Faculty News

“Pleistocene record of a dynamic, fluctuating lacustrine margin from the Turkana Basin, Kenya,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Geosciences Catherine (Cat) Beck, appears in the October issue of Quaternary Science Reviews from Elsevier.

Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas co-authored the article “Committed to the Cause of Humanity’: Guyana and the Morality of Cuban Medical Internationalism.”

“(1850) The Psychic Highway,” an essay by Professor of Religious Studies S.B. Rodriguez-Plate for the Under Gods project of Indiana University, was recently published in the IU journal American Religion.

“Contrasting public and healthcare worker perspectives on the denial of medical care to trans people in the United States: It’s (mostly) about gender,” co-authored by Chair and Associate Professor of Sociology Matthew Grace, was recently published in the Elsevier journal Social Science & Medicine.

Ed. note: Some readers might find title of the play offensive Assistant Professor of Theatre Emily K. Harrison’s scholarly review of the 2025 World Premiere of Jordan Tannahill’s play Prince Faggot was published in the most recent edition of Theatre Journal (Volume 78, Number 20: June 2026).

Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, will be contributing a monthly column to the online magazine 3 Quarks Daily, a magazine of new and unpublished articles as well as curated articles about science, philosophy, arts, and culture.

The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy, by Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas, was recently named this year’s winner of the Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Best Book Award.

Nhora Serrano, director of academic technology, teaching, and research services, co-authored an essay, "Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Decade of the Comics Studies Society," published in Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society (Vol. 10, Issue 1, Spring 2026).

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sarah Morrison-Smith recently presented a research paper, “SQuID: Investigating Human-AI Collaboration through an Interactive Affinity Diagramming Tool,” at the Graphics Interface 2026 conference in Waterloo, Ontario.

Heidi Ravven, director and professor of Jewish Studies, recently presented the plenary address at a conference on “Wisdom from the Middle Ages: Philosophical Contributions from the Abrahamic Traditions.” The event was hosted by the University of New Brunswick in Canada.