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Candy Esther Martinez, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Latinx Studies, Selected by the School for Advanced Research as a 2025–2026 Resident Scholar

Candy was selected for her book project Transborder Affect: The Intersection Between Emotions, Inequalities, and Healing within Oaxacan Communities. Candy’s research provides a multi-layered interpretation of Oaxacans’ own words, embodiments, and processes for discussing inequalities, emotional distress, and healing processes.

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Vassar Drama Department Will Welcome Patricia Achiro Olwoch, Visiting Artist and Instructor

The Scholars at Risk Network (SAR) provides funding to support an at-Risk scholar. For 2025–26 Vassar’s Drama department welcomes an award-winning writer, director, and producer with multiple publications, Patricia Achiro Olwoch. Achiro was previously an at-risk scholar at Barnard University.

Molly S. McGlennen, Professor of English, Co-Edits New Book Indigenous Poetics

Molly published the book with her 25-year mentor, scholar and poet Inés Hernández-Ávila (Nez Perce/Tejana) from UC Davis. The book is a collection of essays by contemporary Native American poets that highlight the role of poetry in Native American and Indigenous Studies.

New Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (LH-PRISM) Grant

Keri VanCamp, Director of the Field Station and Ecological Preserve, and her collaborators received another grant from the Lower Hudson Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (LH-PRISM).

China Sajadian, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Receives ACLS Fellowship

China was awarded the fellowship for her book project Debt and Refuge: Syrian Farmworkers and the Politics of Displacement in Lebanon. Her ethnography of Syrian refugees who have long-standing ties to Lebanon as seasonal farmworkers makes a case for radically rethinking forced migration as an agrarian question of labor and feminist question of social reproduction, as debt at every scale of life governs how people move across borders.

Lisa Gail Collins, Professor of Art and Director of American Studies on the Sarah Gibson Blanding Chair, Wins Bard Graduate Center’s Horowitz Prize & Getty Fellowship

Lisa has received multiple accolades for her book Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee’s Bend Quilt (U. of Washington Press, 2023; paperback, 2025), including Bard Graduate Center’s Horowitz Book Prize. She was also selected as a 2025–2026 Getty Scholar, which will allow her to deepen her new book project “tending towards” during a residential fellowship at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

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State and Local Officials Stress the Need for Collaboration, Effective Leadership at New York State Political Science Association Meeting

City of Poughkeepsie Mayor Yvonne Flowers and Lieutenant Governor Antonio Delgado spoke at the New York State Political Science Association’s annual meeting held on campus recently.

Joshua de Leeuw, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Receives Supplemental NSF POSE Grant

Josh received supplemental grant funding to support his current grant project “POSE: Phase II: An Open-Source Ecosystem for Behavioral Experiments.” Funding is supporting the creation of an open-source ecosystem for behavioral experiments centered around jsPsych, Josh’s established and highly-used tool for behavioral research.

Vassar Hosts Scholarly Conversation on Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and Free Speech

Scholars Khaled Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, and Ken Stern, Director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate, recently met for a dialogue on Islamophobia, antisemitism, and free speech, followed by discussion sessions with the campus community.