Recent Faculty Publications

* Denotes a collaboration with Trinity students.

2025-26 Academic Year

Heather Bennett, Assistant Professor of Biology published with Ginger Watzinger ’24 “Ceramide Synthase HYL-2 is Required for Neural Preconditioning to Anoxia in Caenorhabditis elegans.”  Before publication, Ginger prepared the results for a poster that was presented at the 24th International C. elegans meeting held in Glasgow, Scotland, June 24-28, 2023.

 

Ciaran M. Berry, Professor of English published a poetry collection States with Gallery Press.

 

 

 

Sarah Bilston, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of English published the book The Lost Orchid : A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession with Harvard University Press.

 

 

David Sterling Brown, Associate Professor of English published a book chapter ““In Authenticity: (De)Valuing Same-Gender-Loving “BlaQueer” Men in Higher Education,” in The Journey: Truths of Same-Gender-Loving Black Males in Higher Education. He also published “Shakespeare Under the Hood: Teaching, Researching and Learning Shakespeare from Within”

 

Clayton P. Byers, Donald L. McLagan Associate Professor of Engineering published an article with Prof. Skardel and another colleague in Nature “Suppressing unknown disturbances to dynamical systems using machine learning” on chaotic systems, performing both numerical and experimental studies to confirm the ability to back out unknown forcing applied to the systems.

 

Lin Cheng
Karl W. Hallden Professor of Engineering published “Real-time detection system for body part recognition based on pressure perception,” SensorWorld, to appear, 2025.

 

 

Brian Chin, Assistant Professor of Psychology published the article Imagined pet touch versus non-tactile presence: A within-person experimental study of emotional support during stress with Trinity student co-authors Cat Crocker and Noah McEachern.  He also published Human-animal bonds and mental health: Examining the roles of bond strength, interactions, and attachment security with Trinity student Elizabeth Orlando.  He also published Loneliness and insomnia in a representative sample of United States adults: investigating the effects of age, sex, and depression with Trinity students Howard Fung and Kevin Lowe.

Kent D Dunlap, Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology published The Neck
A Natural and Cultural History with University of California Press

 

 

Eric Galm, Professor of Music published the book Evanira Mendes: A Voice from the Brazilian Folklore Movement with the University Press of Mississippi.

 

 

Shane A. Gleason, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Law published an article with former student Krystoff Kissoon: “Well Said!: Professional Norms & Female Justices’ Evaluation of Lower Court Opinion Text.” in Law and Policy.  With other co-authors he also published A Fresh Perspective: Legal Team Gender Composition and Brief Quality at the Supreme Court.

 

Michael A. Grubb, Associate Professor of Psychology published Information-driven attentional capture. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics with Trinity students Doyle, Volkova, Crotty, and Massa.  He also published A preliminary investigation of the interaction between expectation and the reflexive allocation of covert spatial attention with Trinity students Crotty, Massa, and Tellez and another author in Nature Scientific Reports; and with co-authors Modeling Decision-Making Under Uncertainty with Qualitative Outcomes. 

Lindsey A. Hanson, Associate Professor of Chemistry published with co-authors “Polymer Ligands with Quaternary Ammonium Binding Motifs on Metal Nanoparticles Enable Selective Ion Transport for CO2 Electroreduction” in Angewandte Chemie.  This reports a new approach to modifying the surface of metal nanoparticles with polymers through a new type of binding group that creates better conditions at the metal surface to promote electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide, an important component in a sustainable energy toolbox.

Laura J. Holt, Professor of Psychology published “ADHD Symptoms, Resilience, and Quality of Life in Emerging Adults: The Roles of Diagnostic Status and Current Symptomatology” co-authored with thesis student Allison Macht ’24.

 

 

Katsuya Izumi, Senior Lecturer in Language and Culture Studies published “The Transgendered Mothers and Ikai in Japanese Films.” In The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen. Ed. Susan Liddy and Deirdre Flynn.   This chapter points out that the transgender women and mothers in Japanese live-action and animation films reside in marginalised society, suggesting that they can only exist in the different world or ikai (sometimes called isekai) which has become so prevalent that it created one genre, especially in anime and manga.  He also edited the volume with Cambridge Scholars Bridges Between Japanese Culture and Language Teaching.

Tamsin Jones, Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Associate Professor of Religious Studies published “How to Interpret what is Given: Revelation and Hermeneutics in Jean-Luc Marion” in Modern Theology.

 

 

Reo Matsuzaki, Associate Professor of Political Science published “Façade Fictions: False Statistics and Spheres of Autonomy in Meiji Japan” with Fabian Drixler in Politics and Society.  This article won the Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow Best Article Award of APSA’s Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Research Group. This Award is given annually to the best peer-reviewed article employing interpretive methodologies and methods.

 

Channon S. Miller, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History published “Drowning in a Dead River: The Mothers of Charter Oak Terrace and Urban Resistance to Ecological Catastrophe”  in the Journal of African American History.  It was awarded the 2025 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize for the Best article in Black women’s history by the Association of Black Women Historians.

 

Belén Fernández Milmanda,  Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies published the book Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America with Cambridge University Press.

 

 

Florence Muhoza, Visiting Assistant Professor in Formal Organizations published “The Effect of Increased Women’s Legislative Representation on Women’s Well-being” in the European Journal of Political Economy with co-authors.

 

 

Blase A. Provitola, Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies and Women, Gender and Sexuality published the chapter “”Giovanna Rincon and Acceptess-T: Living Archives of Transgender Solidarity in an Age of Homonationalism” in the book Queer Realms of Memory
Archiving LGBTQ Sites and Symbols in the French National Narrative.

 

Sarah A Raskin, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience published “Mobile-based cognitive screening tools in multiple sclerosis: Scoping literature and app store review” with co-authors including Elizabeth Gromisch ’09.  She also published “Prospective Memory Complaints Are Related to Objective Performance in People With Multiple Sclerosis” with Dr. Gromisch.  She published “Development of a checklist for cognitive assessment requirements (CARE) based on a Delphi consensus study” in Nature with co-authors.  She published “Connecticut providers knowledge and attitudes towards use of extreme risk protection orders” with co-authors in Connecticut.

Leslie Ribovich, Director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Public Policy and Law published “Educating for the New Jerusalem to Deliver the Messianic Age: A Fabulative Friendship with Louis Finkelstein and James Baldwin” with co-author Cara Rock-Singer in Jewish Quarterly Review.

 

Ethan Rutherford, Associate Professor of English published the book North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther,  with Deep Vellum Publishing.  This book is a finalist for the National Book Award.

 

 

Sally Seraphin, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience published Putting Science in Black and White: Intensive technical writing through non-disposable assignments as a path for Decolonizing STEM. In Falconer, H., & McLary, L. (Eds), Inclusive STEM: Transforming Disciplinary Writing Instruction for a Socially Just Future. University Press of Colorado/The WAC Clearinghouse. Denver, CO.

 

Ewa Syta, Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of Computer Science published CTng: Secure Certificate and Revocation Transparency with co-authors Kong, James, Leibowitz, and Herzberg.  She also published Unveiling Privacy Risks in Quantum Optimization Services with co-authors Lesniak, Wronski, and Kutylowski.  In addition, she published Provable Security for PKI Schemes with Wrotniak, Leibowitz, and Herzberg.

 

 

 

 

2024-25 Academic Year

 

Mary Dudas, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, published “Confirming The Ladies’ Man: Brett Kavanaugh’s Performances of Masculinity” in Sage Journals.

Amanda Guzman, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, co-authored “Material Storytelling: Student Reflections on Object-Based Research” on the website of the American Anthropological Society’s Council for Museum Anthropology with two anthropology majors, reflecting on their Public Humanities Collaborative research project centered around collections-based work and public writing to establish a forthcoming departmental object lab space.*

Katherine Kete, Borden W. Painter, Jr. ’58/H’95 Professor of European History, has authored the book The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Benedict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium, A study of the experience of nature in the 18th century based on the life of Saussure. (University of Chicago Press, 2024).

Amber Pitt, Associate Professor of Environmental Science, published a study with Olivia Mastrangelo ’23, Isaac Frank ’23, and Dr. Arianne Bazilio the study “Concentration and spatial distribution of lead in mixed use urban park ponds” in the journal Urban Ecosystems examining lead contamination in urban park ponds used for recreation, stormwater management, and wildlife habitat.*

Sarah Raskin, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, published “Expanding the Connection Between Cognition and Illness Intrusiveness in Multiple Sclerosis” with A. Gangi*,  A.P. Turner, F.W. Foley, L.O. Neto, and E.S. Gromisch* in International Journal of MS Care.

Leslie Ribovich, Director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Public Policy and Law, co-au3thored “Will the Supreme Court Force Taxpayers to Pay for Catholic Schooling?” in Slate.

2024-25 Academic Year

Daniel Blackburn, Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology, Emeritus, collaborated with D. Hughes to publish  “Reproduction in reptiles” and “Viviparity in reptiles and amphibians” in Encyclopedia of Reproduction, 3rd Edition, Vol. 6.

David Sterling Brown, Associate Professor of English, published “Baldwin, Shakespeare, Whiteness and (Anti)Fandom: ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’”  in Transformative Works and Cultures; and “What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Racism”  and “Lo Que Shakespeare Puede Enseňarnos Sobre el Racismo” in The Conversation. Professor Brown discussed “The Deep Dive: Shakespeare’s White Others with Dr. David Sterling Brown,”  on the podcast A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare.

Stefanie Chambers, John R. Reitemeyer Term Professor of Political Science, collaborated with A. Davies ’22 to publish “The Success of Somali-American Elected Officials in the Twin Cities,” in Not-So-New Destinations: Changing Integration and Receptivity Experiences in Immigrant Gateway Metropolitan Regions in the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books).*

Robert Cotto, Jr., Director of DEI Campus & Community Engagement, published “Framing of Black and Latinx School Closure in Redeveloping Hartford, Connecticut,” in the Berkeley Review of Education.

Amanda Guzmán, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, collaborated with C. Smith and R.A. Joyce on the chapter “Teaching Museum Curation and Cultural Equity by Design” in Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology (Routledge, 2024).

Michael J. Hatch, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, published Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790-1840 (De Gruyter), an examination of the artistic network of Ruan Yuan (1764–1849), a scholar-official whose patronage supported a generation of artists and learned people who prioritized epigraphic research as a means of truing the warped contours of Confucian heritage.

Gabriel Hornung, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, published Esther Against Joseph’s Backdrop: The Theology and History of an Intertextual Relationship (De Gruyter).Professor Hornung’s examination of MT (Masoretic Text) Esther’s relationship to the Joseph story employs recent advances in author-oriented biblical intertextuality to address the debate concerning the religious purpose of the Scroll.

Lindsey Hanson, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, collaborated with K. Zygadlo, C. Liu, E. Reynoso Bernardo, H. Ai, and M. Nieh to publish “Correlating structural changes in thermoresponsive hydrogels to the optical response of embedded plasmonic nanoparticles” in Nanoscale Advances. She also published “Phenylacetylene-Terminated Poly(Ethylene Glycol) as Ligands for Colloidal Noble Metal Nanoparticles: a New Tool for ‘Grafting to’ Approach” with H. Duan, T. Yang, W. Sklyar, B. Chen, Y. Chen, S. Sun, Y. Lin, and J. He.*

Rosario Hubert, Associate Professor of Language and Culture Studies, published Disoriented Disciplines: China, Latin America, and the Shape of World Literature (Northwestern University Press), which advocates for indiscipline as a core method of comparative literary studies and challenges readers to interrogate the traditional contours of the archives and approaches that define the geopolitics of knowledge.

Tamsin Jones, Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Associate Professor of Religious Studies, published the article “Revelation and the Practices of Reception” in the Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 6.

Mareike Koertner, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, published Proving Prophecy: Dalāʾil al-Nubūwa Literature as Part of the Scholarly Discourse on Prophecy in Islam (Brill).

Serena Laws, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Law, collaborated with M. SoRelle on the article “Deservingness and the Politics of Student Debt Relief” in Perspectives on Politics and “Blame, Policy Feedback, and the Politics of Student Debt Relief Policy” in The Forum: Ahead of Print.

Luis Martinez, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, collaborated with C. Tzianabos ’20 and G. Chouinard ’22 on “Alterations to the copulatory sequence in young adult male Sprague–Dawley rats administered a ketogenic diet” in Physiology & Behavior.

Sarah Raskin, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, collaborated with E. Gromisch, A. Turner, L. Neto, and J. Haselkorn on “Improving Prospective Memory in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis via Telehealth: A Randomized Feasibility Study” in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, and with V. Nejati and L. Ghotbi on “Inhibitory control training improves cold but not warm cognition in typically developing preschoolers,” in Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

Gary Reger, Hobart Professor of Classical Languages, Emeritus, published Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America (Texas Tech University Press, 2024), a  look at human interaction with desert spaces of the American Southwest through specific case studies that include literary texts, sacred spaces, travelers’ narratives, colonial topography, and UFO encounters.

Leslie Ribovich, Director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Public Policy and Law,  published Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools (NYU Press). Professor Ribovich also published “Teaching the Ten Commandments and Bible in Public Schools is about Race and History, Not Just the First Amendment” in Canopy Forum on the Interaction of Law & Religion, and an excerpt from Without a Prayer in The Revealer.

Giancarlo Rolando, Patricia C. and Charles H. McGill III ’63 Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies, collaborated with J.P. Sarmiento Barletti to publish “Indigenous Peoples as resources and resource makers in Peruvian Amazonia”  in The Journal of Peasant Studies, and “Between Co-Management and Responsibilisation: Comparative Perspectives from Two Reservas Comunales in the Peruvian Amazon” in the Bulletin of Latin American Research.