Southwestern Magazine | Spring 2022

Southwestern is proud to share some recent faculty, staff, and student achievements. Professor of Computer Science Barbara Anthony presented a paper titled “Questions of Sincerity in Cooperative Polls” at the 18th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering, held virtually October 24–27. The paper was co-authored with Miryam Galvez ’23 and Chris Ojonta ’23, who were research assistants with Anthony during fall 2020. Using Python to analyze the responses of simulated polls, the authors demonstrated that there are reasons to ques- tion how the idea of sincerity from voting theory transfers to the approval voting that takes place in cooperative polls. The paper was published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series. Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Lamiyah Bahrainwala gave a guest talk at a graduate-level seminar in communication theory at the University of Nevada, Reno. Bahrainwala talked about the role of disability in anti-Muslim sentiment and anti-Blackness. Students read and responded to her “Blind Submission” article, which looks at bizarre videos of blindfolded Muslim men offering hugs to passersby. Professor of Communication Studies Bob Bednar ’89 presented a paper titled “Figuring the Cost of Automobility: Roadside Car Crash Shrines as the Materialization of Collective Trauma” at the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility (T2M) 19th Annual Conference. Associate Professor of German Erika Berroth earned a resi- dency at the Deutsches Literatur Archiv and Collegienhaus in Marbach, Germany. The residency is cosponsored by the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft and the Max Kade Foundation. Berroth is completing research on contemporary German- Croatian author Marica Bodrožić, whose recent publication, Pantherzeit , offers poetic reflections on the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in Germany and around the world. Associate Professor of History Melissa Byrnes published an article titled “Anti-Salazarism and Transnational Solidarity: Franco-Portuguese Student Activism in the 1960s” in French History and Civilization . Byrnes considers the role of migrants in the 1968 protests, early networks of transnational activism, connections between campus life and broader social inequi- ties, and students’ shared strategies for opposing authoritar- ianism, fascism, and imperialism. Professor and Austin Term Chair in English Eileen Cleere reviewed My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice , edited by Annette R. Federico, for the journal Nineteenth- Century Contexts . Professor of Music Michael Cooper has been chosen as a recip- ient of the Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music from the Music Library Association. The award will go toward supporting Cooper’s archival research for the first book-length biography of composer Margaret Bonds. Associate Professor of Theatre and Paideia Director Sergio Costola collaborated with Olly Crick on a book titled The Dramaturgy of Commedia dell’Arte (Routledge, 2021). The book examines commedia dell’arte as a performative genre and one that should be analyzed through the framework of dramaturgy and dramaturgical practice. Assistant Professor of Physics Cody Crosby gave a poster presentation titled “Phototunable Interpenetrating Polymer Network Hydrogels Stimulate iPSC-EP Vasculogenesis” at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society 6th World Congress, held virtually November 15–19. Associate Professor of Spanish Abby Dings presented a recorded talk titled “The Unique Experiences of Heritage Spanish Speakers Studying Abroad” with her collaborator Tammy Jandrey Hertel (University of Lynchburg) at the 2021 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention and World Languages Expo, held virtually November 19–21. 13 SOUTHWESTERN