Faculty and Staff Notes

Kathy Abromeit Completes Term as National Chair for Music Library Association

Conservatory Library Head Kathy Abromeit completed a three-year term as national chair of the Music Library Association’s Black Music Collections Interest Group.

Darling Presents Research in Europe

Professor of Psychology Nancy Darling presented her research on adolescents’ medical adherence at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and Utrecht University in the Nehterlands. Related work by Darling and students Lorna Luo, Sophia Carter, and Nam Nguyen will be presented at the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood in June.

 

Sandra Zagarell Leads Class at Tulane University

Emeritus Professor of English Sandra Zagarell led a class on American regionalism at Tulane University in April 2025. Zagarell virtually presented the paper “Jewett's Complicated Sympathy” at the Jewett Unbound conference in Paris in October 2024.

Sheila Miyoshi Jager Accepted Award in London

Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager accepted the 2024 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History from the 9th Duke of Wellington at the Royal United Services Institute in recognition of The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia as the best book in English on military history in 2024. The presentation happened in London on May 15, 2025.

Ann Cooper Albright Book Review Published in "Times Literary Supplement"

A book review by Professor of Dance Ann Cooper Albright was published May 2, 2025, in  the Times Literary Supplement “Dance Moves: Women’s choreography as a force for change.” This spring, Cooper Albright performed and taught as a guest artist at UCLA World Arts and Cultures, Ohio State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also hosted a series of podcasts featuring writers from her new edited volume Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation @ 50 and was featured on the Act/Re/Act podcast hosted by Daniel Burkholder. 

Katie Lind Delivered Talk at Syracuse University Project Advance Seminar

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Katie Lind delivered the talk “Cultivating the Eco-Citizen” at the Syracuse University Project Advance seminar. The presentation offered practical and theoretical considerations for empowering high school and college students to become more environmentally aware and civically engaged. She will deliver the same presentation on May 20 in New York City.