Celebrating Scholarship

Mita Choudhury, Professor and Chair of History on the Evalyn Clark Chair, has been awarded a Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) fellowship to support her book-length project The Silent Chain: History and Reckoning in the Catholic Church.

Candice Lowe Swift, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Erendira Rueda, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Latin American and Latinx Studies, published Academic Belonging in Higher Education.

Leah Isseroff Bendavid and her collaborators are investigating the potential application of boronic acids as anchoring groups in dye-sensitized solar cells with a computational study the scope of which is only possible through ACCESS—an advanced computing and data resource supported by the National Science Foundation. The results of this study will inform ways in which dye-sensitized solar cells can be optimized to improve their stability and efficiency.

Amitava Kumar, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair, is author of The Yellow Book: A Traveller’s Diary, “an arresting document of our times, an irresistible peek into a writer and artist’s heart, and a clarion call for hope.”—Udayan Mitra, Executive Publisher, HarperCollins India.

Elizabeth Thiele, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Biology, has been a Technical Consultant for The Carter Center since 2015, and recently received the Center’s renewed support toward her ongoing research into the population genetics of Dracunculus medinensis (Guinea worm).

Harry Roseman’s video Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, Guangzhou, China, was accepted into the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (VAEFF), and is a semi-finalist for numerous other festivals. His work is based on approximately 3,500 photographs of his travel in China as well as about 30 hours of sound.  

Lisa Gail Collins, Professor of Art on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair and Director of Vassar’s American Studies Program, is author of Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt, a thickly layered story of a work-clothes quilt made in mourning and the memory of its making.

Kimberly Williams Brown, Assistant Professor of Education, is co-author of Say, Listen: Writing as Care, a new book by The Black | Indigenous 100s Collective. A project of seven scholars working within Blackness and Indigeneity, the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective takes a new approach to thinking, writing, and practicing care.

Published by the University of California Press, this important work “is the first book to investigate film soundtracks—including original scoring, preexisting music, and sound effects—through the lens of large-scale tonality.”