Faculty News

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, is the co-author of The European Union and Global Capitalism: Origins, Development, Crisis, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.

There was not an empty seat at the Jan. 24 panel discussion in the Levitt Center 2016 Election Series, “International Challenges for the Trump Presidency: East Asia, Latin America and the Mid-East.” Government faculty Alexsia Chan, Heather Sullivan and Kira Jumet shared their analyses on how political developments around the globe might affect the Trump presidency before engaging in a conversation with attendees.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Nhora Lucía Serrano recently co-organized two panels on comics at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Conference in Philadelphia.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, was a discussant of the keynote presentation at the Mid-Year Fellows Workshop on Capital Shares and Research Questions in the Social Sciences.

Bill Moyers, well known journalist, documentarian and former White House press secretary, interviewed Professor of Government Philip Klinkner and historians from Princeton, Yale and Harvard’s Kennedy School for a program titled "Lest We Forget - Bill Moyers and four historians on the big lie behind the rise of Trump" for the Moyers & Company website.

Assistant Professor of Economics Javier Pereira presented a paper and chaired a panel at the annual international meeting of the Western Economic Association in Santiago, Chile.

Assistant Professor of Geosciences Catherine Beck recently traveled to Tempe, Ariz., to present at the third annual workshop for the Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project.

Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar recently published an essay titled “Gender, Bawdiness, and Bodily Voices" in the anthology Locating the Voice in Film: Critical Approaches and Global Practices.

Professor of Government Robert Martin recently published a research article in the French scholarly journal, Participations.