Faculty News

Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin has been awarded a $68,974 grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada to fund a new project on "The U.S. Military in a Political Crisis."

A study of the relationship between political ads and consumer sentiment by Assistant Professor of Economics Cody Couture and Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, was recently published in the European Journal of Political Economy.

An essay by Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner appears as a chapter in Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond: Body, Affect, Concepts, a new open-access edited volume from Bloomsbury.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jack Martínez-Arias recently published an article titled “The Other Indigenismo: Voices from Peru’s Mining Centers (1920–1940)” in the peer-reviewed journal Romance Quarterly.

Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas published a review of the text Reproducing Domination: On the Caribbean Postcolonial State, edited by Percy C. Hintzen. The review appears in the latest issue of the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids.

Russell Marcus, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Philosophy, presented a talk at the Teaching Hub at the 2025 Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA).

Winslow Chair in Modern Science and Professor of Biology Wei-Jen Chang is a co-author of a recently published research paper on the genomic and proteomic profiles of a megalocytivirus isolated from Larimichthys crocea.

Assistant Professor of Theatre Emily K. Harrison was recently awarded four 2024 OnStage Colorado Awards for Theatrical Excellence for her collaborative contributions on the World Premiere of EYES UP, MOUTH AGAPE, produced by Buntport Theater Company (Denver).

Assistant Professor of Dance and Movement Studies Casey Avaunt recently performed in the inaugural three-day Naples International Dance Festival at the Norris Center in Naples, Fla.

Assistant Professor of Digital Arts Anna Huff recently presented “Channelers: AI, authorship, mysticism and meaning making in creative practice and pedagogy” at the 113th annual conference of the College Art Association (CAA).