Faculty-Staff Achievements
Veena Chandra, private music instructor of music, has been selected by the New York Folklore Society to train two apprentices this summer. She will also work with Warren King ’23, who will help to transcribe her music.
Kristofer Covey, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences, presented research to the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and the Dome Island Committee with environmental studies and sciences students Emme Tissue ’23, Siddharth Nizamuddin ’21 and Christina Lindstrom ’22. The collaborative research with students, Associate Professor Kurt Smemo and Spatial Data Librarian Charlie Bettigole has continued for three years.
Jenny H. Day, associate professor of history, published the article "The Enigma of a Taiping Fugitive: The Illusion of Justice and the 'Political Offence
Exception' in Extradition from Hong Kong" in the Law and History Review. She also delivered a public talk on her book, “Qing Travelers to the Far West: Diplomacy and the Information Order in Late Imperial
China,” as part of the California State University, San Bernardino Modern China Lecture
Series.
Catherine J. Golden, professor of English, was interviewed for and quoted in an article on Jane Austen by Joshua Raff entitled "Why Did I Take so Long to Read Jane Austen" published in Literary Hub on May 13.
Christopher B. Mann, assistant professor of political science, was quoted in the Post-Star article “Stefanik officially launches bid for GOP leadership post.” The Vote by Mail mobilization program by VoteAmerica that Mann helped design and implement was named by Fast Company Magazine as a finalist
for its 2021 World Changing Ideas Award in the Politics and Policy category. Link to the list of finalists is here.
Minita Sanghvi, assistant professor of management and business, was quoted in a Vanity Fair France
article about “Conservative Barbies” emerging as the new face of the far right.
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