A recent article by Channon S. Miller ’11, assistant professor of American Studies and history, “Drowning in a Dead River: The Mothers of Charter Oak Terrace and Urban Resistance to Ecological Catastrophe” (The Journal of African American History), was awarded the 2025 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize for the Best Article in Black Women’s History from the historic Association of Black Women Historians.
The Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize is awarded annually by ABWH. The competition was open to all articles concerning Black women’s history in the United States and African Diaspora published between June 1, 2024, and May 31, 2025, including those written by members and non-members of ABWH. Winners were honored at the annual business meeting.
Miller is a Hartford-raised, interdisciplinary scholar of Black women’s interior and exterior lives. She received her undergraduate degree in American studies from Trinity College in 2011 and completed her doctorate at Boston University, also in American Studies, in 2017. She excavates stories about Black women, Black resistance, Black cultures, and Black diasporas of the recent past from geographies often hidden from view.
Per Sebastian Skardal, Marjorie V. and Robert W. Butcher Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics, was selected by the Talcott Mountain Research Institute (TMRI) as an inaugural Faculty Research Mentor for its 2026 Summer Program.
The Trinity College Writing Center recently received the 2025 Martinson Innovation Award from the Small Liberal Arts Colleges-Writing Program Administrators in recognition of the Center’s efforts to tutor incarcerated individuals.
Gabriel Salgado, assistant professor of political science, has been awarded a four-month fellowship to pursue research examining the role of race in shaping the modern world, with a focus on early modern Latin America.
Megan Crutcher, Ann Plato Postdoctoral Fellow in History, has received a grant from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology for the project, "Where Trees Meet the Tide: Documenting Traditional Watercraft Construction in Liberia, West Africa.”
