Publications + Presentations

Dalindyebo Shabalala, visiting assistant professor of law, recently presented on his papers. He was a presenter and commenter at the 2014 Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights on "The impact on advertising and marketing practices on the enjoyment of cultural rights" Nov. 12-13. Sh...

Thomas Montagnese, assistant professor of endodontics in the School of Dental Medicine, gave multiple presentations around the world this year on minimal and moderate sedation techniques. He presented at: The annual meeting of the American Association of Endodontists in Seattle The Egyptian Dent...

David Hammack, the Hiram C. Haydn Professor of History, delivered a plenary address at the annual conference for the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the leading international organization for researchers in its field, in November. In his speech, Ha...

Sarah de Swart, the associate director of the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education, and William Doll, part-time lecturer of English and SAGES instructor, completed their 251st public speaking workshop for SAGES students Nov. 19. Nearly 4,400 Case Western Reserve University stud...

Two Case Western Reserve University faculty members presented their works alongside famed authors such as Tom Brokaw and Salman Rushdie at the Miami Book Fair International Nov. 21-22. Michael W. Clune, professor of English, read from his recently published memoir Gamelife (Farrar, Straus and Girou...

Thomas Hart Benton captured early- to mid-20th century America with a style and swagger uniquely his own. Capturing what made the painter tick—and tick-off so many people—has been a career-long pursuit of art historian Henry Adams. In fact, Adams was one of the first scholars to take Benton serious...

New book from Mandel School faculty says no A $3.2 billion (and counting) transformation of Chicago’s notorious high-rise public housing has dramatically changed the urban landscape there, attracting affluent residents to segregated areas and catalyzing revitalization in long-marginalized neighborho...

Michael W. Clune, professor of English, has received rave reviews for his new memoir, Gamelife. The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books and other outlets have recognized Clune’s memoir. Gamelife touches on the way in which video games shaped Clune’s childhood and underst...

Erin Benay, assistant professor of Italian Renaissance and baroque art, recently published her first monograph, Faith, Gender, and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art: Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas (Burlington: Ashgate, 2015). The book is co-authored with Lisa M....

Linda Ehrlich, associate professor of Japanese, is guest curator of the film series to accompany the “Where Rivers Meet” theatrical event in San Antonio, Austin and Houston. The event is a performance and educational project featuring Japanese theater art (Noh theatre, the play Sumidagawa) and a Be...