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Christopher Mitchell, assistant professor of politics and international relations at Mount Holyoke College, spoke to Western Mass News about the challenges the people of the United Kingdom are facing after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

New Mount Holyoke faculty Sylvia Cifuentes has a special passion for feminist environmental studies and hopes to continue to collaborate with Indigenous women’s groups in their advocacy for climate justice initiatives.

New faculty Marianna Dixon Williams is a visual artist whose work spans a variety of media, including sound, video, computer science and fabrication.

Megan Saltzman, new faculty at Mount Holyoke, researches public spaces in Spain and immigrant communities of the Spanish-speaking world, which today includes nearly every continent.

The internet is full of charts and graphs. What new faculty Alyx Burns wants to know, though, is how well these visualizations convey information. “Charts and graphs are some of the technologies that we use to help people understand data,” he said.

New faculty Derek Young knows that the “aha” moments students often have in math classes are one of the best rewards in teaching. When the opportunity to work at Mount Holyoke arose, Young knew it would be a great fit because of the focus on teaching.

New faculty Joanna Wuest loves showing students how to do the granular research academia requires. But she also loves taking that academic research and connecting it to broader discussions at Mount Holyoke.

New faculty Kevin Surprise was attracted to Mount Holyoke due to its small class sizes and the students’ curiosity. “The students drive the content and the questions that we explore in class,” he said.

For new faculty Laura Sizer, philosophical questions are everywhere — on the radio, at the tattoo parlor and on campus. At Mount Holyoke, she’s looking forward to being surrounded by a community of students and professors who feel the exact same way.

New faculty member Marsha Allen FP’10 isn’t a stranger to Mount Holyoke College. She came back to teach because the faculty’s focus on diversity and equity and on involving students in research was exactly what she was looking for.