Faculty Accomplishments

Associate Professor of Art Gary Green is a participant in the Virtual New York Art Book Fair, which runs Feb. 24-28. Green holds a conversation with Photograph magazine's Editor Jean Dykstra, which will be available throughout the fair at L'Artiere Editions.

Assistant Professor of Geology Bess Koffman was named an Outstanding Reviewer for 2021 by Communications Earth and Environment, a Nature research journal. Koffman, a geochemist and paleoclimatologist, met the journal's criteria for the award by "making a significant and positive contribution to the peer review process, demonstrating professionalism and compassion in their reviews, and providing comments that help the authors to improve their work."

Associate Professor of Art Gary Green held an interview with the journal Urbanautica that covered Green's photography and recent books, philosophical topics, and his teaching at Colby. In the 13 years he's been at Colby, the art program "has grown and expanded. Our senior year curriculum includes a year-long capstone that includes all artistic disciplines, a thesis exhibit in our museum, and a really nice catalog. ... It’s a robust finish to four years of studying art," Green said. 

Professor of Art Véronique Plesch was invited to deliver a virtual lecture in Spanish titled “La pared y la piel.” The lecture was for the graduate course Arte Medieval taught by Professor Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández, Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and was delivered Feb. 19, 2021.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has coauthored a new paper titled "Rebooting a failed promise of climate finance." Published in Nature Climate Change, the paper finds flaws in the current United Nations finance accountability mechanisms and proposes a new climate finance pledge that could reinvigorate climate talks.

Professor of Art Véronique Plesch contributed an essay for the newly released Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World: Emotion, Contrition and Penitence in the Middle Ages. Her chapter is titled "Peter’s Three Tears” and was inspired by a comment made by a participant during a trip she led for Colby alumni. In fact, she acknowledges this person on the first page of the book. "I am grateful to Allen Jenkins for drawing my attention to Peter’s three tears during our visit to Notre-Dame des Fontaines in October 2017." Plesch also contributed the photo that adorns the book's cover.

Kerry Sonia, visiting assistant professor of religious studies, was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of a book project currently underway. Sonia's book, her second, will explore the social and ritual dimensions of childbirth in ancient Israel. 

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has co-authored a new paper linking restorative justice to climate-related loss and damage. Published in the journal Third World Quarterly, the paper argues that litigation cannot deliver all types of justice and so an alternative paradigm is needed. In this regard, restorative justice can provide a number of benefits, including respecting the rights of and meeting the financial needs of victims, particularly small island developing states. The paper was coauthored with D'Arcy Carlson '21.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Adam Giannelli has been awarded a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Giannelli was one of the 35 awardees of the NEA Literature Creative Writing (Poetry) Fellowship, receiving a $25,000 award aimed to enable the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement. "As part of the first grantmaking announcement of FY 2021, the National Endowment for the Arts announced $1.2 million in FY 2021 Literature Fellowships to creative writers and translators, supporting both the development of new works of American literature and the translation into English of literary prose, poetry, and drama from writers around the world," according to its website.  

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Stacy-ann Robinson has been invited to join the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN). The CSSN is an international network of social science scholars focused on understanding the cultural and institutional dynamics of the political conflict over climate change. There are currently more than 110 scholars from 25 countries in the network. Brown University's Institute for Environment and Society coordinates CSSN activities and serves as the institutional hub.