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Biko Agozino, Sociology, was one of twelve college and high school educators selected to participate in “Tuko Pamoja:  Tanzanian Creativity and Perspectives in an Era of Climate Change,” an experiential summer workshop offered by the School for International Training with support from a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad grant from the U.S. Department of Education.  Agozino spent five weeks in Tanzania exploring how urban and rural communities are responding to environmental changes. 

Tim Becker, English, published “Horse Kid,” Wordgathering:  A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature 18.1 (Summer 2024).

Curriculum and Instruction doctoral student Kristina Bell published “Affordances, Constraints, and Collaborative Potential of E-mentoring Platforms and Their Features for K–12 Educators:  A Systematic Literature Review,” International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education 13.3 (2024):  346–60.

Brian Britt, Professor of Religion and Culture and Director of ASPECT, published “So Mother for That:  Taylor Swift and Childless Mothering” in Taylor Swift and Philosophy, ed. Catherine M. Robb and Georgie Mills (Hoboken, New Jersey:  Wiley Blackwell, 2024), pp. 36–46, with Lucy Britt.

María del Carmen Caña Jiménez, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, published “El hipnotizador:  alegoría, artificio e historia nacional argentina” (El hipnotizador:  Allegory, Artifice and Argentine National History), Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 58 (2024):  207–30. 

Center for Public Administration and Policy faculty member Matthew Dull and doctoral student Edgar Hollandsworth published “GPRA’s Incomplete Institutionalization:  A Story of Roots and Branches,” International Journal of Public Administration 47.13 (2024):  921–32.

Educational Leadership and Policy Studies doctoral students Heather Abney, Ashley Cannon, Megan Cornelius, and Sharon Hundley, and faculty member Charles Lowery published “When Tragedy Strikes:  Lessons in School Leadership,” Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership 27.3 (2024):  86–95.

Anthony Kwame Harrison, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Sociology, published  “Underground Hip Hop:  A Critical Consideration of Subgenre and Scene(s),” The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies, ed. David Arditi and Ryan Nolan (London, United Kingdom:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp. 331–55.

Jennifer Hart, Professor and Chair of the Department of History, published “Introducing History:  Addressing Student Bottlenecks While Supporting Equitable and Inclusive Learning,” Designing Introductory History Courses for Student Success, ed. Julia Brookins and Laura Ansley  (Washington, D.C.:  American Historical Association, 2024), pp. 72–82, with David Pace.  Hart is also a co-project director of the American Historical Association team directed by Brendan Gillis that received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to support an Institute for K–12 Educators titled “Africa in World History.”

Caroline Hornburg, Human Development and Family Science, published “The Roles of Mathematical Language and Emergent Literacy Skills in the Longitudinal Prediction of Specific Early Numeracy Skills,” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 244 (2024), Article 105959, with Yemimah A. King et al.

Human Development and Faculty Science faculty member Benjamin Katz, Public and International Affairs faculty members Shalini Misra and Patrick Roberts, and Human Development doctoral student Isabel Valdivia published “Toward a Person-Environment Fit Framework for Artificial Intelligence Implementation in the Public Sector,” Government Information Quarterly 41.3 (2024), Article 101962, with 2023 Urban and Regional Planning master’s alumna Mackenzie Carney.

Janine Joseph, English, coedited Here to Stay:  Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (HarperCollins, 2024), with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and Esther Lin.  Her individual contributions to the volume were:  the introduction with Hernandez Castillo and Lin, pp. XV–XXII, along with the preface to her poems and the poems themselves, “In the Ecotone,” “Epithalamium Ending in Divorce,” and “Decade of the Brain,” pp. 83, 84–86, 87, and 88–89 respectively. 

Melanie Kiechle, History, published “Business, Ventilation, and Health – Can We Have Them All?” in the American Journal of Public Health 114.8 (August 2024):  794–95. 

Rachel Midura, History, received Honorable Mention for the 2023 medieval/early modern article prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for “‘They Hide from Me, Like the Devil from the Cross’:  Transalpine Postal Routes as Intelligence Work, 1555–1645,”  History:  The Journal of the Historical Association 108.381 (June 2023):  303–27.

Shalini Misra, Public and International Affairs, published “Analyzing Knowledge Integration in Convergence Research,” Environmental Science and Policy 162 (2024), Article 103902, with Megan A. Rippy and Stanley B. Grant. 

Carol Mullen, Education, published “Dropout Epidemic – Who Is (Not) Graduating High School:  A 4-Year Analysis of Predictive Indicators,” International Journal of Educational Reform 33.4 (2024):  367–87, with 2023 Educational Leadership and Policy Studies alumnus Robert Nitowski.

ASPECT doctoral student Rebekah Mui Pei Ern presented “Gospel of Peace:  A Postcolonial Anabaptist Exploration of Diasporic Peoplehood” at the International Society of Religion, Literature, and Culture Conference 2024, which took place September 5–8 in Aarhus, Denmark.

Edward Polanco, History, published Healing Like Our Ancestors:  The Nahua Tiçitl, Gender, and Settler Colonialism in Central Mexico; 1535–1660 (Tucson, Arizona:  University of Arizona Press, 2024).  He also created a digital supplement to the book that provides background information about the book, the pronunciation of key Nahuatl terms, and songs mentioned in the book.  In addition, Polanco published “The Baller and the Court:  Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón’s Battle with Ololiuhqui and His Courtship of the Mexican Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico,” Ethnohistory 71.2 (April 2024):  195–225.

Fernanda Rosa, Science, Technology, and Society, published “Citation Politics:  The Gender Gap in Internet Governance,” Telecommunications Policy 48.5 (June 2024), Article 102734, with  Kimberly Anastácio, Maria Vitoria Pereira de Jesus, and Hemanuel Jhosé A. Veras, Brazilian students who are part of the Research Network on Internet Governance in Brazil.  In addition, Rosa, along with Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez, received the Outstanding Book Chapter Award from the Latino/a Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus of the National Communication Association (NCA) for “Por el Camino:  The Representation of Migrant Caravans on Instagram as an Aesthetic of Otherness,” Migrant World Making, ed. Sergio Fernando Juárez et al. (East Lansing, Michigan:  Michigan State University Press, 2023), pp. 59–88.

Suchitra Samanta, Collegiate Associate Professor Emerita of Sociology, published the poem “Windows of the Heart,” Artemis 31 (2024):  33.

Andy Scerri, Political Science, published “From Politics to Democracy?  Bernard Williams’ Basic Legitimation Demand in a Radical Realist Lens,” Constellations 31.3 (2024):  338–53, with Janosch Prinz.

Trevor Stewart, Education, published “Wobble and Transcending the Challenges of New Teachers,” Journal of Excellence in College Teaching and Learning 20 (May 2024):  70–82, with Timothy Jansky. 

Travis Webster, English, published “Centering Queer Possibilities from Liberation to the Everyday Mentoring of Writers,” College English 86.6 (2024):  459–62, with Harry Denny, which is part of “The Homosexual Imagination:  A Fifty-Year Retrospective” Symposium, ed. Michael J. Faris and T J Geiger II, in this issue of the journal, pp. 435–67.

Trevor Wilson, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, published “Hegelienkov:  Eval’d Ilienkov, Western Marxism, and Philosophical Politics After Stalin,” Red Migrations: Transnational Mobility and Leftist Culture After 1917, eds. Philip Gleissner and Bradley Gorski (Toronto, Canada:  University of Toronto Press), pp. 160–81.