Celebrating Scholarship

Paulina Bren has written a “captivating portrait” (The Wall Street Journal), both “poignant and intriguing” (The New Republic): from award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous residential hotel and the women who stayed there, including Grace Kelly, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion.

Professors of Earth Science Laura Haynes, Kirsten Menking, and Jeffrey Walker received a National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities (EAR/IF) grant to acquire a Tabletop Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometer (EDS).

Professor Kumar’s The Blue Book is a mix of original artwork and journal entries reflecting on the COVID pandemic as it unfolded.

Andrew Meade, Director of International Services and Assistant Dean of Student Growth & Engagement, and Wendy Maragh Taylor, Associate Dean of the College for Student Growth & Engagement, received U.S. Department of State Afghan Placement and Assistance (APA) program funding through an International Rescue Committee (IRC) grant.

Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair, received a research grant from the New Perspectives in Studies of American Governance program, a partnership between American University, Purdue University and the Hewlett Foundation’s US Democracy program.

Thomas Porcello, Professor of Anthropology and Dean of Studies, and Justin Patch, Associate Professor of Music, are co-authors of Re-Making Sound: An Experiential Approach to Sound Studies, newly published by Bloomsbury Academic. Re-Making Sound guides readers through multiple ways of conceptualizing sound and its links to social phenomena.

George Ciccariello-Maher, Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, is the author of Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance, forthcoming for 2022 from the University of California Press. This study explores the reversal of the balance of power between the oppressor and the oppressed.

Anne Brancky, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, is the author of The Crimes of Marguerite Duras: Literature and Media in Twentieth-Century France, recently published by Cambridge University Press. This work explores a new framework for analyzing Duras’ literary works and journalism.

Lisa Gail Collins, Professor of Art and Director of American Studies on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair, was appointed the Peter P. and Margaret A. D’Angelo Endowed Chair in the Humanities at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, for a semester of teaching and scholarly exchange in Spring 2022.