Recent Faculty Publications

* Denotes a collaboration with Trinity students.

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.