Faculty/Staff News Spring 2015
Research by Tori Barnes-Brus ’97 (sociology and anthropology) on the advertising used by the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company was featured by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study in October. Her research, “‘Saviour of Her Sex’: Lydia E. Pinkham Patent Medicine Company and the Construction of Female Health,” was supported by a Schlesinger Research Support Grant from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. She will be a Faculty Fellow for the ACM Newberry Seminar in the Humanities, “Novel Action: Literature, Society, and the Public Good” in the fall of 2016.
Catherine Burroughs (English, 1988-1996) thinks fondly of her days at Cornell and still hears from a number of her former students. She has been teaching at Wells College and Cornell University since 1997.
Rhawn Denniston (geology) was one of the scientists interviewed by Al-Jazeera America about how capping an increase in global temperature at 2 degrees Celsius might not be enough to stop major environmental problems.
Laura Farmer (writing center) was elected to the Executive Board of Directors of the Midwest Writing Center Association. She has also been named co-chair of the Midwest Writing Center Association’s biannual conference, which will be held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Hans Hassell (politics) had an article about the ways political parties limit choices in primary elections in the Washington Post in December.
Santhi Hejeebu (economics and business) gave an invited presentation at Yale University’s MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies in October 2014. Her talk, titled “Sin Plated with Gold? The Decline of Merchant Virtue and the Rise of British Empire in South Asia,” was included in a conference sponsored by Yale’s European Studies Council. She served as a discussion panelist at a second Yale conference on Global Historical Sociology.
In November 2014 James Martin (music) provided program notes for Opera Grand Rapids’ (Michigan) production of Bizet’s opera “Carmen.” He also served as musicology research grant evaluator for The National Humanities Center.
Johanna Schuster-Craig (German) was elected to the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Languages Association as a representative for the Central and Rocky Mountain Region.
A book by Kirilka Stavreva (English and creative writing), “Words Like Daggers: Violent Female Speech in Early Modern England,” was released Jan. 1 by the University of Nebraska Press. Her monograph analyzes literary material, performance, and legal documentation to challenge the myth of the silent, obedient woman of early modern England.
Philip Venticinque (classics) had an article published in Historia, a leading journal in the field of classics and ancient history. The article, “Risk Management: Social Capital and Economic Strategies on Late Roman Estates in Oxyrhynchus,” examined the way individuals managed economic risk in the ancient world.