Upcoming Events: 

• READ and discuss Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities, as part of Williams Reads and Purple Prose Book Club. And save the date for author and M.I.T. historian Craig Steven Wilder’s Claiming Williams keynote on February 3, at 7:30 p.m. ET.
• JOIN scholars Aston Gonzalez ’08, Tatiana M.F. Cruz ’09, and Jallicia Jolly ’14 in Williams Reads Alumni Panel examining the complicated history of American higher education on January 21 at noon ET.
• HEAR from human rights advocate Chris Stearns '86 about the most pressing legal issues impacting Indigenous American communities, on February 3 (2 p.m. ET) as part of this year’s Claiming Williams. 
• LISTEN to Alumni Network and Minority Coalition (MinCo) leaders as they discuss intersectionality and allyship as part of Claiming Williams on February 3 (3:45 p.m. ET).  
  

ICYMI: 

Alumni in the spotlight

• Brendan McGuire ’98 was tapped by Mayor of New York City Eric Adams to serve as his chief counsel. The New York Times notes his experience prosecuting criminals—including a Russian arms dealer and a Somali pirate—in cases involving public corruption, terrorism and national security.
• The Latinist, a mystery novel by Mark Prins ’11, was reviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air and in The Boston Globe. In this reimagining of the Daphne and Apollo story, a graduate student in classics at Oxford who’s being unfairly held back by a professor makes a startling discovery at an archaeological dig.
• Drawing from her experience as a former Williams Alumni Trustee and a faculty member of Smith College, Kate Queeney ’92 talks with fellow trustee Yvonne Hao '95 and offers advice on strengthening relationships between faculty and board members of colleges and universities in Inside Higher Ed.
• Darla Torres ’18 was awarded the U.S. State Department Rangel Fellowship, administered by Howard University, which will help her prepare for a career as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer. 

News from the college

Winter Study

Faculty in the News

• Lara Shore-Sheppard, economics professor, has been named a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar. Her research during the 2022-23 academic year will focus on safety net programs for families with children and pre-retirement living arrangements
• Professor of Economics Tara Watson discusses her book The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in the Age of Fear on EconoFact Chats. With co-author Kalee Thompson, Watson profiles six immigrant families and takes a close look at how immigration affects the U.S. economy. Also at Econofact, Robert F. White Class of 1952 Professor of Economics Kenneth Kuttner examines how the anticipation of inflation becomes self-fulfilling.
• Christopher Bolton, professor of comparative and Japanese literature, talks to The Berkshire Eagle about “technology as an enabler of popular culture” as seen in the exhibition Repro Japan: Technologies of Popular Visual Culture at the Williams College Museum of Art.
• Vocal and songwriting instructor Bernice Lewis says her busy itinerary “fell straight off of a cliff” when the pandemic began. She talks about the ways she has kept her music career afloat in The Berkshire Eagle. Faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend final performances for her Winter Study songwriting course tonight at 8 p.m. in Goodrich.
• Take a peek inside the art studio of Ed Epping, Alexander Falck Class of 1899 Professor of Art, emeritus, where he shares photos of his bottle jack press, etching press, wood-burning sets and Braille typewriter.
• Former physics professor and Dean of the College Sarah Bolton was selected to serve as the next president of Whitman College. President of The College of Wooster for the past six years, she will make the transition to Whitman in July.
• Author and former Washington Post staff writer Ted Gup, who served as George R. Goethals Distinguished Visiting Professor in Leadership Studies last fall, shares how he regained optimism from his students.  

Honoring Friends and Mentors

In Memoriam

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