Faculty-Staff Achievements
Paul Benzon, assistant professor of English, delivered the annual Babcock Lecture at Hartwick College in Oneonta. The tittle of his talk was “The Poetics and Politics of the Paralegible.”
Barbara Black, professor of English and Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters, was an invited contributor to the peer-reviewed Oxford Bibliographies, where she published the article “Museums.” Black was assisted by Emily Byrne '21, and Alice Condry-Power'24.
Heather Hurst, associate professor of Anthropology, was featured in the French film “Le Mystère des Mayas: des origins à la chute.” The two-hour documentary by Claire Denavarre and Fabrice Buysschaert was produced by Pernel Media and broadcast in France, Germany, and Canada.
Nancy Thebaut, assistant professor of art history, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to France. She will be a visiting scholar at the Centre d’étude ssupérieures de civilisation médiévale at the University of Poitiers during the 2023-2024 academic year. She also published “Zones, Stripes, and Strata: The Banded Grounds of Early Medieval Paintings” in the journal Different Visions: New Perspectives on Medieval Art.
Chris Vecsey, associate professor and director of the Neuroscience Program, received the Mary S. Erskine Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Mentorship at the Northeast Under/graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience (NEURON) conference, which was held at Quinnipiac University in April.
