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The New York Times published a letter to the editor written by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate on May 2 under the title “Why Religious Literacy is Important in Our Culture.” Plate, author of A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects, was responding to an opinion piece by Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.

Joana Sabadell-Nieto, professor of Hispanic studies and director of Hamilton’s Academic Year in Spain (HCAYS), presented Differences in Common: Gender, Vulnerability and Community, on April 23 at the Instituto Internacional in Madrid. The book was co-edited by Sabadell-Nieto and Marta Segarra of the University of Barcelona.

In an online Discovery News article titled “Mt. Everest: Why Do People Keep Climbing It?,” Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, commented on the recent tragedy on Mt. Everest. A second article on the Discovery News site titled "Do We Need Police on Everest," appearing on April 24, also included comments from Isserman.

Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson spoke at Boise State University, April 8-10, and at The University of Houston - Downtown, April 15-17, about Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America, and about the DHi project, The American Prison Writing Archive.

The Turkish edition of The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamic Capital in Turkey, co-authored by Professor of Economics Erol Balkan, was recently published by Yordam Books in Istanbul. Balkan’s co-authors were Nesecan Balkan and Ahmet Oncu.

Daniel Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology, was interviewed for a feature in the April 13 issue of The New York Times Education Life section titled “What Makes a Positive College Experience?” The article offered a glimpse of the extensive results from Chambliss’ decade-long, Mellon-funded student study culminating in the newly published How College Works. Co-authored with Chambliss’ former student and current University of Chicago doctoral student Christopher Takacs ’05, the book was released by Harvard University Press in March.

Professor of English & Creative Writing Doran Larson spoke about his edited collection, Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America, and The American Prison Writing Archive (a Hamilton, DHi project) in several places from Feb. 25 to 28.

On the eve of its release, A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects, written by Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies S. Brent Plate, was given a starred review by the Library Journal. The publication described Plate’s work as “an elegant and sensitive book … highly recommended to general readers open to a different perspective on religious practice.”

The Chinese translation of Lives of Confucius (Doubleday), a book to be published by Professor of History Thomas Wilson and co-author Michael Nylan of the University of California, Berkeley, passed external review by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press (CUHK).

Professor of Government and Associate Dean of Students for Academics Stephen Orvis has published (with Carol Drogus, Colgate University) the third edition of Introducing Comparative Politics with CQ/Sage Press.