Recent Publications
2024-25 Academic Year
* Denotes a collaboration with Trinity students.
Daniel Blackburn
Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology
- Blackburn, D., Hughes, D.: “Phylogenetic analysis of viviparity, matrotrophy, and other reproductive patterns in chondrichthyan fishes” Biological Reviews (2024)
- “Reproduction in reptiles” and “Viviparity in reptiles and amphibians,” Encyclopedia of Reproduction, 3rd Edition, Vol. 6 (2024)
David Sterling Brown
Associate Professor of English
- “Baldwin, Shakespeare, Whiteness and (Anti)Fandom: ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?,’” Transformative Works and Cultures (September 2024)
- “The Deep Dive: Shakespeare’s White Others with Dr. David Sterling Brown,” A Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare, podcast episode (June 2024)
- “What Shakespeare Can Teach Us About Racism,” The Conversation (May 3, 2024)
- “Lo Que Shakespeare Puede Enseňarnos Sobre el Racismo,” The Conversation (May 5, 2024)
Stefanie Chambers
John R. Reitemeyer Term Professor of Political Science
- Chambers, S., Davies, A. ’22: “The Success of Somali-American Elected Officials in the Twin Cities,” Not-So-New Destinations: Changing Integration and Receptivity Experiences in Immigrant Gateway Metropolitan Regions in the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books, 2024)
Robert Cotto, Jr.
Director, DEI Campus & Community Engagement
- “Framing of Black and Latinx School Closure in Redeveloping Hartford, Connecticut,” Berkeley Review of Education (2024).
Gabriel Hornung Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
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Giancarlo Rolando
Patricia C. and Charles H. McGill III ’63 Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies
- Rolando, G., Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.: “Indigenous Peoples as resources and resource makers in Peruvian Amazonia,” The Journal of Peasant Studies (2024)
- Rolando, G., Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.: “Between Co-Management and Responsibilisation: Comparative Perspectives from Two Reservas Comunales in the Peruvian Amazon,” Bulletin of Latin American Research (2024)
Lindsey Hanson
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Zygadlo, K., Liu, C., Reynoso Bernardo, E., Ai, H., Nieh, M., Hanson, L.: “Correlating structural changes in thermoresponsive hydrogels to the optical response of embedded plasmonic nanoparticles,” Nanoscale Advances (2024)
- Hanson, L., Duan, H., Yang, T., Sklyar, W., Chen, B., Chen, Y., Sun, S., Lin, Y., He, J.: “Phenylacetylene-Terminated Poly(Ethylene Glycol) as Ligands for Colloidal Noble Metal Nanoparticles: a New Tool for ‘Grafting to’ Approach,” NanoLetters (2024)*
Tamsin Jones
Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Associate Professor of Religious Studies
- “Incarnational Phenomenology,” Theological Fringes of Phenomenology (Routledge, 2024)
- “Revelation and the Practices of Reception,” Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion 6 (2024)
Serena Laws
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Law
- SoRelle, M., Laws, S.: “Deservingness and the Politics of Student Debt Relief,” Perspectives on Politics (2004)
- SoRelle, M., Laws, S.: “Blame, Policy Feedback, and the Politics of Student Debt Relief Policy,” The Forum: Ahead of Print (2024)
Luis Martinez
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
- Martinez, L., Tzianabos, C. ’20, Chouinard, G ’22: “Alterations to the copulatory sequence in young adult male Sprague–Dawley rats administered a ketogenic diet,” Physiology & Behavior (2024)
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
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Sarah Raskin
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
- Gromisch, E., Turner, A., Neto, L., Haselkorn, J., Raskin, S.: Improving Prospective Memory in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis via Telehealth: A Randomized Feasibility Study,” Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders (2024)
- Nejati, V., Ghotbi, L., Raskin, S.: “Inhibitory control training improves cold but not warm cognition in typically developing preschoolers,” Child Psychiatry and Human Development (2024)
Academic Year 2023-24
Carol Any
Professor of Language and Culture Studies
- “Liberal Bolsheviks on Creative Writing” (in Russian), Novoe literaturnoeobozrenie (May 2023), as part of a bloc of articles devoted to Soviet approaches to literature as craft
Catina Bacote
Assistant Professor of English
- “On Being Black and Afraid,” Fourth Genre (Winter 2024)
Barbara Benedict
Charles A. Dana Professor of English
- “The Satire of Learning: Voyage III,” The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Daniel Blackburn
Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology
- Blackburn, D., Hughes, D.F.: “Phylogenetic analysis of viviparity, matrotrophy, and other reproductive patterns in chondrichthyan fishes,” Biological Reviews (2024), a large monograph on fish reproduction
- “Heads or tails first? Evolution of fetal orientation in ichthyosaurs, with a scrutiny of the prevailing hypothesis,” BMC Ecology and Evolution (2024) in collaboration with paleontologists from Germany and Switzerland
David Sterling Brown Associate Professor of EnglishShakespeare’s White Others (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Professor Brown’s book is a critical examination of how racial whiteness in Shakespeare perpetuates and reaffirms anti-Blackness and sustains white supremacy. |
Clayton Byers
Assistant Professor of Engineering
- Coauthored with three students: “Investigation of Frequency Coupling in a Restricted Pulsatile Flow,” 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Expo. Won the division of fluid engineering award for best paper.*
- Coauthored with two seniors: “Non-Linear Measurements of Roughness Effects in Pulsing Restricted Flows,” 2023 International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Expo*
Brian Chin
Assistant Professor of Psychology
- Chin, B., Singh, T. ’26, Carothers, A. ’25: “Co-sleeping with pets, stress, and sleep in a nationally-representative sample of United States adults,” Scientific Reports (2024)
- Chin., B., Marcial-Modesto, D. ’24, Casserly, E., Parsons, S., Feeney, B.,: “Pet ownership and mental health in United States adults during COVID-19,” Frontiers in Psychology (2023)
Hasan Cömert
Maloney Family Distinguished Associate Professor of Economics
- Cömert, H., Sabri Öncü, T: “İkili Açmaz çerçevesinden Türkiye’de yakin dönem merkez bankaciliği ve kur krizlerini anlamak,” METU Studies in Development (2023). This article (in Turkish) is part of Professor Cömert’s ongoing research on central banking in developing countries and the Turkish economy.
Kent Dunlap
Professor of Biology
- Dunlap, K., Valiño, G., Quintana, L.: “Androgen receptors rapidly modulate non-breeding aggression in male and female weakly electric fish (Gymnotus omarorum),” Hormones and Behavior (2024)
Scott Gac Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Professor Gac examines the political culture of violence from the American Revolution to the Gilded Age. |
Amanda Guzmán
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- Guzman, A., Smith, C., Joyce, R.: “Teaching Museum Curation and Cultural Equity by Design,” Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology (London: Routledge Press, 2024). Describes work and challenges associated with teaching museum anthropological practice and community engaged scholarship.
Brianna Halladay
Assistant Professor of Economics
- Halladay, B., Landsman, R.: “Shame on me: Emotions and gender differences in taking with earned endowments,” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (2024)
Lindsey Hanson
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Hanson, L., Salas Sanabria, S. ’25: “Pressure and Composition Effects on a Common Nanoparticle Ligand–Solvent Pair” (2024)*
- Hanson, L., Zygadlo, K. ’23, Reynoso Bernardo, E. ’24, Nieh, M., Liu, C.: “Correlating structural changes in thermoresponsive hydrogels to the optical response of embedded plasmonic nanoparticles,” Nanoscale Advances (2024)*
Michael J. Hatch “Networks of Touch: A Tactile History of Chinese Art, 1790–1840” (Penn State University Press, 2024). A sensory history of early nineteenth-century Chinese art focused on the role touch played in re-orienting artistic practices across mediums. |
Adam Hill
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
- Hill, A., Salzmann, H., Knapp, A., Ashmore, Q., Heston, W., Rundell, L., Cunningham, T., Jahncke, C.: “Time-Resolved Silica Luminescence Probes Photoinduced Electron Transfer from Heterobinuclear Units to 2,2′-Bipyridine and O2,” J. Phys. Chem. C (2024)
Laura Holt
Professor of Psychology
- Holt, L., Langdon, S., Feinn, R.: “Who persists and who desists? A prospective study of prescription stimulant misuse in college graduates,” Journal of Drug Issues (2024)
- Holt, L., Latimer, L.: “Emerging adults’ experiences with e-cigarette cessation,” with L.J. & Latimer, L., Substance Use and Misuse 59(3), 405-410 (2024)
- Holt, L., Mattanah, J., Feinn, R., Katzenberg, C., Albert, E., Boarman, R., Bowley, O., Marszalek, K., Visalli, T., Daramola, D., Abduljalil, M.: “Attachment representations and emotions in teaching as antecedents to teaching styles in higher education,” International Journal of Higher Education (2024)
Katsuya Izumi
Lecturer in Language and Culture Studies
- “Reading Japanese Americans’ Traumas in the Censored Internment Camp Newspaper Manzanar Free Press,” Polyphonie (2023)
Tamsin Jones
Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Associate Professor of Religious Studies
- “Incarnational Phenomenology,” Theological Fringes of Phenomenology (London: Routledge, 2023)
Samuel Kassow Warsaw Testament, by Rokhl Auerbach (White Goat Press, 2024) is Professor Kassow’s English translation of a memoir by Rokhl Auerbach, a journalist, literary critic, memoirist, and member of the Warsaw Yiddish literary community before the Holocaust. |
Seth Markle
Associate Professor of History and International Studies
- “’Spray It Loud’: Hip Hop Graffiti Culture and Politics in Dar es Salaam, 2003-2018,” in Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross Cultural Understanding (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023)
Kevin J. McMahon A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People (University of Chicago Press, April 2024). Professor McMahon offers an account of today’s Supreme Court within the context of U.S. history and the broader structure of contemporary politics. |
Anthony M. Messina Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State: The Politics of Migration Regulation in Europe and the United States, with Gallya Lahav (Cambridge University Press, 2024). An analysis of the political forces and evolving norms shaping the immigration policies of contemporary liberal states. |
Garth Myers
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies
- “Archipelagic Thinking, Southern Urbanism, and Experimental Comparisons,” in The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies (London: Routledge, 2023).
- “A Century of Urban Planning for Zanzibar’s Other Side, 1923-2023,” Planning Perspectives (2023)
Irene Papoulis The Essays Only You Can Write (Broadview Press, 2023). Professor Papoulis’s textbook for beginning college writers encourages students to think like academics by pursuing and developing their unique curiosities and interests. |
Miguel D. Ramirez
Ward S. Curran Distinguished Professor of Economics
- “A Critical Note on Ricardo’s views on Absolute and Relative Value in terms of Labor Values,” History of Economic Thought and Policy (2023)
- Ramirez, M., Chamlagai, P.: “Public Investment, Private Investment, and Labor Productivity in Nepal: A Cointegration and VECM Analysis,” Business and Economic Research (2023)
- “Do Remittances Promote Labor Productivity in Mexico? A DOLS and FMOLS Analysis, 1970-2017,” Western Economics Association Meetings (2023). Professor Ramirez also acted as discussant of a paper by Xianyu Zhang titled, “Estimation of Panel Data Models with Heteroskedastic Data.”
Sarah Raskin
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
- Nguyen, C. A.*, Raskin, S. A., Turner, A. P., Dhari, Z., Neto, L. O., & Gromisch, E. S.*: “Patterns of prospective memory errors differ in persons with multiple sclerosis” (2024)
- Raskin, S., DeJoie, O.*, Edwards, C.*, Moran, J.*, Ouchida, C.*, White, O.*, Mordasiewicz, M.*, Anika, D.*, Njoku, B.*: “Traumatic brain injury screening and neuropsychological functioning in women who experience head trauma and non-fatal strangulation as a result of intimate partner violence,” The Clinical Neuropsychologist (2024)
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre
Professor of History
- Podcast discussions of “Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World” (University of California Press, 2022), Quality of Life podcast (August 7, 2023) and New Books Network (February 2024)
- “Should Wine History Have a Post-colonial Future? British Imperial Viticulture and Settler Colonialism,” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association/Revue de la Société historique du Canada (2023)
- “Punchbowls in the Attic: A Mid-Century History of Punch,” Perspectives on History, American Historical Association (2024)
Gary Reger • Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America (Texas Tech University Press, 2024). Professor Reger’s book looks 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. • “Merchants and Traders on Hellenistic Delos,” The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (ca. 1000-49 B.C.E.) (Oxford University Press, 2024). |
Mary Sandoval
Seabury Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
- Sandoval, M., Gittins, K., Gordon, C., Membrillo Solis, I., Rossetti, J., Stanhope, E.: “Can the Hodge Spectra Distinguish Manifolds from Orbifolds? Part 2,” Michigan Mathematics Journal (2024).
Craig W. Schneider
Charles A. Dana Professor of Biology, Emeritus
- Schneider, C., Wynne, M.J.”: “The reinstatement of Ceramothamnion H.Richards (1901), a replacement name for the newly described Stirkia (Ceramiaceae, Rhodophyta),” Notulae algarum, (2023).
- Schneider, C., Saunders, G.W.: “Australasian Lophothamnion J.Agardh aligns genetically with Pleonosporium Nägeli (Wrangeliaceae, Spongoclonieae): new species from the western Atlantic,” with G.W. Saunders, Cryptogamie Algologie (2024).
- Schneider, C., Saunders, G.W.: Taxonomic addendum with nine new species in NEAS keys to the benthic marine algae of the Northwest Atlantic and Canadian Arctic from Long Island Sound to Cambridge Bay (3rd edition), Northeast Algal Society Contribution no. 3, Northeast Algal Society (2024).
Alyson K. Spurgas
Associate Professor of Sociology
- Spurgas, A., Schwebach, E.: “Feminized Trauma, Responsive Desire, and Social/Global Logics of Control” in Globalization, Displacement, and Psychiatry (Routledge, 2023). This chapter represents a dialogue between two interdisciplinary social theorists who discuss how psychological assumptions and psychotherapeutic practices are too often complicit with structural patterns of oppression, including gender-based violence and sexual control.
Benjamin Toscano
Assistant Professor of Biology
- “Among-individual behavioral responses to predation risk are invariant within two species of freshwater snails,” Ethology (2023). Coauthored with five Trinity students.*
* Denotes a collaboration with Trinity students.