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Naomi Darling

Award

Naomi Darling Architecture LLC received an AIA (American Institute of Architects) New England Merit Award for Design Excellence for Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library Project in Milford CT. The Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library is an interior renovation and conversion of an existing ground floor walk-out basement and two-car garage into one-bedroom loft-style mother-in-law apartment and separate library workspace. The project enables three generations to live together, and apart, enabling the many social and economic benefits of an intergenerational household.  

Giuliana Davidoff

Grant

Margaret Robinson PI with Co-PIs Giuliana Davidoff, Dylan Shepardson and Jessica Sidman (Mathematics) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for “Collaborative Proposal: Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2020-2022” – with Keene and Siena Colleges. The project is for three years.

National Science Foundation

Iyko Day

Grant

Day, I. (2024) One Week Residency and Conference: “Crisis and Urgency: Scholarship in a Shifting World,” Japan Association for American Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.

Day I. (2021) Invited Fellow at the Asian American Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Fellowship is for six months.

Day, I. (2021) William H. Morton Distinguished Senior Fellow, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College. Institute focus: Transnational and Decolonial Humanities: U.S. Ethnic Studies and Its Global Other

Publication

Day, I. (2024) “Haunted by Answers.” Guest Column in Daily Hampshire Gazette, online and print, Jan 9, 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.gazettenet.com/Guest-columnist-Day-53579030

Day, I. (2024). “Crisis Infrastructures.” Forum essay on Laleh Khalili’s Sinews of War and Trade. Critical Ethnic Studies 8.2

Day I. and Kono S. (2023). “Afterword.” Genbaku no uta—Poetry after the Atomic Bomb: A Collection of Tanka Poetry by Hideko Kono. Ed. Yumie Kono. Trans. Yumie Kono and Ariel O’Sullivan. Nagano: Mokuseisha Press.

Day, I. (2022) “In Conversation with Artist Ken Lum.” The Brooklyn Rail. July /August 2002.

Day I. (2022). “Nuclear Anti-politics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure.” Colonial Racial Capitalism. Susan Koshy, Lisa Cacho, Jodi A. Byrd, Brian Jordan Jefferson (Eds). Durham: Duke University Press.