Faculty Achievement
Goucher faculty have a well-earned reputation as great teachers and mentors, but they
are also incredibly active in scholarship and creative endeavors. Below you will find
a list of just some of the 2025 publications, presentations, performances, and exhibits
from our talented faculty.
Awards, Grants & Fellowships
Kunz, Edgar. 2024-2025. Rubys Artist Grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.
Kunz, Edgar. 2025. Casa Ecco Residency from the Hawthornden Foundation.
Murphy, Jeanie. 2024. “Buscando armonía en las incoherencias: ‘Contradicciones’ de Danilo Vargas Nardiz.” Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 50(100):155–178.
Cottle, Katherine. 2025. “Cincinnati sounds: Exploring a musical city’s spaces, places, and sounds.” NEH Summer Landmarks for Higher Education Faculty Grant (redistributed through University of Cincinnati funding), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, July.
Books
Austen, Jane. 2025. Mansfield Park. Edited and with an introduction by Juliette Wells. New York: Penguin Classics.
Harder, Bill, Ann Duncan, and Max Greenberg. 2025. “Teaching and learning pluralism across prison walls.” Interfaith America. Retrieved October 29, 2025
Wardy, Fatima. 2025. Princess Grace Award in Filmmaking. Princes Grace Foundation-USA.
Articles
Narock, T., J.M. Johnson, J. Singh-Mohudpur, and A.M. Rad. 2025. "Building Occupancy Type Classification and Uncertainty Estimation Using Machine Learning and Open Data." Environmental Data Science 4.
Nino-Suastegui, S., E. Painter, J.W. Sprankle, J.J. Morrison, J.A. Faust, and R. Gray. 2025. "Non-targeted Analysis and Suspect Screening of Organic Contaminants in Temperate Snowfall Using Liquid Chromatography High Resolution Mass Spectrometry." Environmental Research.
Oettinger, April. 2025. "Tintoretto's Storms." Pp. 148-161 in Tintoretto e il Paesaggio, edited by Martina Frank and Gianmario Guidarrelli. Venezia: Istituto Veneto.
Bock, M., A. Cardazzi, and B. Humphreys. 2025. “Where the rubber meets the road: Pavement damage reduces traffic safety and speed.” Journal of Urban Economics 149:103786.
Ebhuoma, O., M. Gebreslasie, O. C. Villena, and A. Arab. 2025. “Environmental and geographical factors influence malaria transmission in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa.” Geospatial Health 20(1):1370.
Free, Rebecca, and Mark Ingram. 2025. “Commoning and site-specific environmental performance in Marseille.” Sinais de Cena—Revista de Estudos de Teatro e Artes Performativas 3(4):138–169.
Paris, Ohad J., and Colin E. Studds. 2025. “Multi-scale spatial effects determine nest success in small urban forest patches.” Wildlife Letters 2(4):192–203.
Rech, Madeline, Amanda Draheim, and Page L. Anderson. 2025. “Examining types of social outcome probability bias: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Outcome Probability Task.” Medical Research Archives 13(10).
Ridgeway, Sadie, Aleksey Reshetnikov, and Jayla Parker. 2025. “Palaces for some people? Inequity in library access and services across the United States.” Sociological Spectrum. Advance online publication.
Schwarz, C. 2025. “No rush: The relational time ethic and faith-based medical clinics in the United States.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 39(3):e70013.
Book Chapters
Marcus, Daniel. 2025. “‘To call it a zoo would be unkind to animals’: How cable television came to Miami.” Pp. 112–129 in Local TV: Histories, Communities, and Aesthetics, edited by Lauren Herold and Annie Laurie Sullivan. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
Marcus, Daniel. 2025. “Documentary and unscripted media.” Pp. 75–87 in The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice, 2nd ed., edited by Michael Kackman and Mary Celeste Kearney. New York: Routledge.
Choreography, Performances, Exhibits & Designs
Wells, Juliette, with Kaylee Ray-Williams. 2025. "Five Text Panels for Austenmania! Exhibition." Jane Austen's House, Chawton, England, January 22–January 4, 2026. View Austenmania! online.
Ahearn, Elizabeth. 2025. “Abandoned stillness.” Dance performance, Hempstead, NY, August 2.
Klufio, Adjetey, and Osagyefo Dance Company. 2025. “Challenging narrative, identity, and ritualism.” Dance workshop, Teaching Africa Day: “Dancing the Message: African Dance as a Language of the Continent and the Diaspora,” National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, September 13.
McConville, Matthew, and Olivia Munroe. 2025. “Beyond the looking glass.” Exhibition, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, October 23–December 6.
Conference Presentations & Posters
Bloomensteil, G., M. Abdelrady, B. Levine, and R. Gray. 2025. "Adsorption of Perfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) to Polyethylene Microplastics in Terrestrial Environments." Pittcon, Boston, MA, March.
Harder, Bill, Sanda Balaban, Danielle Lake, Bernadette Ludwig, and Sinda Nichols. 2025. "Disrupt Distrust: Fostering Well-Being and Resilience through Democratic Engagement." AAC&U Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 23.
McCabe, Jennifer. 2025. "The Envelope Please: Myth-Busting and Metacognition." 47th Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NITOP), Clearwater Beach, FL, January.
Mullaney, Jamie, Michelle Schmidt, Nels Peter Christiansen, Rubén Dupertuis, and David Ribble. 2025. "Navigating Structural Transitions with Faculty Morale in Mind." American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD), Phoenix, AZ, February 20.
Narock, T., A. Kulikova, S. Hussen, M. Mwangi, and A. Siam. 2025. "Predicting Land Surface Temperature with Uncertainty Estimation Using a Community Sensor Network and Machine Learning." Smart Sustainable Cities Conference, Online, March 5-7.
Schwarz, Carolyn. 2025. "A Little Relief: The Allocative Care of Faith-Based Medical Clinics in the U.S." Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 25-29.
da Rosa, J. A. 2025. “Beyond borders: Transforming student perceptions of sustainability through study abroad.” Paper presented at the Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Garrison, Dustin, L. Willmann, N. Jarboe, B. Pielago, R. Mahan, A. Bailey, S. Root, N. Tran, T. Witham, A. Meadows, and W. Wei. 2025. “Constructing and improving performance of a homemade Raman spectrometer.” Paper presented at the ACS National Meeting, Washington, DC, August.
Harder, B. 2025. “Faculty Development as a Home for the Critical Liberal Arts Renaissance Person: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being a Generalist” Leading with Our Values: Community as Resistance (virtual conference), June.
Kopelent Rehak, J., J. A. da Rosa, Brondo, N. Peterson, and S. Kent. 2025. “Human dimensions of sustainable living.” Roundtable presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
Pasteur, Jess, Tom Narock, J. T. Klopcic, and Erick Camodeca. 2025. “Data science meets athletics: Bridging academic learning and athletic excellence.” Poster presented at the Connecticut Sports Analytics Symposium, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 12.
Pinnow, Eleni, Hypatia Bolivar, Kelly Donaher, Jessica LaPaglia, Jennifer McCabe, and Jill Swirsky. 2025. “Elevate your syllabus: Learner-centered best practices from Project Syllabus.” Paper presented at the Society for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT), Minneapolis, MN, October.
Ridgeway, Sadie, Aleksey Reshetnikov, and Jayla Parker. 2025. “Palaces for some people? Inequity in library access and services across the United States.” Open Roundtable Session, American Sociological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Invited Public Lectures
McCabe, Jennifer. 2025. "SET for Success: Core Strategies for Effective Learning in a Metacognitive Framework." Invited Keynote Address and Workshop at the 14th Annual Faculty Center Conference, Farmingdale State College, Long Island, NY, February.
Wells, Juliette. 2025. "Jane Austen's Letters: An Intimate Voice." Jane Austen Fest, Mount Dora, FL, February 6.
Faculty members, please submit your scholarship to be included on this website. We will update this webpage twice a year. If you
have any questions, please contact cast@goucher.edu.
Kudos
- May 26, 2025
Robert Slocum, Emeritus Faculty in Biological Sciences, recently published a research paper in Frontiers related to his long-standing research interest in plant metabolism. The paper is entitled, "Modified pea apyrase has altered nuclear functions and enhances the growth of yeast and Arabidopsisa."
- June 4, 2024
Four Goucher College faculty members from a range of liberal arts disciplines have been promoted with two of them receiving tenure.
- April 2, 2024
Four Goucher College faculty members will embark on a Year of Exploration as the 2024 recipients of the Myra Berman Kurtz Fund for Faculty Research and Exploration of the Sciences (KRES Fund).
- January 30, 2024
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations Julie Chernov Hwang has been selected as a 2024-25 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar. Chernov Hwang will use the fellowship to build a database for conducting research on how ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah construct terror cells.
- November 3, 2023
Goucher faculty consistently contribute scholarship and creative work through papers, books, and more. This roundup details just some of the publications and artistic offerings from the last year, with highlights from the fields of economics, professional and creative writing, theater, and anthropology.
