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Associate professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin published “Response to Rabbi Perry Nussbaum: Interracial Marriage, Conversion, and Reform Judaism in Jackson, Mississippi, 1968” in the Primary Sources section of the journal Southern Jewish History.

Donald R. Longman ’32 Professor of Physics Jason Stalnaker was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for Exotic Physics Searches with Magnetometer Networks. The grant is a collaboration with Cal State-East Bay University, Bucknell University, and Messiah University. Jason and three recent 91ֱ�� graduates coauthored a paper on a “Multimessenger Search for Exotic Field Emission with a Global Magnetometer Network” in Physical Review X.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Anthropology Jessica Madison Pískatá published an article in the July 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities titled "."

Longman Professor of English emerita Sandra Zagarell published the essay "Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson's Activist Literature" in a special issue of Research in African Literatures on Pluralism and the Engaged Humanities in honor of Eileen Julien.

Associate Professor of Financial Economics Udara Peiris presented his paper, “Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy,” at the (August 18-22, 2025, Seoul, South Korea), the society’s flagship meeting, held every five years.

Assistant Professor of Politics Joshua Freedman published "" in International Organization. It included valuable research assistance by Anna Silverman ’22, Nathan Englehart ’23, and Sophia Cartsonis ’24.

Department of Psychology Research Technician Peter Naegele will be teaching 91ֱ��'s first course that leverages AI to carry out data analysis using the programming and data analysis software RStudio. Students will learn to perform psychological data analyses using R confidently, understand the logic of programming, and utilize AI to enhance their research workflows.

Professor of Philosophy Todd Ganson presented his paper "The Dual Function of Sensory Systems: Reporting on Stimuli and Affordances" at the Summer Mind Workshop held at Columbia University's Mind Brain Behavior Institute.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Asif Iqbal published  (Routledge). A comparative study of 20th- and 21st-century Bengali vernaculars and South Asian anglophone diasporic novels, the book recasts the framing of South Asian cross-border entanglements and fractures in literary postcolonial studies.

Assistant Professor of Music Theory Christa Cole ’17 recently gave the keynote talk at the annual . In her talk, “Effort as Structure in Musical Performance,” Cole analyzed dimensions of effort—gesture, instrumental affordances, and performativity—in works by post-1900 composers, and she showed how effort itself can serve as a structuring dimension of music.