A recent article by Channon S. Miller ’11, assistant professor of American Studies and history, “Drowning in a Dead River: The Mothers of Charter Oak Terrace and Urban Resistance to Ecological Catastrophe” (The Journal of African American History), was awarded the 2025 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize for the Best Article in Black Women’s History from the historic Association of Black Women Historians.
The Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize is awarded annually by ABWH. The competition was open to all articles concerning Black women’s history in the United States and African Diaspora published between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025, including those written by members and non-members of ABWH. Winners were honored at the annual business meeting.
Miller is a Hartford-raised, interdisciplinary scholar of Black women’s interior and exterior lives. She received her undergraduate degree in American studies from Trinity College in 2011 and completed her doctorate at Boston University, also in American Studies, in 2017. She excavates stories about Black women, Black resistance, Black cultures, and Black diasporas of the recent past from geographies often hidden from view.
Katsuya Izumi, senior lecturer in language and culture studies, has received a grant award from the Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies to support research for an upcoming book.
Trinity College Assistant Professor of International Studies Natassja B. Gunasena was awarded a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars to support research that she plans to publish as a book.
A Trinity College faculty member will share her expertise at a screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher in Hartford.
Trinity College Associate Professor of History Jonathan Elukin has received a yearlong residential fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year at The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
