Honors

Kate Driscoll, ANT, along with alumna Sarah Patterson and current graduate student Sommer Martin, received acceptance of their abstract titled, “Learning from casts? Testing assigned ancestry using FORDISC,” by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) 2024 Annual Meeting. 

Andrew Hartman, HIS, co-chaired the U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting in Denver, Colo., and provided commentary on the plenary session on Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory by Mike Davis. He also presented a paper titled, “Right, Center, Left: The Modern Invention of American Political Traditions.”  

Taylor Soja, HIS, chaired a panel on “Age in Criminal Imperial Histories of Sex and Gender” at the North American Conference on British Studies in Baltimore. She also received an invitation to give the annual Storie Lecture at Lewis University in Romeoville, Ill., in March 2024.  

Stewart Winger, HIS, delivered a paper titled, “Declaring the American Revolutionary Republic,” at the U.S. Intellectual History Annual Meeting in Denver, Colo.  

Ruth Burke, ART, has artwork featured as part of a collaborative exhibition titled, “INTER/INTRA (2023),” which examines the dependencies between human and non-human living beings. The exhibition will be on display through December 16, 2023, at the Wave Pool Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Albion Stafford, ART, has work currently on view in an exhibition titled, “Scattered Lives: Utilitarian Ceramics in Blue and White,” at Illinois Wesleyan University, Ames School of Art, Wakeley Gallery until December 8, 2023. 

Sarah Smelser, ART, currently is exhibiting work in “Thrasher,” an exhibition that is on display at the Joe McCauley Art Gallery of Illinois Wesleyan University through December 9, 2023.

Publications

Ali Riaz, POL, has published a commentary in the New Atlanticist on the future pathways of Bangladeshi politics. The commentary presents scenarios for the coming months as the country is heading for a contentious election.

Intan Suwandi, SOC, has published a book review in Critical Perspectives on International Business.

Kelly Clemens, PSY, has published an article titled, The desire for side-effect information in pain treatment: An experimental analysis of contextual and individual difference factors, in PAIN, an interdisciplinary journal on translational pain science.

Presentations

Kate Driscoll, ANT, recently gave a presentation on forensic anthropology to Bloomington Junior High School 6th grade science classes. 

Submit honors, publications, and presentations for “Research and Honors” by emailing report@ilstu.edu.