Currently Accolades: Published/Exhibited for October 5, 2020

Every week during the academic year, Currently celebrates faculty and staff accomplishments, including appearances on panels, presentations, recent publications or performances, and research grants.

1. Evguenia Davidova, international studies faculty, published an article titled “Circuits of Mobile Workers in the 19th-Century Central Balkans” in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften.
2. John Hall, economics faculty, published “Thorstein Veblen as Evolutionary Feminist Economist of the Progressive Era” in the Journal Of Economic Issues.
3. Carol Hernández, PhD ’18, and Daniel Jaffee, sociology faculty, published an article titled “Emociones, Semillas Nativas y Cambio Climático: El Movimiento de Soberanía de las Semillas en Chiapas” (Emotions, Native Seeds, and Climate Change: The Seed Sovereignty Movement in Chiapas), in the journal Estudios de Cultura Maya.
4. Daniel Mackin Freeman, sociology graduate student, and Dara Shifrer, sociology faculty, co-authored “An Investigation of the Impact of High School Student Fine Arts Course Accumulation on Mathematics Achievement,” presented at a roundtable at the (virtual) annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
5. Aaron Roussell, sociology faculty, and Gisela Rodriguez Fernandez, PhD ’19, co-authored “Why Federal Intervention in Portland Shouldn’t Be a Shock,” published by the US Centre: American Politics and Policy Blog from the London School of Economics on Aug. 11.
6. Dara Shifrer, sociology faculty, and Daniel Mackin Freeman, sociology graduate student, co-authored “Problematizing Perceptions of STEM Potential: Differences by Cognitive Disability Status in High School and Postsecondary Educational Outcomes,” presented at a roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
7. Emily A. Slinskey, graduate student, Paul C. Loikith and Andrew Martin, geography faculty, co-authored “A Climatology of Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation for the Seven US National Climate Assessment Regions,” published by the American Meteorological Society in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.
8. Jeremy Spoon, Emergency Management and Community Resilience program director and anthropology faculty, co-authored “Navigating Multidimensional Household Recoveries Following the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes” in World Development.
9. Jack Straton, physics and university studies faculty, had one of his photographs chosen to be part of the 2020 Juried Art Show at the Maria V. Howard Arts Center in Rocky Mount, North Carolina from May 1 to Aug. 16.
10. Melissa Thompson, sociology faculty, authored “Social Construction of Mental Illness” in the second edition of “Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology,” edited by Chris Rojek.
11. Ned Tilbrook, sociology graduate student, and Dara Shifrer, sociology faculty, co-authored “Parental Domain-Specific Cultural Capital and Persistence in College Majors,” presented as a paper at the (virtual) annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. 
12. Ned Tilbrook, sociology graduate student, and Dara Shifrer, sociology faculty, co-authored “The Implications of Gender, Achievement, and Attitudes in STEM Major Pathways,” which was accepted at a roundtable at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
13. Patricia Wetzel, Japanese faculty emerita, co-authored “NihonGO NOW! Level 1,” a four-volume textbook series for beginning learners of Japanese, published by Routledge.
14. Lindsey Wilkinson, sociology faculty, co-authored “State-Level Policy, School Victimization, and Suicide Risk among Sexual Minority Youth” in the forthcoming “Advances in Medical Sociology, Sexual and Gender Minority Health” volume 21, edited by Allen LeBlanc and Brea Perry and published by Emerald Publishing.