Faculty Focus-May 7, 2025
Faculty members put their knowledge into action so students and others are able to benefit from it. Recently, faculty published peer-reviewed articles, were interviewed in high-impact publications, and won prestigious awards.
Habib Battah
Habib Battah, an adjunct faculty member of the Global Studies department, was recently honored with a National Headliner Award, one of the oldest and most respected journalism prizes in the United States.
His article, “Beirut and the Birth of the Fortress Embassy,” published in Middle East Research and Information Project, received third place in the In-Depth Magazine Story on a Major News Event category. Past winners of the 90-year-old prize include journalism icons William Randolph Hearst and Edward Murrow, and this year’s winners also included top publications such as Bloomberg and Fortune.
Battah also appeared live on TRT World (Turkish international television news), as a Middle East expert to provide analysis of events in the region, and his research on the political economy of archaeological excavations was highlighted last month in a news documentary "Beneath Beirut," where he was interviewed among other leading academic experts in the field.
Battah is an investigative journalist, political analyst and founder of beirutreport.com. He has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 20 years, contributing to The Guardian, BBC News, Al Jazeera English, CNN, Fortune, Jacobin and others.
Grace Huang
Political Science Professor Grace Huang was recently interviewed by WalletHub for her opinion on the best and worst states for working mothers.
Huang, who is writing a book about work-family balance, has been conducting interviews with working mothers in Taiwan, Spain, and the United States in order to compare and contrast familial democracies—such as Taiwan and Spain—with liberal democracies, such as the United States.
Howard Eissenstat
Laurentian Associate Professor and Chair of History Howard Eissenstat was recently quoted in a number of articles in the German-language press, including Der Tagesspiegel, on Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's sudden concern about Caesarian births in his country.
Eissenstat notes that, for Erdogan, this issue is tied to pro-natalist policies that he has advocated for years. Eissenstat further argues that the revival of these concerns reflect Erdogan's desire to divert public attention away from mass public demonstrations as he attempts to suppress them.
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