{"id":3139,"date":"2024-04-10T02:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T02:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/dean-of-faculty\/?page_id=3139"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:28:00","slug":"awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/dean-of-faculty\/meet-the-faculty\/faculty-accomplishments\/awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards & Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Awards and Honors<\/strong><\/h2>\n

2025-26 Academic Year<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"DavidDavid Sterling Brown, <\/strong>Associate Professor of English served as a CTL Fellow and Office of Community and Belonging Faculty Fellow this year.\u00a0 Both opportunities allowed him to strengthen connections with colleagues while learning from them and having opportunities to contribute to the campus community in different ways.\u00a0 One highlight from this experience was having the opportunity to collaborate with students to host a Cinestudio film screening of Moonlight followed by a public conversation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Dang Do<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Political Science, won a competitive Impact Grant with the CT OER Council, sponsored by the state, to finish the Legislative Internship Program project on an updated CT State Politics book. The chapters of the book is written by the LIP students\/interns. The grant award is $7500 and will be used to pay for professional editing and typesetting.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Michelle Kovarik<\/strong>, Professor of Chemistry, received the J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education is awarded by the American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry to an awardee who has \u201cenhanc[ed] the personal and professional development of students in the study of analytical chemistry\u201d. This is a national award that includes a presentation by the awardee at a special award symposium at the fall national meeting of the ACS, held in August.\u00a0 Additional info here:\u00a0https:\/\/acsanalytical.org\/award\/the-j-calvin-giddings-award-for-excellence-in-education\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"\"Kirsti Kuenzel, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Mathematics, was invited to become an editor of the student-centered journal Involve, a Journal of Mathematics<\/em>, and has been a part of the editorial board since July of 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"ChannonChannon S. Miller<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History, was awarded the 2025 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize for the Best article in Black women\u2019s history<\/span> for her most recent article, \u201cDrowning in a Dead River,\u201d published in the Journal of African American History in 2024.\u00a0 It was awarded by the historic and leading association for the study of Black women\u2019s history \u2013 the Association of Black Women Historians.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"\"Sarah A. Raskin<\/strong>, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, was named an Inaugural Fellow of the International Neuropsychological at the 2026 North American meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"LeslieLeslie Ribovich<\/strong>, Director of the Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Professor of Public Policy & Law, was a finalist\/short-listed for Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion, the largest scholarly society dedicated to the academic study of religion for her work Without a Prayer: Religion and Race in New York City Public Schools<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"SallySally B. Seraphin<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, was the Fall 2025 Faculty Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at the Library & Informational Technology, Hartford, CT.\u00a0 Sally also participated in the Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience:\u00a0 Public Outreach: 2025 Discussant: Neurolaw. 3rd Annual Dana Foundation Career Network in Neuroscience & Society and Simply Neuroscience Virtual Career Fair; Conference Proceedings and Lecture Series with others, “Impacts of stress-induced early-hatching or late-hatching on the growth, mortality, and experience-dependent transcriptome of red-eye tree frog (Agalychnis callidrayas) tadpoles,” (Late Breaking Science Abstract); and with co-author, “Prison brain: the next frontier in neurolaw for criminal justice reform,” (Theme K Abstract).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2024-25 Academic Year<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
David Sterling Brown, <\/strong>Associate Professor of English<\/p>\n
Tasmin Jones, <\/strong>Ellsworth Morton Tracy Lecturer and Associate Professor of Religious Studies<\/p>\n
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  • \u201cErotic Responsibility: Phenomenology, Ethics, and the Study of Religion,\u201d keynote address at the Northeast Philosophy of Religion Colloquium, Huntington.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Isaac Kamola, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Political Science<\/p>\n
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  • Director of the American Association of University Professors\u2019 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 \u201cthreat assessment\u201d and disseminate the research to varied audiences.\u00a0 Read more in Trinity News.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Robert Kirschbaum, <\/strong>Professor of Art<\/p>\n
Susan Masino<\/strong>, Professor of Psychology<\/span><\/p>\n
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  • President\u2019s award to Professor Masino and students, Thea Nguyen and Dyna Chhem, for their Public Humanities Collective Project titled \u201cVoices of Keney Park<\/span>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Amber Pitt, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Environmental Science<\/p>\n
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  • 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\u2019s headquarters in Ojai, California, USA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Daniel Said Monteiro, <\/strong>Visiting Assistant Professor of History<\/p>\n
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  • 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 \u201cMonitored Connections: Transnational Nagasaki and the Circulation of Hybridized Cosmologies in Early Modern Japan (1630\u20131720),\u201d completed at Universit\u00e9 Paris Cit\u00e9 in 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sally B. Seraphin<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience<\/span><\/p>\n
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  • Fall 2024 Visiting Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford, UK.<\/li>\n
  • Fall 2024 Visiting Academic, Evolutionary Biology Section, Department of Biology,University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Summer 2025 Karush Fellowship, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ewa Syta, <\/strong>Associate Professor of Computer Science<\/p>\n