Through the Boston Medical Library, the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School offers annual fellowships to support research in the history of medicine. Tanya Sheehan, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art, has been awarded a 2019-20 fellowship to conduct research for her new book on African-American artists and their engagement...
Professor of Education Adam Howard has coauthored the article “Preparing Democratic Leaders Within a Middle Eastern Context” recently published in the Kappa Delta Pi Record. Cowritten by his colleague Claire Maxwell from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, the article focuses on the global citizenship education (GCE) initiative at Olive Grove Academy, an elite coeducational boarding school in Jordan....
An essay by Associate Professor of English Elizabeth Sagaser was published in 2019 in the Bulletin, the publication of the Emily Dickinson International Society. The essay, titled “’Tis Centuries – and yet’: Teaching Dickinson and the Presence of the Past,” describes Sagaser’s approach to helping her students become more analytical readers and thinkers by teaching them to...
An article by Steve Simon, professor of the practice of international relations, appears in the upcoming Feb. 13, 2020, issue of the New York Review of Books. Titled “The Middle East: Trump Blunders In,” Simon writes that the assassination of Qassim Suleimani “perpetuated the inconsistency of US policy toward the Middle East and its tendency to overreach. As...
Assistant Professor of Art Bradley Borthwick has been invited by the Contemporary Sculpture Society to speak at the University of Arkansas. Borthwick “has completed stone-carving residencies in Country Donegal, Ireland, and Gunnison County, Colorado. He has also received research grants supporting travel to Rome, Italy, and the Orkney Islands of Scotland, where studies of remnant cultural...
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch has been invited to join the editorial board of the Maine Arts Journal. Appearing on a quarterly basis, the Maine Arts Journal is the official online publication of the Union of Maine Visual Artists. In addition to writing the introduction to the issues (which she did for the first time in the fall issue...
Professor of Biology Catherine Bevier coauthored a paper in the January 2020 issue of Ecology and Evolution titled “Environmental influences on and antimicrobial activity of the skin microbiota of Proceratophrys boiei (Amphibia, Anura) across forest fragments.” Together with her research colleagues in Brazil, Bevier’s research seeks to answer such questions as “what factors determine the microbial community...
In a New York Times op-ed, Steve Simon, professor of the practice of international relations, discusses hypersonic missiles, weapons that “have long been an object of desire by Russian, Chinese and American military leaders, for obvious reasons: Launched from any of these countries, they could reach any other within minutes,” Simon wrote in the Jan. 2 opinion piece. “The biggest...
Adrian Blevins, professor of English and creative writing, has five new poems published in the January-February 2020 issue of American Poetry Review. The poems, including “Crone Status,” “Old Boyfriend Prison Status,” and “Academician Abecedarian Status,” come from her forthcoming collection, Status Pending.
The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) has continued the appointment of Robert Gastaldo as an academic researcher. Gastaldo, the Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, had been associated with the Smithsonian for close to 35 years. His current research with SIFP is with the Smithsonian’s William DiMichele, and together they seek to understand what happened to Deep Time...
The Chicago Public Library selected Biddy Mason Speaks Up, cowritten by Arisa White, assistant professor of creative writing, as one of it’s 2019 Best of the Best in the “Best Informational Books for Older Readers” category. The book, part of the “Fighting for Justice” series, tells the story of healer, midwife, and civil rights champion Biddy Mason, who...
A November 21 NPR feature headlined “Why Money Can’t (Usually) Buy You a Successful Campaign” featured Professor of Government Anthony Corrado, an expert on campaign finance. The story, on scores of stations and websites across the country, discussed wealthy candidates currently seeking the nomination and noted that while President Donald Trump’s successful self-funded bid for...
Dean Allbritton, associate professor of Spanish at Colby, spoke about his academic research at Stony Brook University in New York Nov. 6 as part of a distinguished alumni speakers series in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature. Allbritton, who earned a Ph.D. at Stony Brook in 2011, presented “Bad Blood: Visions of Hemophilia in...
On Nov. 9, Associate Professor of Philosophy Keith Peterson presented a paper in Germany on the work of Nicolai Hartmann as part of a conference, “Philosophical Anthropology as an Interdisciplinary Praxis: Historical & Systematic Perspectives.” Peterson’s lecture, titled “Hartmann’s Contribution to an Ecological Materialist Anthropology,” was presented at the University of Cologne. The conference was...
Robert Gastaldo, Colby’s Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology, and colleagues recently published an article in the journal PALAIOS, that upsets long-held beliefs about the End-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago. Gastaldo is coauthor of an article titled “Testing the Daptocephalus and Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zones in a Lithostratographic, Magnetostratigraphic, and Palynological Framework in the Free State,...
The December issue of National Geographic has an extended feature on the thousands of tigers kept in captivity in the United States, and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies is quoted about the history of the animals in the country. The article is headed, “Captive Tigers in the U.S. Outnumber Those in the Wild. It’s a...
Colby’s William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry Jeffrey Katz is coauthor of an article in the Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry published in October 2019. The article, “Evaluation of carboxylic, phosphonic and sulfonic acid protogenic moieties on tunable poly(meta-phenylene oxide) ionomer scaffolds,” which appears in volume 57 of the journal, is...
Assistant Professor of English Megan Cook lectured Nov. 14 in Austin, Texas, giving a talk titled “The First First Folio: Editing Chaucer in Renaissance England.” The lecture, sponsored by the Harry Ransom Center and the University of Texas English Department, examined the lasting impact of Geoffrey Chaucer and his place in literary history. Details are...
In connection with the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev’s birth, India’s largest independent news service quoted Crawford Family Professor of Religion Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh about celebrations. On OutlookIndia.com the IANS story relates Singh’s observation that Sikhs and non-Sikhs are increasingly coming together to celebrate Guru Nanak, the first Sikh. Such celebrations, including when Colby’s...
Infobae.com, a major news website based in Argentina, interviewed Professor of Government Anthony Corrado about the 2020 U.S. presidential election one year out from the vote. In the story Corrado discussed differences between Democratic candidates Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren as well as issues dividing Republicans and Democrats. Corrado also considered potential effects of the...
