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Margaret Robinson PI with Co-PIs Giuliana Davidoff, Dylan Shepardson and Jessica Sidman (Mathematics) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Collaborative Proposal: Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2020-2022” – with Keene and Siena Colleges. The project is for three years.

National Science Foundation


Day, I. (2024) One Week Residency and Conference: “Crisis and Urgency: Scholarship in a Shifting World,” Japan Association for American Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.


Day I. (2021) Invited Fellow at the Asian American Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Fellowship is for six months.


Day, I. (2021) William H. Morton Distinguished Senior Fellow, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College. Institute focus: Transnational and Decolonial Humanities: U.S. Ethnic Studies and Its Global Other


Barbie Diewald received a fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts for their New Work New England project: Concourse. The fellowship is for one year.


Received a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Collaborative Research: Redox Ratios in Amphiboles as Proxies for Volatile Budgets in Igneous Systems. The project is for three years.


Received a fellowship from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation for her project, "Philosophy and Physics in Conjunction and Across Time".

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation


Cora Fernandez Anderson received the LASA-Ford grant together with Mexican scholar Paola Sesia and Argentine scholar Celeste Jerez. The grant will finance a Latin American research group on Obstetric Violence. The group will produce the first edited collection in the English language of the work of Latin American scholars on this topic.


Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (subaward from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) for “Dissecting the dynamic evolution of paralogs in shaping trait variation across the Solanum pan-genome.” The project is for five years. (2022)

National Science Foundation


Received a grant from the Consulate General of Italy, Boston, to support an Italian tutor.