Research and Honors, September 2024

Research and Honors is a monthly column of the Illinois State Report newsletter, celebrating recent Honors, Publications, and Presentations of faculty and staff.

Honors

Rajeev Goel, ECO and Katie School of Insurance, was ranked in the top 1% of all economists in the German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) and researchers born there. Publications from 2019 to 2023 and forthcoming articles by Forschungsmonitoring (forschungsmonitoring.org).

Publications

Eric Hodges, Emergency Management, published an article in the IAEM Bulletin, on the topic of "Special Focus on Changing Landscape of Emergency Management - The Office of Institutional Resiliency: Is the Time Right?"

Vladimir Kotomin, FIL, co-authored a research article titled, "Forgive me not? Racial and Institutional Disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness," in Small Business Economics. This research started as collaboration between a professor and two undergraduate students, who won a FIREbird summer 2022 research grant from the Office of Student Support to work on this research.

Rachel E. Scott, Chad E. Buckley, and Julie A. Murphy, all Milner, co-authored with collaborators from other institutions the article, "'Academic Publishing is a Business Interest': Reconciling Faculty Serials Needs and Economic Realities at a Carnegie R2 University," in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, August 2024.

Allison Harris, Physics, co-authored with collaborators from other institutions the paper titled, "Unveiling the electron-induced ionization cross-sections and fragmentation mechanisms of 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyran," in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

Ali Riaz, POL, published the following:

• The Diplomat, "Bangladesh Carnage: The Facts that Belie the Government Narrative," August 1, 2024.
• New Atlanticist, "A violent crackdown has put Bangladesh at a crossroads," August 2, 2024.
• Foreign Affairs, "The Remarkable Downfall of Bangladesh's Iron Lady," August 6, 2024.
• New Atlanticist, "Hasina is out. Yunus is in. Here are the three biggest factors to watch in Bangladesh." August 8, 2024.
• Prothom Alo (Bengali), "Young people are writing a new chapter in politics," July 31, 2024.

Ana Navas Mendez, ANT, authored a chapter titled, "Metallurgy and Colonization in the Eighteenth-Century Jesuit Missions of the Middle Orinoco Basin, Venezuela," in both an English and Spanish version of Venezuelan Historical Archaeology: Current Perspectives on Contact, Colonialism, and Independence, June 2024.

Dan Knorr, HIS, published an article titled, "A Provincial Legacy of Autocracy: Shandong's Luoyuan Academy in and beyond the Yongzheng Reign" in Ming Qing yanjiu. This article reexamines the reputation of the Yongzheng emperor (1678-1735) as a centralizing autocrat from the perspective of a local Confucian academy in the city of Jinan.

Camille Cole, HIS, published an article, "The radical instability of the present," in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Richard Hughes, HIS, coauthored a chapter entitled, "Searching for Metaphors: Exploring Teacher Candidates," in Teachers and the Epistemology of History, Palgrave Macmillan Publishing, 2024.

Rajeev Goel, ECO, and collaborators form other institutions co-authored, "Supply chain constraints and research spending: an international investigation," published in The Journal of Technology Transfer, August 2024.

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