Faculty News

Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro is the Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College. She has published widely on the intersections of race, class, gender, and environmental justice with a focus on activism and policy change addressing environmental health disparities in lower-income communities. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies and women’s and gender studies, and incorporates a community-based action research emphasis.

Dr. Janoff-Bulman is a world-renowned political psychologist and the head of the graduate psychology program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Janoff-Bulman’s research on victimization and trauma led to the groundbreaking book Shattered Assumptions: Towards a New Psychology of Trauma (1992). In recent years, Janoff-Bulman’s study focused on morality, particularly the motivational bases of different moral perspectives and the implications for an individual’s political ideology.

The Bennington Banner covered the partnership between Manchester's Burr and Burton Academy and the Arava Institute, of which Michael Cohen was one of the founding teachers. This connection is supported by both the Manchester community and by cross-enrollment program with Bennington College. 

MusicWeb International favorably reviewed Allen Shawn: Piano Works performed by Julia Bartha. 

Yoko Inoue has received a grant from the Japan Foundation for an exhibition project, Tea Taste Democracy and Upside Down Objects, at SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is currently as an artist-in-residence.