Faculty & Staff Accomplishments

For presenting a work visualizing the disappearance of the Greenland ice sheet, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn on April 12 as part of the venue’s Second Sundays public program. The work was created in collaboration with glaciologist Marco Tedesco of Columbia University, and translates glaciological field data into sound and moving image.

For hosting the 2026 International Masterclass. He also co-authored a new paper with the DUNE collaboration: FERMILAB-PUB-25-0961-LBNF and will be serving as a reviewer and panelist for the Undergraduate STEM Education program.

Chris Ceraso for appearing in the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Asking for Trouble, a series of one-act plays from the 2025-26 Youngblood Company, an “OBIE-winning collective of emerging early-career playwrights,” whose ranks since 1993 have included some of today’s most produced and awarded writers from off-Broadway to Broadway and London’s West End. This was Chris’ 6th season appearing in this festival.

Sandra Jamieson for participating in “Developing a Philosophy of Generative AI Use,” an afternoon workshop at the European Conference on Ethics and Integrity in Academia (Hosted by the European Network for Academic Integrity and the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics), Uppsala University. Sweden. Also for participating in “Teaching Humans in the age of Generative AI,” a keynote presentation and half-day workshop, part of the week-long First-Year Seminar Faculty Development Program at Pomona College.

Qiqi Liang, Chen Chen, Andrew Cohen, and Licheng Sun for publishing “Maxing out Short-Term Reversals in Weekly Stock Returns.” in the Journal of Empirical Finance 82 (2025): 101608.

Rosemary McLaughlin for her work during her Fall Sabbatical, including conducting research in Rome and Naples for her play, Rumors of Caravaggio; completing the writing her first TV pilot, D.O.H., developed while taking a course in writing TV Pilots, with Chisa Hutchinson through the Frank Silvera Workshop, and participating in a Master Class with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel.

For participating as a jury member during the Italian Language and Culture Day (for middle and high school students’ presentations on a chosen theme) held at Rutgers University.

For presenting the paper “J.M.W. Turner and Robert Hills: Collaborating Contemporaries?” at the Turner 250 Conference at Tate Britain, London, December 2025.

For participating in the 2026 AP Spanish Literature and Culture Alignment Research Study, conducted by the Advanced Placement Program of the College Board.

Maliha Safri for presenting at the “Resist and Build” summit in Atlanta, with her coauthor Craig Borowiak Solidarity Cities. Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation.

She was interviewed by the New Books Network for their podcast on recent books. Her recently coauthored book, Solidarity Cities, is also nominated for the Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book award for books exploring core urban issues, to be announced in late September.

For serving as chair for the panel, “Music, Language, and Liberation: Artists’ Perspectives During and After World War Two,” at the Society for French Historical Studies’ 71st Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (March 2026).

Kristen Turner for publishing the book Teaching Writing in the Age of AI: Strategies for Teachers of Secondary Students.

For presenting “(Re)claiming Writing Agency as a featured speaker at the Learning and the Brain Conference, and for being selected as a participant in the AI Framework workshop of the National Council of Teachers in English, in partnership with Google, in order to develop support and guidance for educators.

In addition, Turner’s book Teaching Writing in the Age of AI has been named a finalist for a 2025 Foreword Indies award for books on education.

For receiving a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society to conduct research on Swahili-Arabic script at the archives of the University of London.

Ryan Woodring for being an invited speaker at the Mayo Clinic Biomedical Ethics and Humanities in Medicine Grand Rounds. Rendering Illness: Artistic Practice at the Boundaries of Diagnosis.

In addition, for his art project “Sick and Tired at the Met” (2025, Irrelevant Press) Coloring Book Release at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, held at MoMA PS1, NY. Sept. 11-14. Also, for his “Face in Clouds Invisible Ink” Solo Exhibition at Rochester Art Center, MN. Sept. 13, 2025 – April, 2026. Lastly, for his “Blockbusters Collective” Video Screening at the Museum of the Moving Image, NY.

For serving as Keynote at the NJCRL Fall Meeting in December 2025. Kearns’ talk was grounded in the interconnectedness of spirituality, creation, and justice. She began by discussing the sacred meaning of breath across religious traditions, recognizing the religiously diverse audience. She concluded her speech by offering reframed language that can open conversations across political and theological divides. To learn more about Professor Laurel Kearns keynote speech click here.

Co-authored with Kate Rigby “Eco-religious Studies” in the Live Handbook Environmental Humanities,  E. Zemanek, T. Müller, eds.

For publishing his most recent book, Jesusviolence: Racism, Speciesism, and Other Violences in and after the Gospels (Oxford University Press), which asks the question, What does Jesus say and do within the narrative worlds of the New Testament gospels that enabled innumerable gory horrors and immense systemic violences to be perpetrated with his presumed permission?