Publications + Presentations

Jonathan Adler, the Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law, presented testimony on “Constitutional Considerations: State vs. Federal Environmental Policy Implementation,” on July 11 in Washington, D.C. The testimony was presented before the subcommittee on Environment and the Economy of the…

Cheryl Toman, associate professor of French and director of the women's and gender studies program and the ethnic studies program, co-authored a new book, The Fury and Cries of Women, published by the University of Virginia Press. The book is a unique work that includes a novel originally written…

Miriam Levin, professor of history, spent May and June on a research trip to South Africa. She visited archives in the eastern Cape and Kwa-Zulu Natal for a book on science teaching at foreign missionary schools for young women. This trip was funded by the Department of History’s Flora Stone…

Sixteen students from the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine ventured to the Dominican Republic July 26-Aug. 3 to offer free dental care to 262 patients—80 children and 182 adults. In their week of work, there were 416 extracted teeth and 99 fillings. A video compilation of…

Marie Lathers, Treuhaft Professor of French and Humanities, spent July participating in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute studying late American writer and essayist Flannery O’Connor. The institute was held at Georgia College in Milledgeville, where O'Connor lived. O’Connor…

Ruqaiijah Yearby, professor of law and associate director of the Law-Medicine Center, recently presented on health and race at Case Western Reserve University and in San Francisco, Calif. She served as a panelist and moderator at the School of Law on the topic of “Sick and Tired of Being Sick and…

Matthew Rossman, professor of law and co-director of the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, published and presented on trickle-down charity this year. On Jan. 23, he presented his article "Evaluating Trickle Down Charity" at a faculty workshop at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. He also…

Suzanne Rivera, assistant professor of bioethics and associate vice president for research, contributed to Human Subject Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future, which was published this summer. Rivera wrote chapter 16, titled “Reconsidering Privacy Protections for Human Research.” The…

Case Western Reserve University alumni Andrew Witte and Mike O’Toole, manager of Thinkbox Ian Charnas, and Andrew Ratcliff created a “Waterfall Swing” that is now being displayed at the OK Center for Contemporary Art in Linz, Austria. The 18-foot-tall structure, which seeks to combine engineering…

The French translation of, Captives and Corsairs: France and Slavery in the Early Modern Mediterranean, by Gillian Weiss,associate professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History, was featured in the literary supplement of Le Monde, the leading French-language…