Faculty Achievements in Spring 2025
Each semester, The Connection shares highlights, including faculty fellowships, awards, publications, and other achievements, with the community. Read more about the research and accomplishments that illustrate the intellectual life of the University.
Fellowships and Awards
Ashraf Rushdy, professor of African American Studies (AFAM), published The Forgiveness of Others (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025).
Professor of Dance, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Global South Asian Studies Hari Krishnan’s Rowdies in Love was performed in Chicago on April 11 as part of inDANCE's year-long residency at the University of Chicago. The piece previously premiered at Wesleyan.
Carycruz Bueno, assistant professor of economics, was awarded the Early Career Visiting Scholars Fellowship at Northwestern University for the 2025-26 academic year.
Sumarsam, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music, received the Nancy Staub Award from UNIMA-USA for his book The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts: History and Myth, Interculturalism and Interreligiosity (Wesleyan University Press, 2024). The award recognizes exemplary contributions to puppetry research.
Lindsay Dolan, assistant professor of government, received the Carol A. Baker ’81 Memorial Prize, established by the Frank Center for Public Affairs for the development and recognition of junior faculty.
Katherine Brewer Ball, associate professor of theater, received the Andy Warhol Writers Award for her contributions to performance studies.
Publications
Katherine Brunson, assistant professor of archaeology, co-authored Pyrotechnology and Gender in a Medieval China Borderland: A Song Dynasty Tile Kiln at Qijiaping (Cambridge Archaeological Journal, in press). Brunson also participated as an invited discussant at the interdisciplinary workshop "From Menageries to Zoos to Everything in Between: Can We Envision a New Breed of Zoo," held at Brown University in March 2025.
Dana Royer, professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, co-authored “Fossil leaf cuticle: best practices for preparation and paleo-CO2 analysis” (Earth-Science Reviews, 2025). The paper synthesizes best practices for preparing fossil leaf cuticles for microscopy, the first major update to this process in over 20 years.
Sadia Shepard, assistant professor of Film Studies and Global South Asian Studies, published “Shadow Self: On Agnès Varda's Documenteur” in ASAP/Review and received an emerging writer fellowship from the Mediterranean Artists Project atelier in Ceyreste, France, for June 2025.
Giulio Gallarotti, professor of government, edited a special issue titled Power and Crisis in the Journal of Political Power (2025), which includes his article “Power Dynamics in Times of Crisis.” He also published “Power and Crisis: Bush’s War on Terror, Democratic Rollback and the Four Dimensions of Power” in the same issue.
David Kuenzel, associate professor of economics, had his paper “Geographical Protections and Trade: Product-level Evidence from EU Agreements” accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Economics.
Joe Rouse, professor of philosophy, published “Social Norms and the Dynamics of Practice in Inquiry” (2024) and “Niche Construction and the Politics of Language in Philosophy of the Social Sciences” (2025). He also gave an interview titled “Interview with Joseph Rouse: Careers and Ideas in Practice Theory in Journal of Practice Theory” (2025).
Faculty and departments are invited to share recent awards, fellowships, and publications with The Connection by contacting media@wesleyan.edu.
