Archived Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, organized and chaired a panel on Musica Poetica at the Twenty-Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, held July 23–26 at the University of British Columbia. Bandy presented the paper “‘Through All Eternity’: Musical-Temporal Rhetoric in Dieterich Buxtehude’s Jesu dulcis memoria (BuxWV 57),” which highlighted concordances between 17th-century Lutheran orthodox and Western esoteric theologies of time and memory, toward a new understanding of North German Baroque basso ostinato (repeating bassline) works as rhetorically self-conscious measurers of human temporality.

Bandy was a featured soloist in Bear McCreary’s score to Season 2 of The Serpent Queen, the STARZ historical drama about Catherine de’ Medici, which premiered on July 12 with eight episodes being released through Aug. 30. Bandy can be heard playing viola da gamba throughout the season, as well as on the official STARZ original series soundtrack.

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper, “Hacia una poética de la ‘antilogía’ poética: el caso de Jorge Urrutia,” virtually at the I Congreso Internacional de Teoría de la Lírica y Poéticas Comparadas, held at the Universidad de Salamanca from July 3-5.

Gary Champi, assistant professor of dance, co-choreographed and performed at the Fini Dance Festival in Calabria, Italy, with local dancers from July 13-20.

Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis, was invited to present on her research to the World Resources Institute and gave a talk titled “Leveraging Large-Scale Data Mining for Socio-Environmental Impact.”

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, published “Back to Spain? Return Migration on Stage among Aging Migrants in France,” a chapter in the edited volume States of Return: Rethinking Migration and Mobility (NYU Press).

Virginie A. Duzer, professor of Romance languages and literatures, presented her work in progress on an ecocritic approach to Balzac, “Le Chef d'Oeuvre inconnu,” at the 16th edition of the annual workshop series on 19th-century French studies titled “Cultural Production in the 19th Century (Tissages et Métissages)” at the American University of Paris.

Lorn Foster, emeritus professor of politics, spent four days in Alabama along with staff from the National Trust for Historic Preservation doing a site visit to four historical African American churches: Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, Montgomery; Old Ship AME Zion Church, Montgomery; Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma; and Old Sardis Baptist Church, Birmingham. Each church is on the National Registry for Historic Places and has received funding from the National Trust.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, published three articles in July. With collaborators from Australia and Colorado College, he published the article “The Emu Bay Shale: a unique early Cambrian Lagerstätte from a tectonically active basin” in the July 26 issue of Science Advances. With collaborators from the American Museum of Natural History, he published the article “Late Ordovician eurypterid preserves oldest euchelicerate musculature in pyrite” in Biology Letters on July 10. He joined an international community project on the paper “Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity through the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic Eras,” published in the July issue of Nature Geoscience.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was appointed as a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Fellows Program Selection Committee for a term of three years, effective Feb. 1, 2025, through Jan. 31, 2028. The Fellows of the AMS program recognizes members who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication and utilization of mathematics.

Garcia gave a talk titled “Quotient sets, Fibonacci numbers, and related curiosities” at the 21st International Fibonacci Conference at Harvey Mudd College on July 11.

Garcia published a book chapter (with Albrecht Boettcher and Mishko Mitkovski) titled “The Reciprocal Schur Inequality” in Analysis without Borders, edited by Sergei Rogosin.

Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, associate professor of economics, published the paper “Minimum Wage Employment Effects and Labour Market Concentration” in the July issue of The Review of Economic Studies.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, published a book article titled “Japan’s Quiet Leadership: Between Vision and Necessity” with Asia Policy.

Le gave an invited lecture on Japan’s aging and declining population at Meiji Gakuin University in Japan. He also led a benkyoukai on the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump to the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program. Le completed the U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Fellowship with a four-day conference in Washington, D.C. where he presented his research to policymakers on Capitol Hill.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, returned as a faculty member at the Chamber Music Conference, held at Colgate University, New York. For one week in July, she coached high-level amateur musicians in chamber music groups and performed J. S. Bach’s Trio Sonata from Musical Offering with other faculty members.

As a faculty member at the Redfish Music Festival in late July, Lee performed piano quartets of Mozart and Schumann at the Cultural Center in Crescent City, California, and two venues in Oregon (Port Orford and North Bend).

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, appeared on The Tavis Smiley Show on July 23 to discuss the question “Is Democracy on the Ballot?”

Miriam Merrill, chair of physical education, was inducted into the Tuscarawas County Sports Hall of Fame (TCSHOF). The TCSHOF is dedicated to honoring individuals prominent in the history of athletics in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Merrill’s induction class included four teams, one foundation and 19 other individual athletes.

Lynne Miyake, emerita professor of Japanese and Asian studies, published a study of Japanese comics versions of an 11th-century tale, titled The Tale of Genji Through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan on July 11.

Nikki Moore, visiting assistant professor of geology, was awarded a $198,248 grant from the National Science Foundation EMBRACE program through the Division of Earth Sciences for her research proposal titled “Magmatic Evolution and Timing of the Independence Dike Swarm.” With a host of undergraduate research assistants, she will conduct field, geochemical and geochronological work on the dikes to develop a comprehensive model for the generation and emplacement of the swarm. This grant will provide research and networking opportunities for about six Claremont Colleges students and expand the analytical capabilities of the Pomona College Oxtoby Lab.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “Effects of multi-channel AGN feedback in FIRE cosmological simulations of massive galaxies” in the Astrophysical Journal.

Moreno and collaborators were awarded time to observe 450 galaxies in the local universe on the Atacama Large Millimetre/Sub-millimetre Array, under a proposal titled “Star formation efficiency and quenching patterns in and between galaxies.” Moreno is serving as theory deputy director of this collaboration with principal investigators Timothy Davis and Amelie Saintonge. Moreno is also co-investigator on a National Science Foundation award titled “Multiphase Analysis of (U)LIRG Nuclear Activity” with principal investigator Vivian U.

Moreno and postdoctoral fellow Francisco Mercado were awarded $49,990 by the National Science Foundation under a program titled “Conference: 23rd Annual Symposium of the NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows.”

Moreno was selected as the first distinguished guest by the undergraduate interns enrolled in the Carnegie Astrophysics Summer Student Internship program at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. Moreno represented the American Astronomical Society on a site visit to oversee the publishing of American astronomy journals at the Institute of Physics headquarters in Bristol, UK. On July 11, Moreno delivered a research talk at the University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. During the week of July 23, Moreno attended and co-organized the first meeting of the Society of Indigenous Physicists in Seattle.

Thomas Muzart, assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, presented a paper titled “Futurité queer dans Viendra le temps du feu de Wendy Delorme” at the 65th annual conference of the Society for French Studies on July 2.

Muzart published an article, “L'émancipation décoloniale en toutes lettres d'Abdellah Taïa,” in the special issue of Contemporary French Civilization, “Queer flight: Rethinking Maghrebi sexualities” (July 2024).

Zhiru Ng, professor of religious studies, presented “Māra as the Problem of Evil: East Asian Variants of a Global Indian Myth” at the 2024 Association of Asian Studies-in-Asia Meeting at Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yojyakarta, Indonesia.

Lina Patel, lecturer of playwriting, was invited to present her play The Ragged Claws at The Road Theater Company’s Summer Playwright’s Festival in North Hollywood, California. Also in July, Patel participated in and co-moderated Rogue Machine Theater's inaugural Playwright’s Roundtable, a culmination of a six-month workshop and new play presentations at the historic Matrix Theater in West Hollywood, California.

Larissa Rudova, professor of German and Russian, delivered a paper, “The Queering of Russian Childhood in Mikita Franko’s Fictional World,” at the workshop “Politics of Text and Image in Children’s Culture: Contemporary Eastern Europe and Beyond,” organized by the International Workshop of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and International Youth Library in Munich from July 18-19. Rudova also moderated a panel, “Politics of Memory: East and West,” at the same conference.

Santiago Sandi-Urena, visiting professor of chemistry, was an invited speaker at the 27th International Conference on Chemistry Education, the specialized event in the field organized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The conference was held in Pattaya, Thailand, from July 15-19. His talk “Cross-institutional study: Propositional instruction and competence in chemical symbolic language in college students” included valuable research contributions by Jason Xu ’26 and Nate Rubin ’26. Sandi-Urena was appointed to the Scientific Committee of the conference and organized and chaired the symposium “Emerging Educational Trends in Chemistry in the 21st Century.”

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote three opinion pieces: “Fisker, Invitae and other fallen ‘unicorns’ are casualties of Silicon Valley’s broken venture capital system” (MarketWatch, July 11), “How Can Someone Who Fails be Faulted When Everyone Else is Failing? (MindMatters, July 22) and “Big Tech’s AI Bubble is Alive and Unwell” (MarketWatch, July 31).

Jessica Stern ’12, assistant professor of psychological science, co-authored a book chapter, “The Neuroscience of Social Relationships in Early Development,” for the new edition of Child Development at the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition, published by the American Psychological Association.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, gave an invited online workshop on how to address individual differences in learning with AI for a diverse group of instructors and researchers from elementary and high schools in Singapore to the Ministry of Education and National Institute of Education on July 9.

Xiao published an invited paper titled “The 80/20 Rule in the Era of Artificial Intelligence” in International Chinese Learning and Teaching Resources by Joint Publishing (Hong Kong) on July 10.

Xiao was invited to join the review team of research priorities and grants for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) on July 25.

Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, co-authored the introduction to the special issue of Psychology and Aging “Adult Age Differences in Language, Communication, and Learning from Text,” along with co-editor Elizabeth Stine-Morrow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Abrams also published two research articles in this issue: “Age-Related Differences in the Evaluation of Highly Arousing Language,” co-authored with collaborators Meredith Shafto and Lori James (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) and “Do Pictures’ Emotional Valence and Arousal Affect Younger and Older Adults’ Narratives?” co-authored with cognitive science majors Benjamin Cote ’23, María José Najas ’24 and Aysha Gsibat ’24 and collaborator Katherine White (Rhodes College).

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry, completed his Downing Fellowship at University of Cambridge. Hosted by Matthew Gaunt (chemistry), he learned about new high-throughput techniques for synthesis. He also gave research talks at University of Bristol, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.

Lisa Beckett, professor of physical education, was honored with a scoreboard naming dedication at the Pauley Tennis Courts. Student-athletes, alumni, colleagues, family and friends gathered for a dedication ceremony at court 7. The evening included a formal program of speakers, the unveiling of the naming of the scoreboard, a reception and dinner.

Graydon Beeks, emeritus professor of music, published an article on “Coroliano Transformed: The Early History of Ariosti's First Royal Academy Opera” in the 2024 issue of the Handel-Jahrbuch.

Amelia Bransky, visiting assistant professor of theatre, collaborated with Detroit Public Theatre on their production of Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s as the scenic designer.

Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis, co-organized a symposium titled Text Analysis for Conservation at the 2024 North American Congress for Conservation Biology in Vancouver, Canada.

Toni Cook, visiting assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, published an article with Case Miranda ’24 and Clara McGilly PZ ’24, “Innovative use of Shona ideophones within an adolescent community of practice,” in the journal Linguistics Vanguard.

Anne Dwyer, associate professor of German and Russian, was an associate at the Summer Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in June, where she conducted research for her book manuscript Viktor Shklovsky after Russian Formalism and a related article on Soviet cultural production/propaganda around the 1939 annexation of Eastern Poland/Western Ukraine. The award was made possible by the U.S. Department of State through its Title VIII Program for Research Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union.

KJ Fagan, senior director of public programming and strategic initiatives, was appointed to the Professions Committee of the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP), a global organization dedicated to advocating for the discipline of change management, supporting the global community of change managers through educational and professional development, and maintaining a standard for the accreditation of professionals working in the field. As a board-appointed member of the Professions Committee, Fagan will be responsible for implementing ACMP’s strategic initiatives in the areas of education, partnerships and advocacy.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, and a team of international colleagues published the article “Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobites” in the journal Science. This “Trilobite Pompeii” was featured on the cover of the June 28 issue of Science and was featured in news outlets including Science News and The New York Times.

Melissa Givens, assistant professor of music, was one of five Davidson College alumni selected by the alumni association to receive the Distinguished Alumni Award for “providing leadership or attaining recognition on a national or regional level in their profession or business” during the recently concluded 2024 Reunion Weekend. The citation read in part, “Because of her deep and varied contributions to the worlds of music and art; and because of her commitment to the liberal arts and preparing the next generation of leaders who will serve in the world, the Alumni Association is pleased to present Melissa Givens, class of 1989, with the Distinguished Alumni Award, on the occasion of her 35th Reunion, June 2024.” Givens also co-chaired the reunion for her class.

Elizabeth Glater, associate professor of neuroscience, presented “Chemical Basis of Behavioral Preference for the Microbiome” at the C. elegans Topic Meeting: Neuronal Development, Synaptic Function & Behavior in Madison, Wisconsin. The co-authors were Dylan Blackett ’24, Emily Church ’23, Victor Chai ’23, Tiam Farajzadeh ’23 and Charles Taylor, chair and professor of chemistry.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, participated June 13 in the roundtable “Todavía pensamos, todavía escribimos: ¿Qué tiene para decir la academia frente a la encrucijada que vivimos?” (“We still think, we still write: What can the academy say about the crossroads we are living in?”) at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Congress in Bogotá, Colombia. On June 14, she was part of the LASA book presentation session about the edited volume Women’s Rights in Movement: Dynamics of feminist change in Latin America and the Caribbean along with the editors and other authors and talked about her chapter “The Right to a Complete Life: Struggles of the Dominican Feminist Movement.” On June 15, she presented the paper “The Anti-Gender and Anti-LGTBQ Conservative Backlash in the Dominican Republic” in the LASA section panel “Presentes de odio, futuros distópicos” (Hateful presents, dystopic futures).

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, delivered a talk titled “New Practices in Chinese Courses at a Liberal Arts College: Richness, Diversity, and Timeliness” at the 2024 Forum on the Research and Teaching of Chinese Language and Culture, organized by the China-U.S. Alliance of College Teachers of Chinese at Xiamen University in China. In the presentation, she shared her recent pedagogical innovations in teaching Mandarin Chinese, including collaborative grading and creative project-based learning approaches in foreign language classrooms.

Jonathan Lethem, Roy E. Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing, will have a collection of his art writings Cellophane Bricks published on July 25.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, participated in a roundtable discussion titled “Leading with Performance: Interdisciplinary Arts-led Innovations Inside the Neoliberal University" at the Canadian Association of Theatre Research Conference: Staging Justice, moved from McGill University to Université de Montreal, Teesri Duniya Theatre and Concordia University.

Lu was a discussant in The Dramaturgy and Ethics Working Group and participated in the Critical Race Studies Working Group at The Performance Studies International Conference in London at Senate House and Hoxton Hall.

Denise Machin, assistant director of the Smith Campus Center and director of the Claremont Colleges Ballroom Dance Company, was elected as president of the College Dancesport Association, the tri-state ballroom dance circuit the Claremont Colleges belongs to. Machin was also elected as a board member of NASSPDA (North American Same-Sex Partner Dance Association).

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, spoke at the Oxford Union at the University of Oxford, where she was part of a panel titled “Intrigue & Insiders: American Politics in the Age of Trump vs. Biden” on June 3.

McWilliams gave a talk titled “The Book Banning Epidemic,” first to the residents of Pilgrim Place in Claremont and later to the members of the United Nations Association of Pomona Valley.

On June 24, McWilliams published an essay on “The End of Roe: Two Years Later” in Current.

Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, is the author of “Wild, Managed, and Reclaimed: The Complex Environmental History of the San Antonio River Watershed,” in Greg Gordon, ed., Rewilding the Urban Frontier: River Conservation in the Anthropocene. Miller also chaired a session devoted to the anthology at the recent meetings of the American Society for Environmental History.

Miller was featured in “A Tale of Two Rivers: Los Angeles and San Antonio,” Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation podcast.

Miller published an essay on his participation in a series of humanities Texas teacher programs in the Humanities Texas Newsletter.

Jon Moore, lab coordinator and associate professor of biology, presented a poster with co-authors Anaya Ramkumar ’24 and Bernice Sule ’26 titled “Assessing Local Ecological Genetic Diversity as an Introductory Biology CURE” at the Association for Biology Laboratory Education’s annual conference in College Park, Maryland.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper titled “Size-Mass Relations for Simulated Low-Mass Galaxies: Mock Imaging versus Intrinsic Properties” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

On June 3, Moreno delivered an invited talk titled “The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at the Cosmic Signals of Dark Matter Physics: New Synergies conference held at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, California.

Moreno served as reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Gilda L. Ochoa, professor of Chicana/o Latina/o studies, presented “The Branches of Greenberry Drive: African Americans and Activism in the East San Gabriel Valley Suburbs, 1960s-1970s” at the Inland Empire People’s History Conference at California State University, San Bernardino on June 1.

Mary Paster, professor of linguistics and cognitive science, gave a keynote address titled “What, if anything, is ‘myopia in grammar’?” at the Workshop on Myopia in Grammar, University of Leipzig on June 13.

Hans Rindisbacher, professor of German, delivered a plenary address at an online conference at the Centre for Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths College of the University of London titled “Work and Smell: Comparative Perspectives.”

Richard S. Savich, lecturer in economics, was awarded a Wig Curriculum Development grant to update ECON 131, Economics of Entrepreneurship, for possible offering during the 2025-2026 academic year. The course was last offered in 2018.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote two opinion pieces: “AI is Still a Delusion” (MindMatters, June 27) and “Why AI Can’t Replace Science” (FastCompany, June 28).

Smith signed a contract for a second edition of Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics.

Smith’s co-authored paper Associations of Physical Inactivity and COVID-19 Outcomes Among Subgroups, American Journal of Preventative Medicine, was selected as the AJPM paper of the year.

Ken Wolf, John Sutton Miner Professor of History and professor of classics, recently returned from his 14th alumni trip May 29 to June 9, this one focused on 12th- and 13th-century papal responses to heresy in Languedoc and Catalunya. This year marked the 25th anniversary of his first such medieval-themed trip in 1999.

Patria Aziz, assistant women’s tennis coach, led the team to winning the SCIAC championships and the NCAA semifinals. 

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry, gave a series of talks sharing the latest research from his group at University of California San Diego, Scripps Research and the University of Manchester (UK).

Ball published a paper with Natalie Schur ’24 titled “Poison to Promise: The Resurgence of Organophosphorous Fluorides” in the journal Chem. The paper is a collaboration with the Sammis (U. British Columbia) and Melvin (Bryn Mawr) labs. It is a perspective highlighting the historical challenges of these compounds as chemical weapons, their safety profile and the potential for innovation toward addressing challenges in chemical and biomolecular sciences.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, played the viola da gamba on The Singularity, a rock concept album released May 3 by composer Bear McCreary and featuring artists such as Slash and Rufus Wainwright. Bandy can be heard on the track “Antikythera Mechanism (Ft. Raya Yarbrough).”

Bandy contracted, organized and played violone for the ensemble Harmonologia Pomona, a group of professional instrumentalists specializing in Baroque performance practice, which collaborated with the Pomona College Glee Club in performances of Handel’s Dixit Dominus, directed by Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music. Performances took place in Bridges Hall of Music on April 25 and 27 and May 11, followed by a West Coast tour (May 14-22), with concerts in Berkeley, Palo Alto, Portland and Seattle.

On May 10 in Orange, California, Bandy programmed and led a workshop handling musical rhetoric in works by Lassus, Morales and Marenzio for the Orange County Recorder Society, and on May 26, Bandy played violone with Tesserae Baroque in their 2023/24 season finale in Beverly Hills, California, a complete performance of Alessandro Scarlatti’s oratorio Cain, overo Il primo omicidio (1707).

Tatiana Basáñez, visiting assistant professor of psychological science, had a symposium titled The World of Three Cultures Model: Honor, Achievement, and Joy/Easygoingness accepted for presentation at The XXVII International Congress of International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology 2024 where she is scheduled to present a paper titled Psychometric Properties of Values and Behavior Measures Using the World of Three Cultures Model: Honor, Achievement, and Joy. Also, along with students from her Social Psychology and Health (SOPAH) research lab, she was awarded a grant to present two scientific posters at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention in San Francisco, May 23-26.

Colin J. Beck, professor of international relations, gave two invited talks. First, he spoke to master’s students in the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University on revolutionary waves in modern history. On May 3, he presented a paper on the role of corruption grievances in 21st century revolutions at the Wisconsin Historical Analysis Table at the Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Graydon Beeks, emeritus professor of music, performed as harpsichordist with his Cornucopian Baroque Ensemble colleagues—violinist Alfred Cramer, associate professor of music; theorbist Jason Yoshida, lecturer in music; and cellist Roger Lebow—in a Friday Noon Concert of music by Handel and Telemann in Lyman Hall.

Gary Champi, assistant professor of dance, taught a masterclass on Cunningham Technique at the University of Washington, Seattle, on May 24.

Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis, co-authored a publication titled “Communication and Deliberation for Environmental Governance” in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Chang also co-authored a preprint titled “Automating the Analysis of Public Saliency and Attitudes towards Biodiversity from Digital Media” on the arXiv preprint server with two non-profits, Conservation Science Partners and On The Edge Conservation.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a talk titled “Memoria de la migración de las mujeres españolas en Francia” at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid on May 10. The talk, which was based on his recently published book Untold Stories: Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life (Toronto, 2024), was sponsored jointly by the museum and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics, was an invited speaker at a Zoom workshop co-hosted by the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration on May 17. She and Peggy Levitt gave a talk based on their recently published book Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders (Oxford University Press).

Virginie A. Duzer, professor and chair of Romance languages and literatures, remotely presented the paper “Calques et Copies des amitiés tardives” during the Sorbonne nouvelle journée d’étude Goncourt dedicated to copy and double May 16.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, with colleagues from Harvard University and Freie Universitat Berlin, published the article “Benthic pterobranchs from the Cambrian (Drumian) Marjum Konservat-Lagerstätte of Utah” in Papers in Palaeontology.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of mathematics and statistics, gave a talk titled “Fast food for thought: what can chicken nuggets tell us about linear algebra?” at the Cal State Long Beach Mathematics Colloquium on May 3.

Garcia published an article, “Norms on complex matrices induced by random vectors II: extension of weakly unitarily invariant norms,” with former Visiting Assistant Professor Ángel Chávez and Jackson Hurley ’23 in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin.

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete ’17, Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in linguistics and cognitive science, presented his research project titled “Production Leads Perception: Linguistic Variation Effects on Speech Perception” at the Colloquium Seminar for the Linguistics Department at UCLA.

Heidi Nichols Haddad, associate professor of politics, participated in the invited workshop “Surfacing Social Justice Solutions in Voluntary Local Reviews” sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University/Heinz College and the Brookings Institution Center for Sustainable Development in Washington D.C. on May 1-2.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, co-organized and moderated a panel on women’s political participation on May 31 evaluating the results of female candidacies in the Dominican presidential and congressional elections. Hernández-Medina also gave an interview on the feminist radio program Libertarias the same day to publicize the event.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, together with Kira Hamman of Pennsylvania State University Mon Alto and Lew Ludwig of Denison University, led a virtual four-day workshop (May 13-16) titled “Who’s Afraid of Generative AI? Promises and Challenges for the Mathematics Classroom” hosted by the 2024 OPEN MATH Workshop series of the Mathematical Association of America.

Karaali gave a talk titled “A New Elephant Enters the (Chat)Room: Why Teach Math Now?” at the 2024 FYMSiC (First-Year Mathematics and Statistics in Canada) one-day online conference Why Are We Teaching Mathematics Today? on May 9. A recording of the talk is available.

Karaali published an article titled “ChatGPT and New Ethical Considerations for the Mathematics Classroom” in the April/May 2024 issue of FOCUS, the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America.

Jade Star Lackey, professor of geology, co-authored the study “Multi-scale, open-system magmatic and sub-solidus processes contribute to the chemical and isotopic characteristics of the Jurassic Guadalupe Igneous Complex, Sierra Nevada, California, USA,” published in Geosphere.

Lackey presented the talk “Subduction to Sequoias: How Cretaceous Magmatism Set the Vitality and Vulnerability of Sierran Forest Ecosystems” at the 2024 Sierra Nevada Science Symposium convened by the National Park Service, USGS and University of California System.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, and fellow members of the Mojave Trio were artists-in-residence at University of California, Davis, from May 15-17. They recorded and presented the premiere of graduate composer works in concert. Mojave Trio also performed a live-streamed concert of works by Nico Muhly, James Diáz, Gao Ping and Rebecca Clarke. Each member of the group coached undergraduate individuals and chamber ensembles.

Lee was invited to give a solo recital for the May meeting of the local Foothill Philharmonic Committee, a support group for the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, led a qigong workshop at a Hike for Wellness in Lincoln Heights offered by Roots in Motion Bike Collective on May 11.

Lu led an online exploration in contracting and expanding for the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA) on May 20.

Sara Masland, associate professor of psychological science, presented an invited talk, “Knowledge is Power(ful): Harnessing Education to Destigmatize Borderline Personality Disorder,” at the annual Yale-National Education Alliance for BPD conference.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper titled “HI discs of Lstar galaxies as probes of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Moreno delivered a colloquium titled The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter at Harvard University (May 8) and MIT (May 14).

Carolyn Ratteray, associate professor of theatre, received the Integrity Award from the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival for her outstanding work in Los Angeles theatre.

Ratteray’s one-woman show Both And (A Play About Laughing While Black) was invited to be a part of the International Black Theatre Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this summer along with her episodic film (Un)Claimed. (Un)Claimed also screened at the Diva Film Festival in London this past month.

Hans J. Rindisbacher, professor of German, published a review of A Date with Language by David Crystal (Oxford, Bodleian Library Publishing, 2023) in The European Legacy.

Joti Rockwell, associate professor of music, performed in a pair of concerts at Claremont’s Folk Music Center as a member of Peter Harper’s band, playing a variety of instruments including pedal steel, banjo and theremin. On vihuela, he joined Alfred Cramer, associate professor of music, and Ursula Kleinecke, lecturer in music, in a performance as part of Claremont Colleges Faculty Mariachi, led by Cándida Jáquez. On a custom-made Balinese bamboo slide guitar, he was a guest musician with gamelan Burat Wangi at the CalArts 2024 World Music and Dance Festival, performing the new composition Fantasy by I Nyoman Wenten, lecturer in music.

Rockwell published a review of Nicholas Stoia’s book Sweet Thing: The History and Musical Structure of a Shared American Vernacular in the Journal of Music Theory.

On May 18, Rockwell delivered the keynote lecture titled “Music in Motion, Music as Motion” at the joint meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis and the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society, held at UC Irvine.

Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, E. Wilson Lyon Professor of the Humanities and chair of English, published her edited collection The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American Literature on May 16. The Companion assembles a coalition of expert scholars, both emergent and established, to ensure comprehensive and incisive coverage of literary texts featuring the Black body over a wide historical range and from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This book provides an invaluable guide for teachers, students and general readers interested in literary and artistic representations of Blackness and embodiment. The cover design features Wardell Milan’s The Black Male Body, one of five billboards commissioned by Pomona’s Benton Museum during the 2022-2023 academic year.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, published two peer-reviewed papers: “LLMs Can’t Be Trusted for Financial Advice” in Journal of Financial Planning and “MPT and CAPM Mismeasure Risk” in Journal of Investing. He also wrote two opinion pieces: “A Man, A Boat, and a Goat—and a Chatbot!” (MindMatters, May 15) and “AI replicating human thinking is more Big Tech ‘fake-it-till-you-make-it’ hype” (MarketWatch, May 29).

Gary was interviewed by Derek Thompson for “How the Modern University Became a Bureaucratic Blob” in The Atlantic (May 8) and signed a contract for a traditional Chinese translation of Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie With Statistics, which has also been translated into Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish.

Andrew Wilson, director of research computing, ITS, published an article, “Virtual Reality Based Simulated Hallucinations to Enhance Empathy Toward Individuals With Schizophrenia,” in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Keri Wilson, assistant professor of biology, published the article “Early-life silver spoon improves survival and breeding performance of adult zebra finches” in the journal American Naturalist.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, organized a panel on AI-generated content and second language teaching at the 2024 Conference of Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) held by Carnegie Mellon University on May 23. Xiao and Jonathan Becker ’24 showcased an AI-based adaptive learning platform, “Luduan.ai,” at CALICO 2024 on May 23.

Xiao co-authored a paper titled “Effects of Lexical Properties in L2 Chinese Compound Processing: A Multivariate Approach” in Journal of Psycholinguistic Research on May 24.

Aimee Bahng, associate professor of gender and women’s studies (GWS) and program coordinator of GWS and American Studies (AMST), was nominated for the Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Association for Asian American Studies and was awarded an honorable mention at the national conference awards ceremony in Seattle on April 27.

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry gave a talk titled “Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx)” at Portland State University.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, served on the program committee for the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, held April 4–7 at Princeton University and hosted by Princeton University Department of Music, with support from the Center for Human Values, Council of the Humanities, Program in Italian Studies, Department of Art and Archaeology, Department of French and Italian and Department of Comparative Literature.

On April 11, Bandy presented a lecture-performance titled “‘Drawing’ the Bow: Process, Passaggi, and Gendered Sociality in Italian and English Viol Music, ca. 1580–1680” at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, as part of the event Gender and the Italian Arts. Bandy’s lecture-performance featured members of Artifex Consort and drew connections between 16th-century cartoon tracing, the viola da gamba as a gendered object, and the rhetorical “abundant” style of divisions (variations) practice as instrumental reworkings of Italian Renaissance vocal polyphony. The event also featured a lecture by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer (to which Bandy’s musical portion responded), curator and head of Italian and Spanish paintings at the National Gallery of Art, in honor of the current Benton exhibition 500 Years of Italian Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum.

Gayle Blankenburg, lecturer in music, performed in a new-music concert at Symphony Space in New York City on April 20. She performed a solo piano work, a work for cello and piano, and a work for violin, piano and two dancers.

Shannon Burns, assistant professor of psychological science and neuroscience, presented a symposium talk titled “Coordinated neural states during joint decision-making” at the Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society in Toronto on April 11.

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, presented two papers: “‘El que habla no es el que sufre’: Witnessing Testimony in Juan Carlos Mestre’s ‘Fechado en Auschwitz,’” at the 44th Cincinnati Conference on Romance & Arabic Languages and Literatures, held at the University of Cincinnati from April 4-6 and “Economic Exile and Migratory Identity in the Writings of Azahara Palomeque,” at Cal State Long Beach’s 58th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference (April 17).

On April 20, Cahill hosted the Spring Meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese at Pomona College.

Eileen J. Cheng, professor of Asian languages and literatures and faculty director of Oldenborg, published an annotated bibliography of sources on the modern Chinese writer “Lu Xun” in Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies, edited by Tim Wright and published by Oxford University Press.

Cecilia Conrad, emerita professor of economics, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024 in recognition of her nonprofit leadership.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, was recognized by the Queer Resource Center at Lavender Graduation for his support of students and his contributions to the community.

Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics, had an article, “What’s new about new destinations: Cinderella states and the comparative study of migration,” published online in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the article “Hayekian Psychological Economics: A Preliminary Look” in Behavioural Public Policy.

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, attended the American Mathematical Society 2024 Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting from April 6-7 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. On April 6, Goins organized a special session called “GranvilleFest 100: A Celebration of the Legacy of Evelyn Boyd Granville,” celebrating the 100th birthday of the second African American to receive a doctorate in mathematics. On April 7, Goins gave a talk in the special session on Elementary Number Theory and Elliptic Curves titled “{Quasi-Critical Points of Toroidal Belyi Maps.”

Goins has been traveling around the country serving as a section visitor for the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). On April 5, he attended the MAA Oklahoma-Arkansas Section 2024 Annual Meeting at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He gave a keynote address titled “Clocks, Parking Garages, and the Solvability of the Quintic: A Friendly Introduction to Monodromy.” On April 12-13, Goins attended the MAA Wisconsin Section 2024 Annual Meeting at the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, Wisconsin. He gave a keynote address titled “Indiana Pols Forced to Eat Humble Pi: The Curious History of an Irrational Number.”

Nicole Desjardins Gowdy, senior director of international and domestic programs, presented a session on case studies and table top scenarios with colleagues Stacey Bolton Tsantir (DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia) and Susan Lochner Atkinson (University of Wisconsin—Madison) at the U.S. Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) Academia Sector Committee (ASC) Spring 2024 Seminar on Health, Safety, and Security held at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities on April 26 in St. Paul.

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete ’17, Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in linguistics and cognitive science, presented his research project titled “Occlusive salience among Spanish-English bilinguals: Evidence from code-switching” in a Blue Room Talk for the series “Return to Pomona” for Pomona College faculty, staff, students and alumni.

Gutiérrez Topete participated in an alumni panel hosted virtually on April 7 by the Office of Graduate Diversity at UC Berkeley.

Nina Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, and biology majors Philip Duchild ’24 and Teodelina Martelli ’24 presented their bird-related research at the April Pomona Valley Audubon Society meeting. Karnovsky presented her work assessing the diets of Antarctic penguins and south polar skuas from the ear bones of fish found in the “puke and poop” of those seabirds. Duchild presented results from his senior thesis in which he quantified and characterized the plastic consumed by Laysan albatross breeding at two colonies on Oahu, Hawaii. Martelli presented a RAISE (Remote Alternative Independent Summer Experience) project she did in which she translated the bird field notes of her late grandfather from Argentina and put his sightings into ebird, a citizen science app for recording birds.

Karnovsky performed in two dances choreographed by Anthony Loa in Village Dance Arts’ recital Steppin’ Out at the Haugh Performing Arts Center in Glendora, California, on April 21.

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, co-authored the article “New Developments in Pomona College’s Chinese Program: Implementation of Gender-Inclusive Curriculum Practices” with Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, published in Chinese Language Globalization Studies.

Lang gave a talk titled “Chinese Language and Gender: Exploring Gender-Inclusive Pedagogy” at the 2nd Annual Gender-Inclusive Language Conference hosted by the Center for Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California.

Lang joined a panel at the 2024 Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) Annual Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, where she presented her recent pedagogical practices titled “Teaching Chinese to Gen Z: Project-based Learning.”

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, published an article in The Diplomat on the death and impact of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.

Le served as a discussant on a panel concerning social movements in Japan at the Associate of Asian Studies annual conference.

Le gave a talk at Soka University of America on Japan-South Korea reconciliation.

Le served on a panel, “The Future of East Asia,” at the West Coast International Relations of Asia Conference at USC.

Jonathan Lethem, Roy E. Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing, won The New York City Book Award for his 2023 book Brooklyn Crime Novel.

Alexandra Lippman, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, presented “‘Queen of the Favela’: Ludmilla's Queer Funk” at the Brazilian Studies Association in San Diego on April 3 in a panel on queer and trans performance, necropolitics and the Brazilian state.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, led a Playback Theatre workshop at the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama conference April 4. She also performed playback with The Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble as part of Armand Volkas’ plenary speech titled “Healing the Wounds of History Through Psychodrama” on April 6.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, delivered an invited talk titled “from excursion sets to today: a random walk through the history of cosmological simulations” at the 2024 April Meeting of the American Physical Society on April 4. This presentation was also featured in astrobites.

From April 15^-19, Moreno co-organized an international conference called Recipes to Regulate Star Formation at All Scales: From the Nearby Universe to the First Galaxies at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

Moreno published three peer-reviewed research articles in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: “Dense stellar clump formation driven by strong quasar winds in the FIRE cosmological hydrodynamic simulations,” “Inflow and outflow properties, not total gas fractions, drive the evolution of the mass-metallicity relation” and “Hooks & Bends in the Radial Acceleration Relation: Discriminatory Tests for Dark Matter and MOND.” The third article was led by Francisco Mercado, postdoctoral fellow working under the supervision of Moreno and lecturer in physics and astronomy.

Zhiru Ng, professor and chair of religious studies and program coordinator of Asian studies, presented “To beg or to cook? Food ethics, cross-cultural borrowing, and the meal rituals of South Forest (Nanlin) Buddhist nuns in Central Taiwan” at the conference on “Buddhism and Food Ethics,” University of Oxford China Center, March 19-20. The conference was hosted by the faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.

Kun Nie, visiting instructor of Asian languages and literatures, gave a presentation titled “Strengthening Cultural Roots through Community-Centric Projects for the Heritage Chinese Classes” at the 31st International Conference on Chinese Language Instruction, held at Princeton University on April 27.

Gilda L. Ochoa, professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies, was an invited panelist on “Claiming Belonging and Witnessing Joy: New Directions in Latinx Studies” at the Latinx Studies Association, Arizona State University on April 19.

Ochoa co-facilitated a daylong workshop for Santa Ana Unified School District’s Ethnic Studies Steering Committee on April 24 in Santa Ana, California.

Dan O’Leary, Carnegie Professor of Chemistry, had his six-year effort with the University of Washington to reconcile its role in a decades-old case of child sexual abuse at a Seattle elementary school featured on NPR affiliate KUOW.org.

Adam Pearson, associate professor and chair of psychological science, published the article “Social psychological pathways to climate justice: Emerging insights and intersecting challenges,” co-authored with Stella Favaro ’23 and Brooke Sparks ’22. The article is part of a 25th anniversary special issue of the journal Group Processes and Intergroup Relations focused on the role of psychology in addressing global challenges.

Pearson co-authored the article “Addressing climate change with behavioral science: A global intervention tournament in 63 countries” in Science Advances with a global team of 250 behavioral scientists.

William Peterson, professor emeritus of music and College organist, performed music from the WWI era in a concert on the Hill Memorial Organ in Bridges Hall of Music. The program included a number of works that were originally published in an anthology, Les Voix de la douleur chrétienne (“The Voices of Christian Sorrow”). The concert program included music composed between 1914 and 1924 by Louis Vierne, Camille Saint-Saëns, Joseph Jongen, Jacques Ibert and others.

Sheila Pinkel, professor emerita of art and art history, has a large cyanotype work currently on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Alexis Reyes, director of sustainability and energy management, was featured in a case study with Patch, a carbon credit marketplace, for her work on sourcing and vetting high-quality carbon credits. Reyes worked with a subcommittee of the Pomona College Board of Trustees to establish criteria for purchasing high-quality carbon credits. The Sustainability Office launched a pilot program under which departments can purchase carbon credits to offset emissions from College-funded air travel.

Hans Rindisbacher, professor of German and Russian, published a review of Kellers Erzählen. Strukturen – Funktionen – Reflexionen. Herausgegeben von Philipp Theisohn (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022); and Kellers Medien. Formen – Genres – Institutionen. Herausgegeben von Frauke Berndt (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022) in Monatshefte.

Monique Saigal Escudero, professor emerita of French, gave a presentation, “My Hidden Childhood in WWII in Occupied France,” during Alumni Weekend on April 27.

Bri Sérráno, assistant dean and director of the Queer Resource Center, defended and passed his dissertation defense for a doctor of philosophy in education and human resource studies degree with a specialization in higher education leadership from Colorado State University on April 29. His dissertation is titled “I Love the Work, But the Work Doesn’t Love Me: A Constructivist Study on the Lived Experiences of Transgender Staff of Color Who Report Discrimination in Higher Education.”

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, wrote his first novel Death Along the Silk Road. The novel follows Omar Khayyam through the period 1090-1092, when the Seljuq Empire of Persia fell apart. Most of the events, though fictionalized, occurred. Shay translated Khayyam’s poems anew for the novel.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote five opinion pieces: “The AI hype machine just rolls on, living on exhaust” (MindMatters, April 11), “Elon Musk: AI will be smarter than a human in 2025: Why he's wrong” (MindMatters, April 16), “Universities Should Prioritize Critical Thinking Over Large Language Models” (MindMatters, April 23); “Large Language Models are Often Wrong, Never in Doubt” (MindMatters, April 29) and “A Modest Proposal to Save Higher Education” (Washington Post, April 23).

Smith signed a contract for a Japanese translation of the book The Power of Modern Value Investing: Beyond Indexing, Algos, and Alpha, co-authored with his wife Margaret Smith.

Kevin Wynter, assistant professor of media studies, signed a contract with Edinburgh University Press for his second book, Feeling Absence: Horror, Memory, and Language in Cinema.

Wynter organized and hosted the Media Studies Department’s 2024 Eckstein Symposium. The theme of this year’s symposium was Expressing the Inexpressible. The symposium’s invited speakers were film scholars Aaron Kerner (San Francsico State) and Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont).

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, was appointed chair of the media and publicity committee at Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA (CLTA) on April 5. He participated in a panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities of generative AI for Chinese teaching and co-presented a paper titled “Assessing pragmatic routines in L2 Chinese: A focus on rating scale functioning and rater behavior” at the 2024 CLTA Conference on April 6.

Xiao was invited to join the international roundtable discussion on Chinese curriculum design and pedagogical practice held by Princeton University on April 26.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, discussed Professor Ch’en Shouyi, who headed Pomona College’s Asian Studies program for nearly three decades, in a short talk titled “Ch’en Shouyi and the Development of Asian Studies at Pomona College” that was part of a special program, “Remembering Professor Ch’en Shouyi’s Legacy: A Discussion,” held at The Claremont Colleges Library on April 3.

Ellie Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, was featured in The Washington Post for her research on hermeneutic labor in intimate relationships.

Anderson delivered the annual Edwards Lecture at Emory University on March 21, with a presentation titled “Feeling Myself: Self-Awareness and Objectification.” She also presented “Love and Limerence” at an invited symposium at the meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, in Portland, Oregon, on March 23 and delivered an invited talk on “The Critical Phenomenological Turn” to the Kant and Post-Kantian Research Group at the University of Toronto on March 28.

Tricia Avant, academic coordinator and gallery manager of art, had one of her videos included in a screening event titled The Formless is What Keeps Bleeding at Heavy Manners Library in Los Angeles on March 8.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, alongside Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, and Adrien Redford ’14, programmed, prepared editions for, co-directed and played tenor viola da gamba in Musick Divine, a concert of 16th- and 17th-century English music for voices and viols, as a joint venture between Artifex Consort and PRISM Choral Ensemble (March 3, Bridges Auditorium).

On March 8, Bandy presented a paper titled “Through All Eternity: Clockwork, Memory, and Temporality in Dieterich Buxtehude’s Jesu dulcis memoria” at the annual meeting of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, held at Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). Bandy then presented another paper, “Instruments of ‘Torture’: Viols, Dismemberment, and Transfiguration in German Baroque Passion Meditations,” based on his research as a 2023-24 Pomona College Humanities Studio fellow, at the Spirit of Gambo: The State of Viol Research conference, held March 15–17 at UC Berkeley.

On March 22–24 at venues in Palo Alto, Berkeley and San Francisco, Bandy performed with the early music ensemble Ciaramella on viola da gamba, alto shawm and Renaissance hümmelchen bagpipes, in a program of 15th-century repertoire presented by the San Francisco Early Music Society.

Alexa Block, associate director of news and strategic content in the Office of Communications, served as a plenary speaker and faculty member for The Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s Social Media and Community conference in Boston from March 18-20. The plenary sessions were titled “Social Issues, Social Climate and Social Media” and “Crisis Messaging and Protocols Workshop.”

Bana Marine Dahi, visiting assistant professor of French, presented a talk titled “L’intelligence artificielle (IA) au carrefour de la didactique du FLE : L’IA en Support à l’Apprenant et l’Enseignant” in the conference organized by the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF-SoCal) at USC on March 2.

Susanne Mahoney Filback, associate director, preprofessional programs & prelaw advisor in the Career Development Office, attended a graduate school advisor workshop hosted by The University of St. Andrews in Scotland from March 18-22. Pomona College was one of only 12 U.S. colleges and universities invited to attend.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, published two papers in the March 29 issue of Science Advances. With colleagues from the U.S., Australia and Korea, he published the article “Tectonic trigger to the first major extinction of the Phanerozoic: the early Cambrian Sinsk event.” With colleagues from the U.S. and China, he published the article “Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of the continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era.”

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, delivered the 2024 Mosaic Lecture at Grand Valley State University on March 12. His talk was titled “Prime Time Math: Little Green Men, Locust Hordes, and Cybersecurity.”

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, together with Kira Hamman of Pennsylvania State University and Mon Alto and Lew Ludwig of Denison University, facilitated a virtual discussion session titled “Revisiting Generative AI and Numeracy.” The session was hosted by the National Numeracy Network on March 21.

Karaali facilitated a virtual workshop, together with Ileana Vasu of Holyoke Community College, Geillan Aly of Compassionate Math and Jonas D’Andrea of Westminster University, titled “Equity in the Moment” on March 24. The event was hosted by NE-COMMIT (New England Community for Mathematics Inquiry in Teaching).

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Chinese, co-chaired with Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, in organizing and hosting the 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-36), an international scholarly event at Pomona College from March 22-24. This event was sponsored by the College, Academic Dean’s Office, Asian Languages and Literatures Department, Asian Studies, Asian Library, Oldenborg Language Center, Pacific Basin Institute, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science Department. NACCL-36 at Pomona College marks the first time this international conference was held at a liberal arts college.

At NACCL-36, Lang collaborated with her students Sydney Tai ’26, Emma Tom ’26, Jenny Wey ’24 and Jessie Zhang ’26 to deliver a panel presentation titled “Incorporating Gender into Chinese Language and Linguistics Courses,” showcasing learning and teaching reflections from the two new courses Lang first offered: Introduction to Pop Culture in China in spring 2023 and Chinese Language and Gender in fall 2023.

Lang was invited to review the newly published book titled Pragmatics of Chinese as a Second Language, edited by Shuai Li. Lang's review was published in the journal Contrastive Pragmatics on March 12.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, gave a solo recital on the Piano Spheres series at Colburn School of Music in downtown Los Angeles. Her program featured keyboard works with speaking and singing.

With the support of a Pomona research grant, Lee commissioned and premiered two new works by Chris Castro and Livia Malossi Bottignole. San Francisco Classical Voice gave her a glowing review.

Lee was a judge for the Oakland University (Michigan) 2024 Piano Day Competition for young pianists in two age groups between 11 and 18 years old.

Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, presented “Crisis Management: Conflict and Controversy in Forest Service History” to sessions of the USDA Forest Service Middle Leadership Program in Davis, California, Ogden, Utah, Anchorage, Alaska, and Missoula, Montana.

Miller’s essay remembering the late conservationist Estella Leopold’s passionate defense of ancient time was published by the Forest History Society.

Miller was quoted in Washington Post articles on the ephemeral Lake Manly in Death Valley National Park on March 2 and on the massive wildfires in the Texas panhandle March 5.

Monique Saigal Escudero, professor emerita of French, spoke at the American Cinemathèque in Los Angeles on the anniversary of the execution of Missak Manouchian, an Armenian man who was active in the French Resistance. Saigal Escudero read a letter Manouchian wrote to his wife before being killed and additionally talked about her own situation during WWII and the women in the French Resistance whom she has interviewed.

Patricia Smiley, professor emerita of psychological science, with co-authors from UCI, published a paper online in Family Process. The paper reports on the team’s efforts to culturally adapt their relational savoring intervention for implementation with minoritized groups.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote three opinion pieces: “Big losses are pushing venture-backed startups over a cliff and taking the IPO market with it” (MarketWatch, March 4); “When it comes to critical thinking, AI flunks the test” (Chronicle of Higher Education, March 12) and “The Flea Market of the Internet: Breaking the Addiction” (MindMatters, March 20).

Smith signed a contract with Business Expert Press for a novel, co-authored with Margaret Smith, Reboot: A Business Novel of Money, Finance, and Life.

David M. Tanenbaum, Osler-Loucks Professor in Science and professor of physics, and his collaborators presented a talk, “Slot-die Coated and Distributed Bragg Reflector (DBR) Integrated Improved Semi-transparent Organic Solar Cells” at the Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS) 2024 in Barcelona, Spain.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages & literatures, gave an invited talk titled “AI and Adaptive Language Learning” for the course AI and Global Humanities at Carnegie Mellon University on March 18. He also gave an invited talk titled “Using ChatGPT API in Language Teaching” at the third lecture series on Chinese curriculum design. The event was organized by Beijing Language and Culture University Press and Phoenix Tree Publishing on March 22. Xiao gave a presentation titled “Facilitative and Inhibitive Factors in Processing L2 Chinese Compounds” at the 36th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics on March 23.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, delivered “Did the War Have to End in the Way It Did?” and “Understanding Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945” at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on March 5 and the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology on March 7. The Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies funded these lectures, the fourth and fifth Yamashita has given as a member of NEAC’s Distinguished Speakers Bureau.

On March 16, Yamashita delivered a paper titled “Kaiseki Cuisine and the New Hyperlocal Cuisines” as part of a panel on “New Directions in Japanese Food Studies” that he organized for the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, which was held in Seattle. On the following afternoon, Yamashita gave his “Chinese Food Along the Pacific Rim” talk to Pomona College alumni in Seattle.

Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, was an organizer, chair and presenter at a panel titled “Transcultural Encounters in the Sin-Tibetan Borderlands” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) annual conference. Her scholarly panel examined cross-lingual, cross-ethnic encounters among Western missionaries, indigenous groups and Han Chinese intellectuals in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Zhang’s pedagogical essay “Visualizing Ethnic Minorities” was published in Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China (Modern Language Association). Her essay is probably the first systematic discussion of how to engage with and teach about China’s ethnic minorities in the classroom ever published in the English language.

Zhang was invited to give a special talk as part of the distinguished Tanner Talk Series at Utah State University. Her talk was titled “Understanding China from the Borders: The ‘Qiang’ and Multiethnic Chinese Literature, Cinema, and Visual Culture” and tackled ethnic minority creative expressions and diversity issues in the realm of literary and artistic productions in globalizing China and represents cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in Asian humanities.

Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, published the research article “Relating Tabooness to Humor and Arousal Ratings in American English: What the F*** Is so Funny?” in the journal Language and Speech, co-authored with Pengbo Hu ’21 and Genevieve Gray ’22 and collaborators Meredith Shafto and Lori James.

Ellie Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, delivered the keynote address for the 2024 Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love seminar series with a presentation titled “Hermeneutic Labor in Sexual Contexts” on Feb. 8. She also presented “On the Possibility of ‘Unrequited Love’: Limerence, Infatuation, and Crushes” at the 2024 Fagothey Conference “Problems with Love” at Santa Clara University.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, presented the paper “Didactics Beyond Depiction: Jesuit Dialectic in Heinrich Biber’s Mystery Sonatas (c.1680)” at a conference to honor 17th-century musicology pioneer Anne Schnoebelen, Mullen Professor Emerita of Musicology at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music (Houston). The conference took place Feb. 17–18 at the Brockman Hall for Opera and featured invited papers by 15 Shepherd School alumni from across the U.S. and Europe.

On Feb. 21, Bandy presented a lecture on the life and esoteric compositional practices of Dieterich Buxtehude (ca.1637–1707) at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library, at the event Playing / Play on Buxtehude, organized by the USC Collaborations in History, Art, Religion, and Music (CHARM) working group and co-sponsored by the USC Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies and the Unusual Suspects Theatre Company.

Bandy programmed and led a day-long workshop (Feb. 3, South Pasadena, California) for SoCal Viols, the local Viola da Gamba Society of America chapter, on the topic of fauxbourdon and its many symbolic meanings across sacred and secular music from the 15th through 17th centuries in Italy, Flanders and England.

Graydon Beeks, emeritus professor of music, performed as harpsichordist with his Cornucopian Baroque Ensemble colleagues—violinist Alfred Cramer, associate professor of music; theorbist Jason Yoshida, lecturer in music; and cellist Roger Lebow—in a Friday Noon concert of music by Handel and Telemann on Feb. 16 in Lyman Hall.

Gary Champi, assistant professor of dance, taught an open-level community dance masterclass at Elite Movement Dance Studio in Cape Town, South Africa. During his time there, he worked with four local dancers on a short video project and interviewed studio owner and choreographer Densley “Deezy” Carolissen on the conversations surrounding hip hop dance today.

Champi premiered a new six-minute contemporary modern dance titled Reset with the Malashock Dance Company in San Diego, California. The work included new music by percussionist and composer Jonathan Rodriguez.

Eileen J. Cheng, professor of Asian languages and literatures and faculty director of Oldenborg Center, had a podcast interview on her translation of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass/ Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk published on Feb. 13 in New Books Network.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages & literatures, published a book titled Untold Stories: Legacies of Authoritarianism among Spanish Labour Migrants in Later Life with University of Toronto Press.

Dean Gerstein, director of sponsored research, received a research grant from the National Science Foundation to design, conduct and analyze a national sample survey on research development and research administration at U.S. colleges and universities. Pomona is the lead institution, and Gerstein is the principal investigator, with colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Seattle University and Research Triangle Institute. This three-year project is titled “Collaborative Research: RD/RA Support Networks at Diversified Research Institutions (SUNDRI),” with an overall project budget of $1,884,361.

Gerstein was appointed to the Industries of Ideas University Advisory Board at the Social Science Research Council. Industries of Ideas is a three-year collaborative pilot project funded by the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships of the National Science Foundation.

Meg Gotowski, visiting assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete, Chau Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in linguistics and cognitive science, and Galia Bar-Sever, visiting assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, organized and hosted the Pomona Acquisition Workshop (PAW) 2024 on Feb. 23. The one-day event brought together invited speakers from UCSD, UCLA and UCI as well as graduate students from UCLA to present their most recent work on language acquisition research. Pomona faculty and students attended the event and interacted with other scholars in Southern California working on this topic.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, was elected to serve as a member-at-large of the executive committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics and began her term in Feb. 2024.

Karaali gave a talk titled “Can Zombies Do Math? OR Humanism as a Philosophy of Mathematics” on Feb. 22 at the Mathematics Department Colloquium at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.

Karaali gave a talk titled “ChatGPT and New Ethical Considerations for the Mathematics Classroom” on Feb. 24 at the WiMSoCal-14 Conference held at Pomona College.

Nina Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, and biology major Philip Duchild ’24, attended the 50th annual meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group in Seattle from Feb. 20-23. Karnovsky chaired the session “Community Outreach” and presented the paper “Sowing Seeds of Futures in Seabird Conservation through Participation in Habitat Restoration Work on Anacapa Island.” In this study, Karnovsky found that participating in a field trip in her Advanced Animal Ecology classes had a lasting and large impact on the lives of Pomona students long after graduation. Duchild presented a part of his senior thesis in a poster, “Analysis of Laysan Albatross Diets from Two Colonies on Oahu, Hawaii.” Co-authors were Karnovsky and Lindsay Young of Pacific Rim Conservation. As part of the meeting there was an exhibit called “Faces of Conservation.” Kristina McOmber ’12, Jacob Ligorria ’23 and Clare Flynn ’19 were profiled in this exhibit. At the meeting, Kay Garlick-Ott ’18 won the award for best Ph.D. student talk, and Kristina McOmber ’12 won the award for best master’s student poster.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, was selected for the Institute for Global Affairs 2024 nonresident fellowship.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, performed at ChamberFest 2024 held at California State University, Northridge on Feb. 2. With CSUN faculty members, she played Khachaturian’s Trio for clarinet, violin and piano.

Lee was an invited guest on Global Village Thursdays with John Schneider on KPFK 90.7FM. She was asked to speak about her upcoming PianoSpheres recital at the Colburn School in downtown Los Angeles on March 5.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, performed with Pangea Playback Theatre under the direction of Hannah K. Fox for a presentation by Dailey Innovations, Inc. titled “Speaking Through Colors: Self-Expression Through Art (SETA) and using Playback Theater to Transform the World” on Feb. 22. This virtual event was sponsored by the School of Social Work and the Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education at Howard University.

April Mayes, professor of history and associate dean of the College, was one of three scholars featured in the podcast “Lost Women of Science” in an episode about Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser. Fraser was the daughter of Reverend Jeremiah Loguen, ex-slave, abolitionist and clergy member, and became one of the first African American women to earn a medical degree (Syracuse University). She immigrated to the Dominican Republic where she became the first woman certified to practice medicine, allowed to treat women and children.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, spoke to the Metuchen (New Jersey) Democratic Committee on Feb. 7 about the possibilities and probabilities for the 2024 election.

On Feb. 15, McWilliams published an article titled “He Took Children Seriously” as part of a retrospective forum on the historian Christopher Lasch in the journal Current.

McWilliams published an essay titled “Tradition, Transformation, and Democratic Education” in Political Science Quarterly on Feb. 28.

Wallace M. Meyer III, associate professor of biology and director of the Bernard Field Station, published an article titled “Acmispon glaber shrub canopies facilitate Bromus madritensis establishment after fire in California sage scrub” in the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.

Meyer received, as a co-PI, a National Science Foundation BIORETS: REACHES grant for a project titled “Research experiences for advancing curriculum of Hawaiian ecosystem sciences.”

Meyer gave an invited talk at Cal State University San Bernardino titled “Using ecological information to develop a holistic approach to sustainable landscaping in southern California.”

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “Inflow and outflow properties, not total gas fractions, drive the evolution of the mass-metallicity relation” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Moreno and collaborators obtained approval for a research proposal titled “BonFIRE: Modeling Galaxy Formation in the Early Universe” under the JWST Cycle 3 Theory Program.

Michael O’Malley, professor of art, has new work in the show “This is not a chair” currently on view at the Claremont Museum of Art until April 20, 2024.

Zvezdana Ostojic, visiting assistant professor of French, chaired the panel “Crime is their Business” and presented the paper “À tout crime son châtiment : une réécriture impossible dans Maudit soit Dostoïevski d’Atiq Rahimi” at the 2024 20th- & 21st-century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium in Philadelphia.

Adam Pearson, associate professor and chair of psychological science, was elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the largest international scientific organization of psychologists. Fellow status is awarded to APS members who have made “sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service and/or application.”

Pearson gave an invited address, “Social Psychological Pathways to Climate Justice,” at the Groups Preconference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in San Diego, California.

Hans J. Rindisbacher, professor of German, was awarded a Franklin Research Grant by the American Philosophical Society in support of his edited book on the 20th-century Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt (under contract with Camden House). The volume brings together 12 scholars who (re)read and interpret Dürrenmatt’s multi-perspective work in the context of contemporary social, political and cultural developments.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, published a paper (co-authored with Margaret Smith), “It May be a Mistake to Delay Social Security Retirement Benefits,” in the Journal of Financial Planning and wrote three opinion pieces: “How (not) to deal with missing data: An economist’s take on a controversial study” (Retraction Watch, Feb. 21); “Why chatbots ( LLMs) flunk Grade 9 math tests” (MindMatters, Feb. 21) and “Retracted paper is a compelling case for reform” (MindMatters, Feb. 23). He was also quoted extensively in Ed Yardeni’s discussion of “AI Isn’t Intelligent” in Morning Briefing (Feb. 22).

Smith gave a presentation, “Generative AI Is Still Fake Intelligence,” to 381 people working with AI in O’Reilly Media’s “GenAI Superstream: Possibilities and Pitfalls” on Feb. 28.

Valorie D. Thomas, emerita Phebe Estelle Spalding professor of English and Africana Studies, published the chapter “Who Do You Worship?: #Memesis #whodoyouworship #BeyoncétheFeminist #AprilBey,” about Los Angeles artist April Bey’s Afrofuturist work on Black femme iconography, in the collection Dis…Miss Gender? edited by Anne Bray (MIT Press). She also published “Incidents in the Life of a Black Prof.: A Speculative CV” in the book Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education edited by Shardé M. Davis (UNC Press).

Margaret Waller, professor emerita of French, won the New Yorker cartoon caption contest Feb. 5.

Kevin Wynter, assistant professor of media studies, served as moderator for the Evening with Joy-Ann Reid event celebrating the publication of her new book Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America. The event was held in Bridges Auditorium on Feb. 15.

Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, presented her research project titled “Indigenous Articulations: Understanding the ‘Mother Tongue Movement’ of the Qiang People of China” at the Global Asias conference held at UC Irvine. The conference gathered scholars from Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, English and other fields to explore cross-disciplinary issues and find connections beyond area studies.

Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, co-authored the introduction to the special issue of American Psychologist “Ethical Challenges in the Use of Digital Technologies in Psychological Science” along with co-editors Leah Light (Pitzer College), Sangeeta Panicker (Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research) and Jina Huh-Yoo (Drexel University).

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, recorded viola da gamba and tanbur solos for the soundtrack to the television series Masters of the Universe: Revolution. The show, whose score features musical themes by Bear McCreary and music by Sparks & Shadows, premiered on Netflix on January 25.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, was awarded a $40,000 Korea Foundation grant to design and implement a simulation on the geopolitical and economic consequences of a supply chain disruption originating with the People’s Republic of China. His co-principal investigator for the project is Ben Radd, visiting assistant professor of politics in 2022-23.

Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis, published an article led by Hanna Kim ’23 in the journal Conservation Science & Practice. This article compared environmental NGOs in terms of their social media strategy across multiple platforms, ranging from TikTok to Facebook, and found several organizations that were influencers, or positive deviates for public reach online. This research was the product of a RAISE award earned by Kim in the summer of 2021.

Chang co-authored two manuscripts related to conservation planning and public outreach. Chang was the lead author in an article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution showing that after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, environmental and climate voices declined markedly. This manuscript received press attention from venues including The Guardian, Quartz, New York Times, Le Monde and Gizmodo. Chang worked with an interdisciplinary team convened as a NIMBioS working group to mathematically model how incorporating information on conservation threats improves landscape planning outcomes; this article was published in Conservation Biology.

Chang gave invited seminars to Nanyang Technological University, Asian School of the Environment; Centre for Wildlife Studies, Banglore, India; National University of Singapore, Department of Biological Sciences; and University of Nottingham, Malaysia, Sustainable Environments Research Group.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, delivered the International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS) invited address “Fast food for thought: what can chicken nuggets tell us about linear algebra?” at the 2024 Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) in San Francisco on January 4. This honor was recognized at the Prizes and Awards ceremony on January 3. He also gave an hour-long lecture, “A second course in linear algebra: a call for the early introduction of complex numbers,” at the AMS Special Session on Issues, Challenges, and Innovations in Instruction of Linear Algebra on January 5, also at the JMM (a meeting attended by over 5,500). Garcia also co-organized, with Konrad Aguilar, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, the ILAS Special Session on Linear Algebra, Matrix Theory, and its Applications on January 4-5.

On January 11, Garcia gave a talk titled “The quaternionic structure of 2x2 matrix inner functions” at the 2024 Workshop on Schur Analysis and applications to Hypercomplex Analysis, Neural Networks, and Linear Systems held at Chapman University.

Melissa Givens, assistant professor of music, was one of nine musicians who collaborated with Southwestern University Professor of Music John Michael Cooper on a video project in conjunction with the release of three volumes of previously unpublished volumes of music by Florence B. Price on January 1. Givens and Genevieve Feiwen Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, gave the world-premiere performance of Price’s “Lullaby (for a Black Mother),” a setting of a Langston Hughes text. The three volumes, published by ClarNan Editions and distributed by Classical Vocal Reprints, are “Twelve Pieces for Piano Solo,” “Seven Songs on Texts of African American Poets (Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Florence Price, and Melvin B. Tolson) (original keys / medium voice)” and “Seven Songs on Texts of African American Poets (transposed for high voice).”

Elizabeth Glater, associate professor of neuroscience, and Charles Taylor, chair and professor of chemistry, with Victor Chai ’23, Tiam Farajzadeh ’23, Yufei Meng ’25, Sokhna Lo ’25 and Tymmaa Asaed ’25, published the paper “Chemical basis of microbiome preference in the nematode C. elegans” in Scientific Reports in January.

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, attended the 2024 Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco. The annual conference is the largest meeting of mathematicians in the world. On January 3, Goins organized and moderated a panel titled “What Makes Successful Research Careers.’’ Goins brought several Claremont Colleges students with him as part of his summer program experience: Tesfa Asmara ’24, Louis Burns ’24, Matilda LaFortune SCR ’23, Eli Pregerson HMC ’24 and Melinda Yang ’23.

Goins was featured in a new documentary on African American mathematical scientists. “Journeys of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience,” directed by George Csicsery, had its world premiere at the Joint Mathematics Meetings on January 6. The hour-long film “traces the evolution of a culture of Black scholars, scientists and educators in the United States. The film follows the stories of prominent pioneers, showing how the challenges they faced and their triumphs are reflected in the experiences of today’s mid-career Black mathematicians.” Goins is credited in the film as a consulting scholar.

On January 23, Goins gave a virtual colloquium talk at Alabama A&M University on “Clocks, Parking Garages, and the Solvability of the Quintic: A Friendly Introduction to Monodromy.”

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, presented the paper “The Legacy of the Institutional Route of the 1990s on the Dominican Feminist Movement Today: NGOization, Beijing, and Collaborating with the State” on January 27 at the 2024 Winter Meeting of Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) in the Santa Ana Pueblo in New Mexico. Hernández-Medina was also part of the panel “Queering Spaces of Social Action: Integrating Teaching, Research, and Activism for Radical Inclusion” on January 27 at the same SWS conference. She shared her remarks on her trajectory as a scholar-activist who teaches and does research about how marginalized groups are able to influence public policy in Latin America while also being a member of the Dominican feminist movement for 30 years.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, gave a talk on January 3 titled “ChatGPT and New Ethical Considerations for the Mathematics Classroom” at the American Mathematical Society Special Session on Ethics in the Mathematics Classroom that was a part of the Joint Mathematics Meetings 2024 held in San Francisco. At the same meeting, she gave a second talk on January 6 titled “Oblique Strategies for Classroom Poetry” at the Association for Women in Mathematics Special Session on Mathematics in the Literary Arts and Pedagogy in Creative Settings. Karaali was also one of two panelists invited to present at the Project NExT Session on Fostering a Growth Mindset in the Classroom (organized by Adam Yassine, visiting assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, and held on January 5) and gave a talk titled “From Growth Mindset to (Re)humanizing Mathematics.”

Karaali participated in the Claremont Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Tune-Up for Spring 2024 and gave a presentation January 11 titled “Using ChatGPT for Fun and for Profit” as part of the Introduction to Generative AI session organized by Keri Wilson, assistant professor of biology.

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Chinese, published the article “The blurry lines between popular media and party propaganda: China’s convergence culture through a linguistic lens” with Zhuo Jing-Schmidt in PLOS One.

Lang participated in the online conference “Grading Less-Learning More through Ungrading in World Languages, Cultures and Literatures” organized by the University of Southern California and shared her pedagogical exploration of collaborative grading, focusing on “Peer Evaluation of Student Presentations” on January 26.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, performed as a member of the Redfish Piano Trio at three Oregon venues (Port Orford, North Bend and Bandon) and at the Cultural Center of Crescent City, California, in early January. They presented works of Joseph Haydn, Joaquin Turina, Jennifer Higdon and Ludwig van Beethoven. These concerts are part of the off-season events of the Redfish Music Festival.

Miriam Merrill, professor of physical education, guest lectured at Hartwick College on January 5. Merrill's session discussed the impact of emotional intelligence on leadership.

Thomas Muzart, assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, presented the paper titled “Matrice nature: Repenser la crise d’un point de vue écoféministe et subsaharien avec Léonora Miano” in the panel Représentations francophones de la crise écologique organized by the International Council of Francophone Studies at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia.

Sheila Pinkel, professor emerita of art and art history, has a large mural about the history of the Tongva People exhibited at the Autry Museum beginning in January.

Carolyn Ratteray, associate professor of theatre, performed her one woman show, Both And (A Play About Laughing While Black), at the Wallis Center for Performing Arts from January 13-28.

Monique Saigal Escudero, emerita professor of French, was awarded a proclamation presentation by Pomona Unified School District on January 17.

Prageeta Sharma, Henry G. Lee ’37 Professor of English, had her Claremont-based photograph and poem “What is Sovereignty for the Hindu Today?” appear in this most recent Places Journal, a journal focused on public scholarship on architecture, landscape and urbanism.

Sharma’s “Ode to Badminton” appeared on The Slowdown podcast on January 16.

Patricia Smiley, professor emerita of psychological science, published a research paper, “Undoing mothers’ avoidant coping with children’s negative emotion: A randomized controlled trial of relational savoring” in Journal of Family Psychology in January. The work is a collaboration with colleagues and students in Claremont and at UC Irvine.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote five opinion pieces: “Let’s Dispose of Exploding Pie Charts” (MindMatters, January 2), “When it Comes to New Technologies Like AI, Tempers Run Hot” (MindMatters, January 8), “Computers still do not ‘understand’” (MindMatters, January 9), “Internet pollution—if you tell a lie long enough…” (MindMatters, January 15) and “Monetarist Madness” (MarketWatch, January 22).

Smith’s latest book The Power of Modern Value Investing: Beyond Indexing, Algos, and Alpha, co-authored with Margaret Smith, was published by Palgrave Macmillan on January 13. “Gary and Margaret have hit the ball out of the park. Both amateur and professional investors would be well-rewarded by reading and re-reading The Power of Modern Value Investing” (Brian Nelson, President, Valuentum Securities); “A book about investing that every investor should read” (Ed Yardeni, President & Chief Investment Strategist, Yardeni Research, Inc.).

Sharon Stranford, professor of biology and faculty co-director for the Institute for Inclusive Excellence (IIE), and Malcolm Oliver II, assistant director for academic affairs and interim assistant director for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, presented at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Conference in Washington, DC (January 17-19). In their presentation they spoke about IIE programming, which emphasizes inclusive teaching, building community and sustained engagement. In particular, they highlighted the New Faculty Cohort (NFC) Program, DEI Faculty Cohorts and the new DEI Faculty Project Pairs Program.

Stef Torralba, visiting assistant professor of English, accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of English and gender, women’s, and sexuality studies at Grinnell College to begin fall 2024.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Asian languages and literatures, was elected to the board of directors of Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) USA on January 4. His three-year term will commence this May, during which he will serve as the sole CLTA board member representing a liberal arts college.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, gave a talk January 7 titled “Chinese Food Along the Pacific Rim” to a group of alumni in San Francisco. It was the 21st alumni talk he has given since he arrived at the College in 1983.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, was featured in performances played on the radio show “In the Halls of Thornton,” produced by Classical California in partnership with KDFC San Francisco and aired on KUSC Los Angeles (91.5 FM) on December 3. The program excerpted viola da gamba suites by Marin Marais that Bandy self-recorded, edited and produced, as well as live performances of the USC Collegium Musicum in which Bandy played the vielle (medieval fiddle).

The television series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, with musical themes by Bear McCreary and musical score by Sparks & Shadows, premiered on Disney+ on December 19 and features Bandy as a yayli tanbur soloist as the theme for the “Lord of the Dead” in episodes 2, 3 and 7. On December 22, 20th Century Studios released the official soundtrack, also featuring Bandy’s solos, on all major streaming platforms.

On December 21, Bandy played baroque double bass in a period-instrument performance of Handel’s Messiah, a joint venture between the Long Beach Camerata Singers and Tesserae Baroque Ensemble, performed at the Beverly O’Neill Theater in Long Beach and directed by James K. Bass.

Tatiana Basáñez, visiting assistant professor of psychological science, had six research posters accepted for presentation.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, served as moderator at a December 5 closed-door event on the future of U.S. policy toward China sponsored by the UCLA International Institute and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles.

Boduszyński published an article titled “Can There Ever be Transitional Justice in Iraq” in the winter 2023-2024 edition of the Brown Journal of World Affairs.

Boduszyński participated as a lecturer on an American College of the Mediterranean/Institute of American Universities-organized January term on “Diplomacy and Human Rights” in Morocco and Spain. He will partner with ACM/IAU to lead the first Pomona College-sponsored Mayterm on Diplomacy and Human Rights in May and June 2024.

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, published two articles: “Queer Futurity and Conflicted Feeling(s) in the Poetry of Ariadna G. García” in Romance Quarterly and “Los árboles aquellos: Luis Cernuda en Mount Holyoke College” in Muy Verbum.

Pey-Yi Chu, associate professor of history, gave a talk titled “Toward Critical Climate Histories of Eurasia” at the conference “Between the Black Sea and the Bering Strait: Environmental Histories across a Subcontinent” held at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Columbia University from December 8-9.

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the article “Methodological Individualism in Behavioral Economics” in The Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism on December 27.

Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes, assistant professor of environmental analysis, as part of the Latinx Geographies Collective, co-authored a publication with Madelaine Cristina Cahuas, Cristina Faiver-Serna, Yolanda González Mendoza, Diego Martinez-Lugo and Margaret Marietta Ramírez. The paper in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies is titled “Latinx Geographies: Opening Conversations.”

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Chinese, was invited to give a workshop titled “Conducting Quantitative Analysis of Chinese Construction Grammar Using R” to graduate students at Tianjin Normal University in December.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, gave a talk titled “Political Science” to Japanese students from Wakayama, Japan, through the Stanford/e-Wakayama program.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, performed with Pangea Playback Theatre under the direction of Hannah K. Fox at The International Playback Theatre Network Conference: Roots and Routes of Playback Theatre in Muldersdrift, South Africa. Pangea was sponsored by Dailey Innovations, Inc. and Howard University through their Playback Theatre Artists & Students Cultural Exchange program.

Richard McKirahan, professor of classics and philosophy, was chosen to be a member of the European Society for Ancient Philosophy and to attend its annual meeting.

McKirahan attended the opening ceremony of the “Stage of Ideas” project in the National Conservatory building of Athens. He was a member of the academic committee that discussed and approved the concepts that were implemented for the first installation and will continue to serve when plans are made for future installations. He also taught a three-hour long meeting of a course on Plato at the University of Athens.

McKirahan presented two papers at the University of Venice, one on the Sophists and one on Aristotle. The Sophists paper will be a chapter in a forthcoming book of his in the Ancient Philosophies series published by Routledge, and the Aristotle paper will be published in a collection of works on concepts in ancient philosophy which will be published by Cambridge University Press.

McKirahan participated in a Ph.D. examination at the University of Geneva.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, had an article on “The Abolition of Democracy” published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Religion, Culture, and Democracy, as part of a special issue on the work of C.S. Lewis.

McWilliams wrote a book chapter titled “Up in the Air: Flying the Faithless Skies” that appeared in Faith and Film: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe, edited by Micah Watson and Carson Holloway and published by Lexington Books.

McWilliams’ book chapter on “James Ellroy's California” appeared in Dark Places: Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy, edited by Joseph Romance and Darrell A. Hamlin and published by Lexington Books.

Nivia Montenegro, professor of Spanish and Latin American studies, published a detailed article about the exploitation of gay dissident Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, “EXPEDIENTE | Reinaldo Arenas, Emmanuel Carballo y ‘El mundo alucinante’ (documentos y correspondencia) (1968-1981)” in Rialta, the premier digital journal of literary and cultural criticism in Spanish. This article, with accompanying archive of 29 documents, is the result of one year's worth of onsite research at both the Firestone Library of Princeton University and the Nettie Lee Benson Library of University of Texas, Austin. It documents the travails of Arenas with both Cuban government publishing bureaucrats and Mexican editor Carballo of publishing the first edition of El mundo alucinante, one of the most important novels of the so-called Latin American post-boom.

Thomas A. Moore, professor of physics, had a textbook, A Standard Model Workbook, published by University Science Books in December. This 591-page textbook introduces upper-level undergraduates to the Standard Model of particle physics, the accepted theoretical description of fundamental physics at the microscopic level (a subject many physicists see first only in graduate school).

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “Gas morphology of Milky Way-like galaxies in the TNG50 simulation: signals of twisting and stretching” in the Astrophysical Journal.

On December 11, Moreno delivered an invited talk titled “Cosmological simulations: JWST controversies and future ELT opportunities” at the ELT Science in Light of JWST conference at UCLA. Moreno was one of two theorists invited to make the case to the National Science Foundation and private donors on behalf of the U.S. Extremely Large Telescope Program.

On December 5, Moreno delivered an invited talk titled “The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at the 60 Years of the Sersic Law Conference in Córdoba, Argentina. Moreno also participated in a panel discussion aimed at seeking funding for astronomers in the Global South.

Thomas Muzart, assistant professor of Romance languages and literatures, published the article “Queering Gay Tourism as Activism: Guy Hocquenghem’s Political Journey in the United States” in the special issue Queering the City of the academic journal Transatlantica.

Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld, associate professor of English, published “The Contingency of Form in Renaissance Poetics” in Publications of the Modern Language Association.

Larissa Rudova, Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern Languages and professor of German and Russian, participated in the roundtable “Decolonizing Melodrama in Russia: Gender and Ethnicity” at the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) Annual Convention in Philadelphia from November 30-December 2. Rudova also served as a formal discussant on the panel “Russian YouTube is on Fire: Dissent, Dialogue, and Division” at the same convention.

Erin Runions, Nancy J. Lyon Professor of Biblical History and Literature, published “Losing Ground: From Anti-Gang Apocalypticism to Social Dis/Repair” in Lee Edelman and the Study of Religion, edited by Kent L. Brintnall, Rhiannon Graybill and Linn Tonstad and published by Routledge.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote three opinion pieces: “The Dodgers are Getting Shohei Ohtani for a Steal” (MarketWatch, December 12), “New Ideas are Out There—We just need to look for them” (Fast Company, December 15) and “Large Language Models are Still Smoke and Mirrors” (MindMatters, December 15).

Smith was invited to return to the invitation-only Sci Foo Camp, which will be held for the first time in Cambridge, UK, instead of Palo Alto.

Kyle Wilson, assistant professor of economics, published the article “Investment, Subsidies, and Universal Service: Broadband Internet in the United States” in the Review of Network Economics on December 7.

Kevin Wynter, assistant professor of media studies, was invited by the Film and Media Department at UC Berkeley to participate in a colloquium honoring the work of Linda Williams and her pathbreaking book in the field of porn studies, Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible." Wynter delivered a talk titled “When the Man Looks,” which examined the emergence of virtual pornography and interactive sex simulators in the 1990s.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, was interviewed about the “Japanese turn” in fine dining in the U.S. and related developments in the contemporary restaurant world for Minxin Pei’s Asian Experts Forum.

Lise Abrams, Peter W. Stanley Chair of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, co-authored four poster presentations at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, which was held November 16-19 in San Francisco. Three Pomona cognitive science majors who are research assistants in Abram’s PRIME (Psycholinguistic Research in Memory) laboratory were the primary presenters of their posters: Emma Constable ’26: “A face without a name: How COVID-19 and facial characteristics affect name retrieval”; Aysha Gsibat ’24 and Majo Najas ’24: “Hands in Motion: The Role of Gestures and Self-Adaptors in Emotional Storytelling”; and her two other posters were titled “Laughter is the Best Medicine: The Relationships between Humor, Anxiety, and Working Memory” and “The Communicative Function of Gestures During Emotional Storytelling,” and these were collaborations with colleagues at the University of Florida and Rhodes College, respectively.

Seth Allen, vice president for strategy and dean of admissions and financial aid, served as a panelist for “Admissions Essays in the Age of AI” at the Council of International Schools Global Forum in Dublin on November 17.

Ellie Anderson, assistant professor of philosophy, delivered a keynote address titled “In Defense of Sartre’s ‘Woman on a Date’: Erotic Ambivalence and Bad Faith” at the conference on Love and Sexuality at the Center for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen on November 13. She also gave a talk at Freie Universität, Berlin, on November 1 as part of the Practical Philosophy Colloquium series.

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry, gave a Faculty Lecture to the Pomona community titled “Activating Excellence Through Chemistry.” In this talk, Ball highlighted how his personal and family history has enabled him to facilitate a training ground that leverages students’ strengths and cultivates their identity as scientists.

Ball gave a talk titled “Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx)” at Cal Poly Pomona.

Ball received the Downing/Pomona Faculty Exchange Fellowship at Cambridge University, UK. At Cambridge, Ball will work with Matthew Gaunt to understand high-throughput reaction development.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, played Baroque double bass in Con Gioia Early Music Ensemble’s program “Bach in Leipzig: 1723–2023,” directed by Preethi de Silva. The performance, held on November 4 at the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena, California, and co-sponsored by the Los Angeles Consulate General of Germany, marked the 300th anniversary of J. S. Bach’s appointment as Cantor at St. Thomas in Leipzig and featured works by Bach, Telemann and Graupner.

Bandy facilitated, participated in and provided coaching for two Viola de Gamba Society of America events serving the local and national viola da gamba scholarly community: a play-in hosted by musicologists Lindsey Macchiarella (University of Texas at El Paso) and Zoe Weiss (University of Denver) held on November 10 at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society (Denver, Colorado) and a day-long workshop with Lisa Terry (Parthenia Consort of Viols, New York) on November 18 (South Pasadena, California) and sponsored by SoCal Viols.

Allan Barr, professor of Chinese, delivered a lecture in Chinese on the topic “Wild Grass or Weeds? Remarks on Matt Turner’s Translation of Lu Xun’s Yecao” at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou on November 8, Hangzhou Normal University on November 10 and Zhejiang Normal University in Jinhua on November 13. He also gave a talk at Yulin Normal University in Yulin, Guangxi, on the translation of Chinese literature in the United States on November 25.

Graydon Beeks, professor emeritus of music, presented the paper “Sir Watkin Williams Wynn (1749-1789), 4th Bart., as a collector of Handel's music” at the Thirteenth Handel Institute Conference held November 17-19 in London.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, was the main guest on the Polish CNN-equivalent news channel Polsat’s daily interview show “Gość Wydarzeń” on November 2 where he offered context and insights on U.S. foreign policy challenges including the Israel-Gaza and Ukraine wars.

Ralph Bolton ’61, professor emeritus of anthropology, co-authored a publication with Daniel E. Torres, Ines Contreras, Daphne Braden, Leah Dembinski and Maren Vouga. The last three were students at Bates College when they participated in the Pomona College Study Abroad Program in Peru in 1973. The paper, in the Revista Peruana de Antropología, is titled “La antropologia aplicada en Puno – El Proyecto Taraco-Chijnaya (1963): Una entrevista con el Ing. Hugo Contreras Quevedo” (“Applied Anthropology in Peru - The Taraco-Chijnaya Project (1963): An Interview with Engineer Hugo Contreras Quevedo”).

Paul Cahill, associate professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled “Tracing Temperature in Ana Merino’s Curación (2010)” at the fall meeting of the Southern California Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP), held at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles on November 4.

Gabe Chandler, associate professor of mathematics and statistics, published “Data Gap: Air Quality Networks Miss Air Pollution from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations” (with Alyssa Burns, Kira Dunham and Ann Marie Carlton) in Environmental Science and Technology. The article was highlighted as the ACS (American Chemical Society) Editors’ Choice on November 30.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a paper titled “Unmaking a mausoleum: Resignification and the material remains of Spain’s authoritarian past” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Toronto on November 18.

Erica Dobbs, assistant professor of politics, was an invited speaker at the Harvard University Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop on November 28. She and Peggy Levitt gave a talk on their recently published book Transnational Social Protection: Social Welfare Across National Borders (Oxford University Press).

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, co-edited the special issue and wrote the introduction for the 2021 conference of the International Network of Economic Method (INEM).

Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes, assistant professor of environmental analysis, served as a panelist for “GIS in Education: A Tool to Increase Social Justice,” as part of the GIS Day Bridges to the Future conference held at Cal Poly Pomona on November 15.

Kouross Esmaeli, visiting assistant professor of media studies, who was a founding board member of AMEJA, the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association, rejoined the association in the past month to help work on the various projects related to the war in Palestine/Israel. These include AMEJA’s Statement of the Treatment of Journalists Covering the War in Palestine and Israel and the ongoing work with the Committee to Protect Journalists to document the killing of (so far 57) journalists in the region.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, with colleagues from Northwest University (Xi’an) published the article “Thermal history of Burgess Shale-type deposits: new insights from the early Cambrian Chengjiang and Qingjiang biotas of South China” in the Journal of Earth Sciences.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, published the book chapter “Model Spaces” in the edited volume Lectures on Analytic Function Spaces and their Applications.

Garcia gave a talk, “What can chicken nuggets tell us about symmetric functions, positive polynomials, random norms, and AF algebras?” at the CSU Fullerton Mathematics Colloquium on November 17 and at the Claremont Colleges Algebra / Number Theory / Combinatorics Seminar on November 28.

Dean Gerstein, director of sponsored research, delivered three presentations at two virtual national conferences. On November 2, at the fall meeting of the National Organization for Research Development Professionals (NORDP), he presented “The Landscape of Research Development at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs): Results from a Pilot Study” with coauthor Jennifer Glass (UMassD), based on a 2021 survey of 87 PUIs. At the 2023 Colleges of Liberal Arts Sponsored Programs (CLASP) conference on November 8 and 9, he presented the “CLASP 2023 Grants Review” with Krista Campbell (Hamilton), analyzing a new database of 1800 external grants received during FY22-23 by CLASP member institutions; and “Research Development and Sponsored Programs at LACs and other PUIs,” a panel overview of research support contexts and challenges, with Susan Ferrari (Grinnell) and Amy Cuhel-Schuckers (TCNJ).

On November 7, with Pomona staff members Ha Phan and Andy Schuster, Gerstein gave a workshop on post-award grants administration to visiting staff from the Atlanta University Consortium Data Science Initiative, led by Talitha Washington (Clark Atlanta.)

Gerstein was selected to join NORDP Consultants, a collective delivering research infrastructure assistance to minority serving institutions. This initiative is funded by a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to Kimberly Eck (Emory). Gerstein also began membership in the CLASP List Advisory Group, where he joins Claremont McKenna College’s Beth Jager.

Elizabeth Glater, associate professor of neuroscience, and her research students presented two posters at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington DC from November 10-13. Sokhna Lo ’25 and Tymmaa Asaed ’25 presented “The AWC neuron is required for attraction to 1-butanol in Caenorhabditis elegans.” Jeremy Callaway ’24, Taryn Kaneko ’24 and Catie Kaneshiro ’24 presented “Modeling a rare genetic disease in Caenorhabditis elegans.”

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, gave a colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics at the University of California at Irvine on November 30. The talk was titled “Quasi-Critical Points of Toroidal Belyi Maps.”

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, published the chapter “The Right to a Complete Life: Struggles of the Dominican Feminist Movement” in the edited volume Women’s Rights in Movement: Dynamics of Feminist Change in Latin America and the Caribbean (Springer, editors Inés M. Pousadela and Simone R. Bohn) in November.

Hernández-Medina chaired the session “La crisis identitaria en República Dominicana y sus consecuencias sociopolíticas en la actualidad” (“Identity Crisis in the Dominican Republic and its Socio-political Consequences Today”) with Ruth Pión, co-founder of Junta de Prietas, the most important decolonial feminist collective in the Dominican Republic. The session took place virtually on November 18 at the conference LASA / Africa 2023: Africa and Latin America: Dialogues and Connections.

On November 28, Hernández-Medina was one of the keynote speakers at the XII Gender Studies Conference convened by the Gender Studies Center at the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC) in the Dominican Republic. She presented virtually on “El Derecho a una Vida Completa: La Lucha del Movimiento Feminista Dominicano” (“The Right to a Complete Life: Struggles of the Dominican Feminist Movement”) based on the book chapter mentioned above.

Jeff Hing, assistant director for communications multimedia, and Eric Melgosa, director of creative content, collaborated on a Pomona College Magazine cover that was selected by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for the 2022-23 Best of District VII, which includes Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah. The cover of the 2022 spring issue featured Hing’s photograph of Ron Nemo, Pomona’s longtime manager of grounds and landscaping, holding coast live oak acorns in the wake of the 2022 storm that felled numerous old campus trees. In addition, Melgosa and editor Robyn Norwood led an Office of Communications effort that was recognized among the Best of District VII for alumni/general interest magazines printed twice a year by a four-year college or university (PCM typically publishes three times a year but printed two issues in 2022). The magazine earlier received a 2023 CASE Circle of Excellence Gold Award in the category of writing/profile (less than 1,000 words) for the comic “Our Bird’s Beginnings,” which also earned district honors.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, published a joint book review of Proving It Her Way: Emmy Noether, a Life in Mathematics, by David E. Rowe and Mechthild Koreuber, and Emmy Noether: Mathematician Extraordinaire, by David E. Rowe, in the newsletter of Association for Women in Mathematics.

Karaali gave the 23rd Annual Kenneth C. Schraut Memorial Lecture on November 4 during the Undergraduate Mathematics Day 2023 at the University of Dayton, in Dayton, Ohio. Her talk was titled “Languages, Alphabets, and Group Theory.”

Karaali ran a session titled “Developing a Social Justice STEM Curriculum: The First Steps” on November 3 at the 2023 American Association of Colleges and Universities Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference in Virginia. She also facilitated a workshop, together with Ileana Vasu of Holyoke Community College, Geillan Aly of Compassionate Math, and Jonas D’Andrea of Westminster University titled “Equity in the Moment” that same day.

Nina J. Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, participated in the California Islands Symposium in Ventura, California. She was moderator of the session on education and presented the paper “Sowing Seeds of Futures in Conservation Through Participation in Restoration Work on Anacapa Island.” In this study Karnovsky evaluated the legacy of a field trip in the lives of students in her advanced animal ecology classes from 2017 and 2021.

Jun Lang, assistant professor of Chinese, organized a panel presentation titled “A usage-based constructionist approach to CSL acquisition and pedagogy” at the 2023 ACTFL Annual Convention in November. Lang delivered a talk titled “Beyond the textbook: Corpus-informed pedagogy across proficiency levels.” Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, also contributed to the panel by delivering a presentation.

Lang’s co-authored article, titled “Gendered social address in China’s convergence culture: The case of mĕinǚ (beautiful woman),” was published in the latest special issue on storytelling and counter-storytelling in China Information.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, and Aron Kallay, lecturer in music, are featured on the album “Flotsam and Jetsam” that dropped November 3 on Microfest Records. They present the premiere recording of Kurt Rohde’s Altromondo at one piano and play melodicas, harmonicas, triangle, Chinese paper accordions and antique cymbals.

Alexandra Lippman, visiting assistant professor of anthropology, co-curated and organized a sound works installation and performance, “Transmissions/ Transitions,” at the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) annual meeting in Toronto from November 15-19. She exhibited her radio documentary “Cumbia on Broadway: Mexican Popular Music Industry in Los Angeles” and deejayed the post-installation reception which also featured performances by Farzaneh Hemmasi, Jay Hammond, Stefan Helmreich, Carmen Jarrín, David Novak, and the Sound Braid Collective. Lippman participated in a roundtable, “Chatting About Chat GPT,” at the AAA’s annual meeting where she spoke about the surprising uses of paper generator software in the 1990s and 2000s and the need to historicize Chat GPT and AI more broadly.

Sara Masland, associate professor of psychological science, published a paper titled “Corrective Experiences to Enhance Trust: Clinical Wisdom from Good (Enough) Psychiatric Management” in Journal of Personality Disorders. Co-authors included Dr. Lois Choi-Kain of Harvard Medical School (first author) and Dr. Ellen Finch of Harvard University.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, delivered the 2023 Vik-Bailey Lecture in American Politics at Harvard University on November 9. The title of her lecture was “A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought.” Earlier in the month, McWilliams delivered this lecture at Mercer University's McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles, where she also led a seminar on Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America.

On November 15, McWilliams gave a talk titled “Party at Kesey's: The Merry Pranksters, The Hells Angels, and the Degeneration of American Politics” as part of the Special Collections Research Fellows Speaker Series at the University of Oregon.

On November 28, McWilliams led a seminar on Chita Banerjee Divakaruni’s “The Word Love” at Claremont McKenna College.

McWilliams chaired a panel at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association. The panel was held in celebration of the publication of the 50th anniversary edition of The Idea of Fraternity in America, which was written by her father, Wilson Carey McWilliams. McWilliams wrote the introduction to the book’s new edition.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “Starburst driven by central gas compaction” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Moreno also published an article titled “Modeling the orbital histories of satellites of Milky Way-mass galaxies: testing static host potentials against cosmological simulations” in the same journal.

Zvezdana Ostojic, visiting assistant professor of French, presented a paper titled “Passages de l’auteur: Victor Hugo et la (pi)œuvre destructrice” at the 48th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference in Baltimore on November 10.

Mary Paster, professor of linguistics and cognitive science, published an article titled “Akan morphological 'reversal' in historical context” in The Life Cycle of Language: Past, Present, and Future (Oxford University Press,editors Darya Kavitskaya and Alan C.L. Yu).

Lina Patel, lecturer in theatre, received a workshop of her new play Sick Girl or, Don’t Hate Me ’Cuz I’m Pretty at Ammunition Theater on November 4. Her short play Karma opened at The Echo in Atwater Village on November 30.

William Peterson, professor emeritus of music and College organist, is a co-author of a book, Political Dreams and Musical Themes in the 1848-1922 Formation of Czechoslovakia: Interaction of National and Global Forces, by James W. Peterson and William J. Peterson, published by Lexington Books.

Sheila Pinkel, professor emerita of art and art history, currently has large artwork on prominent display at MoMA New York City.

Frances Pohl, professor emerita of art history, published the fifth edition of her textbook Framing America: A Social History of American Art. This edition has been thoroughly revised and contains a greater percentage of color plates than earlier editions.

Meranda Roberts (citizen of the Yerington Paiute Tribe), visiting professor of art history and guest curator at the Benton Museum of Art, has been appointed to the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum inaugural committee of scholars.

Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics, gave three community talks on redistricting and good governance recommendations for the Los Angeles City Council related to her work with the LA Governance Reform Project. These include a panel discussion at the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, a presentation at Mt. San Antonio Gardens, and a conversation with City Council President Paul Krekorian for the LA Business Council.

Sadhwani provided commentary to ABC News and USA Today on the prevalence of Indian American candidates running for president and to The Guardian and The Sacramento Bee on the impact of the Israel-Gaza conflict on the California Senate race.

Gibb Schreffler, associate professor of music, published the article “Remembering the Cotton Screwmen: Inter-racial Waterfront Labor and the Development of Sailors’ Chanties” in the Journal of the Society for American Music.

Prageeta Sharma, Henry G. Lee ’37 Professor of English, was featured on the cover and had five poems in the November/December issue of American Poetry Review.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote four opinion pieces: “A Modest Proposal to save MLB” (MindMatters, November 6), “LLMs are Still Faux Intelligence” (MindMatters, November 8), “Computers May Know ‘How’ But They Still Don’t Know ‘Why’” (MindMatters, November 10) and “Here’s what really matters when you buy stocks, real estate and other investments” (Marketwatch, November 28).

Smith’s book, Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science, was the lead review in “New and Noteworthy Titles on our Bookshelf” in Notices of the American Mathematical Society: “Through the lenses of disinformation, data torturing, and data mining, this book leads the reader through a history of instances where the public doubts the facts….Distrust is filled to the brim with examples of those who reject scientific evidence.”

Keri Wilson, assistant professor of biology, organized the 2023 Southwestern Organismal Biology conference held at Harvey Mudd College on November 4. Participants represented over 25 colleges and universities from the southwestern region of the United States.

Kyle Wilson, assistant professor of economics, published the article “Local Competition, Multimarket Contact, and Product Quality: Evidence From Internet Service Provision” in the Review of Industrial Organization on November 17.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, delivered a presentation titled “N-gram for Chinese Teaching” at the 2023 conference of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. The presentation utilized Chinese as an example to illustrate the creation of a systematic, data-driven foreign language pedagogy based on N-gram language models.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, published “Understanding World War II Japan, 1940–1945” in the fall 2023 issue of Education About Asia. Based on his three decades of research on this topic, this article offers what the editors of this journal describe as “an accessible and fascinating article for instructors and students that draws heavily on a wide range of sources including government propaganda efforts and diaries of Japanese civilians.”

Megan Zirnstein, assistant professor of linguistics and cognitive science, co-authored a poster presentation at the 64th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, along with Sarah Wang ’23 and Feiya Suo, a past Pomona College language resident. The poster, titled “Brewing bilingualism: Inducing bilingual language regulation changes via sound immersion during reading,” was an extension of Wang’s senior thesis and Suo’s independent study project in the Cognitive Science program, both aimed at understanding the effects of naturalistic language immersion on Mandarin reading in Southern California.

Jack Abecassis, Edwin Sexton & Edna Patrick Smith Modern European Languages Professor, delivered a plenary lecture, “Qu’est-ce que c’est que ‘croire’ pour Montaigne?” (What does belief mean to Montaigne?) at the Apologie de Raimond Sebond, Lectures, Méthodes, Inteprétations Colloquium organized by the Atelier Montaigne, La Société des Amis de Montaigne, and Le Centre Montaigne, University of Bordeaux, France, from October 11-12.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, served on the faculty at Viol Sphere 2, the 24th annual workshop sponsored by the Viola da Gamba Society of Southern Arizona (chapter, VdGSA) and held October 12-16 at the Biosphere 2 conference center in Oracle, Arizona. Bandy co-programmed and performed in a faculty recital and taught 11 classes on repertoire by Byrd, Weelkes, Ward, Gibbons, Coprario, Handl (Gallus) and more, in collaboration with faculty from across the U.S., including members of Parthenia Viol Consort, the Newberry Consort, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Quicksilver and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra.

After co-organizing a day-long local workshop for SoCal Viols (South Pasadena, California) on October 21, as a founder and artistic director of the ensemble Artifex Consort, Bandy programmed, supplied program notes, and played viola da gamba in a concert of highly specialized French Baroque repertoire by Marin Marais and Louis Couperin, presented on October 22 in Pomona College’s Bridges Hall of Music and featuring violists da gamba Eva Lymenstull and Eric Tinkerhess and harpsichordist Ian Pritchard.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, was an invited speaker at the October 3-4 Warsaw Security Forum, where he appeared on a panel to discuss accountability in Ukraine alongside Austrian Federal Minister of Justice Alma Zadić.

The Polish news magazine Dziennik Gazeta Prawna (roughly equivalent to the New York Times Magazine in the U.S.) published a long-form interview with Boduszyński about current U.S. foreign policy challenges, including Ukraine and Israel/Gaza.

Gary Champi, assistant professor of dance, guest lectured at the University of Washington’s Interdisciplinary Visual Arts (IVA) department on the topic of risk and discomfort October 10.

Champi performed in a reconstruction of Speaking Ill of the Dead (2006), choreographed by Robert Moses, and Possession (1994), choreographed by Doug Varone, at Meany Center for the Performing Arts in Seattle from October 12-15.

Eileen J. Cheng, professor of Asian languages and literatures and faculty director of Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations, delivered a paper, “Human, Animal, Cannibal:  Radical Hope in an Age of Destruction,” on the fiction of Lu Xun and Zhang Ailing at the annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association meeting. She participated in workshops on how to make the humanities and the teaching and learning of languages relevant in the age of ChatGPT.

Donna M. Di Grazia, David J. Baldwin Professor of Music, was named the 2023 recipient of Pomona College’s Faculty Alumni Service Award. Announced this year at the new faculty dinner hosted by the Office of Alumni and Family Engagement, this award honors faculty “in recognition of their exemplary service to the alumni association over a period of years.”

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a virtual talk titled “Domestic Spanish handbooks: Language and Labor in the American home” at the University of Bern (Switzerland) on October 16.

Virginie A. Duzer, professor and chair of Romance languages and literatures, published “D’une carte postale contant fleurette” in the latest issue of the journal Histoires littéraires for which a postcard from her collection was chosen as the cover image.

Joanna L. Dyl, visiting assistant professor of environmental analysis, presented a paper titled “Power, Water, Sand: Conflicts and Contradictions at California’s Coastal Power Plants” at the Western History Association Annual Conference on October 26 in Los Angeles.

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, published the article “The lower Cambrian Cranbrook Lagerstätte of British Columbia” in the Journal of the Geological Society (London).

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, was appointed to the editorial board of the journal Complex Analysis and Operator Theory. He was also re-appointed to the human resources board of the American Institute of Mathematics, which is based at Caltech.

Garcia published the paper “The error term in the truncated Perron formula for the logarithm of an L-function” (with Jeffrey Lagarias and Ethan Simpson Lee) in the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin. He also published the editorial “A Word From…” in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, visited the University of South Carolina to give the James L. Solomon Lecture on October 16. This annual series honors James L. Solomon Jr., one of the first three Black students to integrate the university in 1963 and the first African American student in the graduate program in mathematics. Goins gave a public address titled “Growing MADDER: Building the ‘Mathematicians of the African Diaspora Database's Ensemble of Researchers.’” Earlier that day, Goins gave a talk in the USC Mathematics Department Discrete Math and Combinatorics Seminar titled “Monodromy Groups of Belyi Lattes Maps.” The student newspaper The Daily Gamecock covered Goins’ lecture.

On October 21-22, Goins hosted a workshop at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), a research institute at UCLA. PUNDiT: (P)racticum for (Und)ergraduates (i)n Number (T)heory was a two-day intensive program which showcased number theory broadly interpreted at the introductory level. A goal of the program was to expose Southern California students traditionally underrepresented in number theory to the beauty of the subject. There were 20 students and faculty in attendance, including Posse scholar Lawrence Stampino-Strain ’26.

On October 27, Goins visited California State Polytechnic University at Humboldt to give the 80th Kieval Lecture. The Kieval lecture series includes topics on popular and/or broad aspects of mathematics attractive to undergraduates and the public. Goins gave a public address titled “Distance Makes the Math Grow Deeper: Rational Distance Sets, Nate Dean, and Me.” Earlier that day, Goins gave a colloquium talk at Cal Poly Humboldt on “Clocks, Parking Garages, and the Solvability of the Quintic: A Friendly Introduction to Monodromy.”

George L. Gorse, Viola Horton Professor of Art History, gave a paper on “Genoa in Triumph: Transformation of a Medieval to Renaissance City” at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference in Baltimore on October 29.  Baltimore is “sister city” to Genoa, and this paper ended with comparison of these port cities and transformations of their harbor fronts during the 1980s and ’90s.

Gizem Karaali, professor of mathematics and statistics, gave a virtual keynote address titled “İnsancıl Matematik Eğitimi’ (Teaching Mathematics Humanistically, in Turkish) at the 6th International Symposium of Turkish Computer and Mathematics Education held in Ankara, Turkey, from October 28-30.

Jonathan Lethem, Roy Edward Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing and professor of English, had his 13th novel Brooklyn Crime Novel published by ECCO on October 3, and it was widely reviewed in the national press.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, led a seminar for the political science department at Williams College on October 25. The class focused on her book The American Road Trip and American Political Thought as well as broader issues relating to interpretive and theoretical methods in political science.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published a paper titled “Disk settling and dynamical heating: histories of Milky Way-mass stellar disks across cosmic time in the FIRE simulations” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Moreno delivered colloquia titled “The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at the University of California, San Diego, the Flatiron Institute, the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University.

On October 28, Moreno facilitated a three-hour faculty workshop on collective pedagogy and mentoring at Santa Barbara City College.

Joanne Randa Nucho, associate professor of anthropology, gave a keynote lecture titled “After the Grid: Electricity, Fragmentation, and Renewable Energy in Lebanon in the post 2019 era” (co-authored with Danielle Fheili) at the conference Economic Change and the Future of the Middle East at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Adam Pearson, associate professor and chair of psychological science, gave a keynote address titled “Bias as a barrier to climate justice: Intersecting challenges and opportunities for psychology” at the annual meeting of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology in Madison, Wisconsin.

Pearson and Corinne Tsai ’20 were named recipients of the 2023 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of the American Psychological Association), awarded annually for the best paper or article of the year on intercultural or international relations, for their article “Building Diverse Climate Coalitions: The Pitfalls and Promise of Equity and Identity-Based Messaging.”

Pearson and Tsai were invited to present research on how to communicate effectively about climate change inequities to the Sustainable States Network, a network of regional and state government officials representing 65 million U.S. residents and 2,500 municipalities in 14 U.S. states overseeing local and state climate mitigation and resilience programs.

Kathy E. Quispe, assistant director of international student & scholar services, co-presented a session titled “Orientation 101: Creating an Orientation that Caters to Your Community” at the 2023 NAFSA Region XII Conference in Honolulu on October 18. She covered planning, content, activities and support needed to create a positive orientation experience for international students using the model she has developed at Pomona College.

Hans J. Rindisbacher, professor of German, published a review of Stéphane Maffli’s Migrationsliteratur aus der Schweiz. Beat Sterchi, Franco Supino, Aglaja Veteranyi, Melinda Nadj Abonji und Ilma Rakusa in Monatshefte.

Rindisbacher gave a paper on the Black American author Vincent O. Carter, who lived in Bern, Switzerland (Rindisbacher’s hometown), for 30 years of his life, titled “Negotiating Whiteness in a Frame Narration: Vincent O. Carter’s The Bern Book” at the 2023 PAMLA Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, from October 26-29.

Hector Sambolin, Jr., associate dean for academic affairs, academic success and assessment in Pomona College’s Institute for Inclusive Excellence (IIE), and Sara Hollar, director of the 7C Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), cohosted and moderated a workshop titled “Inclusive Teaching Faculty Panel: How Do We Know It's Working?” In the panel discussion, faculty members from the Claremont Colleges shared assessment projects they’ve carried out. The event marked the beginning of a series of workshops by the CTL and IIE that will begin in Spring 2024, focusing on the art of authentically assessing one’s own teaching.

Gibb Schreffler, associate professor of music, collaborated with Revell Carr (University of Kentucky) to present a lecture-demonstration titled “Sea Chantey Myths and Misconceptions in the Wake of #ShantyTok” at the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Ottawa, Canada.

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, gave a paper, “Dance in Immigrant and Ethnic Communities in the United States,” on Zoom for the Greek Anthropology Society’s conference on Dance in the Diaspora on October 20 at the University of Ioannina.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote two opinion pieces: “Blue Zone BS: The Longevity Cluster Myth” (MindMatters, October 23) and “The MLB Coin-Flipping Contest” (MindMatters, October 27).

Smith’s book Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science was reviewed by Jonathan Cowie for Concatenation (“It is whole-heartedly recommended for scientists who work analysing large data sets”) and Keith Raymond Harris for MetaScience (“vivid, important, and often amusing real-world examples…of several inter-related threats to the credibility of science”).

Luis Edward Tenorio, visiting assistant professor of sociology, organized and hosted two speaker series for Introduction to Sociology and Qualitative Research Methods. The series for Qualitative Research Methods featured Isabel García Valdivia ’14, postdoctoral fellow at Brown University, on the experiences of illegality in late adulthood.

Friederike von Schwerin-High, professor of German, published the review article “A Portrait of an Eighteenth-Century Explorer and Revolutionary: Georg Forster: German Cosmopolitan, by Todd Curtis Kontje” in The European Legacy.

Von Schwerin-High presented a talk at the 120th Annual PAMLA Conference (Portland, Oregon) titled “Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp’s translation of Ijoma Mangold’s literary memoir The German Crocodile” on October 27.

Keri Wilson, assistant professor of biology, published the article “Effects of reproductive status on behavioral and neural responses to isolated pup stimuli in female California mice” in Behavioural Brain Research.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, was quoted in “How L.A. Became Hub for Omakase, Bite by Bite,” which appeared on the NBC News website.

Yamashita delivered “The ‘Japanese Turn’ in the Art, Architecture and Cuisine of Europe and the United States, 1860–2020” in the Claremont Discourse Lecture Series to a standing-room-only crowd in the Founders Room in Honnold Library on October 26. The lecture argued that the Japanese culinary influence on fine dining in the United States between 1980 and 2020 was comparable to the Japanese influence in the art and architecture worlds in Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, presented her research paper virtually at the conference Affective Intermediality: Cinema between Media, Sensation and Reality held in Europe. Her co-authored paper discusses contemporary Chinese cinema and cross-cultural communication in the 1980s.

Jack Abecassis, Edwin Sexton & Edna Patrick Smith Modern European Languages Professor, delivered a plenary talk, “Dr. Hesiod, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Perses-the-bomb,” at the “’Eclogues of Desire’: Cultural Myths of the Golden Age” conference at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany.

Konrad Aguilar, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, is the recipient of a two-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for $189,661 to research “Noncommutative Geometry and Topology of Quantum Metrics” and support undergraduate research in mathematics. The start date of the award (number 2316892) was September 1.

Tricia Avant, academic coordinator and gallery manager of art, participated in an exhibition at the University of La Verne’s Harris Gallery. Curated by Martin Durazo, the exhibition dEE-lie-LA, Poderosa, The Healers: An Exploration of Wellness is part of the seventh SUR:biennial and will be on view from September 5 until October 12.

Allan Barr, professor of Chinese, presented a paper, “From La Chine en Dix Mots to China in Ten Words: ‘Trextuality’ in a contemporary Chinese classic,” at the conference “Trextuality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Translated and Multilingual Texts” from September 7-9 at University of Turku, Finland.

Barr gave an invited talk, “Translating from Chinese: Challenges and Rewards,” at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, on September 26.

Graydon Beeks, emeritus professor of music, performed as harpsichordist with his Cornucopian Baroque Ensemble colleagues—violinist Alfred Cramer, associate professor of music; bassoonist Carolyn Beck, lecturer in music; theorbist Jason Yoshida, lecturer in music; Sherrill Herring, music department general manager of music facilities; oboist Aki Nishiguchi; and cellist Roger Lebow—in a concert of music by Boismortier, Geminiani and Telemann on September 24 in Bridges Hall of Music.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, participated in a workshop titled “Disturbing Stereotypes and Single-Story Narratives: Expanding Inclusivity & Belonging in Global Programming” at Miami Dade College in Florida.

Boduszyński spoke at the European Union Center of California about his work as an appointee at the Pentagon during 2022-2023 in a lecture titled “The United States and the Struggle for Accountability in Ukraine.”

Ralph Bolton ’61, emeritus professor of anthropology, gave a public lecture on September 20 at the San Agustin National University in Arequipa, Peru, at the invitation of the Professional School of Anthropology. The lecture was titled “Remembranzas de Jorge A. Flores Ochoa: JAFO y yo, vidas paralelas, dos caminos en la etnografia andina” (Memories of Jorge A. Flores Ochoa: JAFO and me, parallel lives, two paths in Andean ethnography). The lecture was based on the lead article by Bolton in a book published by the Municipality of Cuzco, Peru, in 2022.

Bolton attended the 60th anniversary of the Centro Poblado de Chijnaya, the community he co-founded as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1963. On this occasion he received from the mayor of Chijnaya the “Medal of the City.” Bolton joined the six surviving founding pioneers (ranging in age from 90 to 106) to celebrate this important milestone in the life of this Quechua-speaking community on the Altiplano. He also visited the new headquarters in Pucara, Peru, of the applied anthropology organization that he co-founded, the Pro-DIA Association which works on development projects in 41 highland communities.

Anthony Clark, assistant professor of computer science, published an abstract, “Creating Dynamic Simulation Environments With Unreal Engine 5,” at the Southern California Robotics Symposium on September 14. The article included five student authors, Daisy Abbott ’25, Anjali Nuggehalli ’26, Francisco Morales Puente ’26, Chau Vu ’26 and Ella Zhu ’26.

David Divita, professor of Romance languages and literatures, gave a talk titled “Spain’s Valle de Cuelgamuros: The limits and possibilities of monumental resignification” at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid on September 8.

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the article “Opportunity, not Welfare: How Behavioral Insights Should Lead to a Reorientation of the Normative Foundation in Law and Economics“ in the Journal of Contextual Economics on September 12. The article was co-authored with Elias van Emmerick ’21.

Dold published the article “Endogenous preferences: a challenge to constitutional political economy’s normative foundation?” in Constitutional Political Economy on September 15.

Joanna L. Dyl, visiting assistant professor of environmental analysis, was a guest on the podcast American History Hit for an episode on the history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, published a paper (with Visiting Assistant Professor Ángel Chávez and Jackson Hurley ’23), “Norms on complex matrices induced by random vectors.”

Garcia participated in a panel discussion on “Applying and Interviewing for Jobs in Academia” at the University of Arizona (virtual) on September 26.

Melissa Givens, assistant professor of music, is a member of the Grammy®-winning choral ensemble Conspirare, whose 15th major label recording was released by Delos Music on September 8. The House of Belonging features music by composers old and new, including the recorded premiere of Margaret Bonds’ “Joy” and the premiere of Alex Berko’s Sacred Place and Shara Nova’s “The House of Belonging.” Conspirare is joined on the album by the celebrated Mirò Quartet. It is available on all streaming platforms and everywhere music is sold.

Esther Hernández-Medina, assistant professor of Latin American studies and gender and women’s studies, was part of the Women Union’s faculty panel about the movie “Barbie” on September 21 along with Assistant Professor of Media Studies Ryan Engley and Professor of Politics Amanda Hollis-Brusky. The conversation included dozens of 5C students, faculty and staff in a lively discussion on the cultural phenomenon associated with the movie as analyzed in the consortium’s The Student Life newspaper.

Malkiat S. Johal, professor of chemistry, published the paper “Ex Vivo Drug Screening Assay with Artificial Membranes: Characterizing Cholesterol Desorbing Competencies of Beta-Cyclodextrins” in Langmuir. The paper was co-authored by Jacob Al-Husseini ’22, Chris Wang ’25, Ethan Fong ’25, Joseph Ha, Meenakshi Upreti and Peter Chiarelli.

Nina J. Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, attended the 11th International Penguin Congress held September 4-9 in Viña del Mar, Chile. She presented the poster “The fish component of Adélie, Gentoo and Chinstrap penguin diets breeding on two islands in the South Shetland Archipelago.”

Jade Star Lackey, professor of geology, presented “Understanding Oxygen Isotopes in Cordilleran Batholiths: A 190 Million Year, Top-to-Bottom Perspective from the Sierra Nevada, USA” at the 10th Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites in Baveno, Italy, from September 10-16.

Lackey was elected to the management board of the Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry and Volcanology division of the Geological Society of America. This is a four-year succession of appointments as second vice chair, first vice chair, chair and past chair of the MPGV board.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, performed in a chamber version of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at Jacaranda Music series in Santa Monica on September 23. The 2023-24 Jacaranda Music season is titled Planet Schoenberg, celebrating the works and influence of Arnold Schoenberg on the musical world.

Joyce Lu, associate professor of theatre and Asian American studies, moderated a post-show panel for Nursing These Wounds featuring the artist-activist children of Pilipinx nurses, Frances Sedayao, Jo Cruz (aka love/speak) and Joshua Icban, whose stories informed the performance at ODC Theater on Ramaytush/Ohlone land September 24.

Lu received an emerging Individual Artist Fellowship for Los Angeles County funded by the California Arts Council and administered by Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP) for her work with LA Playback Theatre Company.

Richard McKirahan, Edwin Clarence Norton Professor of Classics and professor of philosophy, attended a conference in Perugia, Italy, in honor of the 85th birthday of Livio Rossetti (emeritus professor at the University of Perugia). At Rossetti's request, McKirahan gave a half-hour presentation on Rosseti’s new book Ripensare I Presocratici (Re-thinking the Presocratics).

McKirahan attended a conference in Ascea, Italy, the 2023 meeting of the biennial conference “Eleatica” that celebrates the ancient philosophers associated with Elea, a city that is now an archaeological site located next door to the town of Ascea. Four years ago, he was the principal speaker at the conference and gave three lectures in Italian. His lectures were published this year in the volume Aristotle and the Eleatics, edited by M. Pulpito and B. Berruecos Frank, Academia Press. The book is a volume in the series Eleatica, and it contains the lectures plus comments by several scholars who were present at the conference and his replies to their comments.

McKirahan accepted invitations to give lectures in Venice and in Paris in the next few months.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, was a featured Constitution Day panelist at the Claremont McKenna College Athenaeum on September 19; the panel was on the topic of “The Role of Citizens in the U.S. Constitution.”

On September 24, McWilliams was the featured guest on The Way of Improvement Leads Home podcast, a biweekly podcast dedicated to American history, historical thinking and the role of history in our everyday lives, hosted by historian John Fea.

McWilliams participated as a reader in the annual Moby Dick read-a-thon held at Herman Melville’s estate Arrowhead, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, spoke to NPR about the latest James Webb Space Telescope discoveries and controversies.

Moreno delivered a colloquium titled “The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Gilda L. Ochoa, professor of Chicana/o Latina/o studies, was a guest speaker and workshop facilitator for the University Supervisor Institutes at California State University, Los Angeles on September 29. The Institutes are geared toward increasing the quality and opportunities for enacting social justice pedagogies in teacher education.

Frank Pericolosi, professor of physical education and head baseball coach, was elected as chair of the NCAA Division III National Baseball Committee for 2023-2024. This is his fourth term as the chair of the national committee.

Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics, received the Emerging Scholar Award from the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Civic Engagement Section. She was also the recipient of the Alan Rosenthal Prize from APSA’s Legislative Studies Section for her co-authored study “Social Lobbying,” recognizing work that can be applied to strengthening the practices of representative democracy.

Sadhwani provided commentary in a New York Times article for her efforts to develop governance reform recommendations for the city of Los Angeles. She also presented on a panel at a Harvard Law School convening of scholars and voting rights experts titled “Race, Reform, and Multiracial Democracy.”

Monique Saigal Escudero, professor emerita of French, gave the presentation “My Hidden Childhood in WWII Occupied France” at Bonjour Books in Kensington, Maryland (September 3), Jackie Abrams Agency in Arlington, Virginia (September 7), Café de Virginie in Arlington, Virginia (September 8), Holocaust Museum, Washington, D.C. (September 9 and 10), Women’s Club in Arlington, Virginia (September 11) and Rotary Club in Claremont, California (September 15).

Hector L. Sambolin, Jr., associate dean for academic success and assessment, presented at the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD) 13th Annual Dean’s Institute on “Generative AI and Academic Success: Moving Forward” on September 26. He discussed strategies for leveraging generative AI technology to support student success initiatives and optimize outcomes as well as provided insights into the promises and pitfalls and proposed an ethical framework to guide its implementation on college campuses.

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, edited and contributed chapters to Dance in the Persianate World: Aesthetics, Histories, Practices (Mazda Publishers, 2023), the first comprehensive scholarly book on dance of all genres in the Persianate or Iranian world.

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote three opinion pieces: “Can we defend against the online anti-science movement?” (Salon, September 1); “Buying this annuity guarantees that you’ll lose out on big money” (MarketWatch, September 19); and “Confusing Correlation With Causation” (Mind Matters, September 25).

Smith’s interview about AI on NYU Professor Vasant Dhar's Brave New World was posted on September 21. Professor Dhar: “It came out very well. I don’t think I’ve laughed as much on any episode!”

Several of Smith’s books were reviewed by IEEE Fellow W. A. Gardner: “I think of Gary as the modern-day equivalent of Darrell Huff, the author of the classic text How to Lie with Statistics.”

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, participated in an invited roundtable discussion on AI and language teaching for the International Symposium on Intermediated and Advanced Level Chinese Education on September 15. The symposium was organized by the U.S. Chinese Language Teachers Association and Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, was interviewed for an NBC story on the omakase format common these days not only at sushi bars but also at other types of Japanese restaurants.

Yanshuo Zhang, assistant professor of Asian languages and literatures, had her book review accepted for publication in the Journal of Asian Studies, the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies, which is the biggest professional organization in Asian Studies in North America. Her review discusses the book Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture, authored by Anne E. McLaren.

Nicholas Ball, associate professor of chemistry, gave two invited research talks at the 2023 American Chemical Society (ACS) national fall meeting in San Francisco. One talk–hosted by Organic Syntheses and the Division of Organic Chemistry–featured a symposium highlighting leaders in organic chemistry research at PUIs. The second talk was at another symposium focused on new organometallic methods using earth-abundant metals. Both talks featured the work of Pomona students, Robbins Postdoctoral scholar Ryan Cammarota, and collaborators.

Ball gave a talk titled “Synthetic Strategies toward Fluorosulfurylation of Organic Molecules and Sulfur-Fluoride Exchange (SuFEx)” at Rice University’s Department of Chemistry and the 23rd International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC) and the 9th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies (ISoFT) in Québec City.

Ball published a paper in Canadian Journal of Chemistry titled “Synthesis of 2-arylpyridines by the Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling of PyFluor with hetero (aryl) boronic acids and esters.” The paper is a collaboration with the research group of Jennifer Love at the University of Calgary.

Malachai Komanoff Bandy, assistant professor of music, published the chapter “‘Im Himmel und auf Erden’: Geometry, Alchemy, and Rosicrucian Symbol in Buxtehude’s Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab’ (BuxWV 38)” in an edited volume titled Explorations in Music and Esotericism (University of Rochester Press; Eastman Studies in Music), edited by Marjorie Roth and Leonard George. Bandy’s chapter reveals an array of 17th-century Rosicrucian textual and numerical tropes in a setting of Psalm 73 by Dieterich Buxtehude, close examination of which elucidates Buxtehude’s compositional process while challenging modern (assumed) boundaries between 17th-century occult philosophy and Lutheran musical orthodoxy.

From August 6–12, Bandy served on viola da gamba faculty at the Viols West workshop, organized by the Pacifica Chapter of the Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA) and held at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he taught classes handling viola da gamba articulation techniques, music from the court of Rudolf II, and rhetoric in motets by Cristóbal de Morales.

Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics and international relations, was a guest on the Chicago Council of Global Affairs Deep Dish Podcast alongside former ambassador Prudence Bushnell to discuss diplomacy and security on the 25th anniversary of the bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam.

Boduszyński published a peer-reviewed book chapter with former student Calla Li ’22 titled “External Autocratic Influence, The Balkans, and Democratic Decline” in Geopolitical Turmoil in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean, edited by Hall Gardner (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).

Malte Dold, assistant professor of economics, published the article “Behavioural normative economics: foundations, approaches and trends“ in Fiscal Studies on August 29.

Dold appeared on the podcast ePODstemology to discuss the question “Can we make the world a 'better' place with behavioural economics?” on August 14.

Anne Dwyer, associate professor of German and Russian, presented her work at the “Archaists and Innovators” Symposium at Princeton University from August 24-25. Her paper was titled “Traces, Not Monuments: Mediated Authorship in Shklovsky's Oriental Prose.”

Robert Gaines, Edwin F. and Martha Hahn Professor of Geology, and colleagues from Yale and the University of Chicago published the article “Exceptional lower Cambrian fossils from a long-lost locality in Vermont, USA” in the journal Geology Today.

Stephan Ramon Garcia, W.M. Keck Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Statistics, gave the Hans Schneider ILAS Lecture at the 34th International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications (IWOTA) at the University of Helsinki, Finland, which took place July 31-August 4. The talk was titled, “What can chicken nuggets tell us about symmetric functions, positive polynomials, random norms, and AF algebras?”

Dean Gerstein, director of sponsored research, with colleagues from Bryn Mawr College, Seattle University, University of Southern Indiana and UMass Dartmouth, received an 18-month, $100,000 conference grant from the Office of the Director/Office of Integrative Activities of the National Science Foundation.

Edray Herber Goins, professor of mathematics and statistics, successfully completed another summer of PRiME (Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience). This eight-week summer residential program, running from June 11 through August 5, hosted 20 undergraduate students, five graduate students and five faculty to conduct research in algebraic geometry and number theory. The entire cohort traveled to Tampa, Florida, at the end of the summer to attend the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) MathFest, where two of the five research groups won honorable mention for best poster presentation. Arsh Chhabra ’25, Xuehuai He ’25 and Melinda Yang ’25 received the accolades for their work with Goins on “Adinkras as Origami.”

Goins was elected as chairman of the board of directors for the Art of Problem Solving Initiative, Inc. (AoPSI), a non-profit organization which seeks to help underserved students find a realistic pathway towards becoming scientists, mathematicians, engineers and programmers. The organization oversees BEAM (Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics), a series of experiences for students in grades 6-12 which includes a sixth-grade summer program in Los Angeles and New York City and a seventh-grade residential summer program on college campuses. Goins will assume responsibilities as board chair on February 1, 2024.

Beth A. Hubbard, assistant director, gift planning, earned the Certified Specialist in Planned Giving (CSPG^CM) designation through the American Institute for Philanthropic Studies at California State University Long Beach Research Foundation.

Hubbard was admitted to the MA in Education program at Claremont Graduate University. Hubbard's concentration is educational evaluation and data analysis, along with two semesters through CGU’s School of Education that will result in an Allies of Dreamers graduate-level certificate. The Allies of Dreamers Certificate Program is the first of its kind nationally and provides the historical context, theoretical framework and specific knowledge to offer mentorship and advocacy for Dreamers and other undocumented students.

Nina Karnovsky, Willard George Halstead Zoology Professor of Biology, presented the paper “South Polar Skua Reproductive Success Breeding on the Antarctic Peninsula and the Antarctic Silverfish Component of their Diets” at the XIII SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) biology meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand. This paper was co-authored by Mimi Starr ’15 and Wayne Trivelpiece.

Mike Kuehlwein, George E. and Nancy O. Moss Professor of Economics, had an article co-authored with Tahir Andrabi, Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics, titled “Information and Price Convergence: Government Telegraphs in British India” published in the Indian Economic and Social History Review.

Jade Star Lackey, professor of geology, co-authored “Magmatic surge requires two-stage model for the Laramide orogeny” in Nature Communications with colleagues from CSU Northridge and University of Vermont.

Lackey co-convened the session “Crystal to crustal perspectives on mush systems and volcanic-plutonic connections” at the V.M. Goldschmidt Conference from July 9–14 in Lyon, France.

Tom Le, associate professor of politics, completed the Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future program workshop in Montana on August 21.

Le was interviewed by the Washington Post for an article about Japan’s response to an aging and dying population.

Genevieve Lee, Everett S. Olive Professor of Music, continued her work as a faculty member of the Chamber Music Conference at Colgate University through the first week of August where she coached numerous chamber music groups. On August 5, she performed Cécile Chaminade’s piano trio as part of the faculty concert series.

Lee was a guest artist at the Garth Newel Music Center, Virginia, performing on August 26 and August 27. These concerts included the music of Schubert, Liszt, Saint-Saens, Gershwin and Gounod for piano four-hands, two pianos, and eight-hand/two piano arrangements.

Jonathan Lethem, Roy E. Disney ’51 Professor of Creative Writing, published “A Neighborhood, Authored” in the August 21 issue of The New Yorker.

Victoria Sancho Lobis, associate professor of art history and Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director, Benton Museum of Art, was invited to offer a course through the 92nd Street Y in New York on Dutch and Flemish drawings of the early modern period.

Susan McWilliams Barndt, professor of politics, taught workshops on “The Philosophical Origins of the Declaration of Independence” and “The Debate Over the Bill of Rights” during the first week of August at the New York Historical Society as part of the 2023 We The Educators Cohort Program. The program, which is sponsored by Civic Spirit and the Jack Miller Center, brings together middle- and high-school teachers from around the country to discuss and promote civic education in the United States.

McWilliams published “Why Allen Ran,” an article on the work of political philosopher Danielle Allen, in Polity and “The Stories of Betty Ford” in the Ford Forum.

On August 31, McWilliams was elected vice president/president-elect of the American political thought section of the American Political Science Association. McWilliams will serve a two-year term as vice-president, followed by a two-year term as president of the group.

Jorge Moreno, associate professor of physics and astronomy, published an article titled “A jolt to the system: ram pressure on low-mass galaxies in simulations of the Local Group” in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

On August 29, Moreno delivered a colloquium titled “The intriguing lives of galaxies lacking dark matter” at The University of Texas at Austin.

Dan O’Leary, Carnegie Professor of Chemistry, presented a talk titled “3D-Printed Molecular Orbitals and Transition State Structures for a First-Semester Organic Chemistry Course” at the American Chemical Society Fall 2023 Meeting, which took place August 13-17 in San Francisco. Students from his 3D Orbitals in Chemistry Pedagogy independent research course, including Christabel Akowuah ’25, Tymmaa Asaed ’25, Vaughn Brown ’25, Kendrick Cua ’25, Hiwot Endeshaw ’25, Elizabeth Giwa ’25, Jaylyn Gonzalez ’25, Aysha Gsibat ’24, Sokhna Lo ’25, Santiago Serrano ’25 and Haddi Sise ’25, presented three posters on this topic at the meeting.

Lina Patel, lecturer in theatre, workshopped her new play “Belonging,” centering the non-traditional family and illness, at East West Players. She is in her 17th week of striking as a proud WGA and SAG-AFTRA member.

Adam Pearson, associate professor and chair of psychological science, published the article “Public recognition of climate change inequities in the United States” in the journal Climatic Change.

Pearson and Corinne Tsai ’20 co-presented research on how to communicate effectively about climate change inequities to the Sustainable States Network, a network of local and state government officials representing over 2500 municipalities and counties in 14 U.S. states. Additionally, Pearson advised officials from the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, on public communications for their climate equity and resilience plans.

On August 4, Pearson gave an invited address at the American Psychological Association's Science Summits series in Washington, D.C., on “The Science of Climate Equity and Justice,” part of a special session on climate change.

Pearson was named a plenary keynote speaker for the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s annual conference in Madison, Wisconsin, in October.

Associate Professor of Theatre Carolyn Ratteray’s one woman show Both And (a play about laughing while black) was picked up for a limited run by the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for 2024. Her show, which received a Los Angeles New Play project and premiered at Boston Court Theatre, will run January 13-28, 2024.

Larissa Rudova, Yale B. and Lucille D. Griffith Professor in Modern Languages and professor of German and Russian, presented her paper “Landscape as/of Memory of Deportation and Violence in Anatoly Pristavkin’s Fiction” at the 26th International Biannual Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL), Ecologies of Childhood, on August 14. She was also a moderator at the artist/author plenary for the award-winning young adult fiction author Eugene Yelchin on August 16. She was a member of the congress’s organizing committee. Pomona College was one of the Congress’s sponsoring institutions, along with Stanford University, Princeton University, UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego. Aiste Abeciunaite ’25 and Asya Lyubavina ’26 served as the Congress’s assistants, from August 12-16, thanks to a generous grant from the Dean’s Office.

Anthony Shay, professor of dance, was invited to submit a peer-reviewed article, “Dance in Iran and in the Diaspora: What we can learn from analyzing dance and other Patterned Movements about Iranian Society.” The article appears on the website Iran 1400.

Penny Sinanoglou, associate professor of history, published “Partition as Imperial Inheritance” in The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition, edited by Victor Kattan and Amit Ranjan (Manchester University Press).

Gary Smith, Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics, wrote a RealClear Markets opinion piece, “Be Wary of Applying Shiller's CAPE to Individual Stocks” (August 7); a MarketWatch opinion piece, “Startups no longer are $100 bills on the sidewalk—Venture capital is suffering even as the U.S. stock market is surging” (August 7); and a MindMatters opinion piece, “The LK-99 BS Further Undermines the Credibility of Science” (August 10).

Smith was interviewed by Ed Fulbright on NPR affiliate WNCU and by Renee Garfinkel on the New Books Network about his book, Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science. Distrust was also reviewed by Jeanette Ferrara for Rigaku Review: “Smith’s delivery is so delicately and effortlessly encrusted with endless dry wit that you might actually find yourself laughing out loud as you read it—surely to be followed by a deep frown as you contemplate the powerful implications of what he is saying.”

Luis Edward Tenorio, visiting assistant professor of sociology, presented “Life After Status: Gendered Relational and Contextual Shifts in Legal Consciousness and Workplace Claims for Formerly Undocumented Immigrants” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia on August 19.

Miguel Tinker Salas, emeritus professor of history and Chicana/o Latina/o studies, co-authored an op-ed in Mexico City’s La Jornada newspaper August 18 on technologies of hate deployed against immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Feng Xiao, associate professor of Chinese, and Ceci Wade ’25 published a paper titled “Differences in Code-Switching between Chinese Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners in Computer-Mediated Communication” in Chinese Language Teaching Methodology and Technology.

Xiao published a commentary titled “ChatGPT and Its Challenges for Chinese Learning Assessment” in Chinese Teaching in the World.