Publications + Presentations

Several researchers at the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) recently gave presentations on their work. Sarah Drewes-Jones and Elaine Borawski Sarah Drewes-Jones, IMPACT core manager, and Elaine Borawski, PRCHN director and principal investigator, presented…

In honor of the Western Reserve Historical Society’s 150th anniversary, John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, wrote a book titled Cleveland A to Z: Historical Essentials for Newcomers and Residents in Northeast Ohio. Published by the historical society, the book details…

Justine Howe, assistant professor of religious studies, recently wrote a piece for The Immanent Frame, which is an interdisciplinary publication produced in conjunction with the Social Science Research Council’s program on Religion and the Public Sphere. Howe’s piece, titled “What is scholarship…

Henry Adams, the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History, wrote an essay in Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect, celebrating the hundred years since the artist was born. The book was reviewed in Maine Antique Digest, including a paragraph about Adams’ contribution, “Andrew Wyeth at the Movies: The…

Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex Nason Professor II of Biomedical Engineering, has been awarded an $8,000 award from the Global Initiative of Academic Networks, a program from the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development. With support from the award, Madabhushi will conduct a week-long course…

Alum and adjunct assistant professor David Kaawa-Mafigiri co-edited Child Abuse and Neglect in Uganda, published by Springer. David Kaawa-Mafigiri (GRS '07, medical anthropology), an adjunct assistant professor of anthropology, co-edited Child Abuse and Neglect in Uganda, published by…

On Sept. 29, Christopher Jones, assistant vice president and director of equity for the Office of Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity, presented at the 10th Black Male Summit, hosted by the University of Akron. This year’s summit provided an opportunity for high school students, college…

Eileen Anderson-Fye, associate professor of bioethics and adjunct associate professor of psychiatry, used her two decades of research to re-theorize the effects of sociocultural factors on body image and eating disorders. The piece, titled “Cultural Influences on Body Image and Eating Disorders,”…

Stanford University Press has published Assistant Professor of Anthropology Lihong Shi's book Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China. The book explores an emerging reproductive pattern in rural China in which a noticeable proportion of young couples have willingly accepted having a single…

Michael Goldberg, assistant professor of design and innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management, facilitated a discussion with Nicole Isaac, head of U.S. public policy at LinkedIn, at the City Club of Cleveland for ideastream. They discussed the unique position of Cleveland in the business…