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Aatif Abbas He/Him
Postdoctoral Fellow in University Studies and Research Affiliate in Philosophy (PhD, Syracuse University, 2024; BA, Williams College, 2008)
Before joining Colgate as a Postdoctoral Fellow, Aatif served as a Predoctoral Fellow at Colgate during the 2023-24 academic year.
Aatif Abbas' professional background includes experience working on Wall Street, which adds a unique perspective to his academic endeavors. His dissertation, titled Global Justice Through Poor People's Perspectives, reflects his deep commitment to understanding and addressing issues of global justice.
Aatif's teaching specialties include political philosophy and ethics, and his primary research interest is in global justice. Outside of his academic pursuits, he enjoys hiking and swimming.
Aatif's Publications and Awards
Awards, honors, and distinctions:
Mary Hatch Marshall Award for the Best Graduate Student Essay in the
Humanities Division at Syracuse University April 2023
Publications:
"Businesses, Technological Innovations, and Responsibility," Business and Professional Ethics Journal 42, no. 3 (Fall 2023): 269-290.
Ciara Alfaro She/Her/Hers
Olive B. O'Connor Creative Writing Fellow (BA, Colgate, 2019; MFA, University of Minnesota, 2023)
Ciara Alfaro comes to Colgate University as an Olive B. O'Connor Writing Fellow, joining the faculty from the University of Minnesota. She has extensive experience in creative writing, most recently teaching at The Loft Literary Center. Ciara's teaching specialties include memoir, creative nonfiction, fiction, and magical realism.
As a writer and educator, she is dedicated to helping students explore the depth and breadth of their own narratives and the rich possibilities of imaginative storytelling.
Ciara's Publications
Publications: "A Good Spot," Passages North, forthcoming 2025
“Kind of Monster,” Southeast Review, forthcoming Fall 2024
“The Saddest Barbara Walters Parrot in the World,” Subnivean, Summer 2024
“How to Heal a Mestiza Heart,” Blue Mesa Review, Spring 2024
“Hair,” Mid-American Review, Spring 2024
“When We Were Boys,” Best American Essays, Fall 2023
“What Comes Next,” Swamp Pink, Spring 2023
“The Taste of That,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Winter 2022
Awards, honors, and distinctions:
Ned Stuckey French Nonfiction Contest Winner, 2024
Pushcart Prize Nominee, 2024
Best American Essays, 2023
Hedgebrook Fellowship Recipient, 2023
AWP Intro Journals Project Winner, 2023
Katherine Brown She/Her
Assistant Professor of ROLA, French (PhD/Princeton University/2007; MA/Princeton University/2004; BA/Wesleyan University/2000)
Katherine Brown has been a member of the Colgate faculty since her initial appointment in 2022. Before returning to Colgate, she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at both Colgate and the University of Notre Dame.
In addition to her academic roles, Katherine recently held the position of Associate Director of the Institute of French Cultural Studies at Dartmouth College from August 2023 to July 2024. Her scholarly work includes a dissertation titled "From the Fabliaux to the 'Decameron': Codicology and Generic Transformation," which explores the intricate evolution of literary genres.
Katherine's teaching specialties include French literature of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and 19th century, as well as French language. Her research interests span medieval and early modern literature and culture, along with 19th-century French literature.
Outside the classroom, Katherine enjoys playing ultimate frisbee and running.
Katherine's Publications
Publications: Boccaccio’s Fabliaux: Medieval Short Stories and the Function of Reversal. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014. Reprint 2020.
Dialogues on the “Decameron.” A special issue of Quaderni d’Italianistica 38.2 (2017) Collection stewardship, Introduction, and contribution of one essay. Published March 2019.
Annie Benn She/Her
Assistant Professor, Political Science (BA, Swarthmore, 2008; MPA, NYU Wagner, 2015; MA, Political Science, UC Berkeley, 2020; PhD, Political Science, UC Berkeley, 2024)
Before joining Colgate as an Assistant Professor, Annie Benn was based at UC Berkeley, where she pursued her PhD candidacy. Her dissertation, titled Unilateral Action Reconsidered: Congressional Responses to Presidential Directives, reflects her deep engagement with US political institutions. Anne's research interests include executive branch politics, bureaucratic control, and the separation of powers.
Nicole Depowski They/Them/Theirs
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences (BA, Albion College PhD, University of Connecticut)
Before joining Colgate University, Nicole was based at Wells College. Nicole's teaching specialties include developmental psychology (from prenatal through death), cognitive psychology, research methods and scientific literacy, basic statistics, and intradisciplinary psychology courses.
Aaron Dial He/Him/His
Assistant Professor, Africana and Latin American Studies and Film and Media Studies (North Carolina Central University: 2015 BA, 2017 MA; North Carolina State University: 2022 PhD)
Aaron Dial earned his PhD from North Carolina State University in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM) program where his expertise is in materialist and digital media studies, digital humanities, Black studies, and cultural studies of technology and race. These areas of expertise inform his research and teaching interests, which, broadly sketched, are affective labor, popular culture, urban spaces and temporal flows, and the nexus between sports and science and technology.
Right now, Aaron is working on his first monograph, entitled “Deadstock, A Philosophy of Sneakers and Materiality in the Afterlife of Black Bodies.” This work articulates the intimate and undiscussed connections between sneakers as material objects and Black bodies. This project excavates sneakers from the strict confines of culture and fashion, asserting their existence as an object wherein bodies act and that acts upon bodies and spaces. Furthermore, this project hones the theoretical position that sneakers exist first and foremost as literal extensions of Black bodies, both sporting and cultural. That is, in sneakers, racialized imaginations of productive bodies are enlivened both as representative cultural fantasies and a collective reverie constellating the athletic possibilities of human potential. For example, in one of Deadstock’s later chapters, “Hangtime Melancholia,” which has been published in Cultural Studies, Aaron explodes the notion of hangtime, the physics-defying fantasy of a dunker’s trajectory, to its limit for the purpose of considering the undiscussed connections in the American photographic pastimes of lynching and dunk photography.
Aaron is a big-time sneakerhead with over 60 pairs in his collection. But also, his interests are varied—you can catch him doing anything from bumping the latest music release (he’s learning to DJ!) to watching some dope anime to obsessing over NBA basketball. If you have any questions, just ask – preferably over a nice bourbon.
Nicki Duval They/Them/Theirs
Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies (MFA, University of California Santa Cruz, 2023; BA, Cornell University, 2019)
Nicki Duval joins Colgate brining a unique perspective informed by their interdisciplinary background in cinema, performance, and experimental art.
Nicki recently completed their MFA candidacy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where they also served as a teaching assistant. Their dissertation, titled Throwing: Approaching Baseball through Queer Temporality and Experimental Art, reflects their innovative approach to blending athletics with experimental performance and queer studies.
Outside the classroom, Nicki has gained professional experience in music event curation and music composition, further enriching their creative and academic work. Their teaching specialties include global cinema, queer cinema, genre cinemas, new media, and experimental performance, with research interests that delve into the intersections of experimental art and athletics.
Nicki enjoys a variety of hobbies and other interests, including cooking, biking, hiking, walking, watching films, and both listening to and making music. They are excited to bring their diverse interests and expertise to Colgate’s vibrant academic community.
Michael Fitzgerald He/Him
The Gretchen Hoadley Burke '81 Endowed Chair for Regional Studies, Upstate Institute (BS, SUNY Brockport, 1991 MPA, Marist, 2003)
Before joining Colgate, Michael served as the Commissioner of Social Services for Madison County, NY, where he gained extensive experience in regional and social service issues.
In addition to his professional achievements, Michael enjoys biking, golfing, and skiing.
Hilary Glen She/Her
Visiting Assistant Professor, Music (BA, Indiana University, 2009; MM, Eastman School of Music, 2011; DMA, Eastman School of Music, 2015)
Before joining Colgate, Hilary was most recently employed at the Hochstein School of Music and Indiana University. A talented cellist, Hilary is the co-founder of the Gibbs St. Duo. She has served as Principal Cello for the Des Moines Metro Opera and the Columbus, GA Symphony, as well as Assistant Principal Cello for the Atlanta Opera. Additionally, she has performed with the New World Symphony.
Hilary's research interests focus on historically marginalized composers, a passion she integrates into her teaching and performances. Outside of her professional life, Hilary enjoys hiking, climbing mountains, dancing, camping, singing, and solving puzzles.
Hilary shares, "I'm so looking forward to meeting new colleagues and joining the Colgate/Hamilton community!"
Hilary's Publications
Publications: Upcoming Fall 2024 release: Resonance, a Multicultural Cello Method, Book 1; Memories Unsettled, released 2022 on Parma Records
Devon Golaszewski She/Her
Assistant Professor, History (BA Wesleyan University 2008, MA (2015), MPhil (2023), PhD (2020) Columbia University)
Before joining Colgate, Devon Golaszewski was an Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Devon's professional experience is extensive and includes co-directing the Projet Archives des Femmes, a physical and digital archive of Malian women activists' personal papers in Bamako, Mali (2017-present), and serving as the Director of Programs for Mali Health, a health non-profit in Bamako (2008-2013).
Her teaching specialties encompass the history of medicine, the history of reproductive health, global and international health, and gender, sexuality, and medicine. Devon's research interests focus on the history of indigenous and biomedical practices in West Africa, particularly Mali, women's authority and activism, and reproductive and sexual health.
In Devon's free time, she enjoys cooking, singing, and hiking.
Devon's Publications and Awards
Publications:
Le militantisme des femmes en faveur de la médicalisation de la santé au Mali entre 1969 et 1979. (Women’s activism for the medicalization of health in Mali between 1969 and 1979). Traduit de l'anglais par Julia Chardavoine. Critique internationale 2023/2 (N° 99), pp 63- 85
Thiam, Madina, Devon Golaszewski, Moussa Beïdy Tamboura, Oumou Sidibé, et Gregory Mann. 2023. « Le Projet Archives Des Femmes: Archiver, numériser et diffuser les luttes des femmes Maliennes ». Revue d’histoire Contemporaine De l’Afrique, octobre. https://doi.org/10.51185/journals/rhca.2023.stc03.
“ ‘Traditional Birth Attendants’ and Reproductive Expertise in Post-Colonial Mali” Gender and History, special issue on Health, Healing and Caring, Vol. 33, No. 3 October 2021, 756–773
“Last Acts of Mothering: Nuptial Counselling in Late Colonial French Soudan (Mali)” Past & Present, Vol. 246, Issue Supplement 15, December 2020, pp 239–262.
Awards, honors, and distinctions:
Rockefeller Archives Center Travel Grant, 2023
Clough Prize for Best Dissertation in Colonial or European History, Columbia University History Department, 2020
Departmental Distinction, Dissertation, Columbia University History Department, 2020
Doris G. Quinn Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, 2019-2020
Center for Women's History Early Career Workshop, New York Historical Society, 2019-2020
Dissertation Fellowship, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University, 2019-20
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2017
CLIR Mellon Doctoral Research Fellowship in Original Sources, 2016-2107
GSAS International Travel Fellowship, Columbia University, 2016-2017
Fulbright IIE Student Research Grant, University of Maroua, Cameroon, 2010-2011
For the Projet Archives des Femmes
US Embassy-Bamako Public Affairs Grant, 2022-2024 ($48,000).
Modern Endangered Archives Project Grant, UCLA, 2020-2022 ($47,000).
Jennifer Greenwich She/Her
Visiting Assistant Professor, Biology (BS, Boston College, 2008; PhD, Northeastern University, 2018)
Jennifer Greenwich comes to Colgate from Indiana University. She specializes in microbiology, reflecting a deep interest and expertise in the field. Outside of her academic pursuits, Jennifer enjoys reading, dance, and hiking. She is eager to connect with other new faculty and hopes to find a hiking partner during her time here at Colgate. "I am looking forward to getting to know other new faculty and hopefully will find a hiking buddy to explore central New York with!"
Nona Gronert She/Her/Hers
Visiting Instructor, Sociology (BA, 2013, Occidental College; MS, 2017 University of Wisconsin-Madison; defended dissertation and revising post defense, degree expected 2024 UW-Madison)
Nona Gronert comes to Colgate from Clark University where she served as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She completed her dissertation titled The Promise and Peril of Title IX Addressing Sexual Violence: A University Case Study, 1972-2017, reflecting her deep engagement with critical issues in higher education.
Nona's research interests include gender, law, social movements, organizations, and sexual violence, with a specific focus on sexual violence in higher education. Beyond teaching, she has professional experience in program evaluation for sexual violence prevention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Outside of her professional life, Nona is a parent to a 14-month-old. She enjoys dancing, particularly ballet, reading fantasy and science fiction, and is deeply immersed in Star Wars lore.
Nona's Publications and Awards
Awards, honors, and distinctions: 2021–2022 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
2021 Hyde Dissertation Research Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Research on Gender and Women
2018–2020 Law and Society Graduate Fellow, University of Wisconsin Law School Institute for Legal Studies
2018 Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award, University of Wisconsin–Madison Institute for Regional and International Studies
2017 Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for German and European Studies
Publications: 2022 Gronert, Nona Maria. “Using Popular Media Portrayals to Investigate Undergraduates’ Perceptions of Sexual Consent.” Gender and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2022.2027887
2022 Gronert, Nona Maria. “Campus Anti-Sexual Assault Movement.” Entry in Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements (2nd edition). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
2020 Gronert, Nona Maria. Teaching & Learning Guide for: “Law, campus policy, social movements, and sexual violence: Where do we stand in the #MeToo movement?” Sociology Compass, e12776. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12776.
2019 Gronert, Nona Maria. “Law, Campus Policy, Social Movements, and Sexual Violence: Where do we stand in the #MeToo movement?” Sociology Compass 13:e12694. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12694
2019 Gronert, Nona Maria & Joshua Raclaw. “Contesting the terms of consent: How university students (dis)align with institutional policy on sexual consent.” Gender and Language 13(3):291-313. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.34939
Madeleine (Maddy) Hamlin She/Her
Assistant Professor, Geography (BA, University of California, Berkeley, 2011; MPA, MA, Syracuse University, 2017; PhD, Syracuse University, 2022)
Maddy returns to Colgate as an Assistant Professor after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2022-23. Her doctoral dissertation, titled Policing the Project: Crime, Carcerality, and Chicago Public Housing, reflects her deep engagement with urban studies and critical issues in U.S. cities.
Maddy's professional experience includes roles as a Policy Analyst at Impact for Equity in Chicago and as an Assistant Editor at Routledge. She is dedicated to teaching courses on Global Urban Geography, The American City, Is the Planet Doomed?, and Housing Justice. Her research focuses on housing, policing, race, class, and punishment in urban settings in the United States.
Outside the classroom, Maddy enjoys gardening, cooking, knitting, and exploring the scenic landscapes of Upstate New York with her husband and their pup. Maddy shares, "I am an avid gardener, cook, and sometimes-knitter and enjoy exploring the scenery of Upstate New York with my husband and our rescue dog, Maya."
Maddy's Publications and Awards
Awards, honors, and distinctions: 2021, H.F. Guggenheim Foundation Emerging Scholar
Publications:
2023. "What’s Wrong with the Elevators’: From Breakdown to Policing in Chicago Public Housing.” Antipode. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anti.12978.
2023. “Geography’s Abolitionist Turn: Notes on Freedom, Property, and the State.” Progress in Human Geography. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03091325231194657.
2022. “A City Within Itself: Altgeld Gardens and Public Housing’s Utopia.” Journal of Urban Cultural Studies. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/jucs/2022/00000009/00000001/art00002;jsessionid=1edabhjt3tyz9.x-ic-live-02.
2022. Purser, Gretchen and Madeleine Hamlin. “‘Bodies in the Building’: Incarceration’s Afterlife in a Reentry Housing Facility.” Social Service Review. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/719858.
2022. with Parick Oberle. “Seeing Like the Shadow State: Philanthropy, Memory, and Public Housing Redevelopment in Syracuse, NY.” Urban Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2054624.
Justine Hanryon She
French Language Intern (Licence degree, Université de Bourgogne, 2023)
Justine Hanryon joins Colgate as the new French Language Intern, bringing a strong passion for French language, literature, and civilization. With a keen interest in Doylean literature and Sherlockiana, Justine's academic pursuits are complemented by their dedication to exploring the rich cultural and literary traditions of France.
Justine enjoys reading, writing, and staying active through various sports.
Zhiwen Hu
Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese; East Asian Languages and Literatures (PhD, University of Georgia; 2024)
Zhiwen Hu comes to Colgate from the University of Georgia, where he earned a PhD in 2024 with a dissertation titled Cofutures of Creativity: Posthuman Creation in Science Fiction. Prior to joining Colgate, Zhiwen served as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Georgia, where he taught all levels of Chinese and comparative literature courses.
Zhiwen's teaching specialties include Chinese and East Asian culture, science fiction, literature and science, and posthumanities. Zhiwen's research interests span Chinese science fiction, posthumanism, Afrofuturism, Asian American literature, digital humanities, and critical AI studies.
Outside of academia, Zhiwen enjoys gardening, Hi-Fi audio, classical music, gaming, and digital influencing.
Kanak Kapur She/Her/Hers
Olive B. O'Connor Creative Writing Fellow (BA, University of Southern California, 2020; MFA Vanderbilt University, 2024)
Kanak Kapur joins Colgate as the new Olive B. O'Connor Creative Writing Fellow. Most recently, she was an MFA candidate at Vanderbilt University, where she developed her teaching specialties in creative writing. Kanak's research interests focus on short stories, hybrid texts, and domestic fiction.
Kanak's publications
"Long Sleeves," The Sewanee Review, 2024; "The Bridal Set," The Rumpus, 2022; "Working from Home," Black Warrior Review, 2021
Stacy Kastner
Director of the Writing and Speaking Center (PhD, Bowling Green, 2013; MA, St. Bonaventure, 2008; BA, St. Bonaventure, 2006)
Stacy Kastner joins Colgate as the Director of the Writing and Speaking Center, bringing a rich background in writing pedagogy and administrative experience. She earned her PhD from Bowling Green State University in 2013 with a dissertation titled "Identity Chats: Co-Authorized Narratives and the Performance of Writerly Selves in Mass Multiliterate Times."
Before joining Colgate, Stacy served as the Director of the Marks Family Writing Center and Associate Director of the Marks Family Center for Excellence in Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her administrative roles, she was also a member of the professional writing faculty at Penn's School of Liberal and Professional Studies.
Stacy's teaching specialties include Writing Center Theory and Practice, Academic and Critical Writing, Professional Writing, and Writing/Composition Pedagogy. Her research interests revolve around peer-to-peer networks that foster non-evaluative and high-impact learning, student-centered and cross-disciplinary writing pedagogies, and the autobiographical dimensions of writer identity, with a particular focus on the personal and political aspects of literacy acquisition.
Outside of her academic pursuits, Stacy enjoys reading, discovering found writing and art, spending time by bodies of water, and keeping up with her two-year-old daughter—an adventure in itself!
Stacy's Publications and Awards
Publications: [Forthcoming] Kastner, S., Argaman, J., Chertok, J., & Wong, A., Walker D.,
Vellani, F. (2024) A writing program-writing center co-lab: Implementing writing studios with course-embedded writing fellows in first-year writing courses. In J. Dahlman, W. Davis, C. B. Field, and G. Poveda (Eds.), Beyond the frontier: Innovations in first-year composition, vol. 4. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hauman, K., Kastner, S., & Witte, A. (2023). Digital WPA: A digital writing instruction resource. WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/exhibits/digital-wpa/
Witte, A., Kastner, S., & Hauman, K. (2023). An ecological perspective: Investigating the role of institutional partners in supporting technological professional development for teachers in six first-year writing programs with digital writing assignments. In S. Khadka and S. Pandy (Eds.), Professionalizing multimodal composition: Faculty and institutional initiatives. Utah State
Awards, honors, and distinctions:
Conference on College Composition and Communication Emergent Researcher Award, 2018-2019, $10,000 (with Kerri Hauman and Alison Witte)
National Security Agency and National Science Foundation GenCyber Grant, 2016-2017, $99,975 (with Sarah B. Lee and Jessica Ivy)
Mississippi State University Cross-College Research Grant, 2013-2014, $2,000 (with Sarah B. Lee and Patrice Anderson)
Bowling Green State University Non-Service Research Fellowship, 2012-2013
Amanda Danielle Moehlenpah
Visiting Assistant Professor of French; Romance Languages and Literatures (PhD, Romance Languages and Literatures with a Specialization in French and Francophone Studies (2021, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); MA, French (2015, Saint Louis University); BA in American Studies and French (2012, Lindenwood University)
Amanda Moehlenpah joins Colgate from Saint Louis University, where she served as an Adjunct Faculty in French. Amanda's recent teaching experience includes positions at Westminster Christian Academy (2022-2023), St. Charles Community College (2021-2022), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016-2021). She specializes in teaching French language and French and Francophone Studies. Her doctoral dissertation, A Republic of Dancers: The Contredanse and the Choreography of Identity in Enlightenment-era France, underscores her scholarly focus on enlightenment studies, early modern France and the French empire, early dance, and performance and movement studies.
In her leisure time, Amanda enjoys dance, creative writing, sports, hiking, theatre, and travel.
Amanda's Publications and Awards
Awards, honors, and distinctions: New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, 2024
DSA Fellowship for Independent Scholars/Contingent Faculty, 2021
New York Public Library Short-Term Research Fellowship, 2021
Jacques Hardré Summer Fellowship Award, University of North Carolina, 2019
McCulloch Dissertation Research Travel Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina, 2017
Summer Research Grant, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of North Carolina, 2017
Vanessa Miller Gelbaugh Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Carolina, 2017
Joseph E. Pogue Fellowship, The Royster Society of Fellows, 2015-2020
Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Saint Louis University, 2014-2015
Roach Fellowship, Saint Louis University, 2014
Publications: “Re-performance: Navigating the Ethics and Aesthetics of Enlightenment Ballet for a Contemporary Conscience.” In Cultural Transmission and the French Enlightenment: Repurposing the Past, edited by Hanna Roman and Oliva Sabee. Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2025 (projected date);
The Fate of La Feste: An Affective Reading of Maximilien Gardel’s Mirsa Ballets. Dance Chronicle 46, no. 3 (Fall 2023): 217-38; “’Les assemblées qu’elle occasionne’: Danced Sociability in Enlightenment France,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 54, no. 3 (Spring, 2021): 577-93.
Alessandro Munzi He/Him
Italian Language Intern (MA, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2024; BA, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2021)
Alessandro Munzi joins Colgate with a background in teaching Italian language and culture. His MA dissertation, titled Thought and Language by L. S. Vygotskij and its Contribution to the Russian Linguistic Picture of the World," and his BA dissertation, The Reception of Italo Calvino in Russia from 2012 to 2020, reflect his deep interest in the intersection of language, culture, and literature.
Before this appointment, Alessandro taught Italian to foreign learners at the private institution, "Istituto Venezia." His teaching specialties include Italian language (grammar, morphology, syntax, and semantics), Italian history and culture—particularly figures such as Dante, Giacomo Leopardi, Alessandro Manzoni, Italo Calvino, and Luigi Pirandello—and teaching the Italian language through its music.
Alessandro's research interests focus on "The Linguistic Picture of the World," a theory exploring how language shapes the worldview of its speakers. While he currently concentrates on Italian and Russian linguistic and cultural realms, he is eager to explore new linguistic realities.
Outside of academia, Alessandro has a passion for Italian fashion and music, enjoys Italian cuisine with a focus on baking, and is an enthusiast of athletics. He describes himself as "an open-minded and extroverted human, willing to share my traditions and thoughts and curious to know about other cultures."
Alessandro's Publications
Publications: Still to be published (by 2024 hopefully), my article on the linguistic picture of the world: "Vygotskij's contribute to the linguistic picture of the world".
Cristovão Nwachukwu He/Him/His
Assistant Professor of Africana and Latin American Studies (BA, Federal University of Bahia, 2017; PhD, University of Florida, 2024)
Cristovão Nwachukwu joins Colgate with a rich background in African literary and diaspora studies. Cristovão recently completed his PhD at the University of Florida, where his dissertation, titled My Family, My Community: Mapping Collective Identities and Familial Spaces in Diasporic African Literatures, explored the intersections of collective identities and familial spaces in African diasporic narratives.
His teaching specialties encompass a wide range of fields, including African literary studies, African diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, Black Geographies, geocriticism, decolonial studies, and film and media studies. His research interests align closely with his teaching, focusing on African literary studies, African diaspora studies, postcolonial studies, Black Geographies, geocriticism, decolonial studies, and film and media studies.
Outside of his academic work, Cristovão enjoys traveling, taking long walks, listening to music, watching TV shows and films, and delving into Russian literature.
Cristovão's Awards and Publications
Publications:
Articles and Book Chapters
“(Un)rooted Spaces of Belonging: Migrant Kinship Structures in Nadifa Mohamed's Black Mamba Boy.” Journal of the African Literature Association, 2024.
Forthcoming
“A Call to Return: Rerouting Healing Pathways in Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater." English in Africa, 2024.
"Where Do We Belong? Glocal Blackness and The Family Unit in Diasporic African Literatures". Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora. Routledge, 2024.
Book Review
2021 review of Emeka C. Anaedozie. 2019. Nuwaubian Pan Africanism: Back to our Root. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 144 pp.
Public Writing
“Reading, Living, and Teaching Black Literature.” Imagining America’s Page Blog Salon, 2022
“To See Myself.” National Humanities Center’s Humanities Moments, 2021.
Awards, honors, and distinctions:
African Literature Association 2024 Graduate Student Best Essay
University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2023-2024 Dissertation Fellowship
Imagining America (IA)’s PAGE (Publicly Active Graduate Education) 2022-2023 Fellowship
University of Florida's 2021-2022 Graduate Graduate Student Teaching Award
National Humanities Center 2020 Winter Residency
Stephanie Sanders She/Her
Assistant Professor of Chemistry (BA, Albion College, 2015; MS, Cornell University, 2017; PhD, Cornell University, 2021)
Stephanie Sanders joins Colgate after serving as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan. Her most recent teaching experience includes roles as a Teaching Assistant in the Graduate School at Cornell University and Ruhr University Bochum.
Stephanie earned her PhD with a dissertation titled Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water at Surfaces with Varying Hydrophobicity. Her teaching specialties are in physical chemistry, and her research interests encompass fluorescence, energy materials, biophysics, and spectroscopy and microscopy.
Outside of her professional endeavors, Stephanie enjoys hiking, baking/cooking, playing board games, and spending time with her dogs.
Stephanie's Publications and Awards
Awards, honors, and distinctions:
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2017
Goldwater National Scholar, 2014
American Chemical Society Undergraduate Award in Analytical Chemistry, 2013
Goldwater Scholarship Honorable Mention, 2013
American Chemical Society Undergraduate Student Award in Environmental Chemistry, 2012
Publications:
* indicates co-first author
1. Javed, A.*; Lüttig, J.*; Charvátová, K.; Sanders, S.E.; Willow, R.; Zhang, M.; Gardiner, A.T.; Malý, P.; Ogilvie, J.P.; Photosynthetic energy transfer: missing in action (detected spectroscopy)? Submitted. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06784
2. Javed, A.*; Lüttig, J.*; Sanders, S.E.*; Sessa, F.; Ogilvie, J.P. Broadband rapid-scanning phase-modulated Fourier transform electronic spectroscopy. Optics Express, 2024 accepted
3. Sanders, S.E.*; Zhang, M.*; Javed, A.; Ogilvie, J.P. Expanding the bandwidth of fluorescence-detected two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy with a continuum probe pulse pair. Optics Express, 2024, 32(6), 8887-8902
4. Chen, W.; Sanders, S.E.; Özdamar, B.; Louaas, D.; Brigiano, F.S.; Pezzotti, S.; Petersen, P.B.; Gaigeot, M.P. On the Trail of Molecular Hydrophilicity and Hydrophobicity at Aqueous Interfaces. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14 (5), 1301–1309
5. Sanders, S.E.; Stingel, A.M; Petersen, P.B. Wedge-Based Design for Phase Stable and Phase Accurate Heterodyne-Detected Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2022, 13 (9), 2072-2077
6. Sanders, S.E.; Petersen, P.B. Heterodyne-Detected Sum Frequency Generation of Water at Surfaces with Varying Hydrophobicity. J. Chem. Phys., 2019, 150 (20), 204708
7. Kocsis, I.; Sorci, M.; Vanselous, H.; Murail, S.; Sanders, S.E.; Licsandru, E.; Legrand, Y-M.; van der Lee, A.; Baaden, M.; Petersen, P. B.; Belfort, G.; Barboiu, M. Oriented chiral water wires in artificial transmembrane channels. Sci. Adv. 2018, 4 (3), eaao5603
8. Sanders, S.E.; Vanselous, H.; Petersen, P. B. Water at Surfaces with Tunable Surface Chemistries. J. Phys. Condens. Matter 2018, 30 (11), 113001
9. Metz, K. M.; Sanders, S. E.; Pender, J. P.; Dix, M. R.; Hinds, D. T.; Quinn, S. J.; Ward, A. D.; Duffy, P.; Cullen, R. J.; Colavita, P. E. Green Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles via Natural Extracts: The Biogenic Nanoparticle Corona and Its Effects on Reactivity. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2015, 3 (7), 1610–1617.
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Ivan Savvine
Russian Language Intern (The Pushkin State Institute of the Russian Language - MA, Russian Philology & Education, 2022; Syracuse University - MA, Art History, 2009; SUNY Purchase - BA, Liberal Studies, 2006)
Ivan Savvine joins Colgate as the new Russian Language Intern, bringing with him valuable teaching experience and expertise in Russian language and culture.
Most recently, Ivan served as a Russian Instructor at The Ohio State University from January to June 2024, and he continues to teach as a STARTALK Russian Instructor since November 2023.
Ivan's teaching specialties include Russian language, culture, literature, and history. He is dedicated to fostering a deep understanding of the rich and complex traditions of the Russian-speaking world among his students.
Ionah Scully
Assistant Professor of Native American Studies (BA, Sarah Lawrence College 2003; CAS, Syracuse University's Maxwell School 2017; CAS, Syracuse University's Women's & Gender Studies 2021; PhD, Syracuse University's Cultural Foundations of Education in School of Education 2024)
Ionah Scully brings a dynamic blend of academic rigor, professional experience, and artistic creativity to Colgate. She is completing her PhD at Syracuse University, where her dissertation, Nehiyaw Two Spirit Creation Stories: Re-mapping Home, Education & Indigenous Education through the Body, explores Indigenous education through the lens of body and storytelling.
Her most recent academic roles include serving as an Instructor for Intergroup Dialogue on Indigeneity at Syracuse University, and teaching courses such as The American School from 2019-2022. Professionally, Ionah has over a decade of experience as a healthcare quality improvement administrator with Liberty Resources. She is also an award-winning dance instructor, choreographer, and artistic director, leading Dance by Ionah since 2007.
Ionah's teaching specialties encompass a broad range of Indigenous and decolonial pedagogies, methodologies, and creative modalities. Her research interests are deeply rooted in Two Spirit/Indigiqueer thought, Indigenous shapeshifting methodology, storytelling pedagogies, Indigenous feminisms, and the relationships between Indigenous women and the land.
In her free time, Ionah enjoys mountain hiking, dancing, practicing traditional harvesting, rescuing animals (especially bears), and indulging in a variety of crafting projects. She embraces humor and a love for the natural world, whether through gardening or crafting, always seeking to connect with the world around her.
Ionah's Publications and Awards
Publications:
Nehiyaw Two Spirit Creation Stories: Re-mapping home, education & Indigenous education through the body (2024).
Embracing Community, Disrupting Isolation: The Importance of Relationships and Land in Antiracist Teacher Education. In G. Martinez-Alba, J. Ruan & A. Hersi (Eds), Antiracist teacher education: theory and practice (2022).
Shapeshifting Power: Indigenous Teachings of Trickster Consciousness and Relational Accountability for Building Communities of Care (2021).
Uncovering What Is Hidden: Colonialism’s Violence Against Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit Individuals (#MMIWG2S) (2019).
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions:
▪ National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship (2023)
▪ Ford Minority Dissertation Fellowship Honorable Mention (2023)
▪ Black and Native Futures in Education Grant, Arizona State University (2022)
▪ Together Outdoors Grant, Outdoor Recreation Roundtable (2022)
▪ Joan Lukes Rothenberg Graduate Service Award, Syracuse University (2020, 2022)
▪ New York Public Humanities Grant Award Recipient (2021)
▪ Toni Taverone Graduate Paper Prize, Syracuse University (2021)
▪ Outstanding Teaching Assistant, Syracuse University (2021)
▪ Publicly Active Graduate Education Fellow, Imagining America (2019-2020)
▪ Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship (2018-2022)
▪ LGBT Resource Center Social Justice Award, Syracuse University (2016)
▪ Dance Award (1st Place) – International Dance Competition, New York City (2016)
Noah Sims
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry (BS, University of Rochester, 2018; PhD, Baylor University, 2022)
Before joining Colgate, Noah Sims served as a Laboratory Coordinator at Le Moyne College, where he refined his expertise in Organic Chemistry, his primary teaching specialty. His dissertation, titled Total Synthesis of Caesalpinnone A and Caesalpinflavan B, Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Alterbrassicicene C and Alterbrassicicene B, reflects his deep engagement in complex chemical synthesis.
Outside the classroom, Noah enjoys trail running, cooking, and following Formula 1 racing.
Chloe Walker She/Her
Assistant Archivist, Assistant Professor in the University Libraries (MLIS, University of Oklahoma, 2023; BA, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2017; Associates, Northwest Vista College, 2015)
Chloe Walker joins Colgate University as the Assistant Archivist in the University Libraries, bringing a diverse and unique background in both the performing arts and archival sciences. Before her appointment at Colgate, Chloe was an Archivist at the University of Oklahoma, where she managed the Ballets Russes Special Collections and Archives. In addition to her archival work, she also served as an Adjunct Professor of Ballet at the University of Oklahoma.
Chloe holds certificates in Archival Studies and Digital Humanities, and she is a former professional ballet dancer and instructor with 13 years of teaching experience. Her teaching specialties at Colgate include primary resource management and academic archival discovery.
Her research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, covering areas such as performing arts history, digital humanities, information organization, folklore and folklife, costume history, and prehistoric iconography.
In her personal life, Chloe is passionate about dancing, boxing, hiking, reading, and enjoying live theater. She shares, "I previously taught ballet for 13 years and love working with students of all ages. I also connect deeply with the outdoors and enjoy hiking and camping with my husband and dog. As a native Texan, I would help my father (a Geography professor) with small projects in the desert and fell in love with fieldwork and digital humanities. I'm also dyslexic but, with the help of some excellent teachers and my librarian mother, I've found joy in reading and a home in libraries."
Chloe's Publications
Publications:
Accepted - Illuminating Disdéri’s cartes-de-visites and dancers’ lives during the French Second Empire [Review of the book Disdéri’s dancers and carte-de-visite ballet photography in the French Second Empire, by M.U. Sowell]. Dance Chronicle, 47(3).
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