Faculty News

Poets and performers Sacharja Cunningham ’17 and Shaina Coronel ’17, along with Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jessica Gordon-Burroughs, facilitated a bilingual spoken word project during the fall semester.

HowStuffWorks, a site that attracts 30 million visitors monthly, published an essay titled Was 2016 a Replay of 1968? in which Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, explained the similarities and differences between the two tumultuous years.

While the Broadway musical Hamilton took the nation by storm in 2016, there was plenty happening at the “original” Hamilton too. Here’s a look back at the stories that garnered the greatest attention on the College’s news site this year, based on the number of views.

A research article by Visiting Assistant Professor of French Cynthia Laborde appears in the December 2016 issue of the French and Francophone studies journal French Review.

“Interactions and Inequality” by Philip Pearle, professor of physics emeritus, was published as a chapter in Quantum Nonlocality and Reality, 50 years of Bell’s Theorem.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Government David Rivera and Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera published an oped on the Electoral College’s upcoming vote for president on Dec. 15 on the online site, Medium.

Immediately following the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 14 announcement of its first rate hike since 2006, Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics, discussed the decision on National Public Radio’s Here & Now program during a live interview.

Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali was recently invited to teach literature at Institut Supérieur Pédagogique de la Gombe in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“Saints, Pagans, and the Wonders of the East: The Medieval Imaginary and its Manuscript Contexts,” a research article by Associate Professor of History John Eldevik, appears in the 2016 volume of Traditio.

The Alpinist, a publication and website dedicated to world alpinism and adventure climbing, recently introduced an article with a quote from Professor of History Maurice Isserman’s book, Continental Divide.