Faculty-Staff Achievements

Anna Brezny, assistant professor of chemistry, co-authored the research article, “Multiple selectivity-determining mechanisms of H2O2 formation in iron porphyrin-catalysed oxygen reduction,” which appeared in Chemical Communications. The article is part of the themed collection “Bioinspired metal complexes for chemical transformations and catalysis.” 

Marc Conner, president of Skidmore College, published “The Art of Living” in American Book Review (September/October 2020). The essay reviews the book “Grand: A Grandparent’s Wisdom for a Happy Life” by Charles Johnson, the National Book Award-winning African American author, essayist and novelist. 

Jordana Dym, professor of history and director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, was a co-convener of "Don't Panic: The Futures of History from the Liberal Arts College Perspective," a three-part series hosted online by the American Historical Association Jan. 20-22. The event was the first to focus on liberal arts history pedagogies. Jenny Huangfu Day, associate professor of history, also facilitated a conversation on pedagogical innovation in global history on Jan. 20. On Jan. 21, Dym and Quinn Campell ’21 presented "Decolonizing the (Latin American) History Survey," based on their summer collaborative research. 

Rebecca McNamara, associate curator at the Tang Teaching Museum, was interviewed by WTEN Channel 10 for a story about the Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef project, which invites the public to crochet coral reefs for an upcoming exhibition at the Tang.   

Bradley Onishi, associate professor of religious studies, published “Trump’s New Civil Religion” in The New York Times.

  

Bernardo Ramirez Rios, assistant professor of anthropology, co-authored the book chapter "Transnational migration, racial economies, and the limitations to membership," in the “Handbook of Culture and Migration” (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021). Combing ethnographic work on indigenous migration and basketball, as well as debates around the political meaning of race and multiculturalism. the authors share their research on transnational networks and regional methods of community building to highlight the collaborative nature of transnational and global operations of social movement, identity and culture.  

Jessica Sullivan, associate professor of psychology, and Leigh Wilton, assistant professor of psychology, published “Adults delay conversations about race because they underestimate children's processing of race” in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. The study has received significant media attention and was even mentioned Time’s article about its first-ever “Kid of the Year.” Sullivan and Wilton found that adults — on average — estimated that children's capacities to reason about race developed about four years later than is suggested by the scientific literature, and they were less accurate in their assessments of children's capacities to reason about race than they were about other domains of development (e.g., social development and general development).   

 

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