Faculty-Staff Achievements
Charlotte D’Evelyn, assistant professor of music, co-edited the book volume, “Mongolian Sound Worlds,” a collection of research essays on Mongolian music published by the University of Illinois Press. She contributed a chapter entitled “Music and Ethnic Identity in Inner Mongolia” and is author (with Peter K. Marsh) of “The Horsehead Fiddle: A Biographical History.”
Michael Ennis-McMillan, associate professor of anthropology, was quoted in the USA Today article “A pandemic legacy of grief, anger and frustration.” In it, he notes the social blueprint for COVID-19 includes stigmatization, misinformation,
politicization and social inequities, behaviors that prolong and expand pandemics.
Eunice S. Ferreira, associate professor of theater, signed with Routledge to co-edit (with Lisa L. Biggs of Brown University) the volume
“Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Radical Imaginings for Just Communities.” She was also featured in a spotlight piece on the MLK Saratoga website and was
a guest scholar/artist-in-residence at Lipscomb University and Trevecca Nazarene University
in Nashville.
Heather Hurst, associate professor of anthropology, was interviewed by Smithsonian, National Geographic (France), and American Archaeology magazines, as well as El País news service, for reports on her co-authored article, “An early Maya calendar record from San Bartolo, Guatemala.” An interview with Hurst and lead author David Stuart of the University of Texas
at Austin for the weekly “Science” podcast discusses the discovery of the earliest calendar notation at San Bartolo.
Stephen Ives, associate professor of health and human physiological sciences, presented ongoing collaborative research with Kendall Zaleski ’22 at the national FASEB Experimental Biology annual conference, which have been published as proceedings in the FASEB Journal. Both works (“Do Racial Differences Exist in Mechanoreflex Sensitivity in Young Healthy Males?” and “Sex Differences in Estimates of Cardiac Autonomic Function Using Time Domain based Method of Heart Rate Variability: Effects of Oral Capsaicin” are part of a collaboration with the University of Verona in Italy.
Kelly Melekis, associate professor of social work, was awarded a seed grant from the New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium to develop
a new course with collaborators Carol Weisse of Union College and Leah Rohlfsen of
St. Lawrence University. The project, “Cross-Institutional Course Design: Teaching
Mixed Methods Research to Explore Social Justice in End-of-Life Care,” will be developed
with community-run residential homes for the dying that have trained students from
all three institutions through the Community Action, Research, and Education (CARE)
program.
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