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Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a co-authored paper titled "Grounding 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa': Walter Rodney and the rupture in Guyana" at a workshop held at Columbia University on March 10 to 11.

Assistant Professor of Physics Viva Horowitz recently presented research at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Las Vegas. The research focused on developing a new way to interpret data from a network of connected resonators to uncover the underlying physical system. Trevor Scheuing ’23 was a co-author.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, gave keynote speeches at two conferences in London during Hamilton’s spring break.

Shoshana Keller, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and director of the Russian studies program, participated in a webinar on tactics for teaching a new narrative of Russian history in the wake of the Ukrainian war on March 17. It was hosted by the Harvard Davis Center and the University of Pittsburgh's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Martinez-Arias recently published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, titled "Interpretations of Christianism in the Andean Oral Tradition: Arguedas, Condori Mamani, and the Inkarrí Myth."

Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams co-authored a paper “Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others” that was published in Evolution and Human Behavior in February.

Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule participated on two panels at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association Jan. 5 to 8. He presented “‘Making Treason Odious Again:’ Perspectives from the Naming Commission and the Army's War on the Lost Cause” and “History versus Heritage: Military Historians Confront America’s Contested Past.”

Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus was an invited speaker at the Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM) that took place recently in Boston, and several Mathematics faculty members and students presented research.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, gave a paper at the Allied Social Sciences Association on Jan. 7 in New Orleans. Cafruny’s paper, titled "Ukraine, Multipolarity, and the Crisis of Grand Strategies," was presented as part of the panel "War in Ukraine: Implications for U.S. Hegemony and Alternatives." The event was sponsored by the Union of Radical Political Economists Section

Silas D. Childs Professor in Chemistry Karen Brewer and Assistant Professor of Art History Arathi Menon are the most recent recipients of the fellowship that supports faculty interested in creating digitally focused assignments, expanding learning opportunities, and developing technology-enabled pedagogical strategies in any curricular area.