Faculty Highlights

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  Gunkel Presentation

  Dieter Gunkel, assistant professor of historical linguistics, presented “Poetic meter, lexical distributions, and linguistic reconstruction” at the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London’s workshop Recent Advances in Comparative Linguistic Reconstruction. The presentation relies on collaborative work with Mathematics Professor Taylor Arnold and Linguistics Professor Kevin Ryan (Harvard University).

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  Ayers named to Leadership Council

  Dr. Edward L. Ayers, Tucker-Boatwright Professor of Humanities and President Emeritus, was named a charter member of the St. John's Church Foundation Leadership Council.

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  Grollman Anthology

  Co-edited anthology with Dr. Manya C. Whitaker, Counternarratives from Women of Color Academics: Bravery, Vulnerability, and Resistance (Routledge 2019), aims to challenge the dominant narrative about women of color in the academia.

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  Gunkel Linguistics Book

  Classics professor Dieter Gunkel co-edited the volume Verba Diem Celebrent (Beech Stave Press), to which he contributed a case study on reconstructing the Rigveda.

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  Maurantonio Publishes New Book

  Nicole Maurantonio and David W. Park, eds. Communicating Memory & History (New York: Peter Lang, 2019). Taking "communication, history, and memory," this book asks how the work of communication historians can expand the interdisciplinary field of memory studies.

   
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  Dumbaugh Article

  Dr. Della Dumbaugh recently published an article about Dr. Ruby Horne, who worked with the movie Hidden Figures. [“The Hidden Figure of Hidden Figures: Rudy Horne,”Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 66 (February, 2019): 202-210]

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  Singh Wins Prestigious Fellowship

  On the Verge: Experiments in Extinction. Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars encourage long-term, ambitious scholarly projects at an important stage of the academic career. These awards are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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  Wandering Spirit: African Wax Prints

  Featured in Art Daily, the exhibition is a tribute to the centuries old handmade designs and patterns on textiles that originated in Indonesia.

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  Richards Article

  Professor Bedelia Richards in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has published a policy brief, "How to Create Inclusive Environments for Black Students on Predominantly White College Campuses" with Scholars Strategy Network. 

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  Lambert Co-Author of New Article

  On "Maternal-Induced Shifts," Reproductive Experience Alters Emotional and Cognitive Biobehavioral Responses in Rats.