May

Joanne Allen’s (Art History) Katzen Arts Center exhibition Constantinople/Istanbul was reviewed by AU’s student-run newspaper The Eagle in “Istanbul, Constantinople Collage inspires at Katzen Arts Center.”

Michael Baron (Mathematics and Statistics) was awarded a grant of $30,000 from the National Science Foundation for the support of students and early-career researchers participating in the 9th International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies, hosted by American University on June 1–4, 2026.

Lilian Baeza-Mendoza (World Languages and Cultures) and the AU Heritage Spanish Program were featured in the Spanish edition of The Eagle.

Laura Beers (History) spoke with FOX5 about King Charles III’s recent visit to the DMV.

Raychelle Burks (Chemistry) published an opinion article in Chemistry World about how overtourism, climate change, natural disasters, and fungal outbreaks threaten museums and heritage sites, highlighting a mysterious fungal contamination at Denmark’s ROMU historical museum repository that exposed gaps in current preservation guidelines.

Victoria Connaughton (Biology) received a $15,000 grant from the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) for the project “Can creatine exposure reduce stress levels in fish within Anacostia water?”

Robert Connelly (CRGC) spoke with Washingtonian about gay-rights pioneer and activist Frank Kameny’s 2008 visit to his AU class.

Maya Cunningham (Music) and AU Harriet Tubman Heritage Project Fellowship students spoke with Dr. Carolivia Herron on her Epic City show, WOWD 94.3 FM about the Katzen Arts Center exhibition Landscapes of Freedom: Harriet Tubman in Context.

Ellen Feder (Philosophy and Religion) spoke with USA Today about how betting sites such as Polymarket invite users to bet on global or cultural events.

Sophia Gagliardi ( CAS/BS ’26, MS ’27) spoke with FOX5 about how men and women may experience long COVID symptoms differently.

Jeff Gill (Mathematics and Statistics), Nathalie Japkowicz (Computer Science), and Wendy Melillo (Journalism, SOC) published an article in The Conversation about how Uncovering coded antisemitism online takes both human expertise and AI automation.

Zoltan Gluck (Anthropology) organized a forthcoming Forum on “Anti-security politics” in Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. His contribution to the Forum is titled, “We keep each other safe: Abolitionist groundings for an anti-security anthropology.

Peter Kuznick (History) spoke with NTV Russian Television, TASS, Press TV, CNN News18, CGTN America, RTVI, Al Jazeera, RT, TVC, Times Now, Neutrality Studies, Al Mayadeen, Iran Daily, Izvestia, and WION News about a variety of topics related to the ongoing conflicts in the world.

Stephen MacAvoy (Environmental Science) received a $15,000 grant from the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) for the project “Investigating of legacy bisphenol A (BPA) and PAHs in Anacostia River sediment cores.”

Meghan Raham (Theatre/Musical Theatre) won a Helen Hayes Award—the DC region’s top theater honor—for Outstanding Set Design. The award recognized Raham’s design work for Bad Books, which ran at Round House Theatre in spring 2025.

Kara Reynolds (Economics) received a $520,000 grant from the Peterson G. Foundation for the project “American Economic Association Summer Training Program at American University.”

Ying-Chen Peng (Art) was selected as a Fulbright US Scholar for 2026-2027 for Taiwan.

Eva Maria Rey Pinto (PhD candidate, Anthropology) received the prestigious Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino Predoctoral Fellowship. She will be working with the National Museum of American History to finish her dissertation on Barbie’s arrival in Latin America.

Mubbashir Rizvi (Anthropology) won a CAS Mellon grant for “Markets of Subsistence in the Global South,” and will conduct field research in Pakistan this summer.

M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska (History) spoke with the New York Times about this year’s semi-quincentennial celebration.

Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Anthropology) wrote an opinion article for the Washington Post about how liberal arts degrees prepare graduates for today’s competitive workforce. She also published two pieces in Barn Raiser, as part of her long-term collaboration with the leading rural media outlet, including “What Rural America Can Learn from Haitian Immigrants” and “Networks of Care: How Rural Immigrants Build Community.”

Rachel Louise Snyder (Literature) wrote an opinion article for the New York Times about the recent acts of gun violence in Louisiana and Virginia. She also wrote an opinion article for the New York Times about Mohala Wahine, an all-women’s court in Honolulu, HI.

Chuck Sturtevant (Anthropology) recently published “Las raíces coloniales de la Boliviaplurinacional: colonizaciónporasentamientoen la ‘frontera’ Amazónica de Bolivia trasla Revolución Nacional” in the edited volume Bolivia y sus Orientes (Plural editores / Silex ediciones, 2025)

Cara Tallo (MFA ‘26, Creative Writing) published “The ‘SkinnyShot’ Anorexia Problem” in New York Magazine’s The Cut.

Toni Tileva (alum, Anthropology PhD) won the AU SIS Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award 2026. She also published an article in EdibleDC magazine chronicling her work as an apprentice at Lutèce Restaurant, hailed as one of DC’s best French bistros.

Ricardo Torres (Economics) spoke with CNN about whether the energy crisis in Cuba clears the path for the development of new green energy infrastructure on the island.

Alanna Warner-Smith (Anthropology) received a $26,714 grant from the National Parks Service for the project “Osteological and Isotpoic Analysis of Four Civil War Soldiers Limbs from Manassas National Battlefield Park.”

Jon D. Wisman (Economics) published Why We Must Work: Economic Freedom, Fulfilling Work, and Workplace Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026).

Perry Zurn (Philosophy and Religion) published Cisgender: Disorienting a Category (Duke University Press, 2026) set to be released in July 2026.

April

Vladimir Airapetian (Physics) received supplemental funding of $29,560 (new total: $58,258) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the project “Observationally Constrained Modeling of the Origin and Impacts of Exoplanetary Space Weather.”

Reza H. Akbari (doctoral candidate, History) wrote an opinion article for Foreign Policy about the inaccuracies of the term “unconditional surrender.”

Dan Arbell (History, Center for Israel Studies) spoke with News Nation about the US-Iran and Israel-Lebanon ceasefires.

Laura Beers (History) wrote an article for The Conversation about how AI chatbots may be learning to mimic both the content and the narrative voices of authors.

Will Barnes (Physics) received supplemental funding of $22,520 (new total: $44,384) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project “Enhancing Consistency and Discoverability Across the Sunpy Ecosystem.” He also received supplemental funding of $15,013 (new total: $29,589) from NASA for the project “Modeling Energy Release and Beam Heating in NuSTAR Hard X-Ray Coronal Transients.” He received supplemental funding of $67,842 (new total: $85,862) from the same agency for the project “The Euv Snapshot Imaging Spectrograph (Esis) II.”

Michael Baron (Mathematics and Statistics) received a $30,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for the project “The 9th International Workshop in Sequential Methodologies.”

Meg Bentley (Biology) received supplemental funding of $870,000 (new total: $1,815,000) from NASA for the project “District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium Budget Proposal for National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program: Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2025-2028.”

Evelyn Bristol (undergraduate student, Physics and Mathematics) received the American University Scott A. Bass Outstanding Scholarship at the Undergraduate Level Award. 

Raychelle Burks (Chemistry) was selected for a Fulbright US Scholar award supporting research at Curtin University in Perth, Australia on a new collaborative project in the area of sustainable, globally accessible forensic analysis of controlled substances.

Ernesto Castañeda (Sociology, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies) spoke with Stateline about public attitudes towards aid programs aimed at supporting Latino communities across the U.S. He also spoke with Stateline about why many individuals who are seeking asylum in the US take on “gig economy” jobs as they await federal work authorization.

Alison Christler's (Health Studies) project “Engineering Calm: Designing a Child-Friendly Cast Removal Device for Pediatric Care (CastExpress)” was selected as a Seed Translational Research Project (STRP) — Entrepreneurship, supported by the Translating Research into Action Center (TRAC) at American University. 

Bob Connelly (CRGC) and senior undergraduate student Samantha Skolnick collaborated on an article titled “American University's Bob Connelly Remembers LGBTQ+ Pioneer Frank Kameny,” featured in the May issue of Washingtonian.

Molly Dondero (Sociology) received supplemental funding of $48,329.48 (new total: $108,980.48) from the University of Pennsylvania for the project “Reproductive and Child Health Trajectories in Successive Novel Infectious Disease Crises.”

Philip Johnson (Physics) received supplemental funding of $74,183 (new total: $107,999) from the NASA for the project “Improving Photochemical Models for Cold and Hot Planetary Atmospheres using New Ab Initio Reaction Rate Coefficients.”

Pankaj Kumar (Physics) received supplemental funding of $68,777 (new total: $236,062) from NASA for the project “Understanding How Solar Filament Channels Form.” 

Peter Kuznick (History) spoke with CGTN, NTV, WION News, Times Now, Izvestia, Russian Television and Radio (RTR), Third World Network (TWN), Republic World, Al Jazeera, CNN News 18, RTVI, RT International, America Now about a variety of topics ranging from nuclear weapons history to the ongoing conflicts in the world.

Allan Lichtman (History) published an article about the birthright citizenship in The Hill. Lichtman’s Conservative at the Core (Notre Dame Press, 2025) was selected as a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the History category.

Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou (Economics) spoke with Marketplace about how the US-Iran conflict has increased the global demand for coal.

Zoe Moga (undergraduate student, Sociology) won the best undergraduate research poster at the Eastern Sociological Society’s annual meeting in Washington, DC.

The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center exhibition The Magical World of Joan Danziger has been featured in news outlets including The Washington Post, Forbes, ;Modern Luxury, Sculpture Magazine, and Good Morning Washington.

Liana Petruzzi’s (Health Studies) article “Can Social Work Interventions Improve Perinatal Mental Health Outcomes? A Systematic Review” was selected as the Editor’s Choice in the March/April 2026 issue of Women’s Health Issues. 

Aaron Posner’s (Theatre/Musical Theatre) play ;Stupid F—ing ;Bird is on stage at the Baxter Theater at the University of Cape Town, South Africa April 9–May 2, earning positive reviews from Time Outand Broadway World.

Ramya Ramadurai (PhD candidate, Psychology) received the American University 2026 Outstanding Scholarship at the Graduate Level Award. 

Michael Robinson and students in the physics department spoke with ABC7, WTOP, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Washington HispanicWUSA9, and Fox45 about how a group of American University students have been collecting data on the trajectory of the Artemis II for NASA. NBC4 and WTOP also came to campus for the Artemis II Splashdown Watch Party related to the tracking data project. 

Nathaniel Roth (Physics) received supplemental funding of $76,480 (new total: $240,004) from NASA for the project “Comet Chemistry Beyond the H2O Sublimation Zone: Interferometric Imaging and Spectroscopy of Distant Comets.”

M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska (History) spoke with the New York Times about the prevalence of amateur historians on social media platforms such as TikTok. She also spoke with New America about the upcoming US celebration of 250 years as a nation. 

David Pike (Literature) was selected as a Fulbright US Scholar for 2026-2027 for Denmark. 

Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Anthropology) received supplemental funding of $38,610 (new total: $57,468) from the University of Michigan for the project “Research Employing Environmental Systems and Occupational Health Policy Analyses to Interrupt the Impact of Social and Structural Relationships on Agricultural Workers and Their Respiratory Health (RESPIRAR).” She also published an op-ed in the Washington Post in defense of the study of anthropology.

Gemma Suñé Minguella (World Languages and Cultures) published "El silencio imponderable de Emilio Prados (The Imponderable Silence of Emilio Prados)" in Vol. 35 Núm. 1 (2026): La Generación del 27 y el misterio de lo sagrado.

Ricardo Torres (Economics) spoke with AFP about the arrival of a Russian oil tanker in Cuba. 

Christopher Tudge (Biology) spoke with the New York Times about how citizen scientists have helped to further hermit crab conservation.

March

Daniel Abraham (Department of Performing Arts) was featured in the article "DC Colleges Mourn Kennedy Center after Trump Takeover" for Inside Higher Ed.

Will Barnes (Physics) received $22,520 (cumulative funding $44,384) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project "Enhancing Consistency and Discoverability Across the Sunpy Ecosystem."

Naomi Baron (emerita, Linguistics) spoke with The Wall Street Journal about why increased public reliance on writing as a primary form of communication has contributed to more relaxed grammar standards.

Laura Beers (History) spoke with USA Today about the likelihood of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resignation.

Boncho Bonev (Physics) received a $73,631 grant from the University of Michigan for the project "Deciphering the Workings of Active Comets: Outgassing, Dynamics, and Thermodynamics in a Variety of Cometary Environments."

Frederick Bruhweiler (Physics) received supplemental funding of $49,944.38 and $16,361.62 (new total: $344,595) from NASA for the project "Development of the MeDDEA Instrument for the PADRE CubeSat Mission to Observe the Sun In High-Energy X-rays."

JR Denison (Health Studies) was a guest on the podcast The Story Collider in an episode titled "Hubris: Stories about Over-confidence."

Leah Ding (Computer Science) was named an Associate Provost Professor by American University Provost Vicky Wilkins.

Nika Elder (Art History) reviewed the exhibition Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Baltimore Museum of Art for CAA Reviews (College Art Association).

Dara Ford (Health Studies) was featured in a Verywell Health article titled "What Happens to Your Blood Sugar When You Eat 'Naked Carbs.'"

Silvina Guidoni (Physics) received supplemental funding of $15,000 (new total: $94,498) from NASA for the project "Comprehensive Solar Eruption Models: Understanding Flare Arcades from the Global to Kinetic Scales."

Kyle Hackett (Studio Art) has been named a finalist in the New Salem Museum & Academy of Fine Arts (NSMA) International Painting Competition. His selected work, After Image, will be on view this summer as part of an NSMA exhibition.

Tabitha Kidwell (TESOL) was a guest on episode 78 of the Teacher Think-Aloud Podcast, "Training the Trainers: Building the Next Generation of Teacher Educators."

Don Kimes (Art) was appointed to be Artistic Director of the ACI Artists, Scholars and Writers residency in Corciano, Italy. He was also selected by MPA curators for inclusion in the juried exhibition Photo Genesis 2 at the McLean Project for the Arts in Virginia, and he will be included in the 2026 Phillips Collection Invitational Exhibition. He was also a guest on the podcasts I Like Your Work and Studio Break.

Peter Kuznick (History) spoke with CGTN America, Times Now, TVC, RT International, Consortium News, Izvestia TV, Republic TV, NTV, CNN News 18, NDTV, Capitals Uncovered Podcast, Al Jazeera, NHD, WION News, TASS, and Republic World about a variety of topics ranging from nuclear weapons history to the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Allan Lichtman (History) was named one of the 2025 Foreword INDIES Finalists by Notre Dame Press for his book Conservative at the Core (Notre Dame Press, September 2025).

Danielle Mysliwiec (Art) is exhibiting a new body of abstract paintings in the two-person exhibition Pulse at Mono Practice Gallery in Baltimore, MD. She was also a guest on the Art Problems Podcast, "Your Residency is a Feminist Act."

Jin Park (Philosophy and Religion) received a $54,072 grant from the Avatamsaka Buddhist Lotus Society for the project "Exploring Huayan Buddhism."

Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Literature) was named the Fiction Winner for the 2026 Southern Book Prize for her novel Happy Land (Berkley Books, April 2025).

Sarah Pflugradt (Health Studies) spoke with Health about the importance of monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats.

Gautham Rao (History) spoke with The Christian Science Monitor about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling against tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.

Nathaniel Roth (Physics) spoke with Mashable, Popular Science, R&D World, The Debrief, and Space.com about the unique chemical makeup of 3I/ATLAS, a recently discovered interstellar comet.

M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska (History) spoke with New America: America Turns 250, and Confidence in Democracy Is Shaky. Her scholarship was highlighted in a feature article in the New Yorker: "Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the US Bicentennial."

Ricardo Torres (Economics) spoke with CBC News about the current state of Cuban oil reserves. He also spoke with The New York Times, The Miami Herald, El País, The San Juan Daily Star, and The Hill about the economic changes proposed by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. He also spoke with the LA Times about how the Cuban government may respond to the US oil blockade.

Jonathan G. Tubman (Psychology) published in MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute): Limiting the Escalation of Medical Cannabis Use.

Alex Zestos (Chemistry) was elected to the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC) Board of Directors.

February

Dan Arbell (History, Center for Israel Studies) spoke with CGTN America about the likelihood of US intervention in Iran. 

Naomi S. Baron (emerita, World Languages and Cultures) was featured in a Time article about the phrase “I hope this email finds you well.” She was also featured in the March/April issue of Bethesda magazine. Baron’s newest book, Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters, was the topic of a virtual book launch conversation with Dean Seth Green of the Graham School at the University of Chicago. She also spoke with CBC’s Ideas with Nahlah Ayed about how AI-driven text summaries may affect peoples’ willingness to engage with literature. 

Laura Beers (History) spoke with The Guardian about the Orwellian White House messaging that has followed the shooting of Alex Pretti.  

Graphic Design alumni Sophie Carter ('26), Isabelle Ritz ('25), and Gray Walsh (’25) are finalists in the Flux 2025 Student Design Competition (Social Impact Design category) for creating the Mozaik app. The competition is presented by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). 

Mary Ellen Curtin (CRGC) spoke with Spectrum News about the recent redistricting of Houston’s historic 18th Congressional District. 

Silvina Guidoni (Physics) received supplemental funding of $17,308 (new total: $79,498) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project “Comprehensive Solar Eruption Models: Understanding Flare Arcades from the Global to Kinetic Scales.” 

Jennifer Hamady (Performing Arts) was awarded a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) to work on her upcoming fourth book, which will explore the correlation and implications of self-worth, talent, and performance.  

Nathan Harshman (Physics) spoke with FOX 5 about the factors that influence snowflakes’ symmetrical shapes. 

Chelsea Koch (Environmental Science) received a $68,870 grant from the North Pacific Research Board (NPRB) for the project “Mechanistic insights into the impact of sea ice loss on snow crab trophic.” 

Dan Kuehn (PhD Economics, ‘16) wrote a paper in the Journal of Economic Perspectives that explores how W.E.B. Du Bois anticipated the application of marginalist ideas in economics to the determination of wages. As a guest on the American Economic Association’s podcast, Kuehn discussed key insights.  

Peter Kuznick (History) spoke with CNN News18, NTV Russian Television, RT International, Times Now India, CGTN The Heat, TASS, acTVism Munich, and TVC about a variety of topics ranging from US foreign policy to nuclear weapons history.  

Allan Lichtman (History) was featured in a USA Today article about coarse political rhetoric.  

Pamela Nadell’s book Antisemitism, an American Tradition (W.W. Norton, 2025) won the 2026 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies. 

Jin Y. Park (Philosophy and Religion) was interviewed by the Chasing Leviathan podcast about her new book, Marginality: Solidarity and the Fight for Social Change (Columbia University Press, 2025). 

Michael Robinson (Mathematics and Statistics) received supplemental funding of $50,000 (new total: $110,000) from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for the project “Modeling and Analytic Capabilities for KBase.” He also published his second book, Computational Homological Algebra (Springer, 2026). 

Theresa Runstedtler (CRGC) is featured in the Amazon Prime original docuseries, Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association.  

Thurka Sangaramoorthy (Anthropology) published an article about the labor transformation among Mexican migrant women in Maryland with the Society of Cultural Anthropology. 

Nancy Snider (Performing Arts) received a $10,000 grant from the Koster Foundation for the project “Koster Foundation Summer Study Grants for Music Majors.” 

Andrew Taylor (Arts Management) shares expert insight in The Conversation regarding President Trump’s widely reported announcement that the Kennedy Center will close for two years to undergo major renovations.  

Ricardo Torres (Economics) spoke with the Associated Press about the weakening of the Cuban peso. He also spoke about this issue with BBC News Hour, CBC News and Global News. He spoke with the Wall Street Journal, CBC, Quartz, and the Guardian about the international aid available to Cuba in the wake of the Trump administration’s tightening sanctions. 

Jonathan Tubman (Psychology) published "The Role of Identity in Positive Alcohol Use Attitudes, Risky Drinking, and Alcohol-Related Problems Among Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescents" in the Journal of Adolescent Health. 

Shari Wohl (Health Studies) spoke with WTOP about the prevalence of protein in the average American diet. 

Guy Ziv (Center for Israel Studies) spoke with AFP about the upcoming talks between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

January

Valentina Aquila (Environmental Science) received supplemental funding of $54,329 (new total: $443,084) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project “Estimating the impacts of volcanic aerosol and pyroCb smoke on model forecasts and data assimilation using the GEOS Analysis Increments.” 

Dan Arbell (scholar-in-residence, Center for Israeli Studies) spoke with Newsweek about why a potential US-Iran conflict may improve public opinion towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

Will Barnes (Physics) received supplemental funding of $26,561.66 (new total: $56,561.66) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project “The CHIANTI Atomic Database - Essential Infrastructure for Heliophysics.” 

Naomi S. Baron (Literature, emerita) published an article on reading, empathy, and AI in LitHub.  

Lindsey Barr (Arts Management) co-authored an issue of Studies in Musical Theatre titled “Making access: Crip aesthetics, historiography and practice on the musical stage.” The publication is the first full-length scholarly journal issue dedicated to looking at disability in musical theatre. 

Meg Bentley (Biology) received supplemental funding of $145,000 (new total: $945,000) from NASA for the project “District of Columbia Space Grant Consortium Budget Proposal for National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program: Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2025-2028.” 

Michael Brenner (History, Center for Israel Studies) was quoted in a Financial Times article about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s antisemitism conference.  

Frederick Bruhweiler (Physics) received several grants: 

• Supplemental funding of $80,000 and $298,000 (new total: $795,924.82) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project “Continued Development of IR & Visible Spectrometer and Imaging Arrays for Ground-based & Space-borne Planetary Observations.”  
• Supplemental funding of $22,408 (new total: $89,632) from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) for the project “High Resolution Spectroscopic Mapping of Mass Loss in Luminous Blue Variables.” 

Ernesto Castañeda spoke with Telemundo, Telemedellín, Chilevision, Spectrum News, NBC4, Channel 6 El Salvador, KCCI, WBAL, WISN, Hearst TV, the Santita Jackson Show, CNA Singapore, Fox5 DC, Univision, Bluradio, Al Jazeera, France 25, Yahoo News, MSN, and Island TV about a variety of topics ranging from the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro to US immigration policy.  

Leah Ding (Computer Science) received a $100,602 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the project “Pix4DCloud: A Suite of Physics-Constrained Transformer Models to Retrieve 4D Clouds in Real World and Digital Twins.” 

Beth Dowdy (PhD candidate, Anthropology) won a CAS graduate research award for her project “Carbon, Coastlines & Control: Negotiation Climate.” 

Composer and educator inti figgis-vizueta (Alumna, Music Program ’16) was named a 2026 United States Artists Fellow, a national honor that comes with a $50,000 unrestricted award and career support. 

Dara Ford (Health Studies) was featured in a WalletHub article about the best and worst cities in the US for an active lifestyle.  

Jeff Gill (Mathematics and Statistics) published Bayesian Social Science Statistics from the Very Beginning: Getting Productive (Cambridge University Press, 2025). 

Philip Johnson (Physics) received a $1,326,970 grant from NASA for the project “Remote Sensing of Planetary Atmospheres in the Solar System and Beyond.” 

Kelly Jones (Economics) published an article in VoxDev about the benefits of including women in commercial agriculture.  

Peter Kuznick (History) spoke with NTV, WION News, Izvestia, Times Now News, Republic World, TVC, Asahi Digital, CGTN, the Iraqi News Agency, TASS, and Soloviev LIVE about a variety of topics ranging from US foreign policy to nuclear weapons history.  

Allan Lichtman’s (History) book Conservative at the Core (University of Notre Dame Press, 2025) was named one of the best books of 2025 by Library Journal. He was also featured in a WalletHub article about states with the most racial progress.  

Pam Nadell (History) published "Smokescreen: Antisemitism on campus is real—and the Trump administration is exploiting it" in Liberal Education by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AACU).  

Jin Y. Park (Philosophy and Religion) received $54,072 from the Avataṃsaka Buddhist Lotus Society for her project on Huayan Buddhism. She also published a new book, Marginality: Solidarity and the Fight for Social Change (Columbia University Press, December 2025). 

Aaron Posner (Theatre/Musical Theatre) is co-writing and directing a new one-man play and magic show Nothing Up My Sleeve...Simple Deceptions for Curious Humans at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD.  

Eva Maria Rey Pinto (PhD candidate, Anthropology) started a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino Predoctoral Fellowship.

Nathaniel X Roth (Physics) received a $9,220 grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) for the project “Testing the Refractory Sulfur Reservoir Hypothesis with the Next Interstellar Object.” 

M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska (History) spoke with USA Today about the 1976 US Bicentennial, in anticipation of the upcoming America250 festivities. 

Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Mubbashir Rizvi (Anthropology), along with Mariam Durrani (SIS), received a Humanities Truck Fellowship for the project “Unruly Food Assemblages: Intergenerational Food Stories Across South Asian and East African Diasporas in the DMV.”  

Richard C. Sha (Literature) was awarded the 2026 Keats Shelley Distinguished Scholar Award. He also co-edited The Rise of Rhythm Studies: Mediating Dimension, Discipline, and Scale (Bloomsbury 2026). 

Stacey Snelling (Health Studies) received a $52,000 grant from DC Central Kitchen for the project “Healthy Corners Program Evaluation FY26.” 

Tabitha Spence (PhD candidate, Anthropology) was awarded a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant for her project “NATO’s Afterlives: Pakistan’s Local War Economies in the Shadow of the War on Terror.” 

Chuck Sturtevant (Anthropology) was awarded a CAS Mellon Faculty Grant to support ongoing research in Bolivia. 

Ricardo Torres (faculty fellow, Economics) spoke with the Associated Press about how the US-Venezuela conflict may limit Cuba’s access to Venezuelan oil. He also spoke about this issue with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. 

Tracy Weitz (Sociology) published "A mixed-methods study of expanding later abortion care at two U.S. facilities" in SSM – Health Systems.