Faculty Accomplishments (page 12)


October 25, 2019

Hao Huang – Music

Professor Huang received an invitation to participate in The Migration Conference 2019 in Bari, Italy, from the Director of Regent’s Centre for Transnational Studies, London, UK. He performed the following: […]

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Kasper Kovitz – Art

Professor Kovitz’s work was featured in the solo exhibition “Where is everyone? Labo(u)r – Leisure – Freedom,” at xero, kline & coma, London, U.K., May – June 2019.

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Nancy Macko – Art

Professor Macko’s exhibition “The Fragile Bee” was featured in a new exhibit at the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT, June through September 2019.

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Mary MacNaughton – Art History

Professor MacNaughton oversaw the ongoing conservation treatment of two major campus art projects: 1) the cleaning of the Shakespeare Relief sculptures and 2) the architectural frame for the Ramos Martinez […]

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Sumita Pahwa – Politics

Professor Pahwa contributed an essay on teaching Middle East survey courses after the Arab uprisings (invited contribution) for the Middle East Studies pedagogy initiative at Jadaliyya, with the roundtable published […]

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Katie Purvis-Roberts – Chemistry and Environmental Science

Professor Purvis-Roberts received an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Grant (August 2019-January 2020) “APEC Workshop on University Collaboration to Support Data Gathering and Analysis in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy” in […]

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Nathalie Rachlin – French

Professor Rachlin gave a talk entitled “Filming Nuit Debout:  The Art of Revolt in Paris est une fête: un film en 18 vagues (2017) by Sylvain George and L’Assemblée (2018) by […]

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Michael Spezio – Psychology

Professor Spezio was awarded a $190,000 grant from the Self, Virtue, and Public Life Project which focused on understanding moral action and leadership among members of humanitarian and democratizing justice […]

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Kevin Vennemann – German

Professor Vennemann’s German translation of Franco Berardi’s seminal study “The Soul at Work. From Alienation to Autonomy” was published by Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, Germany. His essay “’Now, you think you’re […]

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Rivka Weinberg – Philosophy

Professor Weinberg published the following articles: “A Conflict of Interests,” invited forum, “Philosophers on Abortion,” Daily Nous Philosophy blog, June 2019; A review of Chris Kaposy, “Choosing Down Syndrome” (MIT, […]

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October 24, 2019

Carlin Wing – Media Studies

Professor Wing reviewed two new books on women and sport: Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel’s Futbolera: A History of Women and Sports in Latin America and Gemma Clarke’s Soccerwomen: The […]

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Stacey Wood – Psychology

Professor Wood is now board certified in Geropsychology. Fewer than 5% of clinical psychologists are board certified; the credential recognizes excellence in practice, teaching, and advocacy. 

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August 9, 2019

Gabriela Bacsán – Spanish, Latin American and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures

Professor Bacsán received a 2019 Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty. The Fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, allows […]

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Thierry Boucquey – French

Professor Thierry Boucquey published the article “Folie raisonnable et raison affolée: Rhétoriqueurs, farces et représentations graphiques dans les Flandres de Bruegel” for the current Musée de Flandre (Lille, France) exhibition […]

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Suchi Branfman – Dance

Professor Suchi Branfman presented the talk “Dancing Through Prison Walls: A Conversation With Suchi Branfman and d. Sabela grimes,” in which she shared her work with incarcerated men inside the […]

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Ronnie Brosterman – Dance

Professor Brosterman collaborated with choreographer Liz Lerman to present “Wicked Bodies – A Work-in-Progress,” a culmination of a year-long partnership between Lerman and Scripps students and faculty. The performance in […]

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Myriam J. A. Chancy – Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities

Professor Chancy published the following: A solicited essay “Phantom Limbs: Kinship, Racial Performance, and Liberation in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Literaturas de Língua Inglesa: leituras interdisciplinares. Vol. 3 Spring 2019, Río, Brazil; […]

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Bruce Coats – Art History

Professor Coats presented the lecture “Asian Treasures in the Scripps College Collections” which focuses on the upcoming fall 2019 Williamson Gallery exhibition, for the Asian Arts Council, San Diego Museum […]

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Natalia Di Pietrantonio – Art History

Professor Di Pietrantonio gave an invited talk to the Bard Graduate Center titled “Sex in Islamic Art: The Case of Wajid ‘Ali Shah,’” New York, NY, April 2019. She co-authored […]

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Findley Finseth – Biology

Professor Finseth published two papers:   Muenzen KM*, Monroy J, Finseth FR.  2019.  Evolution of the highly repetitive PEVK region of titin across mammals.  G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. 9:1103-1115. *Scripps […]

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