Faculty News

“A unifying view of some Banach algebras,” by Robert Kantrowitz ’82, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Mathematics, was recently published in The Australian Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

Heather Buchman, the Carolyn and David M. Ellis ’38 Distinguished Teaching Professor of Music, was recently elected to serve a three-year term on the International Trombone Association Board of Advisors.

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang recently gave an online talk titled  “The River, The Lake, and the Monument: Social Changes and Nostalgia in Still Life (2006)” at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro for its Chinese Studies Workshop Series.

Associate Professor of Psychology Rachel White and Kate Bruno ’23 recently presented a poster at the Society for Research in Child Development conference in Salt Lake City.

The 11th issue of Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy, with the theme "superstitions" has been published.

Thomas Wilson, the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies, recently joined the editorial board of The Journal of Asian Studies as an associate editor.

“Being Italian: The Peculiar Journey of Blackness,” by Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill, was recently published online in Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography.

During spring break, Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali visited Yaoundé, Cameroon, where he was an invited guest at a festival celebrating Cameroonian/Ivory Coast writer Werewere-Liking.

Assistant Professor Psychology Keelah Williams published a sole-authored article, “Stereotypes of criminality in the U.S. track ecology, not race,” in Evolution and Human Behavior.