faces. We therefore sought to examine whether the positive effect of makeup on attractiveness can be extended to male faces. 

Batres, C., & Robinson, H. 2022. “Makeup increases attractiveness in male faces.” PloS ONE 17(11): e0275662. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275662 🔓 

Article: Makeup is known to increase female facial attractiveness, but it is unclear how. To investigate how makeup enhances beauty, we took a theoretically driven approach, borrowing from the rich literature on facial attractiveness and testing the proposal that cosmetics increase attractiveness by modifying 5 known visual factors of attractiveness: symmetry, averageness, femininity (sexual dimorphism), age, and perceived health. 

Batres, C., Jones, A.L., Barlett, C.P., Porcheron, A., Morizot, F., & Russell, R. (2022). Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Online first publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000505  🔓

Article: The COVID-19 pandemic (and its aftermath) highlights a critical need to communicate health information effectively to the global public. Given that subtle differences in information framing can have meaningful effects on behavior, behavioral science research highlights a pressing question: Is it more effective to frame COVID-19 health messages in terms of potential losses (e.g., "If you do not practice these steps, you can endanger yourself and others") or potential gains (e.g., "If you practice these steps, you can protect yourself and others")? 

Dorison, C. A., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H.,... Batres, C.,... & Coles, N. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science 3(3): 577-602.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3 🔓

Article: Despite the clear psychological importance of parenthood and the motivation to provide care for children, researchers have only recently begun investigating their influence on social and political attitudes. Because socially conservative values ostensibly prioritize safety, stability and family values, we hypothesized that being more invested in parental care might make socially conservative policies more appealing. 

Kerry, N., Al-Shawaf, L., Barbato, M., Batres, C.,... & Murray, D. R. 2022. “Experimental and cross-cultural evidence that parenthood and parental care motives increase social conservatism.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289 (1982): 20220978 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0978 🔓 

Article: People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from mating market and parasite stress perspectives, in a large cross-cultural sample. 

Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Pisanski, K.,... Batres, C.,... & Mišetić, K. 2022. “Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries”. Evolution and Human Behavior 43(6): 455-474 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.08.003 🔓 

Article: Research has found that attractiveness has a positive “halo effect”, where people tend to attribute socially desirable personality traits to physically attractive individuals. Several studies have documented this “attractiveness halo effect”, with most research using western samples. This study sought to examine the “attractiveness halo effect” across 45 countries in 11 world regions. 

Batres, C., & Shiramizu, V. 2022. “Examining the ‘attractiveness halo effect’ across cultures.” Current Psychology 2022.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03575-0   

Article: Restricted sociosexuality has been linked to sexual disgust, suggesting that decreasing sexual behavior may be a pathogen avoidance technique. Using the behavioral immune system framework, which posits that humans experience disgust after exposure to pathogen cues, we replicate and expand on previous studies by analyzing the influence of three domains of disgust (sexual, moral, pathogen) on psychological (desire and attitude) and behavioral domains of sociosexuality (SOI) in four diverse samples: American university students (n = 155), Salvadoran community members (n = 98), a global online sample (n = 359), and a four-country online sample (US, India, Italy, and Brazil; n = 822) collected during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. 

Hlay, J.K., Albert, G., Batres, C.,... & Hodges-Simeon, C.R. 2022. “Disgust sensitivity predicts sociosexuality across cultures.” Evolution and Human Behavior 43(5): 335-346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.04.005 

Article: Finding communication strategies that effectively motivate social distancing continues to be a global public health priority during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-country, preregistered experiment (n = 25,718 from 89 countries) tested hypotheses concerning generalizable positive and negative outcomes of social distancing messages that promoted personal agency and reflective choices (i.e., an autonomy-supportive message) or were restrictive and shaming (i.e., a controlling message) compared with no message at all. 

Legate, N., Ngyuen, T.V., Weinstein, N.,... Batres, C.,... & Primbs, M. 2022. “A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(22): e2111091119.  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211109111 🔓 

Article: Greene et al. (2009) showed that psychological and situational factors (for example, the intent of the agent or the presence of physical contact between the agent and the victim) can play an important role in moral dilemma judgements (for example, the trolley problem). Our knowledge is limited concerning both the universality of these effects outside the United States and the impact of culture on the situational and psychological factors affecting moral judgements. Thus, we empirically tested the universality of the effects of intent and personal force on moral dilemma judgements by replicating the experiments of Greene et al. in 45 countries from all inhabited continents. 

Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J.,... Batres, C.,... & Aczel, B. 2022. “Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample.” Nature Human Behaviour 6: 880-89. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5   🔓

Article: Eastern populations of the North American regal fritillary, Argynnis idalia Drury (1773), have been largely extirpated over the past half century. Here we report on the last remaining population of eastern regal fritillaries, located within a military installation in south-central Pennsylvania… Our results inform ongoing conservation and reintroduction projects, designed to protect the last remaining regal fritillary population from extirpation in the eastern United States. 

Rutins, I, Schannauer S, Orellana S, Laukhuff H, Lang E, Becker T, McKinney E, Thomas K, Tilden V, Swartz M, Blair JE. 2022. “Genetic diversity and Wolbachia prevalence within a remnant population of Regal Fritillary, Argynnis idalia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), in south-central Pennsylvania.” Journal of Insect Science 22(1): 24. https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieac006 🔓

Article: Capitalist production and distribution processes change over time. Despite these changes, many heterodox theorists still view the economy largely in terms of profit-led or investment-led dynamics, which they attribute to the insights of Karl Marx and Michał Kalecki. This essay argues that these thinkers’ theoretical perspectives were more flexible than today’s theorists, adaptable to a changing capitalism. Marx and Kalecki explicitly entertained theoretical space not just for investment decisions but also for “capitalists’ consumption” and “workers’ savings,” broad categories that also participate in capitalism’s conditions of existence. By exploring this theoretical direction in the work of both Marx and Kalecki, by understanding these categories theoretically, and by tracking how these categories have changed empirically over time, this essay newly appreciates Marx’s and Kalecki’s theoretical contributions, enhancing our understanding of capitalism’s changes over the last fifty years. 

Brennan, D. M. 2022. “Beyond Profit-Led versus Investment-Led Capitalism: Marx and Kalecki on ‘Capitalists’ Consumption’ and ‘Workers’ Savings’.” Rethinking Marxism 34(3): 294-316. https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2022.2111954 

Book: This collection of essays is devoted to the rhetoric, Neoplatonic philosophy, and Christian theology of Marius Victorinus, a mid-fourth-century professor of rhetoric and philosopher who converted to Christianity late in life. Scholars from eight different countries, some of whom have not previously published in English, reflect on debates about his writings and theological development. 

Cooper, Stephen A. and Václav Němec, eds. 2022. The Philosophy, Theology, and Rhetoric of Marius Victorinus. Writings from the Greco-Roman World, Supplement Series, 20. Atlanta: SBL Press. 

Chapter: The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the latest research at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive psychology, and applied linguistics, for those seeking to understand the mental architecture and processes that shape the acquisition of additional languages. 

Cox, J. & Sanz, C. 2022. “Learning a new language in older age: Psycholinguistic and cross-disciplinary approaches.” In Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics. Edited by  A. Godfroid & H. Holger, 85-96. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018872

Article: Two-slit cameras have been of some interest in the field of algebraic vision, which uses Grassmannians to describe the mapping that takes points from three-dimensional space to a two-dimensional canvas. In this article, in contrast, we will focus on the geometry of the images of lines rather than on the coordinates of images of points. Our approach mimics the traditional notion of perspective drawing: what does it mean for a cube to be in n-point perspective, as viewed by a two-slit camera? 

Crannell, Annalisa, Ojima Abraham, Jihang Dai, Yike Gong, Rebecca McClain, Nithya Ramaswamy, Charles Reisner, Evan Shinn, and Shen Wang. 2022. “Perspectives Through a Two-Slit Camera. ''The Mathematical Intelligencer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-022-10238-2 🔓

Article: We present four new fast radio bursts discovered in a search of the Parkes 70-cm pulsar survey data archive for dispersed single pulses and bursts. We searched dispersion measures (DMs) ranging between 0 and 5000 pc cm−3 with the HEIMDALL and FETCH detection and classification algorithms. All four of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) discovered have significantly larger widths (>50 ms) than almost all of the FRBs detected and catalogued to date. ...  Our results suggest that pulsar survey archives remain important sources of previously undetected FRBs and that searches for FRBs on time-scales extending beyond ∼100 ms may reveal the presence of a larger population of wide-pulse FRBs. 

Crawford, F.  S. Hisano, M. Golden, T. Kikunaga, A. Laity, & D. Zoeller. 2022. “Four New Fast Radio Bursts Discovered in the Parkes 70-cm Pulsar Survey Archive.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 515(3): 3698-3702. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2101 🔓 

Article: Artificial Neural Network (ANN) approaches are applied to detect and determine the object class using a special set of the UltraWideBand (UWB) pulse Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) sounding results.... These combinations were then stacked sequentially one by one into one long signal. Synthetic signals constructed in such a way contain many more notable differences and specific information about the class to which the object belongs as well as the location of the searched object compared to the signals obtained by an antenna system with just one radiating and one receiving antenna. It therefore increases the accuracy in determining the object’s coordinates and its classification. ... The results of the recognition by all ANNs are processed by a meta network to provide a better quality of underground object classification. 

Pryshchenko, O. A., V. A. Plakhtii, O. M. Dumin, G. P. Pochanin, V. P. Ruban, L. Capineri, & F. Crawford. 2022. "Implementation of an Artificial Intelligence Approach to GPR Systems for Landmine Detection.” Remote Sensing 14(17): 4421.   https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14174421

Article: We examine hoping as a practice, or know-how, by exploring the shape of interviewees’ lives as they prepare for lives to come. Results from our qualitative study indicate that uncertainty is deeply salient to hoping, not only because hope as a concept entails epistemic limits, but more vitally because not knowing, when done skillfully and when supported through education and some degree of socio-economic security, leaves room for others to reframe utterances, and so for the family or community to resist linguistic enclosure. 

Cuffari, E., Fourlas, G., & Whatley, M. 2022. “‘Bringing new life in’: Hope as a know-how of not knowing.” Frontiers in Psychology 13: 948317. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.948317 🔓

Conference Presentation: 

Cuffari, E. and Fourlas, G. 2022. “‘Should We Give Up the Ghost?’: Resisting the Objectivity/Bias Binary in Moral Evaluation.” Presented at New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. June 17-18, 2022. https://philevents.org/event/show/99674

Conference Presentation: Sense-making for language users is qualitatively enlanguaged; gestures, even when non-communicative, are part of languaging behavior. They make sense in an enactive and participatory way. What happens to the hand gesturing of teachers and students who are engaged in video-mediated interactions? This talk will present findings from a qualitative study of zoom classroom recordings. The characteristics of this corpus motivate a current experimental study on the sense-making and participatory sense-making effects of partially visible gestures. This empirical work is grounded in the enactive idea of linguistic bodies, which I will also discuss, and carries broad implications for the questions of virtual co-presence that the theory of participatory sense-making now faces. 

Cuffari, E. “Partial gestures, partial languaging?: Searching for participatory sense-making in video-mediated classrooms.” Online presentation, A Day of Sense-Making: Living, Moving, Knowing, Feeling, Gesturing. Organized by ISGS Hong Kong / Department of English (CityU) December 9, 2022. https://isgshkhub.wixsite.com/home/about-6

Article: This paper examines IGC-4 in line with previous analyses of the first three IGCs, tracing the process and outcomes to date, aiming to understand the factors and players that are building a new BBNJ agreement. Key themes explored include marine genetic resources (MGRs), area-based management tools, including marine protected areas (ABMTs/MPAs), environmental impact assessment (EIA), and capacity building and transfer of marine technology (CB/TMT). 

Mendenhall, E., De Santo, E., Jankila, M., Nyman, E., and Tiller, R. 2022. “Direction, not detail: Progress towards consensus at the fourth intergovernmental conference on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction.” Marine Policy 146(1): 105309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105309  🔓

Article: Exceptionally well-preserved tufas located west of Calama, Atacama Desert, Chile, designated Santa Juana tufas, record episodic wetter conditions, relative to today, over the past 500,000 years. Globally, tufa architecture and depositional details are poorly understood as most described tufas have been degraded by weathering and erosion. In the hyperarid Atacama, post-depositional alteration is negligible, therefore, the exceptional preservation of Santa Juana tufas documented in this study provides new information about tufa facies and their complex interactions. This detailed study of fossil tufa enhances our understanding of aridity changes within the Calama Basin over the past ca 550,000 years, and provides insight into tufa complexes elsewhere that may not be as well preserved. Understanding aridity changes in the Calama region is important in light of rapid regional climate change today ... Tufas provide valuable palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironmental information as they record the wide range of physical and biological characteristics of the freshwater system from which they precipitate. 

Carol de Wet, Elizabeth Driscoll, Andrew de Wet, Linda Godfrey, Teresa Jordan, Melina Luethje, Catherine Caterham, Richard Mortlock. 2022. “Exceptional preservation in Quaternary Atacama Desert Tufas: Evidence for increased groundwater and surface water in the Calama Basin, Atacama, Chile.”  The Depositional Record 00: 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1002/dep2.221 🔓

Article: By examining the role of the Deaf community in the socially and ethnically diverse context of Palestine and early Israel, this article argues that the Deaf community not only constituted a distinct linguistic minority who enriched the linguistic landscape of Israel, but it also functioned as a cultural minority. Furthermore, this article examines how the Deaf community intersected with other social groups in the highly stratified Israeli society of the 1950s, suggesting that it could be inscribed into the social fabric of Israel as an ethnic minority in its own right. 

Di Giulio, Marco. 2022. "The Origins of Israeli Deaf Ethnicity." Jewish Social Studies 27(2): 144-182. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/859214 

Conference Presentation: Israeli Deaf poet Tami Assouline performed her poetry and discussed, together with Dr. Marco Di Giulio, the history, memory, and identity of the Israeli Deaf community. The event was part of the "Performing Disability in Israel'' series held in conjunction with Professor Ilana Szobel's course, "Disability Cultures: Art, Film and Literature of People with Disabilities" at Brandeis University.  

Di Giulio, Marco. 2022."The Deaf Community in Israel: Dancer/Poet Tami Assouline in conversation with Prof. Marco Di Giulio.” Online presentation at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. November 8, 2022. https://youtu.be/eaNQzLChNRM"

Conference Presentation: Building on Williamson and Guffey’s “design model of disability,” I argue that the active involvement of Israeli disabled war veterans in the emerging prosthetics industry following the 1948-49 war led to a reconceptualization of artificial limbs among the veterans themselves from devices designed to rehabilitate bodies to means for restoring social identities. By designing, engineering, and manufacturing prosthetic limbs for veterans’ disabled bodies, these amputees reasserted agency and productive citizenship in a society that viewed the injuries of veterans as both a symbolic emasculation and a manly badge of heroism. 

Di Giulio, Marco. 2022. "The Will to Work: Disabled War Veterans and the Israeli Prosthetics Industry.” 54th Annual Conference, Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA. December 18–20, 2022. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ajs/ajs22/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Paper&selected_paper_id=1995937&PHPSESSID=ski79dsp39a29ntniihmab4bcn"

Article: Examining 204 countries from 2011 to 2019, the Global Barometer of Transgener Rights (GBTR), which measures state and societal level human rights protection or persecution, shows that the majority of countries in the world are far from protective of transgender people’s human rights. 

Dicklitch-Nelson, Susan and Indira Rahman. 2022 "Transgender Rights are Human Rights: A Cross-National Comparison of Transgender Rights in 204 Countries." Journal of Human Rights 21(5): 525-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2022.2100985  

Book: Using Amish Mafia as a window into the interplay between the real and the imagined, this book dissects the peculiar appeals and potential dangers of deception in reality TV and popular entertainment. 

Eitzen, D. 2022. Fooling with the Amish: Amish Mafia, Entertaining Fakery, and the Evolution of Reality TV. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 

Book Chapter: In this chapter, I use take a transnational film studies approach to examine the relationship between Spike Lee’s African American cinema and the visual narratives of contemporary Black Italian filmmakers and screen artists. I argue that Lee’s approach to telling stories about African American communities in the United States offers a cinematic model that these directors are able to adapt to the specificity of Black Italian experiences. Spike Lee's cinema also provides a highly developed theoretical paradigm through which to frame questions of race, rights, citizenship, and belonging. 

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2022. "Spike Lee e gli afroitaliani dietro la cinepresa." In Migrazioni, cittadinanze, inclusività Narrazioni dell’Italia plurale, tra immaginario e politiche per la diversità edited by Leonardo De Franceschi, 292-304 Roma: Tab Edizioni  Università  https://www.tabedizioni.it/shop/product/migrazioni-cittadinanze-inclusivita-803  🔓

Book: The book shows how questions of gender, sexual difference, and reproductivity have been central to Italian filmmakers' approaches to stories of mobility and displacement. Gender is also enmeshed in the rhetoric and poetics of hospitality that filmmakers embrace, as a critical framework through which to expose and condemn inhumane European border policies and politics, and imagine different cosmopolitan futures. 

Lerner, Giovanna Faleschini. 2022. Women and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema: Screening Hospitality. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781802077216 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv3029sgg.

Article: The quality of lake ice is of uppermost importance for ice safety and under-ice ecology, but its temporal and spatial variability is largely unknown. Here we conducted a coordinated lake ice quality sampling campaign across the Northern Hemisphere during one of the warmest winters since 1880 and show that lake ice during 2020/2021 commonly consisted of unstable white ice, at times contributing up to 100% to the total ice thickness. 

Weyhenmeyer, G.A., U. Obertegger, H. Rudebeck, E. Jakobsson, J. Jansen, G. Zdorovennova, S. Bansal, B. Block, C.C. Carey, J.P. Doubek, H. Dugan, O. Erina, I. Fedorova, J.M. Fischer, L. Grinberga, H-P. Grossart, K. Kangur, L.B. Knoll, A. Laas, F. Lepori, J. Meier, N. Palshin, M. Peternell, M. Pulkkanen, J.A. Rusak, S. Sharma, D. Wain, and R. Zdorovennov. 2022. “Towards critical white ice conditions in lakes under global warming.” Nature Communications 13: 4974. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32633-1 🔓

Article: Adoption rates of household water quality management practices remain extremely low, despite survey evidence indicating substantial willingness to adopt. Using a quasi-experimental survey design, we investigate the presence of hypothetical bias in household stormwater surveys and compare the effectiveness of two ex-ante bias mitigation techniques: survey consequentiality and a cheap talk script. 

Fleming, P.M. and Savchenko, O.M., 2022. “Intention versus Action: Household Adoption of Best Management Practices for Water Quality.” Water Resources Research 58(7): e2021WR029684. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029684

Article: The ability to identify, target, and treat critical pollution source areas on a landscape is an ongoing challenge for water quality programs that seek to address nonpoint source (NPS) pollution. In this article, we develop a conceptual framework for targeting program design, and review recent experience with the implementation of targeting programs that corresponds with a wide range of program characteristics. 

Fleming, P.M., Stephenson, K., Collick, A.S., and Easton, Z.M., 2022. “Targeting for nonpoint source pollution reduction: A synthesis of lessons learned, remaining challenges, and emerging opportunities.” Journal of Environmental Management 308: 114649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114649

Article: In the oviparous medaka fish, Oryzias latipes, mature spermatozoa that were artificially introduced into the ovarian cavity retaining ovulated eggs could internally fertilize these eggs. This enabled us to examine the effect of ovarian gestation on the ovulation cycle. Most freshly ovulated eggs could be internally fertilized in the ovarian cavity. Yet eggs ovulated 24 h after single insemination remained unfertilized in the ovarian cavity. ... The development of fertilized eggs was retarded and ceased around the initiation stage of blood circulation, but when they were transferred from the ovarian cavity into regular saline, they regained their ability to develop normally up to hatching. These results show that in oviparous female medaka, ovarian gestation exerted little effect on the time of ovulation and the number of ovulated eggs. 

Iwamatsu, T., Oda, S., Kobayashi, H., Parenti, L. R., Fluck, R. A., Yasuda, T., & Nakane, K. 2022.”The light‐dependent daily cycle of ovulation in the oviparous medaka fish, Oryzias latipes (Atherinomorpha: Beloniformes: Adrianichthyidae) artificially pregnant with developing embryos.” Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 337(6):687-693. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.2600

Article: The tabernacle became an early modern European emblem in the works of John Donne, John Milton, and the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (1568–1573)... The centerpiece of my essay is a substantial analysis of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible’s emblematic tabernacle, which was based in a Christian Hebraist interpretation of the tabernacle in the Book of Exodus and inflected by the emblematic mindsets of its creators. 

Goeglein, Tamara A. 2022 “Emblematic Tabernacles in John Donne, John Milton, and the Antwerp Polyglot Bible.” English Literary Renaissance 52(2): 260-288. https://doi.org/10.1086/719059 

Article: Critics have widely regarded Edith Wharton's Twilight Sleep (1927) as an ironic novel about pain: a satire of modern life's supposed promise that pain can be avoided. This essay argues that Wharton's novel is as much about managing pain as it is about avoiding it. I consider the novel in light of experiences of chronic pain and illness, both Wharton's and my own. My analysis finds that while the novel's satire targets the fleeing of pain, the text also engages aspects of life lived with pain. The characters demonstrate constant fatigue, a symptom of pain's presence; they undertake mental, physical, and care practices as modes of pain management; and the text's formal structures suggest chronic pain's duration. By focusing not on direct representations of pain but on how pain can condition a life (and a narrative), I elucidate the ongoing value of making a distinction between managing pain and avoiding it. 

Goldberg, Shari. 2022. "Reading Wharton with Pain: On Rest, Practices, and Care." Literature & Medicine 40(2): 249-268. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/884966 

Article: In what the author calls an autoethnography, he examines two aspects of his love of a favorite childhood toy: G.I. Joe. First, because the author is a contingent pacificist and this military figure—a fundamentally violent toy— played so important a role in his life, he now seeks to reconcile his aversion to (real life) violence with his enjoyment of G.I. Joe. Second, he explores how his experience as a Third Culture Kid (TCK)—born in the United States, but growing up in Africa—was affected by his enjoyment of G.I. Joe. He combines research, reflection, analysis, and narrative in an account of how his experiences with G.I. Joe may have been manifested in his creativity and how they provided a therapeutic catharsis following his exposure to actual violent conflict. Hopkins also argues for the future use of autoethnography in play studies. 

Hopkins, Justin, B. 2022. “Real? American? Hero?: An Autoethnography About Playing Creatively and Cathartically with G.I. Joe.” American Journal of Play 14(3): 277-303. https://www.museumofplay.org/app/uploads/2022/12/14-3-Article-3-Real-American-Hero.pdf  🔓

Book: Seeking Habitat is a book-length collection of poems. Many were published in literary journals. Some were published in the limited edition chapbook Ice Carver (Lewisburg, PA & Cincinnati, OH: Seven Kitchens Press, 2017). 

Kent, Richard K. 2022. Seeking Habitat. Montrose, CO: Pinyon Press. http://www.pinyon-publishing.com/seekinghabitat.html

Creative Work: The exhibition included pictures from three ongoing photographic series: Lessons in Recursion, Patch of Woods, and Off Route 42. All three series are about the transformation of place over time. 

Kent, Richard K. 2022. "Layered Time: Photographs.” Solo exhibition at Lancaster Galleries, August 11- September 3, 2022. http://lancastergalleries.com/artists/richard-k-kent/

Public Humanities Project: Lancaster Vice: The Hidden History of Sex, Crime, and Power in the 1900s In the early 1900s, Lancaster City was known as a “wide open” city where police and city officials looked the other way and sometimes even encouraged drinking, gambling, and prostitution. Brothel keepers, bartenders, charity girls, and traveling salesmen shared the city with crooked politicians and moralistic reformers. On this walking tour, attendees will visit the streets they called home and learn about the history of gender, sexuality, and the law through the stories of Reverend Clifford Twombly, Mayor Frank McClain, and the men and women of Lancaster’s Red-Light Districts. 

Kibler, M. Alison, Maria Leon Reyes, Jayden LaCoe, Jillian Barger and Lauren Sphar. 2022. The Lancaster Vice Tour: Sex, Crime and Politics. Walking Tour. Franklin & Marshall College, True Blue Weekend, Lancaster, PA, October 22. Also at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA., Fall 2022. https://imodules.fandm.edu/s/1840/interior.aspx?sid=1840&gid=2&pgid=2284&content_id=1568

Chapter: This co-edited volume contributes to the fields of transcultural and comparative studies. The book is multi-disciplinary. It features scholarship from the perspectives of architecture, ethnomusicology, education, history, cultural and literary studies, and film studies, as well as whiteness studies. It examines the production of ethnicity in the context of American political culture as well as that of popular culture, including visual representations (documentary, film, TV series) and “low brow” crime fiction. It includes analysis of literature. It involves comparative work on religious architecture, transoceanic circulation of racialized categories, translocal interconnections in the formation of pan-Mediterranean identities, and the making of the immigrant past in documentaries from Italian and Greek filmmakers. This volume is the first of its kind in initiating a multidisciplinary transcultural and comparative study across European Americans. 

Kourelis, Kostis. 2022. “Style and Real Estate: Architecture of Faith among the Greek and Italian Immigrants, 1870-1925.” In Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation, edited by Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, and Theodora Patrona,105-140. New York: Fordham University Press.

Chapter: Samuel Gridley Howe was a 28-year old physician when, in 1829, he established the first American refugee colony on the Isthmus of Greece to house internally displaced victims of the Greek War of Independence. Named after the recently founded American capital city, Washingtonia exemplifies the fervor of philhellenism and marks the seminal moment in the future trajectory of American humanitarianism in Greece. In the establishment of the excavations at Ancient Corinth sixty years later, the region would continue to play an important role as America’s premier nexus of cultural interchange with the country. It was in New Corinth that the Near East Relief would establish an orphanage in 1924 and the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association would carry out its first fund-raising campaign in 1928. The copious details surrounding the foundation of Washingtonia, therefore, provide a unique case study for understanding the character of regional devastation after the war of independence and the critical moment when American aid and ideals first colonized the center of the Greek peninsula. 

Kourelis, Kostis and David Pettegrew. 2022. “Washingtonia: An American Refugee Camp in Revolutionary Greece.” In The Greek Revolution (1821-1829), through American Eyes, online exhibition and exhibition catalogue. Hellenic College Holy Cross and Stockton University, Galloway, N.J.: Stockton University, September 2021-December. 

Article: This article introduces the eight articles and three invited essays that comprise the special issue: Business and Society in the Age of COVID-19. In doing so, it also surveys COVID-19-related research in the Business & Society field, revealing five themes. 

Kurland, N. B., Baucus, M., and Steckler, E. 2022. “Business & Society in the Age of COVID-19. Introduction to the Special Issue.” Business and Society Review. 127(Suppl 1): 147–157. Published online 2022 Mar 16. https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.12265 🔓

Article: This paper relies on an in-depth qualitative study of a for-profit company that later in life became an employee-owned benefit corporation. Data include interviews, informal and formal company documents and a site visit. 

Kurland, N. B. 2022. “Mission alignment in the hybrid organization: The role of indirect support activities and an activity ecosystem.” Social Enterprise Journal 18(3): 519-540. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-08-2021-0067 🔓

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. 2022. “Slow Burn.” Solo exhibition at The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, February 1-April 28. https://www.fandm.edu/frames-mountings-blog/2022/01/07/sandra-eula-lee-slow-burn 

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2022. Slow Burn. Exhibition catalog for The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, February 1-April 28. https://issuu.com/phillipsmuseum/docs/_sandra_eula_lee_catalog_combo_2-25-2022 🔓

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2022. Artist Talk, presented in conjunction with International Women's Week, Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA. March 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILwCysp7Wc

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2022. Residency Fellowship. Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY, June-July. https://residencyunlimited.org/residencies/sandra-eula-lee/

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2022. “In Residency at RU.” Group exhibition. Chashama, New York, NY, May 26-June 11. https://chashama.org/event/residency-unlimited-group-show/

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2022. "Exodus VIII: Off the Cloth." Group exhibition at WhiteBox, New York, NY. May 25-May 4. http://whiteboxnyc.org/2022/exhibitions/off-the-cloth/

Lee, Sandra Eula. 2022. “Off the Cloth.” Earth Day Panel Discussion at WhiteBox, New York, NY. April 22. https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/29939/earth-day-2022.html 

Chapter: 

Lerner, L. Scott. 2022. "Primo Levi nel contesto dell'ebraismo italiano: lo specchio dello Stato nazionale dal Risorgimento al fascismo. Il sistema periodico. Primo Levi chimico e scrittore. (Roma, 4-6 dicembre 2019) Conference, Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, serie Atti dei Convegni Lincei, no.342. Edited by Vincenzo Aquilanti, Anna Dolfi, Maria Luisa Meneghetti. 221-236. Roma: Bardi Edizioni.

Chapter: By focusing on two allusions made in the drame du coucher or drama of the good night kiss in Swann’s Way and in Jean Santeuil, this chapter examines the representation of the other in Proust’s writing from the perspective of an originary mother-son relation. 

Lerner, L. Scott. 2022. "Proust's Abraham, the Other." The Proustian Mind. Ed. Anna Elsner and Tom Stern. 309-321. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429341472

Book Review: 

Lerner, L. Scott. 2022. Review of A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy, by Tamar Herzig. Journal of Jewish Identities 15(2): 265-167. https://doi.org/10.1353/jji.2022.0027

Article: This paper describes a project conducted at Franklin & Marshall College Archives and Special Collections (A&SC) to migrate legacy archival finding aids to ArchivesSpace. This project, completed remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic, required project team members to address not only user needs for the online discovery of collections, but also the gaps between legacy finding aids and modern archival standards. This paper discusses how these concerns manifested in specific data clean-up issues and the strategies — and compromises — developed to address them. The paper also describes how workflows were developed, implemented and revised in the pandemic context. In particular, it details how the work of both A&SC staff and staff from other library units was leveraged to complete the project successfully. The case study provides insights on successes and lessons learned related to communication in a remote work project. Finally, the paper discusses the impact of the project on work in A&SC today. 

Gormly, B., & LoBello, L. 2022. “Collaboration in isolation: migrating legacy finding aids during a pandemic.” Journal of Digital Media Management 11(2): 121–130. https://hstalks.com/article/7502/  https://fandm.on.worldcat.org/oclc/9767846936

Article: Using second harmonic generation (SHG) as a simpler and more accessible proxy, we compare the results of two numerical simulations to experimental measurements of SHG with counter-propagating pulses. 

Lytle, Amy L., Eric Dyke, Julia Novella, Thomas Branch, and Etienne Gagnon. 2022. "Broadband second harmonic generation of counter-propagating ultrashort pulses." Optics Express 30(11): 17922-17935. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.458570 🔓

Creative Work:

Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2022. "Tools of the Trade." Permanent sculptural installation at William H. Gray III Amtrak Station, Philadelphia, PA, April. 

Exhibitions:

Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2022. "Lilt." Exhibition at the Noyes Museum, Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ, October 2022 - January 2023. https://philasculptors.org/lilt 

Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2022. “The Sculpture Shoppe.” Exhibition at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May.

Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2022. “Artists in Solidarity with Ukraine." Exhibition at iMPeRFeCT Galley, Philadelphia, PA, April.

Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2022. “Best of Women.” Exhibition at Stola Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, January - March.

Article:

Tobia, Blaise and Maksymowicz, Virginia. 2022. “Anarchy at its Best: O’Flaherty’s Open Summer Call and the Overwhelming Response.” Review blogpost in the Artblog July 29. https://www.theartblog.org/2022/07/oflahertys-summer-open-call-and-the-overwhelming-response/ 🔓

Conference Presentations:

Maksymowicz, Virginia, Jerri Allyn, Arlene Rakoncay, Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, Ann Kalmach and Nina Kuo. 2022. “How an Almost-Forgotten Federal Program Kickstarted the Feminist Art Movement.” Panel discussion co-sponsored by the Women’s Caucus for Art, City Lore Gallery and the Artists Alliance, March 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buyQG0d2Dq0

Maksymowicz, Virginia, Ellin Burke, Kenneth R. Cobb, George Malave, Blaise Tobia, and Judd Tully. 2022. “Critical Lens: Art X CETA.” Panel Presentation at the Municipal Archives/DORIS, New York, NY, October 11. https://www.artistsallianceinc.org/critical-lens-art-x-ceta/

Article: This article discusses lessons learned from the development and execution of F&M in Shanghai, a hybrid residential-remote program created for Franklin and Marshall College’s first-year Chinese students in Fall 2020. 

Mann, Nadia and Sue Mennicke. 2022. “Improving the first-year experience of Chinese international students through responsive pedagogy: Insights from F&M in Shanghai.”  Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education 14(3b), Part 2: 61-76.  https://doi.org/10.32674/jcihe.v14i3b.4468 🔓

Article: Second Demographic Transition (SDT) theory proposes that rising individualism and secularism lead to new attitudes that drive new family and fertility behaviors. Scholars have argued that analyzing heterogeneity in attitudes and behaviors in populations experiencing family change can clarify SDT processes. This study uses data from the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life study to describe how attitudinal heterogeneity in one small geographic area relates to predictions of SDT theory. 

Marshall, Emily A. and Hana Shepherd. 2022. "Variants of Second Demographic Transition: Empirical Evidence from Young Women’s Attitudes About Childbearing." Population Research and Policy Review  41(6): 2531–2554. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-022-09738-y

Conference Presentations: 

Marshall, Emily, Harriet Okatch, and Jennifer Meyer. 2022. "Predictors of Parental Concern About Children’s Health Risks in Childcare and School During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Presented at poster session of the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, November 6-9. 

Marshall, Emily and Hana Shepherd. 2022. "Variation in reported fertility preferences: Effects of Financial Primes on Elite College Women in the United States and Turkey." Presented at the Fertility Preferences Conference, Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX, October 27-28.

Article: This article presents the theoretical logic connecting Participatory Budgeting (PB) to community development and summarizes the global evidence from studies that test the theoretical propositions above. We find evidence for PB’s impact on community development performance in several important contexts. However, we also note that many hypotheses have yet to be tested in rigorous, large-N, comparative studies. There is thus considerable room to evaluate PB’s impact in the future. 

McNulty, Stephanie. 2022. “Participatory Budgeting and Community Development: A Global Perspective.” American Behavioral Scientist 67(4): 520-536. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642221086957

Article: How did undocumented immigrants and people with temporary immigrant visas (e.g., Temporary Protected Status or TPS) experience the nation’s deadliest pandemic in history?... This project seeks to better understand their experiences and link them to contemporary public policy debates about public services, labor, mental health, and immigration reform… The report documents how the pandemic affected the immigrant community in disproportionate ways. It confirms many national studies by sharing the lived experiences of undocumented immigrants in our county. 

McNulty, Stephanie, Yuliana Tamayo, Roger Avila-Vidal, and Kate Espinosa. 2022. Report: Documenting the Undocumented: The Effect of Coronavirus on Undocumented Immigrants in Lancaster County. Center for Sustained Engagement with Lancaster. May 2022. https://www.fandm.edu/csewl/documenting-the-undocumented-presentation-and-report 🔓

Book: Given the news media’s focus on national issues and debates, voters might be expected to make decisions about state and local candidates based on their views of the national parties and presidential candidates. However, nationalization as a concept, and the process by which politics becomes nationalized, are not fully understood. Are All Politics Nationalized? addresses this knowledge gap by looking at the behavior of candidates and the factors that influence voters’ electoral choices.  The editors and contributors examine the 2020 elections in six Pennsylvania districts to explore the level of nationalization in campaigns for Congress and state legislature. They also question if politicians are encouraging nationalized behavior and straight ticket voting—especially with down-ballot races. 

Medvic, Stephen K., Matthew M. Schousen, and Berwood A. Yost. 2022. Are All Politics Nationalized? Evidence from the 2020 Campaigns in Pennsylvania.  Philadelphia, PA: Temple U. Press. https://tupress.temple.edu/books/are-all-politics-nationalized

Book: Campaigns and Elections is a comprehensive yet compact core text that addresses two distinct but related aspects of American electoral democracy: the processes that constitute campaigns and elections, and the players who are involved. In addition to balanced coverage of process and actors, it gives equal billing to both campaigns and elections and covers contests for legislative and executive positions at the national, state, and local levels, including issue-oriented campaigns of note. 

Medvic, Stephen K. 2022. Campaigns and Elections Players and Processes. 4th edition. New York, NY: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Campaigns-and-Elections-Players-and-Processes/Medvic/p/book/9780367640842 

Chapter: The State of the Parties 2022 brings together leading scholars of parties, elections, and interest groups to provide an indispensable overview of American political parties today. The 2020 presidential election was extraordinary. What role did political parties play in these events? How did the party organizations fare? What are the implications for the future? Scholars and practitioners from throughout the United States explore the current state of American party organizations, constituencies and resources at the national, state and local level. 

Medvic, Stephen K. and Berwood A. Yost. 2022.  "Major-Party Factions in a Battleground State:  Self-Identified Faction Affiliation among Pennsylvania Voters." In State of the Parties 2022: The Changing Role of American Political Parties, edited by John C. Green, David B. Cohen, and Kenneth M. Miller 113-127. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Conference Papers:

A. E. Parkinson, E. A. Cloutis, D. M. Applin, J. C. Kuik, R. Greenberger, J. M. Stromberg, S. A. Mertzman, M. Sandford, and S. K. Sharma. 2022.  “Using Mars Rover Instrumentation of samples collected from the terrestrial analogue site Meriden, Connecticut, to further understand upcoming and present Mars landing sites.” [abstract] 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. March 7–11, 2022. Houston, Texas. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2022/pdf/1715.pdf

R.V. Morris, N. H. Haney , R. S. Jakube , M. D. Fries, J. V. Clark, L. Lee, S. A. Mertzman. 2022. “Relative detectability of iron-bearing phases for the Mars 2020 Sherloc Deep UV Raman Instrument: 1. Focusing on Carbonates.”  [abstract] 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. March 7–11, 2022. Houston, Texas. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2022/pdf/1466.pdf

N. N. Turenne, S. Sidhu, D. Applin, E. Cloutis, S. Mertzman. 2022. “Nontronite spectral reflectance characteristics with implications for Mars surface detection. A Multi-Instrument investigation of a unique low-temperature, CO2-rich Geyser relevant to Mars and icy moons: Crystal Geyser, UTAH, USA.”   [abstract] 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. March 7–11, 2022. Houston, Texas. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2022/pdf/1571.pdf

 Z. U Wolf, E. A. Cloutis, N. N. Turenne, D. M. Applin, S. Potter-McIntyre, S. Mertzman. 2022. “A Multi-instrument investigation of a unique low-temperature, CO2-Rich Geyser relevant to Mars and icy moons: Crystal Geyser, Utah, USA.” [abstract] 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. March 7–11, 2022. Houston, Texas. https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2022/pdf/2277.pdf

Book Review: 

Meyers, Gretchen E. 2022. "Tesori dalle terre d’Etruria. La collezione dei conti Passerini, Patrizi di Firenze e Cortona.” Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, October 29, 2020–July 30, 2021 (extended until October 22, 2022), curated by Mario Iozzo and Maria Rosaria Luberto with Stefano Casciu Etruscan and Italic Studies 25(1-2): 228-230. https://doi.org/10.1515/etst-2022-2002

Article: 

Modern, John. 2022. “Bad Brains: Cybernetics, Paranoia, and the Cognitive Science of Religion.” Grey Room 88: 32-55. https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00348

Article: In the early 1970s, as the industrial economy crumbled around Detroit and its suburbs, Dr. H. C. Tien, an independent electroconvulsive therapist who ran the Michigan Institute of Psychosynthesis in Lansing, MI, advocated a “cybernetic” approach to family psychiatry. In Tien’s practice, one can learn how the liberatory kernel of religion and the truth of sexual difference—key components of moral treatment in nineteenth-century asylum reform—became amplified by emerging paradigms of neural nets and information processing. In Tien’s practice—what he called Electric Love Therapy—electric shock treatment became a technology of conversion and, more precisely, of sexual differentiation and spiritual cultivation. Tien’s is a disturbing example of how the regulation of sexuality and gender as private matters serves as resource and spur to secular demands to proprietize religion as an interior matter. 

Modern, John. 2022. “Electric Love Therapy.” History of the Present 12(2): 155-82. https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-9753109 

Chapter: Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab is perennially seen as the paradigm of a controlling, tyrannical agent. Ahab Unbound leaves his position as a Cold War icon behind, recasting him as a contingent figure, transformed by his environment—by chemistry, electromagnetism, entomology, meteorology, diet, illness, pain, trauma, and neurons firing—in ways that unexpectedly force us to see him as worthy of our empathy and our compassion. 

Modern, John. 2022. “Melville’s Basement Tapes.” In Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn, edited by Meredith Farmer and Jonathan Schroeder, 375-412. University of Minnesota Press.

Public Humanities Project: Over the course of AY22-23 Machines in Between revolves around an experimental audio series and immersive art installation called the Vinyl Church. MACHINES IN BETWEEN is a variety show of sound, story, and spectacle inviting you to reimagine what you love when you love your machine. Featuring an eclectic and world-renowned cast of over 100 scholars, musicians, filmmakers, and artists, hosts John and Libby Modern guide the listener through a scintillating sonic landscape—an accumulation of bent stories, surprising cultural analysis, historical reflection, lush soundscapes, and beats sampled from obscure religious records. ... Machines in Between is part mixtape, surreal performance, and philosophical experiment. 

Modern, John, Nick Kroll, Sylvia Alajaji, Rachel Feldman, Annette Aronowicz, Isaac Kelly, Roxy Calder, Teb Locke, Tami Lantz. 2022. Machines in Between. Multimedia website. https://www.machinesinbetween.com 

Conference Presentations: 

Modern, John. 2022. “Neuromatic, or a Particular History of Religion and the Brain.” Roundtable book discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO, November.

Modern, John. Jane Bennett, and Alda Balthrop-Lewis, 2022. “Play Deliberately.” Panel Presentation on “Faith in Thoreau” at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University, March.

Modern, John, Joanna Radin, Natasha Schüll, and James Strick. 2022. “Neuromatic, or a Particular History of Religion and the Brain.” Roundtable book discussion at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, April.

Modern, John. 2022. “Between the Glitch and Technological Determination.” Public Lecture at the Humanities and Social Change Center. University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, CA, May.

Modern, John. 2022. “Neuromatic, or a Particular History of Religion and the Brain.” Roundtable book discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, CO, November. 

Series Editor: 

Lofton, Kathryn and John Modern, series editors. 2022. Class 200: New Studies in Religion. Chicago: Chicago U Press. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/CLA200.html

Jeremy Moss creates films and videos that often overlap and blend a number of genres, modes, and gestures -- including, speculative nonfiction, expressionism, surrealism, diary film, dance film, and 16mm film emulsion-based abstraction. His films insist on fluidity, betweenness, and seismic sudden shifts in experience and perception. With a constant attention to movement -- wavering bodies, moving landscapes, glimmering frames -- his films sustain a sensory resistance to fixedness, steadiness, and standing still. 

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Laboratorio Audiovisual de Creación y Práctica Contemporánea: 'In Marfa' (2015, 02:56, 16mm to digital video, Color, Silent), Screening Lav, Aquel Rectángulo Blanco. Madrid, Spain: Dec. 17, 2022. https://master-lav.com/SCREENING-LAV-013-1

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound) Edges of the Frame, Hope Alkazar. Istanbul, Turkey: November 26, 2022. https://istanbulexperimental.com/movies/lacrimas/

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Antimatter [media arts]: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), The Analog Ocean, Deluge Contemporary Art. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: October 29, 2022. https://antimatter.squarespace.com/saturday-oct-29

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: CROSSROADS 2022 Online Echo: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Online Echo 2. San Francisco, CA: September 22 to October 16, 2022. https://www.sfcinematheque.org/festival/crossroads-2022-online-echo/

Moss, Jeremy. Vail, Pamela. 2022. Public film screening: Atland Improvisation Festival: 'ARCH' (2020, 05:03, digital video, Color, Sound), Atland Cinedance Fest, Chesterfield Town Hall. Chesterfield, MA: September 11, 2022. https://www.torilawrence.org/residency

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Laterale Film Festival: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Cinema San Nicola. Cosenza, Italy: September, 5-7, 2022.  https://www.lateralefilmfestival.com/lateral-selection-2022/

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: CROSSROADS 2022: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Program 4, before you witnessed this entropy, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. San Francisco, CA: August 27, 2022. https://www.sfcinematheque.org/video-programs/crossroads-2022-program-4/

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Montreal Underground Film Festival: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Whereabouts Known / Unknown, Groupe Intervention Vidéo. Montreal, Canada: May 21, 2022. https://www.muff514.ca/programmation--programming.html

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Experiments in Cinema: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Experiment 17.” Albuquerque, NM: May 9-23, 2022. https://www.experimentsincinema.org/copy-of-eic-16-1

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Atlanta Film Festival: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Flora Borealis, Atlanta Botanical Gardens. Atlanta, GA: April 29, 2022. https://watch.eventive.org/atlff2022/play/623f5be8663eef00b6d53a56

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Fisura Film Festival: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Fotosíntesis, Cineteca Municipal de Durango. Mexico City, Mexico: April 19, 2022. https://filmfreeway.com/FISURAInternationalFilmFestival

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: Athens International Film + Video Festival: 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Horizons, Athena Cinema.  Athens, OH: April 4, 2022. http://athensfilmfest.org/horizons-shorts-2022/

Moss, Jeremy. Vail, Pamela. 2022. Public film screening: Athens International Film + Video Festival: 'ARCH' (2020, 05:03, digital video, Color, Sound), Assemblé, Athena Cinema. Athens, OH: April 1, 2022. http://athensfilmfest.org/assemble-shorts-2022/

Moss, Jeremy. 2022. Public film screening: FLorida EXperimental Film/Video Festival (FLEX FEST): 'Lácrimas' (2021, 13:40, 16mm to digital video, Color/B&W, Sound), Rocks On/Off, Tempus Projects. Tampa, FL: February 26, 2022.  https://www.flexfest.org/flex-22-schedule-at-a-glance/

Article: Suetonius says that court jesters put slippers on Claudius’ hands while he napped during Caligula's dinner parties so that he would rub his face with them when he awoke. Since touching someone with the sole of a shoe was an insult, the joke is that Claudius insulted himself when he unwittingly rubbed his own face with the slippers. 

O'Bryhim, Shawn. 2022., "Claudius’ humiliation at Suetonius, Divvs Clavdivis 8.” Classical Quarterly: 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838822000477

Conference Presentations:

Osirim, Mary. 2022. “Honoring Esther Chow’s Legacy and Trajectory,” Plenary panel presentation at the Summer Meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Los Angeles, CA., August.

Osirim, Mary. 2022. “Migrations and Sexualities: A Preview of the 2023 Winter Meeting in New Orleans,” Panel presentation at the Summer Meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Los Angeles, CA., August. 

Osirim, Mary. 2022. “Building a New Pan-Africanism in the Diaspora: Case Studies of African Community Leaders in Greater Philadelphia.” The Andrew W. Mellon Africa/Black Diaspora Seminars, The Department of African American Studies, The University of Maryland, College Park, Seminar 4 at the University of Ghana, Legon, June.

Osirim, Mary. 2022. “Feminist Knowledge Production in Applied Contexts.” Panel presentation at the Winter Meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), Albuquerque, New Mexico, April. 

Article: We present a multifaceted approach to effectively probe complex local protein environments utilizing the vibrational reporter unnatural amino acid (UAA) 4-cyano-l-phenylalanine (pCNPhe) in the model system superfolder green fluorescent protein (sfGFP). 

Lee, BU., Papoutsis, B.M., Wong, N.Y., Piacentini, J., Huggins, N.A., Cruz, N., Ng, T.T., Hao, K.H., Kramer, J.S., Fenlon, E.E., Nerenberg, P.S., Phillips-Piro, C.M., and Brewer, S.H. 2022. “Unraveling complex local protein environments with 4-cyano-L-phenylalanine.” J. Phys. Chem. B. 126(44): 8957-8969. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c05954

Article: Creation of complex nanoheterostructures through processes such as seeded growth and partial cation exchange has revolutionized the nanomaterials field and afforded a large variety of interdependent optical and electronic properties. Here we demonstrate that partial anion exchange between copper chalcogenides is similarly important synthetic tool that induces unexpected optical behaviours worthy of further study and broad application. 

Espinosa AR, Novak M, Luo Q, Hole B, Doligon C, Prenza Sosa K, Gray JL, Rossi DP, Plass KE. 2022. “Heterostructures of Cu2-xS/Cu2-xTe plasmonic semiconductors: disappearing and reappearing LSPR with anion exchange.” Chemical Communications 58: 9810. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cc01859d

Conference Presentation: From 2007 to 2009, excavations at Poggio Colla revealed a construction fill just outside the west wall of the Phase 2 monumental building. This fill appears to be part of 4th-century leveling and site preparation activity for the Phase 3 courtyard building, a structure that reflects a shift at the site from mainly religious activity to more secular functions. The ceramic assemblage includes a very large quantity of locally-produced fine ware along with a smaller percentage of Etruscan black-glaze and red-figure ware; it appears to be associated with two probable rituals of transition at the corners of the courtyard structure. Some faunal evidence together with the pottery shapes preserved suggests that the fill represents the debris from one or more commensal events marking the closure of one phase and the beginning of a final chapter in the history of the site. This paper presents the ceramic assemblage from the fill, providing a snapshot of both local and imported wares in the second half of the 4th century. 

Steiner, Ann. 2022. "Classical and Hellenistic black-glaze pottery from Poggio Colla.” In Officine e artigianato ceramico nei siti dell'Appennino Tosco-Emiliano tra VII e IV secolo a.C. Atti del I Convegno Internazionale di studi sulla cultura materiale etrusca dell'Appennino (Arezzo 18 ottobre 2019 - Dicomano 19 ottobre 2019). Biblioteca di «Studi Etruschi»: 66. A cura di Luca Cappuccini, Andrea Gaucci, 385-398. Roma : Giorgio Bretschneider editor. https://www.bretschneider.it/libro/9788876893391/toc/35

Review: 

Stephenson, Grier. 2022.  "The Judicial Bookshelf." Journal of Supreme Court History 47(1): 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1353/sch.2022.0017

Stephenson, Grier. 2022. "The Judicial Bookshelf." Journal of Supreme Court History 47(3): 330-346.

Chapter: The contributors examine the ways that biographies of Russia's foremost writers shaped the literary canon while mirroring the political and social realities of both the subjects’ and their biographers' times. Starting with Alexander Pushkin and ending with Joseph Brodsky, the authors analyze the interplay of research and imagination in biographical narrative, the changing perceptions of what constitutes literary greatness, and the subversive possibilities of biography during eras of political censorship. 

Jon Stone. 2022. “‘Aleksandr Blok as the Model Modernist’ in Literary Biographies.” in The Lives of Remarkable People Series in Russia: Biography for the Masses, edited by Carol Ueland and Ludmilla Trigos, chapter 8. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

Article: 

Tareen, SherAli. 2022. “Sovereignty and Secularism in Modern Islam: A Response.” Online blog post on The Marginalia Review of Books in response to Marginalia Review of Books Forum on Defending Muhammad in Modernity. https://themarginaliareview.com/sovereignty-and-secularism/"

Article: This article reports the development of new carbon monoxide (CO)-releasing molecules. When treated with an amine base, S-aryl thioformates release CO gas rapidly and with near-quantitative yields at room temperature, a significant advance over existing methodologies. The resulting CO gas can be harnessed for use in organic cross-coupling reactions, to study protein binding, or for the synthesis of metal complexes. 

DeSimone, C. A.; Naqvi, S. L.; Tasker, S. Z. 2022. “ThioCORMates: Tunable and Cost-Effective Carbon Monoxide-Releasing Molecules.” Chem. Eur. J. 28(41): e202201326. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202201326 

Article: This article reports the results of a project carried out as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Most small molecule drugs cannot pass through the blood-brain barrier to treat diseases of the central nervous system, with a key facet being the efflux transporter P-glycoprotein (P-gp). In this study, a range of small molecules were tested against P-gp to understand which molecular features predicted whether a molecule was a P-gp substrate.  Reducing molecular size and adding a carboxylic acid proved to be most efficacious at avoiding P-gp efflux, and these guidelines were used to modify an anticancer drug (dabrafenib) so that it can now penetrate the brain. This novel molecule, everafenib, showed efficacy in an intracranial mouse model of metastatic melanoma, providing a promising lead to treat brain metastases and demonstrating the utility of these P-gp guidelines. 

Kelly, A. M.,Berry, M. R., Tasker, S. Z., McKee, S. A. Fan, T. M., Hergenrother, P. J. 2022. “Target-Agnostic P-Glycoprotein Assessment Yields Strategies to Evade Efflux, Leading to a BRAF Inhibitor with Intracranial Efficacy.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144: 12367–12380. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c03944

Article: It is well known that James Hutton's approach to the study of what would later be known as Earth science was significantly influenced by the work of Isaac Newton. But it is hardly appreciated, except perhaps in continental Europe, that Gottfried Leibniz had as much or greater influence on Hutton's ‘natural philosophy’ and even his methods of research and analysis. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the shaping of Hutton's understanding of the nature of time itself. 

Thomas, Roger. 2022. "James Hutton's concept of time: that of Leibniz, not Newton.” Geology Today 38(3):108-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12389

Commentary: The acquisition of hard external or internal skeletons by early metazoans variously provided protection, leveraged biomechanically effective means of locomotion, and/or supported increases in body size.  Later, molluscs such as octopods and sea hares evolved adaptations enabling them to dispense with their hard parts.  In sea cucumbers these were reduced to tiny spicules.  Now, fossils from the Kinzers Formation (Pennsylvania, USA) have been reported as an echinoderm inferred, already in the early Cambrian, to have been in the process of reducing is skeleton, perhaps to conserve metabolic energy. 

Thomas, Roger. 2022. “An early Cambrian echinoderm already eliminating its hard skeleton?” Geology Today 38(5): 167-169. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12405 

Article: Squids maneuver to capture prey, elude predators, navigate complex habitats and deny rivals access to mates. Despite the ecological importance of this essential locomotive function, limited quantitative data on turning performance and wake dynamics of squids are available. To better understand the contribution of the jet, fins and arms to turns, the role of orientation (i.e. arms first versus tail first) in maneuvering, and the relationship between jet flow and turning performance, kinematic and 3D velocimetry data were collected in tandem from brief squid, Lolliguncula brevis. 

Bartol, I.K. ,Ganley, A.M., Tumminelli, A.N., Kreuger, P.S., and Thompson, J.T. 2022. “Vectored jets power arms-first and tail-first turns differently in brief squid with assistance from fins and keeled arms.” Journal of Experimental Biology 226: jeb244151. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.244151. 🔓

Article: This article sheds light on the pervasive yet largely uncommented upon presence of geek culture and Orientalism in hip hop, revealing the constructed, performed, and mediated nature of racialized masculinity in popular culture. By observing a range of media artifacts but concentrating on RZA’s memoir The Tao of the Wu (2009), this article contends that geeky hip hop Orientalism performs a strategy of style codeswitching, wherein the combination of intellectualism and the fantasized East expand the repertoire of Black masculinity and fantastical worldmaking. 

Villegas, Mark R. 2022. "'Gangsta Chi': RZA’s Hip Hop Orientalism and Geeky Codeswitching." Journal of Popular Music Studies 34(4): 109–131. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2022.34.4.109 

Article: Layer 3 (L3) pyramidal neurons in aged rhesus monkey lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) exhibit significantly elevated excitability in vitro and reduced spine density compared to neurons in young subjects. The time-course of these alterations, and whether they can be ameliorated in middle age by the powerful anti-oxidant curcumin is unknown. We compared the properties of L3 pyramidal neurons from the LPFC of behaviorally characterized rhesus monkeys over the adult lifespan using whole-cell patch clamp recordings and neuronal reconstructions. Working memory (WM) impairment, neuronal hyperexcitability, and spine loss began in middle age. There was no significant relationship between neuronal properties and WM performance. Middle-aged subjects given curcumin exhibited better WM performance and less neuronal excitability compared to control subjects. These findings suggest that the appropriate time frame for intervention for age-related cognitive changes is early middle age, and points to the efficacy of curcumin in delaying WM decline. Because there was no relationship between excitability and behavior, the effects of curcumin on these measures appear to be independent. 

Chang W, Weaver CM, Medalla M, Moore TL, Luebke JI.  2022. “Age-related alterations to working memory and to pyramidal neurons in the prefrontal cortex of rhesus monkeys begin in early middle-age and are partially ameliorated by dietary curcumin intervention.” Neurobiology of Aging 109: 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.09.012

Article: Proxy-based reconstructions of Neogene warm climates are a valuable data source for helping to understand what a future, warmer world may look like. Such insights are especially critical in the Arctic where the fastest rates of warming are underway and likely to continue. ... Some of this warming was likely driven by global atmospheric change and feedbacks that are possible in the modern-day Arctic. However, transformation of the once-contiguous Arctic landmass into a dissected archipelago has undoubtedly changed the nature and future warming potential of the Canadian Arctic region. Investigations aimed at disentangling the relative contribution of global versus regional boundary conditions to Neogene Arctic climate warming are needed to understand the extent to which these reconstructions may foreshadow conditions in the future. 

Porter, Trevor J., Tobias Anhäuser, Jochen Halfar, Frank Keppler, Adam Z. Csank, and Christopher J. Williams. 2022. "Canadian Arctic Neogene Temperatures Reconstructed From Hydrogen Isotopes of Lignin‐Methoxy Groups From Sub‐Fossil Wood." Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37(2): e2021PA004345. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004345

Article: Understanding how ocean island volcanoes evolve provides important insight into the behavior of mantle plumes, how plumes interact with mid-ocean ridges, and potential risks posed to inhabitants as the islands age. In this field-based study of the Galápagos Islands, we use radiogenic isotope ratio, major element, and trace element analysis of >70 new lava samples to document the geochemical evolution of Santa Cruz Island over the past ∼2 million years, as it has been carried away from the plume. 

Wilson, Emily L., Harpp KS, Schwartz DM and Van Kirk R. 2022. “The Geochemical Evolution of Santa CruzIsland, Galápagos Archipelago.” Frontiers in Earth Science 10: 845544 https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.845544 🔓

Article: The applications of the apatite mineral family are well known: orthopedic bone and tooth restoration, remediation of heavy metals, fertilizer production, and radioactive waste encapsulation. The use of apatite in bone and tooth restoration often relies on a close analog of the mineral portion of bones and teeth—carbonated apatite. ... Considerable effort has been expended over several decades on the identification of different orientations of carbonate in apatite, but the environment model utilizes the different structural surroundings to describe the different types of carbonate observed in IR and NMR spectra. The model results in the conclusion that considerably more carbonate is sequestered in the apatite channel than was previously thought... The roughly 3 to 2 ratio of channel to matrix carbonate brings a greater focus on the role of both types of carbonate in the biological function of carbonate. 

Stepien, K.R., Yoder, C.H. 2022. “Europium-doped carbonated apatites.” Minerals 12(5)03. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12050503. 🔓

Book: Many individuals are interested in returning to the workplace after obtaining a conviction. However, many of these individuals will encounter substantial barriers and exclusion when attempting to access employment in various occupations and industries. For our society to function, all individuals must have an opportunity to positively contribute, and organizations can no longer sit on the side-lines. Organizations have a responsibility to engage in hiring practices that encourage entry, not exclusion. Now Hiring allows readers to consider their individual biases, as well as their organizational employment practices and processes, and assess how these factors may be altered to increase hiring for individuals with a criminal history. 

Young, N.C.J. 2022. Now Hiring: A Manager’s Guide to Employing Applicants with a Criminal History. Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited.

Article: The authors examine consumers' response to organizations that hire employees with criminal histories… The authors surveyed participants randomly assigned to one of two conditions: purchasing services from an employer that hires individuals with criminal histories or from an employer whose inclination to hire individuals with criminal histories is unknown. The authors considered four service providers, among which the length of customers' time and involvement with employees varies: a grocery store, restaurant, auto-repair shop, and hotel… This paper highlights a population often marginalized in the hiring process. The findings challenge a common justification for not hiring individuals with criminal histories. 

Young, N.C.J. & Keech, J. 2022. “Second Chance Hiring: Exploring Consumer Perception of Employers who Hire Individuals with Criminal Histories.” Management Decision 60(9): 2389-2408.

Article: Few eighteenth-century furniture makers rival the attention paid to William Savery over the past one hundred years. Such is the benefit of having been the user of the first furniture maker’s printed label, discovered and published in 1913. The level of enthusiasm for Savery and his work have been exceeded only by the unrestrained liberties taken with attributions and profiles of his artisanal life. In time, cooler heads and more reasonable arguments have tempered the claims to Savery’s ubiquitous authorship and hold on Philadelphia eighteenth-century furniture. Given this history, it is constructive to revisit his work. 

Zimmerman, Philip D. 2022. “The Documented Chairs of William Savery.” In American Furniture 2021/2022. Edited by Luke Beckerdite, 21-51. Milwaukee, WI.: Chipstone Foundation, 2022.