Anna Babel, Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, spent 17 years gathering ethnographic data for her 2018 book, Language at the Border of the Andes and the Amazon. She discusses how language use creates similarities and differences among speakers of Spanish and Quechua with host David Staley. She then turns to a topic closer to home, her experience leading ally trainings for campus community members interested in supporting undocumented students. Tune in to the Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences podcast, available on Soundcloud and iTunes.

Ellen Peters, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Director of the Decision Sciences Collaborative, joins David Staley to discuss judgment, decision making and choice architecture, as well as Prof. Peters' forthcoming book, Innumeracy in the Wild: Misunderstanding and Misusing Numbers. Tune in to the Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences podcast, available on Soundcloud and iTunes.

Going through an airport security checkpoint calls for people to enact the same physical movements. The Bord(hers) improvisational dance project created by Lucille Toth, assistant professor of French at The Ohio State University Newark campus, aims to explore these motions and ask how borders impact immigrants. Dr. Toth will speak at the February 23 TEDxOhioStateUniversity: http://go.osu.edu/Toth. You can listen to Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences on SoundCloud and iTunes

Trucks, buses, autonomous cars, scooters and bikes: everyone is crowding onto roadways. Professor and Chair of Geographic Information Science in the Department of Geography Harvey Miller talks with David Staley about how GIS can help make sense of it all. After you listen to the Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences podcast, available at https://soundcloud.com/voices_arts_sciences and on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/voices-of-excellence-from-arts-and-sciences/id1436204139?mt=2 , see Prof Miller when he's the featured speaker at the February 17 Science Sundays: https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/research/science-sundays

So you've found a 28 volume transcription of a 1920s spiritualist who believed a thwarted seventeenth century authoress spoke through her. What do you do? Theatre Professor Jennifer Schlueter's approach with this and other texts is to work with collaborators to create performance events built out of archival material. Listen in as she describes her process and how, with experimental work, sometimes failure is the best teacher.

Professor Jim Peck, professor and interim chair of the Department of Economics, describes what causes bank runs, whether Federal Deposit Insurance works to prevent them, and what financial crises qualify as bank runs. You can listen and subscribe to Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences, on SoundCloud and iTunes.

Her grandfather is credited with saying “Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State," so it's no surprise that Irina Artsimovich has a passion for science, including "trying to channel [her curiosity] to find new antibiotics because we desperately need them." You can listen and subscribe to Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences on SoundCloud and iTunes.

Professor Sarah Iles Johnston joins David Staley to discuss how myths and engaging narratives of all kinds—including modern narratives such as LOTR—create belief, and the way that telling stories might have contributed to human survival. You can listen and subscribe to Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences on SoundCloud and iTunes.

Over the past 50 years, the percentage of women attaining degrees in higher education has risen to 56% of all college degrees. Professor Buchmann discusses the history and impact of this change with David Staley on Voices of Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences, available on SoundCloud and iTunes.

Mytheli Sreenivas, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, describes her research and her award-winning book, Wives, Widows, Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India, with David Staley on this week's Voices of Excellence From the College of Arts and Sciences, available on SoundCloud and iTunes.