Category: Professional Notes

Kilmartin Talks About Male Sexual Harassment Victims in Buzzfeed Article

Chris Kilmartin, professor emeritus of psychology, recently spoke to Buzzfeed for an article called “Why Didn’t you Fight Back?” And Other Questions That Keep Male Sexual Harassment Victims Silent.“We have a culture that does not really want to deal with the victimizations of men,” said Chris Kilmartin, a psychologist who consults workplaces on preventing sexual […]

Dasgupta Publishes Essay, Delivers Talk at Columbia University

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, recently published an article and gave an invited talk. The article, “‘His Blood Was Pure English’: Border Anxiety, Race, and Mimicry in Post-Imperial Mutiny Fiction,” appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 2016, pp. 85-100. The invited talk, “From the Other Side […]

Al-Tikriti Joins Middle East Studies Book Prize Committee

On Feb. 19, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History Nabil Al-Tikriti agreed to join the 2018 Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Book Prize Committee. For this service, the five committee members must review a total of approximately 125 books for three prizes:The Albert Hourani Book Award was established in 1991 to recognize outstanding publishing in […]