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A chapter by Tom Morrione, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, was included in the recently published Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism (D. vom Lehn, N. Ruiz-Junco and W. Gibson, eds. Routledge, June 2021). The chapter, titled "Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism, and 21st-century Sociology," presents the theoretical framework for that perspective and explores its relevance for guiding contemporary social science research, with special emphasis on large-scale social phenomena, industrialization, and race prejudice.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has been accepted to join Climate Strategies, a member-based international, not-for-profit research network of world-leading researchers. Climate Strategies works at the science-policy interface, advancing climate policy through meaningful interactions between decision-makers and researchers across Europe and internationally. Her membership was approved at a recent board meeting.
Sports outlet Sportico featured Colby's new Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center in a story that was also picked up by Yahoo! Sports. “This building is the best in its class, the best in the country of its kind. And it gives us an extraordinary advantage,” President Greene told Sportico. Vice President and Harold Alfond Director of Athletics Mike Wisecup also noted that Colby is “serious about athletics and the importance it has in our education.”
Associate Professor of History Arnout van der Meer was a guest on a Cornell Press podcast discussing his new book, Performing Power: Cultural Hegemony, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial Indonesia. van der Meer "explores the importance of material and visual culture ... for both the legitimization of colonial authority as well as its contestation in turn of twentieth-century Indonesia," Cornell Press reports.
"Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles," a new book by Rosecrans Baldwin '99, was recently reviewed in the New York Times. "To write the definitive book about Los Angeles would be impossible," stated the story. "In 'Everything Now,' the novelist ... doesn’t try. And in not trying, he may have written the perfect book about Los Angeles."
The summer issue of the Maine Arts Journal opens with an introduction written by Professor of Art Véronique Plesch, who is one of the journal's editors; contains a Q&A between Plesch and Associate Professor of Art Bradley Borthwick; and includes a historical piece in which Plesch mentions the Isamu Noguchi sculpture in the Colby College Museum of Art. Moreover, noted art critic Carl Little reviewed the L.C. Bates show that Whitney White '21 and Carissa Yang '21 curated under Plesch's supervision and which is on the same theme, Marks and Tracks, as the journal.
Dr. Anna O'Keefe and her husband, Brandon O'Keefe, 2007 graduates, were featured in the Morning Sentinel article "Dental practice powered by Colby alums moving to Oakland’s FirstPark." The office will include the latest technology, state-of-the-art air filters, and room to expand. Building from the ground up was the only way to go, said Anna O'Keefe. “Our goal is to do it all really well.”
CultureType reported that Brooklyn-based artist Dread Scott was recently named senior fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art. Scott, who says he “makes revolutionary art to propel history forward,” will be at Colby for the 2021-22 academic year. CultureType is an online resource focused on visual art from a Black perspective, exploring the intersection of art, history, and culture.
Steven Simon, professor of international relations, weighed in on U.S. and Israeli relations for the New York Times. "There are fundamental differences that have emerged in the relationship that will be difficult to reverse, especially as American politics becomes increasingly polarized," and "it will be hard under foreseeable circumstances for Israel to recapture the wall-to-wall loyalty of the Democratic Party,” Simon told the Times.
NewsCenter Maine interviewed Josh Kim '22 about his latest venture, The Cubby, the first online student-art marketplace where artists keep 100 percent of the profits. The Cubby was founded by Kim specifically for college students to help them gain visibility for their art.