Celebrating Scholarship

Charles Steinhorn, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, was awarded a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to undergird the ongoing STEM Teaching Experiences for Undergraduates (TEU) program in New York City, in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History and Barnard College.

Hannah Gaff, Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama, and core ensemble member of Uplift Physical Theatre, received an Arts Envoy Program Grant, to travel to Karachi to perform in the 2023 Pakistan Theatre Festival. The company taught workshops in physical theater and acrobatics and participated in panel discussions.

Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, received funding to work on the creation of synthetic data for the Survey of Earned Doctorates and Development. The team of collaborators will produce a synthetic data file with tiered access for public use, explore its use for evidence-building, and test the use of verification metrics in validating estimates produced from the data.

Alberto Gelmi, Assistant Professor of Italian, co-edited a recently published volume entitled Rappresentare per includere. Metodi, strumenti e testi per un italiano plurale. The publication was made possible by the generous support of Vassar’s Research Committee and the University of Arkansas, and it was launched on October 17 at the Italian Institute of Culture in New York City during the Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel mondo (the week of the Italian language in the world).

“In this highly original book published by Bloomsbury Academic, Susan Hiner, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, looks behind fashion’s seams and focuses on the women fashion producers—both working- and middle-class – who were key to shaping the French fashion economy.”

April M. Beisaw, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, received an award from the Putnam County Historian for her new book Taking Our Water for the City: The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities.

Mark Emerick, Assistant Professor of Education, is the recipient of a National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, which supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research.

Principal Investigator Hadley Bergstrom, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, and co-PIs Bojana Zupan, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, and Jennifer Kennell, Associate Professor of Biology, received a Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant from the National Science Foundation to purchase a new state-of-the-art confocal microscope platform for basic research and teaching at Vassar, which will fundamentally transform faculty research, faculty-mentored undergraduate research, and advanced-level teaching.

Nancy Bisaha, Professor of History, is author of the newly-published From Christians to Europeans: Pope Pius II and the Concept of the Modern Western Identity, (Routledge), an in-depth examination of Pope Pius II’s development of European identity as conceived by this influential early thinker.