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Frederick B. Artz Professor of History Leonard V. Smith gave a lecture on March 26 at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, on liberalism in Texas and French Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s. Smith will continue work on this project in 2025-26 as Bill and Rita Clements Senior Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón published two new scholarly essays. The first, “” , surveys and reconstructs the so-called “postmodern debate” in Puerto Rico, circa 1991–2004, by focusing on the work of a historian and critic who played a central role in this influential dispute. The second, “”, analyzes how a novel was used in the 19th century to propose a new path for the Mexican economy centered on labor.

Three members of the Division of Music Theory — Associate Professor Andrew Pau, Assistant Professor Christa Cole, and Visiting Assistant Professor Sylvie Tran — presented a special session titled "Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022)" at the annual meeting of the on April 5. The session was based on a panel that the three faculty members gave in conjunction with in December 2024.

Associate Professor of Business and Chair of the Business Program Eric Lin's article "" was recently published in Harvard Business Review.

Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Ghassan Abou-Zeineddine participated in the panel “Innovations in Arab American Fiction” at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs in Los Angeles and also gave two off-site readings.

Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science Josh Davidson presented a paper at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting in March: “Socio-spatial Disparities in Access to Driver Education for Teens.” The paper is coauthored with 91ֱ�� students Noah Elazar ’25 and Sangeetha Ramanuj ’25, and Dr. Megan Ryerson (University of Pennsylvania).

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Nate DeProspo gave the virtual talk “Animality and/as Alterity in Posthumanist Thought” at the in Posthumanities in Bankura, India. The presentation aimed primarily to complicate Heidegger’s infamous thesis that the animal is “poor in world,” while the human is “world-building.”

Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Religion Shari Rabin published with Princeton University Press.

Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions Andrew Macomber published an article for the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, "."

The (local chapter of the National Audubon Society) awarded their annual Hog Island birding camp scholarship to Lab Coordinator/Lecturer in Biology Darla French. Thanks to this sponsorship, Darla will spend an action-packed week in August at in Maine learning from accomplished naturalists, birders, and educators, with an aim to integrate what she’ll learn into department curriculum.