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Faculty-Staff Achievements

December 18, 2024

Hope Casto, associate professor of education studies, co-authored the article "Leading for Educational Equity and Community Vitality: A Comprehensive School-Community Framework," which appears in the fall/winter issue of the School Community Journal.

Beck Krefting, professor of American studies and director of the Center for Leadership, Teaching, and Learning, published a chapter, "Die gefährliche Ambivalenz humoristischer Invektivität in der Stand-Up Comedy” (translation: "The Dangerous Ambivalence of Comedic Disparagement in Stand-Up Comedy"), in the edited collection “An den Grenzen der Invektivität” (translation: At the Limits of Invectiveness).

Susannah Mintz, professor of English, presented a talk called “The Creative Expression of Pain” for the Mass General Brigham Interdisciplinary Pain and Headache rounds. A Zoom audience of some 700 international attendees was comprised of clinicians, policy and legal experts, and patients and included at least one Skidmore alum.


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