2024 marks the completion of the final year of teaching for the Trinity College faculty members listed below.<\/p>\n
Professor of Physical Education and Head Women\u2019s Squash Coach<\/a><\/p>\n Wendy Bartlett\u00a0led the women\u2019s squash team for four decades, taking the Bantams to 12 College Squash Association (CSA) Howe Cup National Championship final matches and four Howe Cup victories, in 2002, 2003, 2014, and 2024, the latter after a perfect 17\u20130 season. Trinity remains the only women\u2019s NESCAC champion in league history, winning every season since the inaugural championship in 2007.\u00a0Bartlett was inducted into the CSA Hall of Fame in 2019 and was honored as the NESCAC Coach of the Year in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2023. In addition, Bartlett served as the head women\u2019s tennis coach for more than 30 years. Prior to Trinity, she was director of racquet sports at the Fox Chapel Golf Club in Pittsburgh. Bartlett earned a B.A. in history and political science from Rollins College and an M.A. in physical education from Central Connecticut State University.<\/p>\n Thomas S. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Biology<\/a><\/p>\n Daniel Blackburn served as the Thomas S. Johnson\u00a0Distinguished Professor of Biology at Trinity from 2007 to 2023. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, he earned an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in zoology at Cornell University. After working as a research associate at Vanderbilt University\u2019s School of Medicine, he joined Trinity\u2019s biology faculty in 1988. Blackburn\u00a0taught courses in zoology, histology, evolution, and electron microscopy and served for 10 years as chair of the Biology Department.\u00a0He\u00a0obtained NSF funding to construct Trinity\u2019s Electron Microscopy Center and collaborated in founding\u00a0a new organization in science education. His research has focused on reproductive specializations in reptiles and fishes, and he\u00a0has published\u00a0more than 120 papers in the literature, many of which were\u00a0co-authored with Trinity undergraduates doing research in his lab.\u00a0In 2015, he was awarded the Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence.<\/p>\n Associate Professor of Legal and Policy Studies<\/a><\/p>\n Adrienne Fulco, a Trinity faculty member since 1983, served as director of the Public Policy and Law Program for 20 years in addition to teaching courses that focused on the intersection of law, politics, and public policy. She also served as the faculty coordinator of the legal studies minor and often advised students interested in attending law school. Some of her recent courses included \u201cThe Supreme Court and Public Policy,\u201d \u201cTitle IX: Changing Campus Culture,\u201d and \u201cLaw, Gender, and the Supreme Court.\u201d She has presented her works at professional conferences in the United States and abroad and has served as a political commentator for local and national media. Her most recent publications, which focus on the religion, law, and public policy, have appeared in the Journal of Church and State<\/em> and Connecticut Law Review<\/em>. Fulco earned a B.A. from Boston University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.<\/p>\n Professor of Economics<\/a><\/p>\n Adam Grossberg, a Trinity faculty member since 1986, earned a B.A. from The College of Wooster and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. His teaching focused on microeconomics, econometrics, and labor economics. While his research on labor economics includes widely cited articles on maternal labor supply and on the consequences of legal minimum wages, his greatest joy at Trinity has come from his personal relationships with colleagues and the more than 3,500 students who enrolled in his classes.<\/p>\n Charles H. Northam Professor of History<\/a><\/p>\n Sam Kassow is an internationally recognized scholar of Russian and Soviet history, modern European history, and the history of Ashkenazi Jewry. After graduating from Trinity with a B.A. in history in 1966, he went on to earn an M.S. from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. During his more than 50 years on the Trinity faculty, he helped develop the Guided Studies program (now the Humanities Gateway Program), served as chair of the History Department, and directed the Jewish Studies Program. He received the Trustee Award for Faculty Excellence in 2005 and the Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2013. Kassow has authored numerous works, including the book Who Will Write Our History? Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive<\/em>, which was made into a movie and translated into eight languages.<\/p>\n John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science<\/a><\/p>\n Anthony Messina, who taught at Tufts University and the University of Notre Dame before coming to Trinity in 2008, earned a B.A. from Assumption College, an M.A. from Drew University, and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in political science. In his courses, he aspired to expose students to sophisticated yet accessible analyses of contemporary political problems and questions; his research focuses primarily on the politics of ethnicity and immigration within contemporary Europe. Messina authored\u00a0Race and Party Competition in Britain<\/em>\u00a0(1989) and\u00a0The Logics and Politics of Post-World War II Migration to Western Europe<\/em>\u00a0(2007) and edited or co-edited\u00a0six books, including The Politics of\u00a0New Immigrant Destinations:\u00a0Transatlantic Perspectives\u00a0<\/em>(2017). His latest co-authored book is\u00a0Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State<\/em>:\u00a0The Politics of Migration Regulation in Europe and the United States<\/em> (2024).<\/p>\n Professor of Music<\/a><\/p>\n John Platoff was a performing pianist, studying in New York and at the Aspen Music Festival, before earning a Ph.D. in music from the University of Pennsylvania.\u00a0At Trinity he taught courses on classical music, music theory, the psychology of music, and the Beatles and \u201960s rock and roll.\u00a0Platoff\u2019s teaching helped\u00a0students develop the skills of both musicians and historians.\u00a0As musicians, his students learned to understand what composers of the past created: how their music works and what purposes it serves.\u00a0As historians, his students grappled with the profound differences between the circumstances of people living in the past and those of our own time. Platoff frequently enriched his classes with live concerts, and he organized a campus-wide \u201cGuerrilla Mozart\u201d event to celebrate the 200th\u00a0anniversary of The Marriage of Figaro<\/em>.\u00a0In 2016, Platoff received Trinity\u2019s Thomas Church Brownell Prize for Teaching Excellence.<\/p>\n Scovill Professor of Chemistry<\/a><\/p>\n Richard Prigodich earned a B.A. in chemistry from Lake Forest College. For several years, he worked with deaf-blind children and students with learning disabilities before returning to chemistry, later earning a Ph.D. in physical organic chemistry from Wesleyan University for his research on reactive organophosphorus compounds. Before joining the Trinity faculty in 1985, he was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department at Yale University, where he used nuclear magnetic resonance to investigate protein-ligand interactions. He was drawn to Trinity by its teacher\/scholar paradigm, which provided the opportunity to reinforce the lessons taught in the classroom with experience in the research laboratory. More than 30 of the many students who collaborated in Prigodich\u2019s research program went on to receive M.D.s and Ph.D.s. His research interests still center on the interactions between proteins and the other biomolecules that they bind by using a variety of physical chemical techniques.<\/p>\nDANIEL G. BLACKBURN<\/h4>\n
ADRIENNE FULCO<\/h4>\n
ADAM J. GROSSBERG<\/h4>\n
SAMUEL D. KASSOW \u201966<\/h4>\n
ANTHONY M. MESSINA<\/h4>\n
JOHN PLATOFF<\/h4>\n
RICHARD PRIGODICH<\/h4>\n
MIGUEL RAMIREZ<\/h4>\n