CMC GRANTS

4TH ANNUAL

COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF

CMC FACULTY PUBLICATIONS & GRANTS Friday, February 14, 2020 2:30 to 4:00 pm, McKenna Auditorium

2020 CMC FACULTY PUBLICATIONS & GRANTS

A Note of Welcome and Congratulations from the Dean of Faculty We are very pleased to welcome you to CMC’s Celebration of Faculty Publications and Grants, a celebration of the scholarly and creative achievements of our faculty and the intellectual life of the College. Faculty publications and grants awarded in 2019 are on display for your viewing and reading pleasure. We are incredibly proud of the creative, engaged scholarship of our faculty. We hope these publications and grants will stimulate lively conversations and future collaborations in research and in the classroom.

Thank you for all that you do to contribute to the College!

Peter Uvin,

Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of the Faculty

Table of Contents Government.................................................................... 2 History............................................................................. 8 Literature ...................................................................... 13 Mathematical Sciences ................................................. 16 Modern Languages and Literatures..............................19 Philosophy ..................................................................... 20 Psychological Science ................................................... 22 Religious Studies ........................................................... 28 The Robert Day School of Economics and Finance .... 30 W.M. Keck Science Department .................................. 34 2018 Publications with .................................................. 40 Student Co-authors ....................................................... 40

Government Hilary Appel, Podlich Family Professor of Government, George R. Roberts Fellow, and Director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies Appel, Hilary. “Are Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Partners? Interpreting the Russia-China Rapprochement.” PONARS Eurasia, 2019, Policy Memo No. 603.

Appel, Hilary. Review of Russia’s Response to Sanctions: How Western Economic Statecraft is Reshaping Political Economy in Russia, by Richard Connolly. The Russian Review, vol. 78, issue 2, 2019, pp. 359.

—————————————————————————————————————————————— William L. Ascher, Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics and Director of the Roberts Environmental Center Barter, Shane Joshua, and William Ascher, editors. Internal Migration: Challenges in Governance and Integration. Peter Lang, 2019.

D’Souza, Lauren K., William L. Ascher, and Tanja Srebotnjak. “Renewable Energy on Tribal Lands: A Feasibility Study for a Biomass-to-Energy Plant on the Cocopah Reservation in Arizona.” Case Studies in the Environment, May 20, 2019, cse.ucpress.edu/content/early/2019/05/07/cse.2018.001792 —————————————————————————————————————————————— Mark Blitz, Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy Blitz, Mark. “Defending Liberalism through Thick and Thin.” Review of Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, by Michael Walzer. Law & Liberty, September 2, 2019, lawliberty.org/book-review/defending-liberalism-thick-and-thin-walzer/ Blitz, Mark, editor. “Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil,” by Leo Strauss. The Leo Strauss Center, 2019, wslamp70.s3.amazonaws.com/leostrauss/s3fs-public/pdf/transcript/Nietzsche-1962.pdf Blitz, Mark. “Platonic Beginnings.” Socrates in the Cave: On the Philosopher’s Motive in Plato, edited by Paul J. Diduch and Michael P. Harding. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 39-52.

Blitz, Mark. “Socrates’ Failures.” Review of Glaucon’s Fate: History, Myth, and Character in Plato’s Republic, by Jacob Howland. The Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2019, claremontreviewofbooks.com/socrates-failures/ Blitz, Mark and J. Michael Hoffpauir. “Plato’s Political Thought.” Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, edited by L. Sandy Maisel. Oxford University Press, June 26, 2019, oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo-9780199756223-0198.xml 2 |