Faculty News
Promotions
Elisabeth Root was promoted to professor with research interests in human health and disease, disease ecology, global public health, program evaluation, and spatial statistics. Her current research straddles the crossroads of Geography and Public Health. She is currently heavily involved in research covering topics ranging from Infant Mortality rates in Ohio to the COVID-19 public health crisis.
Appointments
Elisabeth Root was appointed to serve a 3-year term on the Geographical Sciences Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine starting Jan 2020.
Madhumita Dutta was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Global Labour Journal. This journal is an open-access, fully peer-reviewed online journal. The purpose of the journal is to provide access to scholarly work in the research area of labour and the activities associated with labour across the globe. Exploring the role of globalization, this journal investigates the impacts of global versus local, as well as other areas.
Becky Mansfield was elected to the nominating committee of the American Association of Geographers.
Jialin Lin will serve on the University Senate Committee for Evaluation of Central Administrators for a three-year term beginning in August 2020. This committee works with the President and Provost to write annual review reports for central administrators.
Joel Wainwright was selected to join the inaugural cohort of the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme’s (GAHDT) Society of Fellows for his planned contributions to the theme, Human Rights: Pasts and Futures. This fellowship will involve a semimonthly seminar throughout the academic year 2020-2021. The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme facilitates collaboration across disciplines by providing support to faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers to engage in responsible and ethical social change.
Awards and Recognition
Stavros T. Constantinou (OSU Mansfield) was awarded $5,000 grant from the Sustainability Institute for his education abroad program in Cyprus. This funding is intended to reduce the program fee for all students and make the program more accessible.
Darla Munroe is part of a team that won a Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER), award, administered by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). The project “Identifying conditions for successful landscape-scale conservation policy implementation in Vietnam" will be led by Dr. Thuy Thu Pham of the Center for International Forestry Research in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Kendra McSweeney received the Carl O. Sauer Award. The Sauer Award is given in recognition for a corpus of important published work or other significant contributions towards Latin American geography. In addition, Kendra McSweeney received the Distinguished Career Award from the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Specialty Group of the AAG. The award emphasized, "the incredible breadth of her scholarship. A rare three-degree geographer, she has published on varying topics from ethnobotany to urbanization of indigenous populations. Her most recent research engages in the illicit geography of cocaine, sexual harassment in academia, and the military agro-industrial complex.
Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson (Earth Sciences) were featured speakers at the 2019 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Induction Ceremony on October 12, 2019
Madhumita Dutta was a featured speaker at the Association for India's Development (AID) event regarding the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster on November 26, 2020 at the Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Yue Qin received an early-career award (Yuxiang Early Career Award) from the Chinese American Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (COAA). The award aims to recognize outstanding Chinese and Chinese-American young scholars in oceanic and atmospheric sciences and related fields.
Jialin Lin is one of the finalists for the Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (OTA). This year more than 100 faculty were nominated, and 5 finalists were selected. First awarded in 1947, the Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award is particularly notable because the nomination and selection processes are entirely administered by students through the Arts and Sciences Student Council. Each year the faculty winner and finalists are recognized for this honor at the Arts and Sciences Spring Recognition Reception.
Elisabeth Root has received the 2019-20 ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award, which recognizes outstanding performance in all three areas of research, teaching, and service of mid-career faculty at the time of promotion to professor.
Grants and Research
Steven Quiring was part of a team of Ohio State researchers who received a $2.98 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) grant to develop and implement bold, transformative models for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in graduate education training.
Madhumita Dutta and her research team have been awarded an Institute for Population Research seed grant to study precarious work and mental well-being among Bhutanese Nepali refugees in Central Ohio.
Elisabeth Root will serve as the faculty mentor on the project. Bhutanese Nepali refugee community has been identified as an at-risk population by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Ohio Mental Health & Addiction Services due to high rates of suicides, PTSD, depression and substance use. The research will bring fresh insights into the conditions of precarity related to work
Max Woodworth, together with David Staley (History), received a Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant titled, "Asian Futures."
Elisabeth Root and Bridget Freisthler, associate dean of research in the College of Social Work, have received COVID-19 Seed Funding from the Office of Research. Their project will explore the COVID-19 crisis in the context of stress, social support concerns and any geographic factors associated with punitive parenting practices, including physical punishment.
Yue Qin is co-PI on a COVID-19 seed grant funded by the Office of Research. The project aims to quantify employment effects and environmental burdens resulting from investments in infrastructure in response to COVID-19 crisis.
Bryan Mark's project “Tracing Cryo-Hydro-Social Transformations in the Tropical Andes” has received the 2020 Distinguished International Engagement Award. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in and commitment to international outreach and engagement through a project with a long-term record of sustained impact.