Faculty and Staff Notes

David S. Boe Associate Professor of Organ Jonathan Moyer participated as a jury member for the Jean Florentz International Organ Competition in Angers, France, in April, adjudicating both the semifinal and final rounds of the competition, held at the cathedral of Angers. 

Associate Professor of Art History Matthew Rarey has been appointed to the editorial board of the Art Bulletin, the flagship publication of the College Art Association and one of the journals of record for the discipline of art history. Rarey's four-year term begins in July.

Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager has signed a contract with Yale University Press for a new book, East Asia: A Modern History, to be published in its forthcoming History of Asia series. The series brings together leading historians to present a broad, accessible account of Asia from premodern times to the present.

Donald R. Longman Professor of English and Comparative Literature Wendy Beth Hyman published two book chapters this spring: one on Renaissance lyric and the other on Renaissance drama. "Minute/Minute: On Time and Scale in Renaissance Lyric" appears in the Lyric Temporalities (Toronto University Press), and "Theatre as Portal: A Shakespearean Thought Experiment," is out in the volume Experiential and Experimental Knowledge on the Early Modern English Stage (Edinburgh University Press).

Information Literacy and Assessment Librarian Clinton Baugess co-presented “At the Helm in the Storm: Compassionate Leadership for Library Instruction Programs” at the LOEX conference on teaching and learning in libraries in Norfolk, Virginia, on May 9. His work was a collaboration with Mallory Jallas from the University of Illinois Springfield.

William G. Smith Associate Professor of Sociology and Comparative American Studies Alicia Smith-Tran was interviewed by the Guardian for an article about how the media's fixation on romantic relationships in the WNBA minimizes the players' professionalism and athleticism.

William G. Smith Associate Professor of Sociology and Comparative American Studies Alicia Smith-Tran received the 2026 Scholarly Achievement Award from the North Central Sociological Association for her article “There's the Black Woman Thing, and There's the Age Thing: Professional Black Women on the Downsides of 'Black Don't Crack' and Strategies for Confronting Ageism at Work." She was honored at the annual meeting of the NCSA in Pittsburgh on April 17.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. He is one of 63 scholars selected from a pool of more than 2,000 applicants through a multi-stage peer-review process. The fellowship will support research for Macomber's second monograph project, Everything Evil in You: Disease, Karma, and the Pathogen Pantheon in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber was awarded a Japanese Studies Fellowship from the Japan Foundation for the 2026-27 academic year. Together with an award from the American Council of Learned Societies, the fellowship will support research for Macomber's second monograph project, Everything Evil in You: Disease, Karma, and the Pathogen Pantheon in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.

Annemarie Sammartino was featured in the 99% Invisible podcast on the history of Co-op City, a massive affordable housing cooperative in the Northeast Bronx.