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Was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.


Lauret Savoy was awarded a Faculty Fellowship from Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (2024)


Lauret Savoy was awarded the ASLE Creative Writing Award for her book Trace Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape (2017)


Lauret Savoy was awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2017)


Schwartzer JJ, Garcia-Arocena D, Jamal A, Izadi A, Willemsen R, Berman RF. Allopregnanolone Improves Locomotor Activity and Arousal in the Aged CGG Knock-in Mouse Model of Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome. Front Neurosci. 2021 Dec 3;15:752973.


Church J.S., Tamayo J.M., Ashwood P., Schwartzer J.J. (2021) Repeated allergic asthma in early versus late pregnancy differentially impacts offspring brain and behavior development. Brain Behav Immun., 93, 66-79.


Schwartzer J.J., Onore C.E., Rose D.R., Ashwood P. (2017) C57BL/6L bone marrow transplant increases sociability in BTBR T+ Itpr3tf/J mice. Brain Behavior & Immunity. 59:55-61


Sever, C. (Forthcoming). Not ‘Coddling’ but ‘Rewiring’: Explaining Psychic Harm. Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-024-01015-2


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


Malabou, C. & Shread, C. (trans.) (2023) Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.