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Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Sonja Thomas provided extensive commentary for an article in the Guardian about activists in the U.S. who are fighting caste discrimination.
An article in the local press highlighted the success of Colby's women's lacrosse team, including how it scored 177 goals in a winning streak of nine consecutive games.
Adam Howard, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Education, Kevin O'Boy '23, and Clay Bolster '24 traveled to Gothenburg, Sweden, to present a paper as part of the 2023 European Social Science History Conference. Their paper, "Privileged Brotherhoods: Becoming Men at Elite All-Boys Schools in the United States," highlights the distinctive role that elite all-boys schools play in making and remaking elites in the United States. O'Boy and Bolster were coauthors on the paper and have been working on this project throughout their time at Colby. Next school year, the team plans to publish an article based on this research.
CBS affiliate WABI covered the annual Mud Meet woodsmen's competition, hosted this year by Colby. Participating teams took part in a variety of events, including a pulp toss, cross-cut sawing, log decking, and axe throwing.
Associate Professor of Art Marta Ameri has joined the team of series editors for the Women in Ancient Cultures book series, published by Liverpool University Press. This series "aims to unite groundbreaking research from all fields of ancient-world studies, publishing research that pertains to all aspects of women’s lives in the ancient world and the various levels of agency that they could, and could not, attain as well as the dynamics and modalities of female agency under, and against, oppressive conditions—patriarchal, heterosexist, and otherwise." Ameri will work with the other series editors to solicit and vet book projects focusing on women's lives in the Ancient Near Eastern, South Asian, and Early Islamic Worlds.
An article by Assistant Professor of English Dyani Taff was recently published in the journal Coastal Studies & Society. The article, titled "Rivers and Bogs: Slow Protests in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko,” received critical praise from its reviewers. "I’m very impressed with this smart, persuasive, and important article that places readings of Behn’s Oroonoko in dialogue with emerging scholarship about early modern critical race studies and ecocritical studies, with a particular emphasis on rivers, estuaries, and swamps," said one reviewer. While another said, "I find this an intelligent take on 'protest' that moves beyond simply ascertaining whether Oronooko 'fails' to combat environmental and social injustice; I think it helpfully historicizes racial and colonial ideologies and underscores recent critical responses to their ills; and I admire its concluding, compelling call for modern readers to attend to 'slowness' as both a method and a movement (in multiple senses of the word)."
Professor Robert A. Gastaldo, Whipple Coddington Professor of Geology, emeritus, has joined Maine's Department of Education's Science Standards Steering Committee in their evaluation of the state's NextGen Science standards. The Steering Committee is composed of education experts who represent the cultural diversity found in Maine and a range of viewpoints as to the content of the standards. He served as a developer and writer for the American Geological Institute's middle school earth science curricula—Constructing Understandings of Earth System and Investigating Earth Systems—and as a development leader and author for their high school, inquiry-based curriculum, EarthComm. Gastaldo's college-level laboratory manual, Deciphering Earth History, has been on the market since the mid-1990s, and he recently edited an advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate level textbook, Nature Through Time.
Associate Professor of English Matthew Schneider-Mayerson provided commentary for an article on how eco-sabotage is capturing the imagination of climate-fiction authors.
A popular arts newsletter highlighted the Ashley Bryan / Paula Wilson: Take the World into Your Arms exhibition at the new Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in downtown Waterville.
Associate Professor of French Mouhamédoul Niang has written an essay for Africa to Maine, a photo exhibition at the Portland Public Library that runs through June 18. It was produced by the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center as a community response to Outside the Frame: Todd Webb in Africa, currently on display at the Portland Museum of Art. In the 1950s, Webb, an American documentary photographer, documented emerging industries and technologies in nine African countries. In contrast, the photos in “Africa to Maine” show the lives of individuals and families in Africa during the past 60 years. In his essay, “Photography and Immigrants,” which was also printed in the April edition of Amjambo Africa, Niang writes about those photos.