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.
Associate Professor of Psychology Elizabeth D. Casserly will present a talk about interspecies communication at a screening of the Academy Award-winning documentary My Octopus Teacher on June 13 at the Connecticut Science Center.
Trinity College Associate Professor of History Jonathan Elukin has received a yearlong residential fellowship for the 2026-27 academic year at The Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan.
The Trinity College campus is among the landscapes featured on the Olmsted Trail, a new online resource offered by the Olmsted Network cataloging projects shaped by pioneering landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Juan Rayo ’27 has been named to the National Student Voting Honor Roll for his leadership in Trinity’s ongoing nonpartisan campus civic engagement initiative, TrinVotes!
