The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Barry Lam, associate professor of philosophy at Vassar College, has been awarded a 2019–2020 Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship in the amount of $50,000 for Hi-Phi Nation, a popular philosophy podcast praised by the Guardian and the Huffington Post.

Vassar College President Elizabeth Bradley announced the appointment of Carlos Alamo-Pastrana as Dean of the College.

James McCowan ’99, men’s and women’s cross country and track and field Head Coach and Lecturer in Athletics and Physical Education, and his success in running ultramarathons were the subjects of a Poughkeepsie Journal story.

Mia Mask, Professor of Film on the Mary Riepma Ross ’32 Chair, was interviewed on NPR’s 51% about the Academy Award nominees and how they are affected by #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite.

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Editors of Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France, Mita Choudhury (Vassar College) and Daniel J. Watkins (Baylor University) argue that Enlightenment did not signal the end of religious tradition and show how religious belief in France continued to function in dynamic ways throughout the long eighteenth century.