Dana Research Assistantships
Shamma Alam, Economics/Ani Nikoghosyan ’27 to work on the project “Covid-19 Pandemic and Adolescent Health in Developing Countries”
Shamma Alam, Economics/Tu Tong ’26 to work on the project “Impact of Cash Transfer Program on Maternal Health Services”
Kirk Anderson, Educational Studies/Natasha Stein ’25 to work on the project “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy in Higher Education”
Jeremy Ball, History/Marcus Vieira ’25 to work on the project “Angolans in Maine Oral History Project”
Shawn Bender, East Asian Studies/Helen Van ’26 to work on the project “The Digital Automation of Dairy Farming”
Wande Benka-Coker, Environmental Studies/Kailey Sipe ’25 to work on the project “Exploring the Relative Effects of Different Stove Types on Indoor Air Quality in Residential Kitchens”
Eren Bilen, Data Analytics/Ty Chermsirivatana ’27 to work on the project “Masks, facial-expressions, and strategic interaction: Evidence from World Series Poker”
Matthew Biwer, Anthropology/Archaeology/Emmalee Davis ’25 to work on the project “Creating an Archaeobotanical Comparative Collection”
Carolina Castellanos, Spanish & Portuguese/Hannah Tomblin ’26 to work on the project “Being Narca: Latin American Women Drug Traffickers”
Adriana da Silva, Spanish & Portuguese/Payton LaPointe ’25 to work on the project “Going underground: new ways of narrating in Spanish”
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian/Alexandra Ubbens ’28 to work on the project “Mapping Contemoprary Russian Philosophy”
Maggie Douglas, Environmental Studies/Liv Kacar ’26 to work on the project “Bees and trees: Are public forests a refuge for pollinators from insecticide exposure?”
Samuel Driver, Russian/Dorian McElrone ’25 to work on the project “Rethinking the 'Lie': Image Manipulation and Truth Claims from Stalin and Putin”
Andrew Dufton, Anthropology/Archaeology/Siobhan Morgan ’27 & Anthony Rogers ’27 to work on the project “Mapping the ancient city of Acholla (Tunisia)”
Rachel Eng, Art & Art History/Trudy Chung ’25 & Sophie Phillips ’25 to work on the project “Compression”
Steve Erfle, INBM/Roselyn Gonzalez ’26 to work on the project “The Native Speakers Initiative”
Jacquie Forbes, Educational Studies/Destiny McFalls ’25 & Indra Sokhomsan ’26 to work on the project “The Education of Black Youth in NYC Amid COVID and Beyond”
Ye Jiang, Economics/Ruoning Fang ’27 to work on the project “Consumption, Marriage and Fertility in the Digital Revolution Era”
Ye Jiang, Economics/Grace Ngo ’27 to work on the project “The Economic Gains/Losses of Public Policies”
Sarah Kersh, English/Anna Robison ’25 to work on the project “Disability and the Lyric in Vistorian Literature”
Zach Kessler, Data Analytics/Nam Phu Minh Nguyen ’27 to work on the project “An Endogenous Model of within and cross-team Complimentarity”
Lorelei Koss, Math & Computer Science/Ryan West ’25 to work on the project “Symmetry Patterns of Pennsylvania Dutch Fraktur”
Wade Mansell, INBM/Phan Bach Duong ’27 to work on the project “The effect of price on creativity”
Wade Mansell, INBM/Kitty Le Ha ’26 & Andrea Schutze Ramirez ’26 to work on the project “Creative Essentialism”
Wade Mansell, INBM/Thu Anh Phung ’27 to work on the project “The effect of price on creativity”
Katie Marchetti, Political Science/Noah Morrison ’25 to work on the project “Women's Organizations and Administrative Lobbying”
Russell McDermott, English/Maya Reichenbach ’27 to work on the project “Cringe and the Paradox of Painful, Empathic, Art”
Katie Oliviero, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies/Marin Moore ’26 to work on the project “Complicity’s Political Possibilities and Discontents”
Amalia Pesantes Villa, Anthropology/Archaeology/Nora Stocovaz ’25 to work on the project “The notion of wellbeing among Indigenous people from the Amazon”
Mireille Rebeiz, French/Eddie Duman ’27 & Gloria Rowley ’25 to work on the project “Remembering the Beirut Veterans”
Dan Schubert, Sociology/Agnes Zhang ’26 to work on the project “Anti-Habitus: Bourdieu, Reflexivity, and the Unlearning of Difference”
Jacob Sider Jost, English/Alexandria Lauff ’26 to work on the project “Courtship and Marriage in Eighteenth-Century Women's Life-Writing”
John Truden, American Studies/Andrew Russell ’26 to work on the project “Indian Territory’s Legacy: Indigenous-Settler Partnerships and Persistence in Oklahoma, 1875-2020”
Jodie Vann, Religion/Sarah Cayouette-Gluckman ’25 to work on the project “Paeans to the New Age: The 1987 Harmonic Convergence and the Rise of the "Spiritual, but Not Religious"”
Zhiyi Wei, Economics/Israk Zaman ’26 to work on the project “Romer Growth and Structural Change”
Olivia Wilkins, Chemistry/Olivia Lyon ’25 to work on the project “Laboratory Investigations of Cosmic Ices”
Olivia Wilkins, Chemistry/Evelyn Pham ’26 to work on the project “Optimizing Computer Code for Mapping Molecules in Star-Forming Regions”
Rui Zhang, Psychology/Tiara McKinney ’25 to work on the project “Social network analysis of international students and students of color at Dickinson”
Scholarly/Creative
Nadia Alahmed, Africana Studies to support the project “Unearthing Unknown Artifacts Palestinian Poetry of Resistance”
Andy Bale, Art & Art History to support the project “Arrivals: What's Left Behind, What Lies Ahead”
Andy Bale, Art & Art History to support the project “Arrivals: What's Left Behind, What Lies Ahead - A Printed Book”
Jeremy Ball, History to support the project “Angolans in Maine Oral History Project”
Alex Bates, East Asian Studies to support the project “Confronting the atrocity: Proletarian Writers and the Massacre”
Heather Bedi, Environmental Studies to support the project “Municipal Renewable Electricity Adoption, Motivations, and Environmental Justice Implications”
Shawn Bender, East Asian Studies to support the project “The Digital Automation of Dairy Farming”
Wande Benka-Coker, Environmental Studies to support the project “Occupational Exposures in Farmworkers on a College Farm: Airborne Pollutants, Heat, and Cardiopulmonary Health”
Eren Bilen, Data Analytics to support the project “When AI Gives Bad Advice: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Chatbots on Students' Critical Thinking”
Eren Bilen, Data Analytics to support the project “The Impact of Sentiment in AI Feedback on Trust, Performance and Risk-Taking”
Say Burgin, History to support the project “Can’t Jail a Revolution: How Black Freedom Activists Resisted State Repression in Chicago”
Carolina Castellanos, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project “The Affect in Drug Trafficking: Narrating the Untold Story in Raquel de Oliveira’s A número um”
Anthony Cervino, Art & Art History to support the project “New Directions: Summer Creative Research in Sculpture”
Adriana Bezerra da Silva, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project “I Refuse to Fade: A Voice Heard from the Arts Building to the Science Hall (or How People of Color Make Themselves Heard on Campus)”
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian to support the project “Archil Jorjadze and Lev Tolstoy in Philosophical Dialogue”
Samuel Driver, Russian to support the project “Rethinking the 'Lie': Image Manipulation and Truth Claims from Stalin and Putin”
Andrew Dufton, Anthropology/Archaeology to support the project “Surveying the city and hinterland of Acholla, Tunisia”
Tiffany Frey, Biology to support the project “Impact of Cellular Isoprenoid Depletion on Extracellular Vesicles”
Ellen Gray, Music to support the project “Tangibles, Intangibles and a Precarious South: Heritage Labors in Portugal”
Sherry Harper-McCombs, Theatre & Dance to support the project “Creating and performing work with the Mighty Women's Mini Puppet Collective”
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Psychology to support the project “Stigmatization among Danish youth smokers”
John Henson, Biology to support the project “Structure, Dynamics, and Regulation of the Cytokinetic Contractile Ring in an Early Embryo”
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance to support the project “Adirondack Lakes Shakespeare Festival: As You Like It”
Noreen Lape, Educational Studies to support the project “Disagreeable Classrooms: Fostering Transformational Conversations Across Differences”
Elizabeth Lee, Art & Art History to support the project “'Abnormal Movements': Eadweard Muybridge's Locomotion Photography and Nineteenth-Century Neurology”
Helene Lee, Sociology to support the project “Raising Asians, Aging Asians: Parenting and Elder Care in Second Generation Asian American families”
Liz Lewis, Educational Studies to support the project ““There’s No Precedent”: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Institutional Response to Faculty Health and Wellness”
Liz Lewis, Educational Studies to support the project “An Examination of Undergraduate Students’ Literacy Skill Development & Practices Inclusive Writing Pedagogy-Based Educational Studies Courses”
Tullio Pagano, Italian to support the project “The Chestnut and Olive Trees in the the Culture and Imaginary of the Region of Liguria, Italy”
Christopher Peacock, East Asian Studies to support the project “Internal Exiles: Writing Tibetan Literature in Beijing”
Amalia Pesantes Villa, Anthropology/Archaeology to support the project “Understanding the meaning of patient satisfaction for rural healthcare users”
Antje Pfannkuchen, German to support the project “Electricity as an Elemental Medium: Energizing the Imagination”
Robert Pound, Music to support the project “Recording of when we three meet and creation fables”
Jorge Sagastume, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project “The Rivers as Allegories of Ruins in El rio sin orillas, by Juan Jose Saer”
Dan Schubert, Sociology to support the project “Anti-Habitus: Bourdieu, Relfexivity, and the Unlearning of Difference”
Adeline Soldin, French to support the project “Transgressive Desires, Eccentric Tastes: Perversion and Pleasure in 19th-Century French Literature”
Adrienne Su, Creative Writing to support the project “Second prose book, first phase”
Adrienne Su, Creative Writing to support the project “Poems and Essays on Food and the Arts”
Alyson Thibodeau, Geosciences to support the project “Sourcing Turquoise from the Copper World Project”
John Truden, American Studies to support the project “Reform, Revolution, Backlash: Native America in the 1970s (Minnesota Expansion)”
John Truden, American Studies to support the project “Reform, Revolution, Backlash: Native America in the 1970s (California)”
Amy Wlodarski, Music to support the project “The International Reception of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis”
Rui Zhang, Psychology to support the project “Examining the Multiculturalism-Creativity Link from the Perspective of Challenge and Threat Appraisals”
Collaborative Student-Faculty Research
Shamma Alam, Economics/Aidan MacIntosh ’27 & Thu Nguyen ’27 for the project “Long-term in-utero health effects of wars and conflicts”
Qing Bai, INBM/Anne Pham ’26 for the project “Animal Spirits in Print: Sentiment and Uncertainty from Letters to the Editor and Their Impact on Markets”
Heather Bedi, Environmental Studies/Se'phira Amen ’26 for the project “Increasing access to affordable and clean energy”
Wande Benka-Coker, Environmental Studies/Lila Brown ’26 for the project “Occupational Exposures in Farmworkers on a College Farm: Airborne Pollutants, Heat, and Cardiopulmonary Health”
Wande Benka-Coker, Environmental Studies/Max Carfrey ’26 for the project “Ammonia Air Quality and Cow Behavior in Naturally Ventilated Barn”
Eren Bilen, Data Analytics/Pranav Azad ’27 for the project “AI for Rubik's Cube: Mimicking Human Solving Techniques”
Matthew Biwer, Anthropology/Archaeology/Keri Tremoglie ’27 for the project “Investigating Early Farming and Social Complexity in the Peruvian Highlands”
Scott Boback, Biology/Josephone Caton ’27 & Bridget Merkel ’27 for the project “The role of ground-borne vibration of rainfall in releasing rainharvesting behavior in rattlesnakes”
Grant Braught, Math & Computer Science/Niloy Saha ’27 for the project “FarmData2 Development”
Rebecca Connor, Chemistry/Nazar Serhiienko ’27 for the project “Biochemical reactivity and effects of phenylethynesulfonamides”
Allyssa Decker, Environmental Studies/Lucy Stott ’27 & Eleanor Wolcott ’26 for the project “Tome Hall Research Green Roof Microclimate Study”
Jeff Engelhardt, Philosophy/Emery Hutchins 2027 for the project “Deference in Context”
Catrina Hamilton-Drager, Physics & Astromony/Adi Chacko ’27 & Teryn Huff ’27 for the project “Assessing the Viability of Using the 24-inch Telescope to Observe Exoplanet Transits”
John Henson, Biology/Scott Shim ’26 for the project “Investigating the Molecular Mechanism of the Cytokinetic Contractile Ring in an Early Embryo”
Ye Jiang, Economics/Linh Nguyen ’27 for the project “Health Status, Healthcare Spending, and Employment”
Karen Kirkham, Theatre & Dance/Ali Lustig ’27 for the project “Collaboration on "As You Like It" at Adirondack Lakes Theatre Festival”
Miguel Leal, Chemistry/Thomas Borne ’27 for the project “Synthesis & Characterization of Sulfonamide Derivatives via Germylamine Defluorination”
Nan Ma, East Asian Studies/An Nguyen ’27 for the project “From Hogwarts to Mt. Huaguo: Digital Learning and China's Language Education Policy Shift”
Katie Marchetti, Political Science/Clara Blackwell ’26 for the project “Women's Organizations and Bureaucratic Lobbying”
Amy McKiernan, Philosophy/Zoe Selig ’27 for the project “Dickinson Core Values Project”
Brett Pearson, Physics & Astromony/Ethan Lebo ’26 for the project “Mitigating Mode Changes and Material Damage in Ultraviolet Pulse Shaping”
Michael Roberts, Biology/Alexa Barowski ’26, Heeryung Choi ’27, Phoebe Melchior ’27, Esther Nlebemuo ’28, & Zaara Shah ’26 for the project “Inducing Cell Cycle Arrest and Cell Death in Human Leukemia Cell Lines”
Sarah Sterner, Environmental Studies/Rachel Hoffman ’26 & Cara Kamoie ’26 for the project “Examining the influence of relict charcoal hearths on vegetation dynamics”
Xiaolu Wang, INBM/Chloe Pham ’27 & Aung Sein Tun ’28 for the project “Mapping Contemporary Chinese Astrology: Social Media Disclosure and Public Engagement”
Olivia Wilkins, Chemistry/Kylee Preller ’27 for the project “Building a Cosmic Ice Experiment”
Olivia Wilkins, Chemistry/Boriana Yotzova ’26 for the project “High-Resolution Imaging of Deuterated Methanol in Orion KL”
Sabbatical Expense Support
Nadia Alahmed, Africana Studies to support the sabbatical project “Expanding the Geography of Black Diaspora: Afro-Palestinians and Shifting Discourse on Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East and Africa”
Shamma Alam, Economics to support the sabbatical project “Understanding the role of asset transfer programs on health and fertility”
Heather Bedi, Environmental Studies to support the sabbatical project “Municipal Renewable Electricity Adoption, Motivations, and Environmental Justice Implications”
Marcelo Borges, History to support the sabbatical project “Migrations and Emotions in a Globalized World, 1870-2015”
Neil Diamant, Political Science to support the sabbatical project “Comparative Constitutionalism: Asia and Central Europe”
Jeff Engelhardt, Philosophy to support the sabbatical project “Linguistic Meaning and Political Movements”
Scott Farrington, Classical Studies to support the sabbatical project “Hellenic and Roman Library Visit”
Tiffany Frey, Biology to support the sabbatical project “National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Post-Tenure Pathfinders Program”
Kamaal Haque, German to support the sabbatical project “Luis Trenker's Environmental Activism”
David Kushner, Biology to support the sabbatical project “Analysis of viral satellite RNA dimers”
John MacCormick, Math & Computer Science to support the sabbatical project “Completion of book manuscript (AI Alive) + R&D engagement”
Sarah McGaughey, German to support the sabbatical project “Better Homes and Gardens? The Housing Debates Between the World Wars in German-Language Literature”
Kristine Mitchell, Political Science to support the sabbatical project “Migration in the British Commonwealth”
Jennifer Schaefer, Math & Computer Science to support the sabbatical project “Research, Teaching, and Leadership”
Dan Schubert, Sociology to support the sabbatical project “Anti-Habitus: Bourdieu, Reflexivity, and Emancipatory Practice”
Jacob Sider Jost, English to support the sabbatical project “Eighteenth-Century Life-Writing”
Sarah St Angelo, Chemistry to support the sabbatical project “Research in Manomaterials for Catalytic Applications”
Sarah St Angelo, Chemistry to support the sabbatical project “Nanomaterials research and writing”
Greg Steirer, English to support the sabbatical project “The Wizard Era: American Comic Books in the 1990s”
Nicky Tynan, Economics to support the sabbatical project “An Economic History of London's Water Companies”
Amy Wlodarski, Music to support the sabbatical project “The International Reception of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis”
Professional Development
Tiffany Frey, Biology to support the project ”Working with a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Professional Coach to Design and Implement a SoTL Project”
Margaret Frohlich, Spanish & Portuguese to support the project ”Artificial Intelligence in the Spanish Classroom”
Noreen Lape, Educational Studies to support the project ”Ungrading and Accountability: Building Student Capacity to Self-Assess Learning”
Anthony Underwood, Economics to support the project ”Economic Education Network for Experiments (EENE)”
Andy Wolff, Political Science to support the project ”European Security Governance”
Study Groups
Dick Forrester, Math & Computer Science to support the discussion “Developing Courses to Enhance Data Literacy at the College”
Dana Somers, Biology to support the discussion “Biology Department Curriculum Review and Revision”
Publication and Dissertation Support
Andy Bale, Art & Art History to support the publication of “PhotoVoice Workshops and Arrivals Exhibition”
Alyssa DeBlasio, Russian to support the publication of “Women Philosophers and Russia”
Maggie Douglas, Environmental Studies to support the publication of “A mixture of grass-legume cover crop species may ameliorate water stress in a changing climate”
Rachel Eng, Art & Art History to support the publication of “Compound”
Rachel Eng, Art & Art History to support the publication of “Compression”
David Kushner, Biology to support the publication of “Development of Learning Objectives to Support Undergraduate Virology Curriculum Guidelines”
Mariana Past, Spanish & Portuguese to support the publication of “Unbroken Nostalgia: Haitian Kreyòl Poetry in Cuba”
Amalia Pesantes Villa, Anthropology/Archaeology to support the publication of “Intercultural maternal health in the Peruvian Amazon: An unenforced policy”
Mireille Rebeiz, French to support the publication of “Amnesty Law and The State’s Obligation to Prosecute Serious Crimes: The Case of Lebanon”
Wei Ren, Art & Art History to support the publication of “Frre the Female Nude! Lu Xun's Book Cover Designs and Symbolist Art in Republican China”
Cotten Seiler, American Studies to support the publication of “White Care: Race, Population, and Infrastructure in the United States”
Adeline Soldin, French to support the publication of “Proust's Snobs, Inverts and Jews: Performing and Subverting Identity in 'la Recherche'”
Sarah St Angelo, Chemistry to support the publication of “Catalytic Reduction of p-Nitrophenol and Eosin Yellow by Lemongrass Tea-Stabilized Copper Nanoparticles”
Kristin Strock, Environmental Studies to support the publication of “Developing High-Frequency Sensor Monitoring Tools for Managing Harmful Algal Blooms”
Kristin Strock, Environmental Studies to support the publication of “Oxidation is a potentially significant methane sink in land-terminating glacial runoff”
John Truden, American Studies to support the publication of “Indian Territory's Legacy: Indigenous-Settler Partnerships and Persistence in Oklahoma, 1875-2020”
Blake Wilson, Music to support the publication of “Apollo Volgare: Serafino Aquilano and the Performance of Vernacular Poetry in Renaissance Italy”
Rui Zhang, Psychology to support the publication of “Appropriate or Appropriative? Diversity Ideologies, Judgment Factors, and Condemnation of Cultural Appropriation”