College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences. Find links to a number of recent stories below.

"Dayton Gets Real: Hundreds gather at Dayton Arcade to learn ways of healing racial divisions"
WHIO-TV 7, April 7, 2022
Lecturer Chad Sloss, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

"Local scholars, activists challenge Dayton, suburbs to wrestle with legacies of segregation"
Dayton Daily News, April 7, 2022
Roesch Chair in the Social Sciences and Professor Leslie Picca, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

"New book points to need for racial reckoning in women’s religious orders"
Catholic News Services, April 6, 2022
Associate Professor Shannen Dee Williams, Department of History

"Shame and secrecy shroud culture of sexual assault in boys’ high school sports"
The Conversation, April 6, 2022
Associate Professor Jamie Small, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work

"Redistricting in Ohio was supposed to be nonpartisan. How did it get so messed up?"
Dayton Daily News, April 3, 2022
Associate Professor Nancy Martorano Miller, Department of Political Science

"I wrote the first full history of Black Catholic nuns in the U.S. Here’s what I learned."
America Magazine, March 31, 2022
Associate Professor Shannen Dee Williams, Department of History

"Ohio campaigns brace for possible primary delay over redistricting dispute"
CBS News, March 30, 2022
Associate Professor Nancy Martorano Miller, Department of Political Science

"Ohio Supreme Court could hold Ohio Redistricting Commission in contempt of court"
Dayton Daily News, March 30, 2022
Associate Professor Nancy Martorano Miller, Department of Political Science

"Redistricting chaos: What’s happening, why it matters and what it means"
Dayton Daily News, March 30, 2022
Associate Professor Nancy Martorano Miller, Department of Political Science

"Some Catholics stress need for dialogue with Black Lives Matter movement"
Florida Catholic Media, March 29, 2022
Associate Professor Shannen Dee Williams, Department of History

"Incident at the Oscars between Will Smith and Chris Rock"
WDTN-TV 2, March 27, 2022
Professor James Farrelly, Department of English

"Russia’s allies have been pretty quiet on Ukraine"
The Washington Post, March 25, 2022
Lecturer Autumn Lockwood Payton, Department of Political Science

Top of page (l-r), top row: Shannen Dee Williams, Leslie Picca, Nancy Martorano Miller. Bottom row: Jamie Small, James Farrelly, Autumn Lockwood Payton.