Assistant Professor of Economics Carola Binder presented "Inflation Expectations and the Price at the Pump" at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Workshop on Subjective Expectations. Binder's blog, Quantitative Ease, was ranked #44 on the "Top 100 Economics Blogs of 2016" list by Intelligent Economist.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Lou Charkoudian published a paper, "Designing convergent chemistry curricula," in Nature Chemical Biology. It outlines the unique ways in which the Haverford Department of Chemistry teaches introductory chemistry, and encourages other institutions to update their chemistry curricula to reflect modern scientific convergence.

Visiting Assistant Professor Thomas Devaney was awarded a residency at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada, for August 2016 through a partnership with the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. He was a featured speaker at the Kelly Writers House for the 20th anniversary celebration at the University of Pennsylvania on May 14, and was a featured reader at First Person Arts' "A Fierce Kind of Love" program on April 12. He gave a talk and workshop, "What's Holding You Up," with the ThINKingDANCE board and writers committee on April 5. He was a featured reader for the launch of Bedfellow Magazine in Philadelphia on March 10. Devaney also had one poem published in that magazine's winter 2016 issue. In February, he was a featured reader for "Poetic Address to the Nation" at the Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia and with poet Sandra Lim at Haverford College.

Assistant Professor of Religion Molly Farneth gave a presentation, "Social Constructivism and Religious Ethics," at the Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting in Toronto in January. In May, she gave another presentation, "Toward an Ethics of Social Practice," at the conference, "Everyday Ethics" at the University of Oxford.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Fellow in the Writing Program J. Ashley Foster was the lead curator, along with the students in her "Peace Testimonies in Literature & Art" writing seminar and the Haverford College Libraries, of the Magill Library interactive digital humanities exhibit Testimonies in Art & Action: Igniting Pacifism in the Face of Total War, which ran from Oct. 6–Dec. 11. She also wrote the digital and print exhibition catalogue. Foster published a paper, "Writing in the 'White Light of Truth': History, Ethics, and Community in Between the Acts," in Woolf Studies Annual. Her paper "Recovering Pacifisms Past: Modernist Networks, the Society of Friends, and the Peace Movement of the Spanish Civil War" was published in Quakers in Literature.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Sorelle Friedler co-authored a paper in Nature with Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexander Norquist and Associate Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier. This paper, which appeared on the cover, was widely covered in the media, including by The Wall Street Journal, Nature News, and Scientific American. Katherine Elbert '14, Casey Falk '16, Aurelio Mollo '17, Paul Raccuglia '14, and Malia Wenny '17 are also co-authors.                                                                        

CV Starr Professor of Asian Studies and Associate Professor of Chinese and Linguistics Shizhe Huang published a chapter, "Adjectives and Adjective Phrases," in The Cambridge Grammar of the Chinese Language (Cambridge University Press).

Associate Professor of Physics Suzanne Amador Kane published an article, "Biomechanics of the Peacock’s Display: How Feather Structure and Resonance Influence Multimodal Signaling,"  in the open-access interdisciplinary journal PLOS One, in April. This work was covered widely in the media, including by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, Scientific American, and The Christian Science Monitor. Also in April, Kane and physics and astronomy majors Andrea Gaughan '16 and Sarah Betti  '17 gave talks and panel presentations representing Haverford College at the Pennsylvania Young Women in Physics Conference at Bucknell University.

Associate Professor of Fine Arts Hee Sook Kim received the Arte Laguna Prize, which resulted in a residency at Serigraphy Fallani in Venice, Italy, and she won the Fleisher Art Memorial 2018 Wind Challenge Exhibition series. Kim's work was shown in Art Blossom, a group exhibit at the Art Mora Gallery in Ridgefield Park, NJ, and Paradise Between on Hanji, a solo exhibit at the Colorida Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal. She also designed the CD cover for An Illusion of Desire: Experimental Music by Christopher Shultis on Neuma Records. Kim's show, Paradise Between, at the Causey Contemporary in New York was reviewed in Artsy.  

Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen gave an invited presentation, "A digital corpus of colonial Zapotec manuscripts," as part of the "Emerging Themes and Methods of Humanities Research Panel" at the annual meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies, in Arlington, Va., in May. In April, she attended the Coloquio sobre lenguas otomangues y vecinas in Oaxaca, Mexico, where she gave an individual presentation, "¿Por qué escribir en una lengua que (casi) nadie lee? Twitter y el desarrollo de literatura. [Why write in a language that (almost) no one reads? Twitter and the development of written literature;" a group presentation, "Ticha: un explorador digital de texto para el zapoteco colonial: creando conexiones. [Ticha: a digital text explorer for Colonial Zapotec: creating connections];" and participated in a group workshop, "Leyendo documentos coloniales en zapoteco del Valle. [Reading Colonial Valley Zapotec documents]."

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing Kristin Lindgren gave an invited talk, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Laura Swanson’s Anti-Self-Portraits and the Viewer’s Gaze," at the University of Pennsylvania. She also contributed a chapter, “The (S)paces of Academic Work: Disability, Access, and Higher Education,” to the book Transforming the Academy: Faculty Perspectives on Diversity and Pedagogy, edited by Sarah Willie-LeBreton.

Professor of Music and Director of Choral and Vocal Studies Thomas Lloyd's art song "You must know...." was commissioned and premiered by the professional song recital presenting organization Lyric Fest on April 3, at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia.  The text for the song is a letter from Emelia Earhart to her fiancé George Putnam on the morning of their wedding day in 1931. On April 10, Lloyd conducted the Philadelphia area premier of Edward Elgar's monumental 1903 oratorio The Apostles with the Bucks County Choral Society, the Riverside Symphonia, and a cast of nationally prominent soloists, headed by Kevin Deas in the role of Judas Iscariot and Suzanne DuPlantis as Mary Magdalene. Lloyd also constructed a movement-by-movement online study introducing this complex late Romantic work to general audiences.

T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy Danielle Macbeth's recent book, Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing, was the subject of a session of the Wilfrid Sellars Society at the Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association in San Francisco in March.

Associate Professor of Mathematics Weiwen Miao published a paper, "Statistical Issues Arising in Class Action Cases: A Reanalysis of the Statistical Evidence in Dukes v. Wal-Mart II," in Law, Probability and Statistics.

Associate Professor of Classics Bret Mulligan published a paper, "Translation and the Poetics of Replication in the Late Antique Latin Epigram," in Tradition and Innovation in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Alexander Norquist published a paper, "The role of inorganic acidity on templated vanadate composition and dimensionality," with Associate Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier in The Journal of Solid State Chemistry. Anahita Nourmahnad '14 and Malia Wenny '17 are both co-authors on the paper.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Zachary Oberfield published an article, "A Bargain Half Fulfilled: Teacher Autonomy and Accountability in Traditional Public Schools and Public Charter Schools," in the American Educational Research Journal.

Elizabeth Ufford Green Professor of Biology Judith Owen delivered an invited address, "Hot Topics in Immunology," to the meeting of the American Society for Medical School Microbiology and Immunology Educators (AMSMIC) in Palm Springs, Calif. in May.

Assistant Professor of English Lindsay Reckson won a 2016-2017 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. The fellowship supports a year of full-time research and writing, and Reckson will use it to complete her manuscript-in-progress, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature. Reckson also gave an invited talk, "The Ghost Dance and Realism's Techno-Spiritual Frontiers," to the American Literature Working Group at the University of Pennsylvania.

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature Deborah Roberts delivered a paper, "Picturing Duality: The Minotaur as Beast and Human in Illustrated Myth Collections for Children," (written in collaboration with Sheila Murnaghan) at the conference on "Chasing Mythical Beasts: the Reception of Creatures from Graeco-Roman Mythology in Children's and Young Adults' Culture as a Transformation Marker," which was held at the University of Warsaw in May.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Adam Rosenblatt co-organized and co-hosted the symposium "Open Graves/Open Graves: Ethics and Evidence" on Haverford's campus in April with Brie Gettleson, Laurie Allen, and Sarah Horowitz (all former or current staff in Haverford College Library staff). The symposium brought seven guests to campus from the fields of anthropology, archives, forensic science, and literature for a discussion of ethics and vulnerability in an age of technological "openness." Two public keynote lectures, by anthropologist Jaymelee Kim and archivist Theresa Polk, were delivered on Friday afternoon. Earlier in April, Rosenblatt was an invited attendee at "The Gift of Death" workshop, which was sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, at which a group of academics met to discuss relationships of obligation between the living and dead in settings as diverse as post-war Bosnia, the U.S.-Mexico Border, and the war memorials in Washington, D.C.

Professor of German and Comparative Literature Ulrich Schönherr's book, Klang-Bild-Sprache. Musikalisch-akustische Konfigurationen in der Literatur und im Film der Gegenwart, was positively reviewed by the journal Monatshefte.

Associate Professor of Chemistry Joshua Schrier was awarded a grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) to attend an intensive German language course in Bonn, Germany. Schrier also gave a chemistry department seminar, "The Dark Reactions Project: Machine Learning-Assisted Materials Discovery using Failed Experiments," at the University of the Pacific in April, and a talk, "Hunting for Better Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Battery Materials," at Harvard University in May.

Associate Professor of English Gus Stadler gave a paper, "Queer People's Songs," at the Pop Conference at the Experience Music Project in Seattle, Wash., in April. He was a guest session leader in the "American Roots Music" graduate seminar in the Department of Music at Temple University. Stadler was also an invited speaker at the Academic Symposium for the Third Anniversary Celebration of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Okla., where he gave a presentation on "Dance, Disability, and the Rhythms of Intimacy."

Associate Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Jill Stauffer gave two responses to panels on her book Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard: one at the meeting of the Western Political Science Association in San Diego in March, and one at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (ASLCH) in Hartford in April. She also gave a talk, "How Time Passes in Law: On child soldiers, aging and responsibility," at the ASLCH meeting. Later in April, Stauffer gave a talk, "Failures of Hearing: Human rights, trauma, recovery—and learning to listen well," at Swarthmore College during its Human Rights Week.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Shu-wen Wang received the Asian American Psychological Association's Early Career Award, for which she will be honored at the AAPA convention in August. She published a paper, "Effects of job stress on family relationships," in a special issue of Current Opinion in Psychology on relationships and stress. She published "Who gives to whom?: Testing the support gap hypothesis with naturalistic observations of couple interactions" in The Journal of Family Psychology, and "Implications of emotion expressivity for daily and trait interpersonal and intrapersonal functioning across cultural groups" in The Asian American Journal of Psychology.

Audrey A. and John L. Dusseau Professor in the Humanities William Williams' photography, which is part of the museum's permanent collection, is included in an exhibition on Black history and culture in History of Photography Gallery at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. It will be on display through June 19.

Professor of Philosophy Kathleen Wright was on a panel discussing "The Teaching of Non-Western Philosophy" at the 2nd Annual MAP-Penn Non-Western Philosophy Conference at the
University of Pennsylvania in February.

Associate Professor of English Christina Zwarg published an essay, "Quotation, Simile, Photograph: Margaret Fuller on The French in Algiers," in Nineteenth-Century Prose. Her book review of Amit Chaudhuri’s Odysseus Abroad, "O My Swineherd," appeared in Public Books. Zwarg pre-circulated a paper, "Queering the Temporality of Racial Violence," for the "Untimely Erotics," Faculty Seminar at the CI9 Conference at Penn State. She also presented a response to three essays at the "Situation Critical: Critique, Theory, and Early American Studies" Conference at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies.