Professor of History and International Relations on the Shirley Ecker Boskey Chair Bob Brigham is the author of a new book being published by the University of Chicago Press. Brigham’s memoir, This is a True War Story, captures the improbable intertwining of his professional and personal history and the Vietnam War.

Associate Professor of English Tracy O'Neill was honored with a 2025 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Writing. The Fellows are chosen through a competitive nomination and jury process for each discipline: visual arts, writing, and composing.

The Huntington has awarded Lisa Paravisini-Gebert, Professor of Hispanic Studies on the Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair and Chair of Hispanic Studies, with the year-long Avery Distinguished Fellowship in the Humanities for her book project entitled, The Mighty Ceiba: Sacred Tree of the American Tropics.

Mark Andrews, Emeritus Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, wrote the introduction, and with Professor Lizabeth Paravisini, Professor of Hispanic Studies on the Randolph Distinguished Professor Chair, co-translated the poems in their anthology, Looting Hummingbirds: Selected Poems of Daniel Thaly, Poet of Dominica. The edited volume, in French and English, is published by Papillote Press, which specializes in publishing monographs on the Caribbean.

Abigail Schwartz, Class of 2027, was awarded an Undergraduate Research Grant by Psi Chi, The International Honor Society in Psychology, in support of her mentored research project on disordered eating behaviors among college students.