Grants in Action

Celebrating Scholarship

Vassar Grants in Action highlights and celebrates the grant funding, principal investigators, and project leadership that enrich faculty research and scholarship, institutional programs and priorities, and the student experience at Vassar.

Professor Ciccariello-Maher is the author of Anticolonial Eruptions

George Ciccariello-Maher, Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science, is the author of Anticolonial Eruptions: Racial Hubris and the Cunning of Resistance, forthcoming for 2022 from the University of California Press. This study explores the reversal of the balance of power between the oppressor and the oppressed.

Professor Brancky is the author of The Crimes of Marguerite Duras

Anne Brancky, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, is the author of The Crimes of Marguerite Duras: Literature and Media in Twentieth-Century France, recently published by Cambridge University Press. This work explores a new framework for analyzing Duras’ literary works and journalism.

Professor Collins is appointed the Peter P. and Margaret A. D’Angelo Endowed Chair in the Humanities at St. John’s University

Lisa Gail Collins, Professor of Art and Director of American Studies on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair, was appointed the Peter P. and Margaret A. D’Angelo Endowed Chair in the Humanities at St. John’s University in Queens, New York, for a semester of teaching and scholarly exchange in Spring 2022.