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Assistant Professor of English Travis Lau is one of seven award-winners selected for the 2024 Greater Columbus Arts Council’s Artists Elevated Award.

Ira Sukrungruang, the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, is one of three selected for the fall Visiting Hurst Professorship at Washington University.

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies Royal Rhodes has been nominated for Best of Net by Club Plum Literary Journal for his poem “Animal Dreams.“

Assistant Professor of Sociology Nicholas Theis has published “Appraising Sociological Approaches to Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Theoretical Considerations and Quantitative Consequences” with co-authors Mauricio Betancourt and Amanda Sikirica in the Journal of World-Systems Research, 2024.

Assistant Professor of Studio Art Manami Ishimura has had her recent piece “En #3” selected for the exhibition “Adaptation” juried by Michaela Blanc at Tomayko Foundation in Pittsburgh.

Associate Professor of Sociology Austin Johnson has published the chapter “Be the Moose: Problem-Solving Sociology, Social Justice Organizing, and Transgender Community in the US Southeast” in “The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice,” edited by Corey Dolgon and published by Oxford Academic, 2024.

Michael Leong, the Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry, was interviewed by Peter Mishler for the piece “The Surreal, Destabilizing Strangeness of Poetry: A Conversation with Michael Leong” in Literary Hub, September 2024.

Assistant Professor of History Robert Franco has published “The Bisexual Erasure of Emiliano Zapata: Obscenity And Censorship In Postrevolutionary Mexico” in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 2024.

Lead Instructor and Director of Introductory Labs in Biology Jennifer McMahon, and Jodi Kovach, the Pamela and Christopher Hoehn-Saric Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Education at The Gund, have published “Using Art to Foster Observational Skills in an Introductory Biology Lab” in University Museums and Collections Journal, 2024.

Associate Professor of Sociology Austin Johnson has published ““[Being] Trans Is So Much More Than Medical Models:” A Qualitative Examination of Transgender Adults’ Healthcare Experiences in the Southeastern United States,” with co-authors Elliot Botelho, Chloe Goldbach, and Kaylee Crockett in Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health, August 2024.

Sarah Petersen, the Ashby Denoon Associate Professor of Neuroscience, and Jodi Kovach, the Pamela and Christopher Hoehn-Saric Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and Education at The Gund, have published “Teaching Neuroscience in the Art Museum” in University Museums and Collections Journal, 2024.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies Lauren Herold has published “From gay liberation to backlash: producing pride and New York’s LGBTQ public culture on The Emerald City” in Communication, Culture and Critique, October 2024.

Associate Professor of Art History Brad Hostetler has published “Dressed to impress: signet rings in the middle Byzantine period” in the journal Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Volume 117 Issue 3, October 2024.

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law & Society Christopher Levesque has published the chapter "Immigration Detention as Racialised Wealth Extraction" with co-author Emily Ryo in "Immigration Detention and Social Harm; The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration" edited by Michelle Peterie, Routledge Press, 2024.

Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities Katherine Elkins has published “A(I) University in Ruins: What Remains in a World with Large Language Models?” in PMLA Cambridge University Press, October 2024.

Professor of Mathematics Noah Aydin has published “On isometry and equivalence of skew constacyclic codes” with co-authors Hassan Ou-azzou and Mustapha Najmeddine, in Discrete Mathematics, online October 2024. Full print forthcoming January 2025.

Ira Sukrungruang, the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, has published “The Poem That Made Me a Poet” in Lion’s Roar, October 2024.

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