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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.

Director of Academic Technology, Teaching, and Research Services Nhora Serrano was recently elected to serve on the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) Board of Trustees.

Anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite K’74 is 72 and she’s good with that. The Decade of Healthy Ageing, a U.N. collaboration with the World Health Organization, recently honored her as one of its Healthy Ageing 50.

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.

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.

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).

Associate Dean of Admission and Director of Diversity Recruitment Kaitlin Oliver was recently named to the Chicago Scholars College Partner Advisory Board (CPAB).

More than 120 attendees took part in Common Ground’s first-ever student-run debate, a milestone event that was months in the making, focused on the topic, “Resolved: Environmental Protections Are More Important Than Economic Growth.”