February
Planning, Governance, and Globalization doctoral student Sajad Abdollahpour, Public and International Affairs faculty members Ralph Buehler and Steven Hankey, and Public and International Affairs alumna Huyen Le presented “Built Environment’s Nonlinear Effects on Mode Share Around BRT and Rail Stations” at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, which took place January 7–11 in Washington, D.C.
Danna Agmon, History and ASPECT Core Faculty, published “Intermédiaires locaux en Inde” (Local Intermediaries in India), Colonisations. Notre histoire,” ed. Pierre Singaravélou (Paris, France: Éditions du Seuil), pp. 635–37.
Ariel Ahram, Public and International Affairs, published the op-ed “After the War, What Comes Next for Gaza’s Hospitals?” in the Richmond Times Dispatch on January 12.
Public Administration and Public Affairs doctoral student Elizabeth Arledge published “How to Promote AI in the US Federal Government: Insights from Policy Process Frameworks,” Government Information Quarterly 41.1 (2024), Article 101908, with Muhammad Salar Khan and Azka Shoaib.
Sweta Baniya, English, published “Role of Translation in Disaster Response,” Technical Communication and Social Justice 2.1 (2024): 64–80, with Liza Potts.
Public and International Affairs master’s student Ashton Bliss has been named a graduate fellow of the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area. The competitive fellowship allows graduate students to learn to view the world through a “UN lens” alongside like-minded peers, experienced faculty, and foreign affairs professionals through seminars and professional development opportunities.
François Debrix, Political Science and ASPECT Core Faculty, published a translation of Jean Baudrillard’s essay “La Violence du Mondial” as well as an article related to the translation, “Baudrillard’s ‘The Violence of the Global’ Revisited: Comments and New Perspectives,” both in Baudrillard Now 5.1 (Winter 2024): 26–33 and 34–43 respectively.
Maaz Gardezi, Sociology, published “Overcoming Barriers to Climate-smart Agriculture in South Asia,” Nature Climate Change (2024), on January 17 with Asif Ishtiaque et al.
Anthony Kwame Harrison, Edward S. Diggs Professor in Humanities and Professor of Sociology, published “Ethnographic Comportment: A Performance-Based Framework for Research Design,” The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance, ed. Lauren Miller and David Syring (New York, New York: Routledge, 2024), pp. 111–24.
Institute for Policy and Governance faculty members Mary Beth Dunkenberger, David Moore, and Lara Nagle published “Building a Recovery Ecosystem for the Catawba Region,” Richmond Public Interest Law Review 27.1 (2023), Article 5, with Sam Rasoul.
Rachelle Kuehl, Education, published “‘Bet You Can’t Wait to Get Out’: Complicating Narratives of Leaving in Rural Young Adult Literature,” Journal of Literacy Research 55.4 (2023): 406–27, with Chea Parton.
Christine Labuski, Science, Technology, and Society, co-edited The Ethnographic Case, 2nd edition (Manchester, United Kingdom: Mattering Press, 2023), with Emily Yates-Doerr. Her individual contributions to the volume were “Foreword” and “Introduction” with Yates-Doerr, pp. 21–25 and 26–42 respectively; and “Three Millimetres,” pp. 207–15. Also included were contributions by two other CLAHS faculty: Aaron Ansell, Religion and Culture, “Waiting in the Face of Bare Life,” pp. 118–22; and Nicholas Copeland, History, “Facial Paralysis: Somaticising Frustration in Guatemala,” pp. 72–77. The volume is available via online open access.
Timothy Luke, University Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Department of Political Science, and Interim Director of the School of Public and International Affairs, published Shards and Specters of the New World Order: Casting Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies as Critique (Candor, New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2023).
Rachel Midura, History, was awarded a $75,000 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project titled “Early Modern Digital Itineraries: Workshops for a Data-Driven Approach to Premodern Travel.” The virtual workshops allow participants, digital humanities scholars of early modern Europe, to establish a professional network on premodern digital, spatial history and explore how geographical information found in travel itineraries or small books in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish can be extracted and mapped to trace the movement of people and goods. The findings will be entered into a new digital database called EmDigIt (Early Modern Digital Itineraries), created by Midura.
Philip Olson, Science, Technology, and Society, coedited Death’s Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human (Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press, 2024), with Jesse D. Peterson, and Natashe Lemos Dekker. His individual contributions to the volume were: “Introduction” and “Beyond the Norms,” pp. 1–10 and 180–86 respectively, with Peterson and Dekker; and “Death at a Planetary Scale: Mortality’s Moral Materiality in the Context of the Anthropocene,” pp. 27–41.
Sarah Ovink, Sociology, published “‘Figuring Out Your Place at a School Like This:’ Intersectionality and Sense of Belonging Among STEM and Non-STEM College Students,” PLOS ONE (IF: 3.7), January 10, 2024, with Sociology doctoral alumni Carson Byrd and Megan Nanney as well as undergraduate alumna Abigail Wilson.
Desirée Poets, Political Science and ASPECT Core Faculty, was awarded a 2023 Engaged Scholarship Research/Creative Activities Grant for her project titled “Evaluating the Impact of a Community-Led Harm Reduction Effort in the Global South: ‘Espaço Normal’ in the Favela of Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.” Poets has collaborated for several years with a research group at Virginia Tech and with the Brazilian nonprofit Redes da Maré on a number of projects to improve the quality of life for the 140,000 residents of Complexo da Maré.
Planning, Governance, and Globalization doctoral student Brad Stephens and Max Stephenson, Jr., Public and International Affairs and Director of the Institute for Policy and Governance, published “The Black Radical Imagination in a Rural Forgotten Space,” MetroPolitics on January 16 with Chris Stephenson.
Sophia Terazawa, English, published the following poems and prose pieces: “Residual” and “San Simeon,” Four Way Review 27, August 13, 2023, online; “Gnosis” and “Dirge of Reenactment: Performance Notes,” Dialogist 33, August 19, 2023, online; “from ‘Aquarius’ [iii.],” The Brooklyn Rail (September 2023); “We Luv,” Redivider (Summer 2023), online; “Interstices,” La Piccioletta Barca, September 18, 2023, online; “[‘Mai, the dawn!’],” Harvard Review Online, December 5, 2023; and “Score III // Litany of Torture,” New Orleans Review 51 (Fall/Winter 2023), online, which was the winner of the 2023 NOR Poetry Contest.
Dimitris Tsarouhas, Political Science, published “Opening the Box of Parties and Party Systems Under Autocratization: Evidence from Turkey,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 23.4 (2023): 901–20, with Hakan Yavuzyılmaz.
Urban and Regional Planning master’s student Md Shayalal Tushar and Public and International Affairs faculty member Ralph Buehler presented “What Are the Characteristics of Successful Neighborhood Bikeshare Docking Stations That Encourage Trips to Bikeshare Docking Stations at Metrorail? A Study of Capital Bikeshare in Washington, D.C.” at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, which took place January 7–11 in Washington, D.C.
John Wells, Education, received the Founding Innovator Award from the Innovation Lab of the New College Institute in Martinsville, Virginia, in June 2023. He was recognized for the implementation of the STEMbot Technological/Engineering Design Based Biotechnical Learning Cartesian robotics system for K-12 outreach and program integration. In July 2023 Wells was the keynote speaker at two planning fora organized by the International Doctoral Program in Integrative STEM Education at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan; he presented “Concept and Design: VT Integrative STEM Education Graduate Program” and “Preparing I-STEM Ed Change Agents and Teacher Leaders.” In addition, Wells and coauthor Tyler Love, an I-STEM Education alumnus, were recognized with the 2023 Outstanding Publication Award at the 1909 Conference for “Examining Correlations Between Preparation Experiences of US Technology and Engineering Educators and Their Teaching of Science Content and Practices,” International Journal of Technology and Design Education 28 (2018): 395–416. The award recognizes authors who have published an impactful manuscript that was based on an original presentation delivered at a previous conference.