Voices of Excellence
Interviews with researchers at The Ohio State University
Episodes
Kristen Lindquist, professor of psychology, shares her research with host David Staley. Lindquist researches what emotions are and how the brain creates them. She challenges the common view that emotions are triggered, instinctive packages generated by dedicated brain centers like the amygdala. Lindquist summarizes neuroimaging evidence...
Charles O. Anderson, OSU’s fourth artist laureate, professor of dance, and founder of the Afro contemporary Charles O. Anderson Dance Theater X, discusses being a “kinetic storyteller.” Anderson prefers this term because it understands movement as knowledge production, memory transmission, and meaning-making shaped. Hi...
Danielle Schoon, assistant teaching professor of sociology, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) fellow, and recipient of the Ohio State University’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, discusses her many areas of expertise with host David Staley.
Schoon, trained in cultural anthropology with earlier work in ...
On the 250th Anniversary of the United States, take a minute to reflect on Christopher McKnight Nichols’ question of “Can Those Who Know History Avoid Repeating It?”
Nick Passalacqua, associate professor of anthropology, discusses how anthropologists recover and analyze skeletal remains to build biological profiles including age, sex, stature, and ancestry. He contrasts real methods with those of TV dramas (such as Bones), noting the field relies on careful measurement and collaboration rather than ...
Steve MacEachern, distinguished professor of statistics, discusses his field, how he got into statistics, and what feature he has to have in his job.
MacEachern earned a doctorate at the University of Minneso...
“I’ve loved dinosaurs since I was a little kid. A lot of kids like dinosaurs. It’s sort of like measles: most kids get it, most kids get over it. I never got over it. I still love dinosaurs.”
Dale Gnidovec, collections manager and curator of the Orton Geological Museum, received the Ohio Department of Natural ...
Ryan Joyce, assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies, researches decolonization, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic World. His scholarship foregrounds the study of creolization, gender and sexuality, diaspora and migration, performance, and marronage (slaves escaping captivity). Joyce is especially interested in decolonization...
What’s causing yellow perch to disappear from Lake Erie’s waters? Ohio State professor of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology Stuart Ludsin is on the case. One part of his research is a look at Lake Erie where he suspects the spiny water flea, a half-inch invasive zooplankton with a barbed spine, to play a role in the ...
Lucia Dunn, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economics, studies a wide range of topics in the realm of empirical economics. She talks about her vast body of research, which covers topics from baseball cards and credit cards to wages in the U.S. Army. Dunn discusses her research emphasis on l...
John E. Davidson, Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature and Founding Director of OSU’s Film Studies program, discusses film as a field of study and its power to shape social memory. Davidson outlines recent research on the postwar “disappearance of race” in Germany and the work of Dadaist Hans Arp and his cont...
Felecia Ross, Associate Professor in the School of Communication, discusses her research and writing on the history and influence of the Black press. She describes her field research contributions to the PBS documentary Bombshell, particularly journalist Charles Loeb and his reporting on the truth about radiation casualties in Hiroshima...
Nima Dahir, Assistant Professor and Provost’s Fellow in the Department of Sociology, discusses her research in urban sociology and the intersections of race, ethnicity, and immigration. She talks about a current project on the historic presence of Black immigrants in cities, including New York’s Harlem neighborhood and Colum...
Agus Munoz-Garcia, Associate Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State Mansfield Campus, explains his research in physiological ecology, including studies on resource allocation (how animals distribute limited nutrients among different biological functions) using a unique cockroach speci...
John Hunter, Associate Professor in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State Newark campus, discusses his research in the evolution, paleoecology, and biogeography of mammals and dinosaurs. He talks about his recently published research on duck-billed dinosaurs, where he studied roughly 75 to 80 mill...
Klaus Honscheid, Professor of Physics, talks about dark energy, dark matter, and his work on the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). He discusses the universe’s accelerating expansion, the unknowns of dark energy, and how working with cosmology has im...
Kurt Gray, Professor and Weary Foundation Endowed Chair in Social Psychology at the Ohio State University, talks about his research on morality, political division, beliefs, and polarization. He discusses his novel, Outraged: Why we Fight about Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground, in which he makes conclusions about divi...
David Brewer, Associate Professor in the Department of English, talks about his research on 18th-century literary culture, the history of the book, and the fantastical and historical functions of magic. He discusses his upcoming book project The Fate of Authors, which challenges conventional literary-historical narratives and emphasizes...
Chris Coleman, Professor of Arts and Director of ACCAD (the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design), describes his identity as a “critical arts engineer,” who translates technology for creative practice. He recounts leaving mechanical engineering for art, and explains how his work in sculpture, animation, creative...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Sociology, discusses her board range of work in the field of genocide studies. She explains the concept and legal definition of genocide, rooted in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, and shares insights into her research on forecasting and preven...
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