James Horban, assistant professor of Theatre, was the recipient of a Champlin grant for new equipment and lights. “Our awarded grant will add a large quantity of cutting-edge lighting instruments to our inventory,” he says, “opening new interfaces between live performance, technical mastery, and community outreach.”

Assistant Professor of Library and Information Studies Melissa Villa Nicholas’ latest book, Latinas on the Line, was published by Rutgers Press in January. Using archives and oral history from Latinas who had been telephone operators and information workers for decades, it builds a Latinx history of technology.

Dr. Niku T’arhechu T’arhesi, Multicultural Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous Studies of the Americas, studies how language works at the cognitive, grammatical, and interactional levels and has worked on P’urhépecha, a Mesoamerican language unrelated to any other language.

Justin Wyatt, associate professor of communication studies, journalism, and film/media has a new book out titled ReFocus: The Later Films and Legacy of Robert Altman.

Jessica Frazier, associate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and History, is working on a book titled “Creating Transnational Feminist Networks, 1940-2000,” which traces the genealogy of transnational feminist praxis through a collective biography of three non-state feminist activists from South Asia, North Africa, and North America.