Faculty News

Assistant Professor of History Rebecca Gruskin was recently awarded a 2026 ACLS Fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Ruskin is one of 63 scholars chosen for the award in a multi-stage peer review process.

Professor of Asian Studies Abhishek Amar was invited to deliver the keynote address at the symposium “Ephemera & Place in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern World,” which was organized by Yale University’s art history department on April 17.

Amy Gaffney, director of the Oral Communication Center, presented a paper titled "Applying Communication Center Work to Supporting Oral Exams" at the National Association of Communication Centers annual Excellence at the Center conference, April 9-11 at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Associate Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams co-authored a paper with Yingtao (McQueen) Li ’28 and Eric Chung ’28 titled “Cross-societal evidence of sex differences in preference for emotional support from friends.”

Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies Amy Marvin was invited to present at a conference and symposium to celebrate the release of Kevin Richardson's book The End of Binaries: How Gender and Sexuality Come in Degrees at Duke University.

Assistant Professor of Biology Elena Tonc recently received funding from the National Vulvodynia Association (NVA) to study the pathophysiology of vulvodynia and identify therapeutic targets for this chronic pain condition.

Professor of French and Francophone Studies Martine Guyot-Bender was invited by the Language, Literature and Linguistic department at Syracuse University to deliver the keynote address at the 27th conference themed “(De)construction.”

Open Casket, a co-edited volume by A. Todd Franklin, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy & Africana Studies, has been selected for a Featured Review in Choice, the premier reviews publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL).

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang recently published an article in Humanities (Volume 15, Issue 3, 2026), titled “Governing Survival, Managing Excess: Selection, Evaluation, and Survival Labor in The Wandering Earth Franchise.”