Courtney Blondino, assistant professor of health studies, published "Latent Structure of Past 12-Month Tobacco Use in Wave 6 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health: Examining for Differential Substructure by Generational Status" in Substance Use and Misuse with students, Fernanda Moya Quezada, ’26, and Caitlyn Hall, ’26.
Mariama Rebello de Sousa Dias, associate professor of physics, published "Anisotropic Optical Response of Gold-Silver Alloys" in Physica Status Solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters.
Douglas Winiarski, professor of religious studies, was awarded the annual John M. Murrin Essay Prize for “Revisioning the Shawnee Prophet: Revitalization Movements, Religious Studies, and the Ontological Turn” for the best article published in Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal in 2024.
Sara Pappas, associate professor of French and visual culture, published the book Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century.
Joonsuk Park, associate professor of computer science, published the paper "Are LLM-Judges Robust to Expressions of Uncertainty? Investigating the effect of Epistemic Markers on LLM-based Evaluation" in the Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL).
Eric S. Yellin, associate professor of history, participated in the American Historical Association’s Congressional Briefing, offering historical perspectives on the federal civil service.
Michael Marsh-Soloway, teaching faculty of literatures, languages, and cultures, published The Mathematical Mind of F. M. Dostoevsky: Imaginary Numbers, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and Infinity.
Corey Payne, assistant professor of sociology, published "Billionaires and Capitalist Development in World-Historical Perspective," in the journal Sociology of Development. A newly released dataset on the wealthiest individuals in the world between 1450 and 1914 is featured in the article.
Rhiannon Graybill, Marcus M. and Carole M. Weinstein & Gilbert M. and Fannie S. Rosenthal Chair of Jewish Studies, was tapped as founding co-editor for a new Bloomsbury book series called Sexing Scripture. The series publishes cutting edge research on gender, sex, sexuality, and religious texts.
Alicia Díaz, associate professor of dance, reflects on the MAPA dance project in “Excavando juntas en el paraíso,” in categoría cinco. The collaborative performance took place in the ruins of the Cine Paradise, a former movie theater in downtown Río Piedras, Puerto Rico.
Timothy Barney, professor of rhetoric and communication studies, was awarded the 2025 Mednick Faculty Fellowship Award from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Collegesin the amount of $2,800 for the project, "Mapping the Ford Foundation," a digital humanities initiative co-led with Nicole Sackley, associate professor of history and American studies. The University of Richmond selects one faculty member annually to apply for the grant.
Associate professor of art, Jeremy Drummond’s film Monument, has been acquired for distribution by The Film-Makers' Cooperative, the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world.
