Publications + Presentations

Michael Clune, the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities, reviewed Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness by Jonathan Kramnick for the Los Angeles Review of Books. In his review, Clune wrote about how Kramnick’s piece demonstrated how the literary studies…

Punctum Books recently published The Wind: An Unruly Living, a philosophical exercise by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, the Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics. According to the publisher, Bendik-Keymer’s exercise “throws to the void: the ideology of self-ownership from a society of…

Mark S. Fleisher, a research professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, had a chapter published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Titled “The History of Gangs and Gang Research,” Fleisher’s chapter explores how radical…

Briana McIntosh, community health engagement coordinator for the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, recently was part of a presentation at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting. The presentation highlighted the Health Improvement Partnership-Cuyahoga consortium…

Jeff Kretschmar Jeff Kretschmar, managing director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, recently co-authored a piece for the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange with Summit County Judge Linda Tucci Teodosio. Titled “How Ohio’s Restore Court Focuses on Helping Sex…

Representatives from several Case Western Reserve University departments and schools attended the annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students in Indianapolis Nov. 14-17. The representatives were from the College of Arts and Sciences’ biology and chemistry departments, the School of…

Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III discussed his book, Before Mestizaje: Lobos, Moriscos, Coyotes and the Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico, for a podcast titled “Kingdom, Empire and Plus Ultra: Conversations on the History of Portugal and Spain, 1415-1898.” Featured…

Lecturer in English Gabrielle Bychowski wrote about the existence and experiences of transgender people in the Middle Ages. The article, titled “Were there Transgender People in the Middle Ages?” was published in The Public Medievalist, which features research on society in Medieval times and other…

For a podcast titled “Roman Memory (Part 2)—Classics Confidential,” Maggie Popkin, the Robson Junior Professor and associate professor of art history, spoke about the Roman souvenir trade. She specifically commented on glass bottles from Baia, an ancient Roman town. Listen to the full podcast on…

In light of Anti-Bullying Week 2018, Jane Timmons-Mitchell and Daniel Flannery, senior research associate and director at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, respectively, co-authored a blog post for Cambridge University Press on bullying, its effects and what people…