Voices of Excellence

Voices of Excellence


Latest Episodes

Gregory Jusdanis Looks at the Poet C. P. Cavafy and Blossoming in Middle Age
February 09, 2022

Gregory Jusdanis, Humanities Distinguished Professor of Classics, researches modern Greek literature and culture, including the poet C. P. Cavafy. His recent work has been a biography of Cavafy, co-wr

The Metaverse is Not Just For Marvel, Says Kevin Richards
February 02, 2022

Kevin Richards, Lecturer and Outreach Coordinator in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, defines the “metaverse” as the embodied Internet. His research follows the work of John Dewey

What Kind of Animals Are Those? Questions of Art With Michael Mercil
January 26, 2022

Michael Mercil, Emeritus Professor of Art, has created sculpture, drawing, painting, landscape architecture, film, and performance for regional and national exhibitions. His installations at Ohio Stat

The Importance of Vision for Emotions to Michelangelo: Christian Kleinbub
January 19, 2022

Christian Kleinbub, Professor of History of Art, studies the arts of the Italian Renaissance, with particular focus on issues of image theory, naturalism, the body, and period conceptions of vision an

Sedentary Versus Pastoralist Logic With Mark Moritz
January 12, 2022

Mark Moritz, Professor and Graduate Studies Chair in Anthropology, studies the transformation of African pastoral systems, specifically examining how pastoralists adapt to changing ecological, politic

How Errors In Protein Formation Lead To Diseases
January 05, 2022

Kotaro Nakanishi, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, studies Argonaute proteins and how they join with microRNA to form complexes in cells. Errors in this process can lead to many different types of

Have you been reading Dickens all wrong? Maybe, says Robyn Warhol
November 03, 2021

Distinguished Professor of English Robyn Warhol r…

Mark Rudoff on simultaneously looking forward and backward
October 28, 2021

Mark Rudoff, associate professor of cello in the …

Independent voters respond more to negative ads, says Richard Petty
October 20, 2021

Richard Petty, Distinguished University Professor…

Got a crisis? Lanier Holt knows what you should say
October 13, 2021

Lanier Holt--associate professor in communication