Messina accepted the honor during the business meeting of the Migration and Citizenship Section of the APSA on September 4, 2026.
Anthony M. Messina, John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, accepts the 2026 Career Achievement Award.
This award recognizes and celebrates career achievement through outstanding scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship that has advanced the understanding of migration and/or citizenship in political life.
The APSA Migration and Citizenship Section brings together political scientists working on issues of migration and citizenship to promote teaching and research in the field, and to encourage communication among political scientists and scholars of migration and citizenship in related disciplines, including policy and other professionals, domestically and internationally.
Stefanie Chambers, professor of political science and chair of Trinity’s Political Science Department, called Messina’s award “a well-deserved honor to mark his decades of work as a leading scholar, professor, and mentor in the field.”
Paintings by Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts Jenny Wu are part of a two-person exhibition at the Windsor Art Center in Windsor, Connecticut, from November 14, 2026, through January 2, 2027.
Trinity College faculty members were recognized for their outstanding achievements in scholarship, teaching, service, and leadership at the 2026 Faculty Excellence Awards ceremony, held October 29 in Mather Hall’s Washington Room.
Pablo Delano’s installation, The Museum of the Old Colony, opens this fall at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP). It brings together around 300 photographs and objects that invite reflection on the history of Puerto Rico.