Faculty News

Associate Professor Mary Simonson started out as a piano performance major at Rutgers University, then shifted her undergraduate focus to music history with a double major in women’s studies. Today, she is the Daniel C. Benton ’80 Endowed Chair in Arts, Creativity, and Innovation at Colgate University.

In this episode of 13, ride along with the Russian mafia as Professor of Anthropology and Peace and Conflict Studies Nancy Ries shares her experiences conducting anthropological research in Russia — as well as her insights into the rise of Thugocracy and the cultural importance of potatoes.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Kristin De Lucia has been looking for subtler hints of how the ancients used Mexico’s lakes at a place called Xaltocan.

In this special episode of 13, Associate Professor of English Jennifer Brice and Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies Ryan Hall discuss this year’s Living Writers series. 

A Colgate-led biology symposium on canine research has led to the publication of a special issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology, focusing on the special qualities of dog research and how the species is a perfect launching point to teach many facets of the discipline.

A newly announced National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) round of grant funding will help one Colgate professor to develop and run a three-week, residential institute about abolitionism and the Underground Railroad for 25 middle- and high-school teachers.

Without an effective long-term economic response, the effects of the pandemic could be permanent, writes Professor of Economics Thomas R. Michl.

The device that Associate Professor of Physics Jonathan Levine is helping to build doesn’t reside down the hall from his office, or in the same state. But he and his colleagues hope that one day, their project won’t even share their planet.

Join Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience F. Scott Kraly as he shares some of his more than 20 years of research into how the human brain regulates eating and drinking and how psychiatric medications have changed through the years — all in the latest episode of 13. 

Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Ashley Taylor has been named the Colgate University Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year for 2021.