April 2012
5 posts
Hartman and husband screen new documentary
Machelle Hartman, visiting instructor of chemistry, and her husband, Jerry, who is an assistant professor of media at Walla Walla University, are screening their most recent documentary about human rights and environmental justice in Suriname, South America. Inside Suriname is the couple’s third film, and was produced with a community directed approach that put community members in control of...
Bobrow-Strain book continues to make news
Aaron Bobrow-Strain, associate professor of politics, continues to make news with his latest book, White Bread: A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books invited him to be a member of a food writers’ panel that explored issues of authenticity in food. Read more HERE.
Semerdjian article published
Elyse Semerdjian, associate professor of history, announces the publication of her new article, titled ‘“Because He is So Tender and Pretty’: Sexual Deviance and Heresy in Eighteenth-Century Aleppo,” which appeared in the March 2012 volume of Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture (Routledge). The article offers a close analysis of a shari‘a court case that...
Knowles quoted in New York Times
Helen Knowles, visiting assistant professor of politics, was recently quoted in a front page article inThe New York Times about health care reform. Headlined “In Health Case, Appeals to a Justice’s Idea of Liberty,” the article analyzes the likelihood that Justice Anthony Kennedy will vote to uphold the constitutionality of the health care reform law currently before the Supreme Court. Knowles...
Matthew Fox publishes new book
Matthew Fox, adjunct assistant professor of general studies, reports the publication of his new book, a verse translation of Lucan’s Civil War, a Latin epic poem dating to the 1st century CE. It portrays the civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great which ended the Roman Republic. Fox’s book was released in February as part of the Penguin Classics series, and replaces the prose...
