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Professor LaNitra Berger presented a virtual conversation with Cape Town-based activist and educator Melanie Burke titled “Monuments and Memories: Race and Art in the U.S. and South Africa.” 

Professor Michele Greet received a National Endowment for the Humanities research grant for the 2020–21 academic year. She is working on her third book, Abstraction in the Andes, which will examine the emergence of abstract art forms in the Andean countries of Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Professor Angela Ho received an RSA-Kress Research Fellowship in Renaissance Art History and an American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant to fund a summer research trip to The Hague to work on her second book project, tentatively titled Commercial Exchanges and Artistic Innovations: The Dutch East India Company’s Encounters with China, 1602–1740. The trip was postponed due to the pandemic. 

Professor Vanessa Meikle Schulman was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Schulman’s forthcoming research will be published in Studies in American Humor and the Routledge Companion to the Literary Magazine. 

Professor Jacquelyn Williamson was promoted to associate professor with tenure. Williamson has a new article forthcoming called “Power, Piety, and Gender in Context,” which will be published in Women in Ancient Egypt: Current Research and Historical Trends Conference Proceedings at the American University in Cairo. She presented papers at conferences in Cairo, Egypt, and London, England. She also contributed to an exhibition on King Tutankhamun in Belgium, Toutankhamon: À la Découverte du Pharaon Oublié.