Anastasia Pease, senior lecturer in English, delivered a paper "Corporeality and Disability in American Science Fiction Stories" at the Stella Incognita science fiction conference hosted this year at the Université Grenoble Alpes, in Grenoble, France.
Zoe Oxley, the William D. Williams Professor of Political Science, recently published a chapter in the volume Masculinity in American Politics (NYU Press). In their chapter "Masculinity and Children's Political Socialization," Oxley and her co-authors explore children's depictions of masculinity in their drawings of political leaders.
Two Union College geoscience majors, Louis Savarino '25 (advised by senior lecturer Matthew Manon) and Zoey Shawcross '27 (advised by professor Holli Frey) presented their research at the recent joint Northeastern and North-Central Geological Society of America section meeting in Erie, Pa. Louis presented "Apatite Trace Geochemistry Indicates Heterogeneous Source of the Adirondack AMCG Suite, NY" and Zoey presented "Characterization of the Desert Springs Tuff in comparison to later erupted deposits in the Tumalo Volcanic complex, Bend, OR".
Patrick Mulready '25, an English major, recently had a short story accepted for publication in Short Vine, the literary journal of the University of Cincinnati. The story, titled "The Work Capacity of Young Adults," was included as a part of his senior thesis, written under the advisement of associate professor of English, Bunkong Tuon and English department chair, Judith Lewin. His thesis consists of a collection of five short stories that explore the challenges facing young adults in the modern day. The journal will be published online later this spring.
Megan Ferry, professor of Chinese and Asian studies in the department of modern languages and literatures, gave two seminars to the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA). The seminars were entitled "China and Environmental Sustainability" and "Traditional Chinese Medicine and Culture." These seminars were part of professional development seminars on China, Japan, and Korea for primary and secondary school educators and funded by the Freeman Foundation. This year's theme is A Century of East Asia Impacting the World.
On April 4-6, three Union College undergraduates presented research projects they did in prof. Sarina Kuersteiner's HST 239 at "Medieval Joy," a conference and public history event at Seattle University (WA) and the Nordic Museum in Seattle. "Medieval Joy" brought together academics and non-academics who find joy in engaging with the medieval past. The event was sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America's Centennial Grant program and Union College's Undergraduate Research program. It was organized by professor Robin Reich (Seattle U), professor Sarina Kuersteiner (Union College), and other members of the public history project Medievalist Toolkit. Union College's undergraduate students presented full-fledged conference-level papers for 15 minutes each:
Thanh Tung Nguyen ‘27: "Christian-Muslim Relations in the Middle Ages; Crusades or Cooperation?”
Carter Curry ‘26: “Shieldmaidens: Between Fact and Fiction”
Emilie Rosecan ‘27: “Racist Neo-Paganism and its Connections to Norse Paganism”
From left to right: Carter Curry '26, Emilie Rosecan '27, Thanh Tung Nguyen '27, and Professor Sarina Kuersteiner
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