Every year we publish a summary of our diversity and inclusion activities around the time of the National Day of Racial Healing (January 21st, 2025.) This has become an annual tradition and a way to fulfill one of our planning objectives, “Report annually on our DEIA activities.” You… Continue reading »
On view now until May 2024 in Schow Gallery, Special Collections (4th floor of Sawyer Library). Opening reception: Monday, February 10th 4pm! (more information to come) This exhibit honors and commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the study of Dance at Williams College. Students, alumni,… Continue reading »
Howdy! This is Irene and Alexandra with another exciting update about the Sterling A. Brown papers. After a busy fall semester, two more series are now available for use in the Weber Special Collections Reading Room! The Teaching series documents Sterling A. Brown’s career as… Continue reading »
Now open to the public in Schow and Sawyer libraries, this student art provocation creates space for the community to share “withheld words, the ones that cannot or should not be said.” Student artist Maddy Andersen ’25 invites viewers to write a letter and add it to the box,… Continue reading »
Members of Williams Choirs created a banner as part of a concert entitled "Lineage: Music of Politics and Identity." The banner features words, chosen by choir and audience members, that represent identity and belonging. View the banner in Sawyer and add words to continue the conversation. Continue reading »
This International Games Month, we are asking, “why do we play?” Stop by and explore a curated collection of historical and contemporary research on play, games, and gaming from across the disciplines. You could explore the critical role of play in human and non-human animal development, take a deep dive… Continue reading »
Please join us in the Chapin Gallery at 4pm on Friday November 1, 2024, to celebrate a new exhibit curated by Tasis Gemmill-Nexon (Class of 2026) with Anne Peale. Snacks and hot beverages will be provided! This summer, Special Collections student employees Tasis Gemmill-Nexon and David Cooper-Boyce opened thousands… Continue reading »
Earlier this year I co-authored a peer-reviewed research article that was published in MDPI Photonics, an open access journal headquartered in Switzerland. This work was co-authored by Professor Tiku Majumder and two former Williams students. The content of the article was largely technical –… Continue reading »
About ten years ago, I published my first peer-reviewed article, “Bomb-proofing the Digital Images,” in Media-N, the open-source journal of the New Media Caucus. Last year, I co-edited a special issue of that journal, with the theme “Afterlives of Data,” which brought together contributors–both scholars and… Continue reading »
As the Managing Editor of Bibliotheca Dantesca, an academic journal dedicated to Dante Studies, I oversee our commitment to open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). I am deeply committed to open access because it ensures that scholarly research is freely available to all—students,… Continue reading »