Faculty Accomplishments
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Professor of Education Adam Howard's article "Making Class: Children's Perceptions of Social Class Through Illustration" was published by Teachers College Record and was the topic of discussion on TCR's "The Voice" Jan. 23. Howard cowrote the article with his former student Karlyn Adler '11, now a lead kindergarten teacher at The School at Columbia University, and Katy Swalwell (Iowa State University).
New fiction by Sarah Braunstein, assistant professor of English, was recently published in Playboy magazine (Winter 2019, the 65th Anniversary issue). "The Modern Era," a short story set during future impeachment hearings, dramatizes a difficult break-up from the point of view of a young male comedy writer. Playboy describes it as "Fear and Loving in Los Angeles."
An article by Aaron Hanlon, assistant professor of English, was recently published by history blog Age of Revolutions. Titled “Finding Genres of Revolution in the Classroom,” the Jan. 21 article details a new course Hanlon created at Colby and the challenges he and his students faced discussing global revolutions “within a liberal framework.” Comparative exercises helped Hanlon and his students overcome this obstacle, allowing them to find “a history of revolution in forms, of voices, of proclamations, of concerns, of fears, and of legacies.” he wrote.
Dan Shea, professor of government, wrote an opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald titled "Can average citizens rise to the occasion in response to Mueller’s findings?" The Jan. 18 piece questions if average citizens are still able to see their role as fundamental in a democracy, or if they're swayed by partisan identification. "Can we break from our partisan filters to find pragmatic policy solutions, as was routine throughout much of our nation’s history?" Shea writes. "Can we set aside our partisan impulses, turn away from the talking heads on television and radio and steer clear of social media to objectively assess Mueller’s findings?"
"Bugs in our Backyard," a citizen science project by Associate Professor of Biology Dave Angelini and Biology Research Technician Josh Steele, was named one of the Top 18 projects for 2018 on the CitSci aggregator site SciStarter. The project encourages K-12 students to take surveys of bugs in their backyards, schoolyards, and neighborhoods; the surveys are then used to help find answers to biological questions. Bugs in our Backyard is part of an NSF-funded research program at Colby, which will also provide students with insight into the practice of science, according to the project's website.