Around Webster: Armbruster, Chappell, Hellinger, Kwon, Wallner

Recent academic activities and achievements for Webster University faculty members include:

J.B. Kwon Named YWCA Volunteer of the Year

KwonJong Bum (J.B.) Kwon, assistant professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology in the Webster University College of Arts & Sciences, was recognized as Volunteer of Year recently by the YWCA Metro St. Louis. Kwon’s efforts over the past two years to shape and deliver a place-based, cross-race, action-oriented project as part of the YWCA’S racial justice efforts were honored in a recent virtual ceremony.

The YWCA Catalyst Circle project that Kwon directed, along with a team of activist and academics from local universities, partnered with neighbors from the Tiffany and Botanical Heights communities in south St. Louis City.

Kwon introduced concepts from his teaching and scholarship to
explore how the organization and material structures of space affect one’s daily experiences and one’s social identities and identifications; to examine how people living in the same city and neighborhood can experience and interpret their own and the lives of others so differently; and to analyze how people create social-spatial boundaries and how those not only inform but also form kinds of difference, including race, gender, sex, age, and class.

Armbruster's 'Dog Stories and the Anthropocene'

Professor of English Karla Armbruster's “Our Feral Future: Dog Stories and the Anthropocene.” was published as part of Reading Cats and Dogs: Companion Animals in World Literature, edited by Françoise Besson, Zélia M. Bora, Marianne Marroum and Scott Slovic, Lexington Books, December 2020.

Access the book at Rowman here.

Chappell Presents on Zevon in the '70s

John Chappell presented the paper, "The Sam Peckinpah of Singer/Songwriters? Warren Zevon in the 1970s," to the virtual Southwest Popular Culture Association/American Cultural Association Conference on Feb. 23, 2021.

Chappell is professor of history in the Department of History, Politics, International Relations and Religious Studies.

Hellinger's 3rd Edition of 'Comparative Politics of Latin America'

Daniel Hellinger, professor emeritus of International Relations, has published the third edition of "Comparative Politics of Latin America, Democracy at Last?", with Routledge Press.

Access the book at Routledge Press here.

Wallner Co-edits 'NMR Spectroscopy in Undergrad Curriculum'

Tony Wallner, who retired as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the end of 2020, co-edited "NMR Spectroscopy in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Volume 4: In-Person and Distance Learning Approaches.”

Access the volume at ACS Publications.

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