Celebrating Scholarship

Emily Drummer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Film, received a MacDowell Fellowship, LEF Foundation grant, and NYSCA Support for Artists Award for her film project In the Keeping, which explores the human pursuit of an ideal image in the ever-changing, unwieldy body of a fish.

Denise Iris, Assistant Professor of Film, received a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Support for Artists Award for her feature film Dreams, Drooms, Dromes, which uses finger puppets to bring to life audio recordings of the yearly festival of the Rainbow Gathering.

Colin Echeverría Aitken, Assistant Professor of Biology, was awarded renewed funding by the National Institutes of Health for his ongoing research project, The Role of the mRNA-entry Channel Arm of eIF3 in mRNA Recruitment.

Paulina Bren, Adjunct Professor of Multidisciplinary Studies on the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair in the Humanities and Director of the Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies Program, is the author of the recently published She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street (W.W. Norton).

Arpitha Kodiveri, Assistant Professor of Political Science, is the author of the recently published Governing Forests (Melbourne University Press), which explores how the nations of the Global South are making decisions about natural resource use.

Candice Lowe-Swift, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Erendira Rueda, Associate Professor of Sociology, received an Alliance to Advance Liberal Arts Colleges award for “Beyond Inclusion and Belonging: Telling Future Histories of Classrooms from 2050,” a multi-institution workshop animated by the question, “What more is needed, beyond current DEIB efforts, to make our colleges nurturing and supportive places to learn?”

Michael H. McCarthy, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, is author of Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship, published by Rowman and Littlefield. In the book, Professor McCarthy describes the many crises confronting American democracy and identifies their philosophical, cultural, and institutional origins. He argues that a liberal education, properly understood, can address several of these crises effectively.

Kariane Calta, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, and Benjamin Lotto, Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Statistics, together with colleagues from Skidmore College and Union College, received a grant from the National Science Foundation to co-host the Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference for the next three years.

Robert DeMaria Jr., Professor of English on the Henry Noble MacCracken Chair, and Robert D. Brown, Professor Emeritus of Greek and Roman Studies, are co-editors of The Complete Poems of Samuel Johnson, published in June 2024 by Routledge for the Longman Annotated English Poets series.