The Academic Minute for 2021.05.10-2021.05.14

The Academic Minute from 05.10 – 05.14

Monday, May 10th
Robert Edgell – SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Humans and Outer Space
Dr. Edgell is currently a Professor of Technology Management and Co-Director of the Joint Center for Creativity, Design, and Venturing at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. He directs Innovation Challenge New York (ICNY), an integrated community-based experiential learning, research, and service program and has been a recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Swiss Business School in Zurich and has delivered research papers and lectures at Stanford University’s Law School, the University of California San Francisco’s School of Dentistry, the California College of the Arts, and the University of St. Gallen. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business where he was named Outstanding Faculty. Also, he has taught at San Francisco State University’s College of Business.

Tuesday, May 11th
Elizabeth Kiester – Albright College
A Virus Without Papers: The Impact of COVID-19 on Immigrant Communities
Dr. Elizabeth Kiester is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Albright College in Reading, PA.  She specializes in Gender and Family Studies particularly within labor market organizations and globally with regard to immigration.  Her most current research projects focus on the impact of COVID-19, precarious status, detention, and deportation on immigrant communities.  She teaches a wide spectrum of classes including Sociology of the Family, Work and Family Conflict, Parenting and Technology, and Immigration and Transnational Families.  She received her PhD in Sociology from Utah State University (Logan, UT) and her BA in Political Science and Sociology from Carroll College (Helena, MT).

Wednesday, May 12th
Joseph Seiner –  University of South Carolina School of Law
Sexual Harassment: It’s Prevalence in the Workplace and Failure in the Courts
Joseph Seiner is a Professor of Law and the Oliver Ellsworth Professor of Federal Practice at the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he teaches the labor and employment law curriculum. Professor Seiner has been featured in a number of national media sources, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Fortune. Professor Seiner is an author and co-editor of the Workplace Prof Blog. His upcoming book, The Virtual Workplace, will be published with Cambridge University Press in May, 2021, and will examine how recent technological developments have impacted both employees and employers.  The Virtual Workplace also addresses the prevalence of sexual harassment in the technology sector.

Thursday, May 13th
Ying Liu – University of Southern California Dornsife
Anti-Asian Discrimination
Dr. Liu is a behavioral scientist and senior statistician who aims to better understand how we can improve health and education. She received her Ph.D. in quantitative psychology and M.S. in statistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining USC, she taught many years at Fordham University.

Friday, May 14th
Ingrid Nelson – Amherst College
We’ve Always Done Nothing
Ingrid Nelson is an Associate Professor of English at Amherst College. She studies medieval literature and poetry, with a focus on the premodern history of ideas.