Faculty-Staff Achievements

Jordana Dym, professor of history and Kenan Chair of Liberal Arts, delivered the invited paper "Follow me on paper: Experiencing the world with travel writing" at “Mapping as Performance,” the 21st Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago on Nov. 5. 

Maria McColl, associate director in special programs, has been appointed to the City of Saratoga Springs Poet Laureate Committee. The inaugural Poet Laureate will be announced in January 2023.

Laurie Rabinowitz, assistant professor in the education studies program, presented on “Representing Ourselves and Our Dreams: Remixing Visual Media with an Eye towards Criticality” at the National Council for Teachers of English conference on Nov. 19; on “Rewriting the Fantasy Genre: Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Pedagogy in a Fifth-Grade Writers Workshop” at the New York State Association of Teacher Educators conference on Oct. 28; and on “Remixing for a Better Future: Evaluating Leveled Readers with a Critical Lens” at the New York State Association of Teacher Educators conference on Oct. 27.