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Previous Awards & Honors

Previous Awards and Honors

David Sterling Brown, Associate Professor of English

  • “Querying the White Other,” Shakespeare Lecture Series, Hobart and William Smith Colleges (October 2024)
  • “Page to Stage in the Digital Age,” Digital Theatre+ and Shakespeare Association of America Webinar (September 2024)
  • “Shakespeare’s White Others and Black Shakespeare,” Contours: The Cambridge Literary Studies Hour Webinar (September 2024).
  • “Hood Pedagogy: Exploring Shakespeare from Within,” International Shakespeare Conference, Stratford-Upon-Avon, England (July 2024)
Tasmin Jones, Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Associate Professor of Religious Studies

  • “Erotic Responsibility: Phenomenology, Ethics, and the Study of Religion,” keynote address at the Northeast Philosophy of Religion Colloquium, Huntington.
Isaac Kamola, Associate Professor of Political Science

  • Director of the American Association of University Professors’ new Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom. Funded by a two-and-a-half-year $1.5 Million Mellon Foundation grant to the AAUP, Isaac will be responsible for collaborating with AAUP staff and outside experts to research and write a “threat assessment” and disseminate the research to varied audiences.  Read more in Trinity News.
Robert Kirschbaum, Professor of Art

  • Recipient of a 2024-25 Fellowship Grant in art from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. These grants are designed to assist Jewish individuals and organizations in carrying out independent, scholarly, literary, or art projects in a field of Jewish specialization, and contribute to the ongoing preservation and creation of global Jewish culture.
Susan Masino, Professor of Psychology

  • President’s award to Professor Masino and students, Thea Nguyen and Dyna Chhem, for their Public Humanities Collective Project titled “Voices of Keney Park.”
Amber Pitt, Associate Professor of Environmental Science

  • Served as an invited expert in the latest update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Assessment of tortoises and freshwater turtles, which occurred 18-19 November 2024, at the Turtle Conservancy’s headquarters in Ojai, California, USA.
Daniel Said Monteiro, Visiting Assistant Professor of History

  • Awarded the 2025 Dissertation Prize of the Division of History of Science and Technology in the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DHST-IUHPST) for his doctoral dissertation “Monitored Connections: Transnational Nagasaki and the Circulation of Hybridized Cosmologies in Early Modern Japan (1630–1720),” completed at Université Paris Cité in 2023.
Sally B. Seraphin, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

  • Fall 2024 Visiting Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford, UK.
  • Fall 2024 Visiting Academic, Evolutionary Biology Section, Department of Biology,University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Summer 2025 Karush Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.
Ewa Syta, Associate Professor of Computer Science

  • Prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar award for 2024-25 to conduct research in her native country of Poland. In collaboration with researchers at Poland’s National Research Institute (NASK) under the supervision of the Ministry of Digital Affairs, Syta plans to develop a long-term strategy for the implementation of a digital identity wallet for Poland.  Read more in Trinity News.
  • Scientific Supervisory Committee Member, Cybersecurity Training Expert Center (ECSC), Ministry of National Defense, Poland.
David Sterling Brown, Associate Professor of English
Tasmin Jones, Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Associate Professor of Religious Studies

  • “Facing Climate Crisis: Attention as Method,” plenary lecture presented at International Network in Philosophy of Religion, Perugia, Italy (June 2024).
Tim Landry, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies

  • Named editor with anthropologist Alma Gottlieb) for the University of Pennsylvania Press’s Contemporary Ethnography Series. Founded in 1989, the series encourages ethnographic writing that gives voice to the people whose lives it records, to recreate those lives rather than merely describe them, and to encompass in this recreation the complexity, ambiguity, and emotion that are central to human experience.
Mary Sandoval, Professor of Mathematics

  • Appointed Seabury Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

Previous Grants & Awards

Catina Bacote, Assistant Professor of English

  • Recipient of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM) Mellon Arts & Practitioner Fellows program to develop new work while sharing expertise and learning from the university community.
Dang Do, Assistant Professor of Political Science

  • Recipient of a $20,00 grant from The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving under their 2024 Civic Engagement and Get Out the Vote initiative for his project, A Civically-Engaged Approach to Social Network GOTV in the Hartford Community.
Kent Dunlap, Professor of Biology

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: Predator Effects on the Brain, Spring 2024.
Claire Fournier, Senior Lecturer and Laboratory Coordinator in Biology

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: Exploring the Causes of Dyskinetic Syndrome in Spiders, Fall 2023.
Hebe Guardiola-Diaz, Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroscience

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: Uncoupling of Structure-Function Relationship within Fibroblast Growth Factor Subfamilies, Fall 2023.
Amanda Guzmán, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

  • Recipient of the Young Scholars Grant, from the International Council of Museums, International Committee for Museology, Transnational Island Museologies Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, 2024.
Christopher Hager, Hobart Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English

  • Recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for research and writing leading to the publication of The Public Library and the Unfinished Civil War, a book on how the ascendancy of U.S. public libraries during the Reconstruction Era (1863–1877) has shaped their subsequent history.
Eureka Joshi, Thomas McKenna Meredith ’48 Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Science

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: Biosolids Land Application: Effects on Soil Health and Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems in New Hampshire, Fall 2023.
Kirsti A. Kuenzel, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: An Attack on Vizing’s Conjecture, Fall 2023.
Timothy Landry, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: Willful Things: Encountering Sorcery and the Ontological Alive in West Africa, Fall 2023.
Rebecca Pappas, Assistant Professor of Theater and Dance

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: We Are Destroying Ourselves: A Dance Wrecking, Spring 2024.
Dan Román, Associate Professor of Music

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: “DVXNS,” Fall 2023.
James Staples, Visiting Assistant Professor of English

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: Radical Reflections: The Revolutionary Influence of The Mirror of Simple Souls in Late-Medieval Europe, Spring 2024.
Christopher Swist, Visiting Lecturer in Music and Director of Recording Arts

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: “Equal Simplicity,” Spring 2024.
Jenny Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

  • Faculty Research Grant, Trinity College: Hexagon Shaped Sculptural Painting, Fall 2023.
Britney Jones, Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies

  • Recipient of a $63,154 grant from the Connecticut State Department of Education/University of Connecticut for her work on Equity in Academic Recovery. This grant is part of the Center for Connecticut Education Research Collaboration (CCERC).
Ewa Syta, Associate Professor of Computer Science

  • Recipient of a grant supplement from the National Science Foundation to fund research experiences for two students for her NSF-funded project, Applied Cryptographic Protocols with Provably-Secure Foundations.

Previous Keynotes & Invited Talks

Pablo Delano, Professor of Fine Arts

  • Plenary Speaker: / May 30, 2025
    Center for the Arts in Society Annual Conference 2025, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
    “The Museum of the Old Colony Does the Old World”
  • Invited Speaker / Feb. 26, 2025
    Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
    “The Museum of the Old Colony”
Tasmin Jones, Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Associate Professor of Religious Studies

  • Plenary Address: “Revelation and Practices of Reception,” Phenomenology and Revelation Conference 2023, Huntington, New York, August 16, 2024. Publication forthcoming in the Journal of Continental Philosophy of Religion.
Sally Seraphin, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

  • Atypical Convergences: Folk Wisdom, Life History Theory, and the Evolutionary Developmental Neurobiology of Traumatic Stress. Evolutionary Biology Section Seminar, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, UK. November 26, 2024. (Host: Aziz Aboobaker, Ph.D.)
  • Deciphering Developmental Timing: Gene Expression Patterns in a New Experimental Model System (Agalychnis callidryas) Illuminate Accelerated Maturation After Early Stress in Humans. Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. January 29, 2025 (Host: Dr. Linnaea Ostroff).
Ewa Syta, Associate Professor of Computer Science

  • Panel Participant, “Who Benefits from Polish American Academic Exchange?”, European Congress of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, November 2024.
  • Keynote Speaker: the 9th Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC 2025), “Measuring Trust and Improving Security in Web-PKI: From Certificate Transparency to CTng”, June 2025.
  • Keynote Speaker, Opening Address for the MAK (Mentoring Aktywnych Kobiet) Program, NASK – National Research Institute, Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, May 2025.
  • Speaker and Panel Participant, “Between Theory and Practice: Implementation Challenges of eIDAS 2.0”, Polish Bank Association (Związek Banków Polskich), March 2025.
  • Panel Organizer and Participant, “Państwo Blockchain” Conference – Challenges and Solutions Related to the Implementation of the EU eIDAS 2.0 regulation and the EU Whistleblower Protection directive, May 2025.
Barbara Benedict, Charles A. Dana Professor of English

  • “Jane Austen Panel on ‘The Collected Works of Jane Austen’ play,” The Playhouse on Park, West Hartford, Conn., October 1, 2023.
  • “Jane Austen” for The College Club of Hartford, The Hartford Golf Club, West Hartford, Conn., September 29, 2023.
Hasan Cömert, Maloney Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics
Scott Gac, Professor of History and American Studies

  • “The Post-Civil War Global Gun Market” (for the panel “18th and 19th century Gun Manufacturing in New England”), 2023 Arsenals of History Symposium, Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Springfield Armory National Historic Site, Springfield, Mass., August 25, 2023.
Kifah Hanna, Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies

  • “Reimagining Gender: Arabic Language and the Evolution of Inclusivity,” New England Arabic Teachers Council Conference, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Mass., Spring 2024.
Laura Holt, Professor of Psychology

  • “Understanding and preventing prescription stimulant misuse in college,” Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Conn., February 2024.
Timothy Landry, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies

  • Keynote: “Willful Things: Encountering Sorcery and the Ontological Alive in West Africa,” Conference on Methods and Media of the Absent/Present: Visual Approaches to Vodun and Vodou, University of Zürich, Switzerland, September 14-15, 2023.
Seth Markle, Associate Professor of History and International Studies

  • Moderator: “Creative Hustle: Blaze Your Own Path and Make Work That Matters by Olatunde Sobohehin and sam seidel,” Academic Innovation for Public Good: A Series of Book Conversations Over Zoom, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., August 2023.
Priscilla Meléndez, Professor of Language and Culture Studies

  • “Ser y no ser es la respuesta’: La máscara del humor en el teatro de Sabina Berman,” Feria Internacional del Libro de Monterrey, Monterrey, México, October 11, 2023.
Garth Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies

  • Keynote: “Urbanization Trends in Africa,” U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 30, 2023.
Diana R. Paulin, Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of English and American Studies
Amber Pitt. Associate Professor of Environmental Science

  • “Effects of climatic variation on growth rate and sex ratio of freshwater turtles,” 31st International Congress for Conservation Biology, Kigali, Rwanda, July 23-27, 2023.
  • “Ecology at a turtle’s pace: Insights into the effects of exploitation, habitat degradation, & climate change,” Fall 2023 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Seminar Series, Department of Biology, San Diego State University.
Sarah Raskin, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

  • “Cultural Considerations in Assessment of Brain Injury after Interpersonal Violence,” a talk comparing women who speak Spanish to those who speak English in terms of memory, attention, and problem-solving after experiencing interpersonal violence, International Neuropsychological Society, New York, February 16, 2024. Co-authored with current and former Trinity students.*
Mary Sandoval, Seabury Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy

  • “Can the Hodge Spectra Distinguish Manifolds from Orbifolds?,” Algebra and Geometry Seminar, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M., March 28, 2024.
Craig W. Schneider, Charles A. Dana Professor of Biology, Emeritus

  • “On the application of European binomials for western Atlantic marine macroalgae by 19th century taxonomists,” with G.W. Saunders, 8th European Phycological Congress, Brest, France, August 20-26, 2023.

Hasan Cömert, Maloney Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics

  • Workshops: “Understanding the Turkish Economy in the Aftermath of Recent Earthquakes from a Macroeconomic Perspective” and “The Transformation of Politics and Economics Under the Justice and Development Party,” Izmir, Turkey, June 16-23, 2023.