Faculty News
On Using the Word "Occupation"Faculty member Michael Cohen published a letter in the Jerusalem Post about the Democratic Platform Committee’s language on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Choice and ConsequenceSherry Kramer, faculty member in drama, was interviewed on WNPR's The Colin McEnroe Show about the alternative history class she teaches, and whether it’s possible that we can learn more about our present from a fictional past than we ever could from a history book.
War of WordsMarguerite Feitlowitz, faculty member in literature, was interviewed about her book, A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, which explores the verbal atrocities of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, in in the Buenos Aires Herald.
Bennington Selected to Participate in Dept of Ed’s Second Chance Pell Pilot ProgramThe Department of Education announced today that Bennington College was among the colleges and universities selected from a competitive national pool to participate in the Second Chance Pell pilot program.
NSF Awards Bond Grant to Study "The Ends of Oil" in AlaskaThe National Science Foundation has awarded an $18,000 EAGER Research Grant to David Bond, Associate Director of CAPA, to support his ongoing research on the role of fossil fuels in driving contemporary social and environmental change. Bond is joined on the grant by Lucas Bessire, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.