Archive for 2018

Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Economics and Management) 

Marta Podemska-Mikluch co-authored a policy brief, “How Medicare Is Hindering Health Care Innovation, and a Way Forward,” that was recently published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The brief borrows from a research paper by Podemska-Mikluch published earlier this year.

Laura Triplett (Geology)

Laura Triplett, Chair of Nobel Conference 54: Living Soil, accepted a letter of recognition on behalf of the College from the Minnesota Association of Professional Soils Scientists (MAPSS). MAPSS noted that the Nobel Conference “was an outstanding symposium for learning about the importance of soil and provided a forum for the public to engage with […]

Jill Locke (Political Science)

Jill Locke was invited to write an opinion piece, “Don’t count on shame to get the GOP to behave,” for the Washington Post, published December 11, 2018.

Maddalena Marinari (History) 

Maddalena Marinari recently published an article titled “Laws for a Nation of Nativists and Immigrants.” Co-authored with Julian Lim (Arizona State University), the piece is part of the forum “Nation of Immigrants” for the journal Modern American History. Given the timeliness of the forum, the publisher has made the entire forum available for free for the […]

Kathleen Keller (History)

Kathleen Keller presented a paper titled “Mamadou Alioune Kane: A perspective on work, family, and crime among Senegalese in 1930s Paris” at the Western Society for French History Annual meeting in Portland, Maine on November 2, 2018.

Misti Nicole Harper (History)

Misti Nicole Harper presented her work “‘She Was Haughty’: The Failure of Respectability Politics for Middle-Class Black Womanhood at Little Rock Central High School” at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Birmingham, Alabama, on November 9, 2018. Harper’s panel, “Little Rock Central High: The Hidden Costs,” centered black womanhood in the […]

Jill Patterson (Theatre and Dance)

Jill Patterson performed “The solo, Legacy 2: It takes the dark a long time” in the Anderson Theatre at Gustavus in May 2018 and at the Art Box Theatre in Minneapolis in June 2018.

Anna Versluis (Geography)

Anna Versluis presented on “An Empirical Study of Haitian Land Institution Responses to Global ‘Plantation’ Forces” at the 30th Annual Conference of the Haitian Studies Association in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 8-10, 2018.

Maria Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

Maria Isabel Kalbermatten published an article, “The Role of Verbal Irony in Conflict Talk Among Relatives and Friends in an Argentinian Community” in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (John Benjamins). This article describes specific roles of verbal irony in conflict talk among close relatives and intimate friends.

Seán Easton (Classics)

Seán Easton published a chapter entitled “The Dueling Greek Golden Ages of 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)” in the edited volume Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition, published by the Edinburgh Press.