Frank McAndrew (Psychology) has published an article entitled “On the Nature of Creepiness” in New Ideas in Psychology (2016, Vol. 43, pp. 10-15). Former Knox student Sara Koehnke ’12, is a co-author of the article.

Gregory Gilbert (Art and Art History) was interviewed and quoted for an article on the artist Grant Wood in the March/April 2016 issue of The Iowan magazine. The article is titled “Iowan Icon: Grant Wood” and examines the art historical and cultural reassessment of Wood, who was a major Midwestern Regionalist artist of the 1930s.

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Tim Kasser (Psychology) recently gave a lecture (virtually) to a graduate-level class on Ecological Design at Schumacher College in Totnes, UK. The talk was titled “A Values-based, Psychological Theory of Change for Alternative Measures of Progress.”

Monica Berlin (English) has published a chapbook of poems. Maybe To Region appears in the spring issue of Kudzu House Quarterly 6.1 (2016).

Mary Crawford (Chemistry) presented an invited oral presentation entitled “Impact of the NSF-S-STEM on student retention in the sciences at Knox College” at the American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition held March 13-17 in San Diego.

Crawford also serves as Chair-Elect of the Professional Relations Subcommittee: Gay and Transgender Chemists and Allies Subdivision and […]

Nicolaas Mink (Environmental Studies) published his essay “Fish” in The Routledge History of American Foodways.

http://www.amazon.com/Routledge-History-American-Foodways-Histories/dp/0415717574

Teresa Gonzales (Sociology) was recently interviewed for a piece on quinceañera shops in Chicago that appeared in Medill Reports.

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/chicagos-dress-shop-economy/

Anne Steinberg (French) presented a paper at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference in Boston March 17 in a seminar entitled “The Female Voice”.

Description and title of paper:

​Working girls: from prostitutes to attributes, « Les Converseuses » in Rétif de la Bretonne’s Le Palais-Royal (1790)

Prostitutes’ voices have no room in the […]