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Faculty-Staff Achievements

January 8, 2025

Charlotte D’Evelyn, assistant professor of music, was awarded the Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize for Advanced and Critical Essays in Organology for the 2022 edited volume “Mongolian Sound Worlds” (University of Illinois Press) at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) with coeditors Jennifer Post and Sunmin Yoon. The volume has also received an honorable mention for the Ellen Koskoff Edited Volume Prize at the SEM 2023 Annual Meeting, recognizing the work this volume has done to bring attention to Mongolian music in English-language scholarship.

Steve Ives, associate professor of health and human physiological sciences, published a peer-reviewed paper, "Accuracy of the Apple Watch Series 9 for Measures of Energy Expenditure and Heart Rate at Rest and During Exercise: Impact of Skin Pigmentation," in the Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology. This work was led by recent Skidmore graduates Sydney Chase '24, Rebecca Liddell '24, and Chloe McGonagle '24.

Christopher Seaton, professor of mathematics, coauthored a paper, "When does the zero fiber of the moment map have rational singularities?," published in Geometry & Topology.

Mason Stokes, professor of English, spoke with The Roundtable's Joe Donahue about his new young-adult novel, “All the Truth I Can Stand,” and the legacy of Matthew Shepard.

Gordon Thompson, professor emeritus of music, was interviewed about his book “Sixties British Pop, Outside In” on the CBC's Windsor Morning.


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