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Truly fine achievemenTs noT only bring us greaT saTisfacTion, They leave a legacy for fuTure generaTions. In this issue of Connections, we feature College of Arts and Sciences faculty, students, and alumni who have done just that.

Cognizant of how profoundly high-performance computing has changed academic research, economics professor Mary Hansen spearheaded a successful grant proposal to NSF for a supercomputer that will greatly expand the computing power available to AU researchers. John Geraghty gained valuable hands-on experience in the new audio technology recording studio, and then parlayed that experience into an internship with the studio’s designers. Musician in residence Yuliya Gorenman recently fulfilled her lifelong goal of performing the cycle of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, playing the composer’s final three sonatas at her March concert. More than 200 attendees from across the United States and as far away as Asia turned out for AU’s first annual feminist art history conference in honor of emeritae faculty Norma Broude and Mary Garrard.

For some, leaving a legacy means helping us to better understand our past. History professor Richard Breitman coauthored a report based on recently declassified government documents for the National Archives, which answers critical questions about the fate of Nazi officials after 1945. Anthropology professor and historical archeologist Daniel Sayers was recently awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his research in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, which at one time served as a sanctuary for thousands of disenfranchised indigenous Americans and slaves. Sociology professor Celine-Marie Pascale critiques methods of research that perpetuate power imbalances between researchers and their subjects in her new book, and Spanish professor Brenda Werth analyzes theatrical representations of Argentina’s transition from dictatorship to democracy.

In this issue, you will also read stories of faculty and alumni who have opened up new perspectives on a field of study. With help from the National Science Foundation, economics professor Jeremiah Dittmar is exploring the ways in which the printing press helped to revolutionize the economic geography of Europe. In Shakesqueer, literature professor Madhavi Menon and other leading scholars examine the Bard’s plays and poems through the lens of queer theory. Pathologist and chemistry alumnus Josh Sickle discusses the intersection of art and medicine, comparing mutated cells to paint on a canvas.

Through these stories, we invite you to look back and look forward with us.

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Justice for AllHistory professor Richard Breitman’s report on declassified intelligence documents

Mixed MessagesAudio Tech undergrad John Geraghty interning with Kreeger studio designer

Out of PrintEconomist Jeremiah Dittmar’s new take on the impact of the printing press

Power SurgeAU research getting a boost from new supercomputer

Beethoven’s Last SonatasMusician in residence Yuliya Gorenman’s grand finale

Queering ShakespeareLiterature professor Madhavi Menon reinterpreting the Bard

Reclaiming a LegacyNorma Broude and Mary Garrard honored at feminist art history conference

The Pathologist’s ParadoxAlum Josh Sickel using art to make sense of science

Unearthing Secrets of the Great DismalAnthropologist Dan Sayers continuing his swamp landscape study

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WiTHiN DAYS of the re-lease of Hitler’s Shad-ow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War, hundreds of media outlets, from the New York Times to the Jerusalem Post and CNBC, had run sto-ries on the 101-page report. Coauthored by AU’s Richard Breitman, a history professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, Hitler’s Shadow is based on newly declassified and analyzed government documents. It is avail-able online at the National Archives Web site.

Why has the report’s release caused such a stir?

“People regard Nazi Germany as one of the most tragic episodes in history, certainly in mod-ern history, and the Nazis have come to be seen as symbols of evil,” says Breitman. “So the ques-tion is, can we get full and accurate depictions of what happened in Nazi Germany and to Nazi offi-cials after 1945? And in that regard, the release of what is really millions of pages of new mate-rial is really important.”

Again and again, the report documents how Western intelligence

agencies declined to prosecute war crimi-nals—often men who were responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews and others, and some who had killed captured Allied soldiers. Instead, these men, implicated in monstrous crimes, were used as pieces on a global Cold War chessboard.

The use of war crimi-nals for intelligence now seems unthinkable. But in an interview, Breitman noted that crimes against peace—the fact that Ger-many had dragged the world into war—and not crimes against human-ity were the main focus of the Nuremberg trials.

Tracking war criminals was not a high U.S. gov-ernment priority, and a 1953 document, written by an official in response to an effort to find Holo-caust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, noted that the CIA was “not in the business of apprehend-ing war criminals, hence in no position to take an active role in this case.”

“I think some of the officials at the time shift-ed rather quickly their focus from what had happened in Germany to the next enemy,” Breit-man said. “Insofar as they thought of Gestapo people as intelligence

experts, they made all kinds of exceptions to what was supposed to be the general policy of not using Gestapo people. They didn’t have a lot of sources on com-munists themselves, communists in Germany, communists in Eastern Europe, experts on com-munists in the Soviet Union. And you could call it desperation or you could call it just very nar-row, short-term think-ing. They wanted people who were going to be useful against the cur-rent and future enemy.”

Adapted from “Escaped Justice,” american.edu/cas/news/detail.cfm

A sampling of war criminals that Hitler’s Shadow tracks:

Wilhelm BeisnerOne of a cadre of Nazis who escaped prosecution and even thrived after the war in the Middle East. The report notes that this group “played impor-tant roles in the systematic killing of millions of Jews, and they continued to fulminate about Jewish influence decades later.”

Haj Amin al-HusseiniThe notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and fervent anti-Jewish Arab leader who received a fortune in Nazi payments, as well as refuge in Germany. In spring 1945 with the war’s outcome no longer in doubt, he signed a con-tract for subsidies up to 12,000 marks per month to continue his and the Nazis’ shared political and ideological campaign after the war.

Rudolph MilnerA Gestapo member who was responsible for the execution of perhaps thousands of suspected Polish resisters, and who also had a role in de-porting 8,000 Danish Jews to Auschwitz. Used as an intelligence resource, it is possible that he was shielded from extradition by U.S. forces. He later fled to Argentina.

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AfTER YEARS of plan-ning and eight months of construction, AU’s audio technology pro-gram finally moved into its new studio space in January. Designed by the Walters-Storyk Design Group and located in the Kreeger terrace, the lab will house 6 fac-ulty and 70 students.

Built and outfit-ted at a cost of nearly $2 million, the studio contains three record-ing rooms, mixing and post-production suites, a digital audio room, and an impressive array of high-tech equipment.

“All this stuff is state of the art, what you’d see in a professional recording

studio,” says John Ger-aghty, BS physics and audio technology ’11. He should know. Geraghty has devoted the last few months to setting up the gear and preparing for the studio’s opening—good experience for his postgraduation internship at Walters-Storyk, which begins this summer.

“I got real excited when I heard [Storyk] was doing our studio,” says Geraghty. Storyk and his team are known for their high-profile designs for artists like Jimi Hendrix, Alicia Keys, and Bob Marley. When Storyk came to lecture at AU last year, Geraghty approached

him to ask about the company’s internship program. He needed no further encourage-ment when Storyk told him to apply.

Geraghty will intern at the design group’s office in Highland, New York, where he’ll be working with some of the best architects and acousti-cians in the business. “There are a ton of people who [will] have so much knowledge,

and hopefully I’ll be able to learn a lot and grow,” he says.

With that exposure, along with his classes in studio management, acoustics, and studio technologies, plus his hands-on lab experi-ence, Geraghty says he feels prepared and excited for his internship.

“Audio technology has taught me to be a consumer, so I know what I want a studio to

sound like and what a studio should have in it.”

Looking toward the future, Geraghty plans to absorb as much as he can about acoustics during his internship.

“At this point, I would love to do exactly what this internship entails,” he says. “I would love to design recording studios—look at a blank space and make it state of the art, make it perfect.”

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Jeremiah Dittmar began thinking about the great revolutions in information technology while study-ing at the University of California–Berkeley in 2005 and living in north-ern California, home to the corporate kings of tech. What, he wanted to know, were the origins of a knowledge-based economy, and what spawned the rise of a new class of individual, one who was literate and upwardly mobile?

He landed on the print-ing press, that techno-logical pioneer of mass production invented by Johannes Gutenberg around 1450. Says Ditt-mar, “It arguably provides the closest historical parallel to the emer-gence of the Internet.”

He will present his research in an upcom-ing article, “Ideas, Tech-nology, and Economic Change: The Impact of the Printing Press” (Quarterly Journal of

Economics, forthcom-ing November 2012). The National Science Foundation awarded him a $163,257 grant to sup-port additional research.

Dittmar has identi-fied important changes in European capitalism during the High Renais-sance. He is looking at how print technology spread across the conti-nent’s cities and trans-formed local economies. Using a database of more than 200 European cities that adopted the printing press, he has been able to show what books were published and when. The technology, he explains, expanded in “concentric circles, as printers set out from Mainz to establish presses in other cities.”

Religious texts initially fueled the production of print media followed by commercial interests. “Print media spread new ideas about counting and business practice that revolutionized the leading sector of the

economy of Renaissance Europe—the mercan-tile and trading sector,” he says. This led to the “development of numer-acy, the emergence of business education, and the adoption of innova-tions, like double-entry bookkeeping.” Mer-chants engaged in large-scale and long-distance trade, which enabled the calculation of inter-est rates, profit shares, and exchange rates.

“Starting in the 1480s,” says Dittmar, “European presses produced a stream of commercial arithmetics, the first printed mathematics textbooks, designed for students preparing for careers in business.” In addition, merchant manu-als combined account-ing and mathematics with business advice, including tables that simplified the calculation of interest on tariffs and loans and other costs.

Dittmar has corre-lated the availability and

affordability of print mate-rials with the rise of our knowledge-based econ-omy. “Printers’ work-shops brought scholars, merchants, craftsmen, and mechanics togeth-er for the first time in a commercial environ-ment, eroding a previous separation between town and gown,” he says.

Movable-type print technologies also had a significant effect on urban development. “Cities that adopted the printing press in the late 1400s,” he writes, “enjoyed no growth advantages prior to adoption, but grew at least 20 percentage points—and as much as 60 percentage points—more than similar cities that did not [adopt] over the period 1500–1600.”

Today, there’s discus-sion in both academic and mass media circles about how the Internet will lead to the death of distance, an economic theory that suggests the ease and speed of electronic communica-tion makes location and the distance between us irrelevant. Dittmar points out that a similar discus-sion emerged in the late 1400s with the advent of the printing press. Many historians speculated then about an imminent “future in which the

importance of location would be eroded.”

Economists have been unable to identify any impact of the printing press at the macroeco-nomic level and find no evidence of its influence in terms of aggregate productivity per person. “The absence of any effect is a puzzle,” Ditt-mar says. And econo-mists confront similar puzzles today in the study of contemporary information technology.

Dittmar’s findings challenge modern ass-umptions. “The printing press did not lead to a death of distance,” he says. In fact, it fostered face-to-face interactions and vital community and regional connections and contributed to the growth of modern capitalism.

Ultimately, Dittmar’s study challenges the theory that economies around the world were stagnant until the Indus-trial Revolution. “Think-ing about the diffusion and impact of print media in European history should help [economists] ground and focus our questions about con-temporary revolutions in information technol-ogy and their impact on where people and economic activity will be located in the future.”

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have been quietly cel-ebrating the purchase of a new high-performance computer (HPC), which will be fully operational by October 2011. Now they would like to let the secret out.

The refrigerator-size HPC consists of a mass of cables and wires that connect “blades” of CPUs—stripped-down computers optimized to maximize performance and minimize use of phys-ical space and energy.

“Each blade can do eight computations at a time,” says economics professor Mary Hansen. “We will get at least 15, but perhaps more, blades yielding at minimum 120 computations at once.”

Translation: the HPC will mean a 60-fold increase in efficiency for university research-ers. Tasks that typically would take weeks on a standard computer will now take hours, boost-ing the rate of research and overall productivity.

Funded by a $260,745 grant from the National Science Foundation, the supercomputer sup-ports an AU strategic goal, says Hansen, the principle investigator.

“This computer allows researchers across many disciplines to do research that we couldn’t do before.” She explains, “AU’s recently adopted strategic plan calls for faculty to do research that has high impact, but AU could neither attract nor retain truly talented computational

researchers without a system like this. Par-ticularly in terms of policy-related compu-tational research, that is hugely important.”

From science and technology to the humani-ties, says Hansen, the HPC “increases produc-tivity and quality in every field that’s touched by computational work.”

Economics professor James Bono, for example, is researching how to allocate a limited number of airplane landing sites when airports are disrupt-ed by weather or other circumstances. How do you maximize benefits to consumers and minimize losses to airlines? “His research will have broad impact because it will create a means by which researchers and policy makers can design bet-ter functioning, continu-ally improving regulated systems, such as energy grids and air traffic con-trol,” says Hansen.

Some of the most inter-esting projects involve data visualization. SETH dean Sarah Irvine Bel-son will create a tool for analyzing the actions of students with behavioral disabilities and rendering them in three-dimension-al animation, which will require intensive com-putation. But she won’t have to wait long for the computer to “draw” images; they will just pop up. Animation will allow teachers and stu-dents to jointly observe behavior patterns and devise more effective teaching methods.

Chemistry professor Kathryn Muratore’s re-search could potentially lead to the design of new enzymes useful in drug development and in water cleanup. Her compu-tational method com-bines information from sequence databases, substrate specificity data, and molecular structures from the RCSB Protein Data Bank. Muratore will use the HPC system for programming and test-ing code to automate 3D visualization of the covarying residues within the protein and simulate the protein’s stability.

Public health is another area of research to ben- efit from the HPC. Betty Malloy, professor of math- ematics and statistics, works on epidemiological models of the effects of exposure to carcinogens. With the new computer system, she will be better able to test models that calculate the odds of someone becoming ill after exposure.

Hansen and her

colleague, economist Kara Reynolds, share the long-term goal of inform-ing public debate on poli-cies that impact children, the poor, and the unem-ployed. Through their structural modeling proj-ect, they will be the first to measure the extent to which eligibility for federal support influences servic-es provided to all chil-dren in foster care and their health outcomes.

“AU is making invest-ments in the type of infra- structure that pushes all schools forward, includ-ing all of the academic clusters within the Col-lege,” Hansen says. Everyone will benefit from this machine, even researchers outside AU. “You can’t get this type of award without having broad impact and contrib-uting to the public good.”

The next steps are installation of the HPC and training faculty and student researchers how to use the system. The real joy, says Han-sen, has been to see

people come together around a research goal and talk to each other across disciplines.

“Professor Mura-tore in chemistry and Professor Irvine Bel-son in education, for example. Both want to use the computer for data visualization. If it weren’t for their work on this project, they would not have met each other. They’ll now be able to solve their problems much more quickly as part of a com-munity of researchers.”

“What’s most exciting is that this project will bring many very talented researchers together to solve problems,” says Hansen. “That will have much more impact than any of us working alone.”

Seminars on use of the HPC system will be offered in spring 2011 and continue through the 2011–2012 aca-demic year. For infor-mation, email hpc@american.edu.

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musician in residence Yuliya Gorenman ticked an item off her life to-do list that she once thought was as out there as going to the moon: she com-pleted the Gorenman Beethoven Project.Gorenman performed

all 32 of Beethoven’s famous piano sonatas in eight concerts over four years. She played the final three pieces, her grand finale, on March 19, 2011, in the Abramson Fam-ily Recital Hall at the Katzen Arts Center.

She has received rave

reviews. The Washing-ton Post described her as a “powerful individ-ual with an unaffected stage presence” whose version of Beethoven “bristled with life.” Fans have praised her personally after concerts, in e-mails, and on YouTube, their

words kind enough to make her blush.

The sheer volume of the music is stag-gering. Playing the complete cycle of sonatas is an achieve-ment matched by only a few musicians—ever.

“I don’t think there is a project that is as dear to my heart as this one,” she says. “It’s some-thing I wanted to do all my life. It’s about being able to touch the life of a composer and trace it from the beginning, all the way through the time of maturity. That’s an amazing thing.”

For Gorenman, the project has been as much an intellectual

exercise as a physical and emotional one.

“If you’re trying to go to the root of what a composer might have wanted to say, it’s almost like musical forensics,” she says. “What you’ve got are his thoughts on the page, and you’re trying to figure out what in the world he might have been thinking. You have to do a lot of research.”

That’s why she has read voraciously about Beethoven’s life, as well as about histori-cal events during his lifetime. “It’s not pos-sible to understand Beethoven’s music without understanding

“It’s about being able to touchthe life of a composer and trace it from the beginning, all the way through the time of maturity.”

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THE iNTERSEcTioN of Shake-speare’s texts and queer theory is the subject of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Com-plete Works of Shakespeare (Duke University Press, 2011), a new volume edited by litera-ture professor Madhavi Menon.

Queer theory challenges the ideas of natural and immutable identity and proposes that our identities are neither fixed nor defined by a single characteristic.

Menon challenges the analytical approach that most Shakespear-ean scholars specializing in queer theory take to the Bard’s texts.

“One of the things I’m inter-ested in is temporality and how or why Shakespeare, from the 16th and early 17th centuries, can talk to a phenomenon that got codi-fied only in the 20th century,” she says. “Clearly, there cannot be a relationship if we think of chronol-ogy or of history as separated into discrete compartments, such that every century is contained within itself. There has to be some kind of conversation across time.”

The book project grew out of Menon’s Shakesqueer course at AU. In the process of compiling a list of essays for the syllabus, she amassed the foundation of an anthology. Menon approached scholars who identified them-selves as queer theorists rather than as specialists in narrower fields of chronological study.

“I want the conversation to take place on a broad scale,” she says. “Otherwise, we quarantine off areas of thought, periods of foment. The reason we still study Shake-speare is because his works are compelling in their seemingly end-less depth. Why, then, should we say we cannot bring our knowl-edge generated today to bear on a text from 400 years ago?”

Menon asked the authors to theorize their texts and the stakes of their argument rather than build a critical apparatus around their ideas. While this is standard pro-cedure for most critical essays, she says that she wanted people to write polemical, short, and pointed essays that would get immediately to what might be queer about a text.

“I wanted to unburden people from having to grapple with centu-ries of criticism on a play or poem. A lot of my contributors were really intrigued by the idea of cutting to the chase. And that’s why the cali-ber of these essays is really high.”

Menon’s publisher has been ex- ploring ways to market Shakesqueer as a textbook. Although it would be hard to cover 48 essays in one course, Menon hopes that the book will be helpful to students after the semester ends.

“This will give people a resource in terms of the kind of queer theory that can be done,” she says. “Just as an exemplary theoretical text, it’s going to be very useful.”

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the French Revolution, for example,” she says. “You have to dig as deep as you can and cast your net as wide as possible.”

Gorenman says she cannot possibly pick a favorite sonata because each is different from the last. Take, for exam-ple, the Hammerklavier Sonata that received such glowing reviews in the Washington Post. After her first encounter with it, she says she was put off by its strangeness and dreaded playing it.

“It’s not a piece you can love from first hear-ing it,” says Gorenman. “Throughout the pro-cess of work, though, I became obsessed

with it. It was all I thought about. I slept, drank, and ate that piece. It was with me 24–7. It became one of my favorites.”

The final sonatas are unique, Gorenman, says. “There’s no mistaking them for any other pieces in his life.”

Though she has com-pleted the Beethoven Project, Gorenman says she is not done with the sonatas. She has recorded the first three and plans to record the rest. She is also thinking about playing a series of recitals, each dedicated to a different great com-poser, such as Bach, Schuman, or Chopin.

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have created a master-piece of their own: a con- ference to bring people together, celebrate ac-complishments, and dis-cuss advancements in scholarship.

The first annual femi-nist art history confer-ence, “Continuing the Legacy: the Work of Norma Broude and Mary Garrard,” happened last October, with events at the American University Museum at the Katzen Center and the National Museum for Women in the Arts. More than 200 scholars from across

the country and around the world attended.

Keynote speaker Anna Chave of Queens Col-lege and the City Univer-sity of New York drew a crowd to her provocative talk, “High Tide: Deploy-ing Fluids in Women’s Art Practice.”

According to Kathe Albrecht, the art depart-ment’s manager of visual resources and an orga-nizer of the event, a femi-nist art history conference provides a context for viewing art history com-pletely and inclusively.

“In the past, only the men were studied,

which was an incom-plete picture of what was happening. This conference brings in the work and scholarship of half the population.”

Despite postfeminist claims that women have achieved equality and that they’re beyond femi-nist tactics, Albrecht says there’s still work to do.

In the late 1800’s during the emergence of impressionism, wom-en could not enter the Louvre without a male escort even though por-traits of women adorned the walls. In 2005, only 3 percent of featured artists in the Metropoli-tan Museum of Art were women. What’s wrong with this picture?

Panelist and AU alumna Katja Zigerlig, MA art history ’98, raised anoth-er issue: the financial disparity in the mar-ket between prices of

artwork sold at auction by women versus men artists. “It’s going to take a long time for the prices of the women’s work to catch up,” says Albrecht.

Art history professor Helen Langa, who helped organize the meeting, says, “The enthusiasm, the strength of the papers, the stimulating keynote address, the energy that the conference gener-ated, the connections made among attendees, and the influence that it had on our gradu-ate and undergraduate students, who assist-ed in its planning and attended the sessions—all revealed the impor-tance of such an event.”

The conference hon-ored Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, two pioneering feminist art history professors who have left a legacy of scholarship, inspirational

teaching, and outstand-ing publications.

“American University has been a hub for feminist art history for more than 40 years and will continue to be so because of their work,” says Albrecht.

During the closing reception at the Nation-al Museum of Women in the Arts, Garrard discussed and signed her book Brunelleschi’s Egg: Nature, Art, and Gender in Renaissance Italy (University of Cali-fornia Press, 2010).

The 2011 conference, scheduled for November 4–6, promises to equal, if not surpass, this year’s event. “We’re looking forward to continuing and growing the confer-ence,” says Albrecht. “It will be another excit-ing and cutting-edge look at emerging art his-tory scholarship.”

“AU has been ahub for feminist art history for more than 40 years.”

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Josh Sickel, BS biol-ogy ’78, looks through his microscope, he sees art. To him, patterns of mutated cells are akin to compositions on canvas.

On examination of a biopsy, says Sickel, he makes a diagnosis that becomes the basis for treatment. “This has a significant and life altering impact on a patient, it’s something so serious. Yet when you look at the images alone, they are aestheti-cally quite beautiful.”

He likens the experi-ence to visiting an art gallery. “It’s magical and mysterious to be able to look at a slide. I can literally tell you how this patient is going to respond to chemother-apy or if it’s something for which we must give antibiotics. It’s miracu-lous to look at pictures and be able to make powerful predictions.”

Sickel founded El Camino Hospital’s Healing Arts Program in Mountain View,

California, in 2002. Disease is his focus, of course, but he also is interested in the power of art, music, and laughter as therapy to ease pain. Committed to making pathology less esoteric and more accessible to nonmedical people, Sickel regularly lectures to community groups in the hope of breaking down barriers between doctor and patient. He uses slides to illustrate these questions: how can art make sense of science, and why do we choose to look away—or more closely?

Pathologists use analogies and metaphors to help them remem-ber specimen patterns. Sickel says audiences are stunned when he jux-taposes an image of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” with that of malignant lymphocytes punctuated by phagocytic macro-phages, which gobble up dying tumor cells. The patterns are strikingly similar, with the macro-phages mimicking Van

Gogh’s stars and the lym-phocytes his swirling sky.

Astronomy inspires another analogy. “When you’re a kid, the night sky all looks the same. But then somebody points out three stars in a row and tells you that’s the belt of Orion.” Pathology, he says, is very similar. You pick out patterns and you name them. Mas-tery comes with prac-tice, just like learning to pick out a constella-tion in a starry night.

Sickel’s background clearly influenced the way he sees. His father was a psychiatrist and his mother was a docent at the National Gallery of Art. As a kid, his favor-ite game was Highlights magazine’s “Find the Hidden Object,” which he believes helped to

train his eye to make accurate diagnoses.

When he was in high school, his mother encouraged him to learn about art. One day, while flipping through a coffee table book on modern art, he discovered that he was quite good at remembering painting styles, which enabled him to identify the artist.

“I’d look at each pic-ture and quiz myself: Matisse, next; Renoir, next; and so on. And then I’d come back several days later and test myself. I think I primed my visual cor-tex to be really good at pattern recognition.”

Sickel graduated from the University of Mary-land–Baltimore medical school in 1984 and com-pleted a four-year pathol-ogy residency at the

University of Rochester and a one-year fellowship at Stanford University.

“I went into medical school for the same rea-son a lot of people do: We’re fascinated by how the body works, how and why we get sick, and the desire to help people heal,” he says.

“To be a pathologist,” he admits, “it helps to have a vivid imagination.” Sickel tries to recon-cile the inherent para-dox: that something can be so beautiful and so tragic at the same time.

“Authors, playwrights, poets, and artists deal with this all the time,” he says. “These are very unpleasant, unsavory issues—and yet present-ing and reflecting on [the] beauty may soften the edges of these otherwise very serious issues.”

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DANiEL SAYERS, anthro-pology professor and historical archeologist, won’t forget the day in June last year when he got the e-mail. He was down at the crew house in Chesapeake, Virgin-ia, the working base for his annual Great Dismal

Swamp Landscape Study (GDSLS) team. It was a message from the National Endow-ment for the Humanities. He’d gotten the grant—a three-year We the People award of $200,000 to support his project.

Since 2001, Sayers

and fellow anthropology professor Lance Greene have been exploring the 200 or so square miles of undeveloped wetlands known as the Great Dismal Swamp, which sprawls across south-east Virginia and north-east North Carolina.

Now a national wildlife refuge, home to many endangered species, the region was once a sanctuary of sorts for perhaps thousands of disenfranchised indig-enous Americans and maroons, African Ameri-can fugitives from slavery. “There are interesting parallels,” says Sayers. “What was once more of a human refuge is now a natural refuge.”

Archeologists specu-late that maroon outposts began appearing in the swamp as early as the 1600s, with the settle-ment of Jamestown. A subculture of self-reli-ant maroon communi-ties began to take root. “These groups are very inspirational. As details unfold, society will get a sense of how one still has the ability, as an indi-vidual and a community, to really take control over a situation,” says Sayers.

Sayers hopes to be among the privileged few who get to unravel their story. The additional funding will enable him to bring in experts from other disciplines, includ-ing geophysicists, folklor-ists, and ethnographers; analyze data samples; and support the research laboratory, graduate students, and summer archeology field school.

There are, however, aspects of conducting research in a swamp that no amount of money can mitigate. Navigating the terrain and the logistics of working in a national wildlife refuge present enormous challenges.

“Physical access is one of the main issues,” says Sayers. “Negotiating to get to the dry lands, walking through [the swamp] and carrying equipment—getting to a site to begin working can take an hour or more.”

In addition, the GDSLS research team has to take precautions against the natural risks posed by the environment. “One day we turned around and called it a day because of a bear that wouldn’t go away. There’s always some element of danger,” he says, including “ungodly thorns the size of sharks’ teeth.” Which is why Say-ers always dons a canvas suit, despite the oppres-sive heat and humidity.

This summer marks the field school’s fourth year. Each foray into the swamp yields more infor-mation. Sayers hopes to follow up on the discov-eries made in 2010.

“You need basic skills in excavation and identify-ing swamps, and even how to navigate difficult terrain,” says Greene. “We make sure that the students are participat-ing in discussions on how to think about sites and analyze artifacts in the lab. I think the stu-dents in the field school get great experience in what an archaeologist needs to know and do.”

Students interested in participating in the 2011 summer field school (May 17–July 3) should contact Dan Sayers at sayers@american.edu.

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KNoWLEDGE MAY be power, but so are meth-ods of obtaining knowl-edge, says sociology professor Celine-Marie Pascale. In her new book, Cartographies of Knowledge: Exploring Qualitative Epistemolo-gies (Sage Press, 2010), Pascale goes beyond critiquing methods of qualitative research that perpetuate power imbalances between researchers and sub-jects: she evaluates the premise and logic at the core of such research.

“I argue that qualitative

social research premised on the model of the phys-ical sciences is not able to fully apprehend social processes,” she says.

Even sociology and anthropology, which often challenge power and inequality, don’t always effectively address inequalities. For exam-ple, she says, “If we are not able to address the systematic absence of some groups of peo-ple in our research, we naturalize exclusionary environments as ordi-nary environments, and we don’t get at why

those environments are shaped the way that they are. Who’s being exclud-ed, why, and what are the consequences of that?”

Pascale says she hopes the book will cause readers to rethink these problematic meth-ods so that another generation of scholars will take these chal-lenges a step further.

“My greatest optimism for this book,” she says, “is that it will inspire other scholars to create both critiques and solutions for the kinds of chal-lenges that the social

sciences face in produc-ing reliable knowledge about today’s world.”

Pascale, who was awarded tenure in 2009, is working on anoth-er book, Inequality: The Politics of Repre-sentation in a Global

Landscape (Sage Press, forthcoming 2012), which examines how people around the world perceive rela-tionships of power and privilege, and how those perceptions influence attempted solutions.

Cartographies of Knowledge: Exploring Qualitative Epistemologiesby Celine-Marie Pascale

ARGENTiNA’S REcENT

history is marked by dictatorship, democratic transition, and economic crisis. In her new book, Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina (Palgrave, 2010), Spanish professor Brenda Werth explores how multigenerational memory of this turmoil is represented on stage.

The book explores themes of mourning, justice, memory, and accountability, all of which are relevant to

the country’s history. In the first chapter, for

example, Werth exam-ines playwright Griselda Gambaro’s 1986 version of the Greek tragedy Antigone, which deals with issues of justice and punishment. Furi-ous Antigone, as it is titled, takes place dur-ing Argentina’s transi-tional years, from the last military dictatorship to the advent of democ-racy. Werth juxtaposes a description of a histori-cal performance—the

1985 trial of the military generals who seized power during the late 1970s and early 1980s—with that of a theatrical performance to examine different ways that justice in the early postdictator-ship years can be staged.

Werth spent two years conducting research in Buenos Aires, a city known for its innova-tive theatre. She met playwrights Gambaro, Eduardo Pavlovsky, and Ricardo Monti, and she interviewed

Laura Yusem, the director of Gambaro’s Furious Antigone.

She looks at works by both established and emerging play-wrights, which revealed some interesting find-ings about multigen-erational memory.

“What I’ve seen from

the younger genera-tion is that there’s really a desire to establish their relationship to this dictatorship,” she says. “They’re inheriting the past, but they’re not burdened by it because they’re creating their own perspectives and interpretations of it.”

Theatre, Performance, and Memory Politics in Argentina by Brenda Werth

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Appointments& HonorsPresident Barack Obama nominated Albert beveridge (distinguished historian in resi-dence) for membership on the National Council on the Humanities.

Colleen CAllAhAn (economics) received the prestigious Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excel-lence in Teaching Economic History from the Eco-nomic History Association.

dAvid Culver (environmental science) was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for scientifically or socially distinguished efforts on behalf of the advancement of sciences or its applications.

Washingtonian magazine named dAnielle evAns (literature) one of 40 D.C. attention-getters who shaped 2010.

JAmes girArd (chemistry) was named the third Horace S. and May Davidson Isbell Chair in Chemistry.

robert griffith (history) was awarded the Organization of American Historians Roy Rosen-zweig Distinguished Service Award for his ser-vice to the organization and his contributions to the field.

CAren grown (economics) was awarded $163,415 in the first year of a USAID contract for her work as a senior gender advisor.

dAn KAlmAn (mathematics and statistics) was elected to represent the greater D.C. region on the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America.

In September, PAmelA nAdell (history) was named the inaugural Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History.

sCott PArKer (psychology) was selected as a fellow in both the American Psychological Soci-ety and the Eastern Psychological Association.

Theatre professor meghAn rAhAm (perform-ing arts) designed sets and costumes for Venice, Time magazine’s best musical of 2010.

JACK rAsmussen (director and curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts center) was elected president of the board of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. He also joined the advisory boards of the Asia Society and the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival.

Jerzy sAPieyevsKi (performing arts) received the ASCAPLUS Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.

nAnCy Jo snider (performing arts) was elected to the nominating committee of the Nation-al Association of Schools of Music.

Grants & ResearchsArAh irvine belson (SETH), who works with the Multicultural Career Intern Program, received a $74,625 grant from the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education for Teacher Quality Improvement in Mathematics.

fernAndo benAdon (performing arts) received a $49,777 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a study, “The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history’s interpersonal network.”

Kim blAnKenshiP (sociology) received a $681,282 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a study, “Drug Policy, Incarceration, Community Re-Entry, and Race Disparities in HIV/AIDS.” She was awarded an additional $38,530 as a supplement to the grant.

JeremiAh dittmAr (economics) received a $163,257 grant from the National Science Foundation for his project, “Ideas, Technology, and Economic Change: the Impact of the Print-ing Press.”

douglAs fox (chemistry) received a $300,000 grant from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research for his project, “POSS-Modified Cellulose for Improved Biopoly-mer Performance.”

KAthleen frAnz (history) and AdreA lAwrenCe (SETH) received a $964,000 Teach-ing American History grant in partnership with Dis-trict of Columbia Public Schools to train educators in improved methods for teaching history.

Amos golAn (economics) received a $50,000 grant from the Army Research Office (ARO) to fund his study, “A New Information Theoretic Approach for Modeling Games and Interactive Behavior.”

The National Science Foundation awarded $260,745 to sArAh irvine belson (SETH), miChAel blACK (computer science), JAmes w. bono (economics), JeremiAh e. dittmAr (economics), mAry hAnsen (economics), PhilliP Johnson (physics), AdreA lAwrenCe (SETH), elizAbeth mAlloy (math and statistics), KAthyrn murAtore (chemistry), and KArA m. reynolds (economics). The grant will fund the purchase of a supercomputer.

Arthur shAPiro (psychology) received a $409,404 grant from the National Institutes of Health for his project, “Separating the Visual Response to Color from the Visual Response to Color Contrast.”

General Mills and United Way awarded $20,000 to AnAstAsiA snelling (SETH) and Kelly Miller School to improve the health of students, faculty, and staff. Snelling received a $15,000 grant from a Wider Circle to conduct a study,

“The Impact of an Outdoor Space on the Health and Well-being of Elderly Urban Housing Resi-dents.” The D.C. Department of Health gave Snel-ling a $20,000 grant for her project, “Community Voices for Health: Teachers Take Action.”

Publications & ProductionsIn October, dAniel AbrAhAm (performing arts), conductor of the Bach Sinfonia, re-leased the ensemble’s latest commercial record-ing, Johann Sebastian Bach: Motets, Dorian Sono Luminus.

nAomi bAron (language and foreign stud-ies) published a revised version, in Russian, of her essay, “The People We Become,” in the Informa-tion Society Journal (Institute of the Information Society, Russia; fall 2010). The piece also appears as a chapter in her book Always On.

riChArd breitmAn (history) coauthored and published Hitler’s Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War, a 101-page report based on newly declassified and analyzed government documents.

Kyle dArgAn (literature) published a book of poetry, Logorrhea Dementia: A Self-Diagnosis (University of Georgia Press, 2010) in September.

dAnielle evAns (literature) published a collection of her short stories, Before You Suffo-cate Your Own Fool Self (Riverhead Books, 2010) in September.

JAmes girArd (chemistry) published the sec-ond edition of Criminalistics: Forensic Science, Crime, and Terrorism (Jones and Barlett Learning, 2010) in July.

mAry grAy (mathematics and statistics) con-tributed a chapter, “Women’s Leadership in Math-ematics,” to Gender and Women’s Leadership: A Reference Handbook, (Sage, 2010), edited by KAren o’Connor (SpA).

Peter KuzniCK (history) and Akira Kimura coauthored Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American Perspectives (Horitsu Bunkasha, 2010). The book was released in Japan in November.

PAmelA nAdell (history and Jewish stud-ies), Jonathan D. Sarna, and Lance J. Sussman coedited New Essays in American Jewish History (American Jewish Archives, 2010).

riChArd shA (literature) published a chap-ter, “Byron, Polidori, and the Epistemology of Romantic Pleasure,” in Romanticism and Pleasure: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters, eds. Thomas H. Schmid and Michelle Faubert (Pal-grave Macmillan Press, 2010) in November.

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