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Assistant Professor of Biology Rhea Datta recently published a paper in the journal Development. Titled "Multi-level regulation of even-skipped stripes by the ubiquitous factor Zelda*", the paper examines how particular, short, DNA sequences are regulated so that gene expression can be precisely controlled during embryonic development.

Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas, and Alissa Trotz from the University of Toronto, recently co-authored an article featured in the November 2023 issue of Small Axe: Caribbean Journal of Criticism.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, is one of the authors of a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for a three-year ASIANetwork’s AAPI Voices and Stories Project Pilot. Here Trivedi talks about the project.

Associate Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar's coedited volume, Thinking with an Accent, was featured in a Korean radio documentary "Good English, Bad English, Weird English: A Special Report on English Discrimination."

Katheryn Doran, associate professor of philosophy, hosted the second Philosophy of Film Without Theory conference on Oct. 21-22. Doran’s talk “I May Destroy You: TV and the Growth of Understanding” grew out of conversations with students in her Philosophy of Film course about the paucity of treatment in film and TV of all but stereotypical violent sexual assault by strangers.

Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule’s schedule has been interwoven with major diversity, equity, and inclusion presentations, media interviews, and U.S. Naming Commission Army base ceremonies this semester. Seidule has also presented at military institutions, museums, universities, churches, and conferences, and has written in and been quoted by major national outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephanie A. Dhuman recently published an article titled “‘Why Can’t We Have Some Kind of Unity?’ Cultural Contention Amongst Puerto Rican and Black Residents in Southern Suburbia” in the journal Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (SRE).

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jack Martinez-Arias recently published an article titled “Mining, Pollution, and Irony in Manuel Scorza’s Redoble por Rancas (1970)” in the prominent peer-reviewed journal Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, published by Liverpool University Press.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas presented results from her new book manuscript, The Loyalty Trap (under contract, Columbia University Press) at the University of Chicago's Sociology Department on Oct. 4.

September’s news highlights ranged from coverage of the Wellin Museum to discussions of agricultural policies and coups d’état.