Trinity College

Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney kicked off the celebration of the 25th year of neuroscience at Trinity College with a talk entitled “Of Mice and Men and Girls and Autism: Insights from 15 years of studying the neurobiology of mouse models of autism spectrum disorders." For more on the 25th anniversary celebration, visit: http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/MajorsAndMinors/Neuroscience/25/Pages/Events.aspx

The Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut and Trinity College joined together to offer survivors of brain injury a free day of relaxation, friendship and fun at the BIAC Healthy Living Retreat for People with Brain Injury. This event was held on Friday, May 29th,at Trinity College in Hartford. Survivors were able to spend the day participating in workshops in Tai Chi, Art and Music Therapy, Yoga, Massage, and Diet and Nutrition and enjoyed a musical performance by Kate Callahan. Kate Callahan was named the Connecticut State Songwriter of the Year and was named was named one of 2014's Top 100 Unsigned Artists by Music Connection Magazine. The Boston Globe describes her as "An award-winning singer who rose from a calamitous injury to claim her creative life, Kate Callahan has garnered an appreciative audience with her easygoing vibe and inspirational, at times mystical lyrics.”

“The Mass Migrations of Italians and Jews to America: New Evidence on Who and Why” Yannay Spitzer is studying the economics of mass migration from a historical perspective. He is mainly interested in questions such as why people migrate across borders, how they migrate, what determines the timing and the demographic and economic patterns of their migration, and what happens with them after they arrive in the new country. His current research deals with the Jewish and the Italian migrations during the Age of Mass Migration (1880s-1924), movements of millions of people that provide unique a lens on the anatomies of migration and data that are typically unavailable for contemporary migrations. He is also interested in the economic history of the Jews and studies the economics and the demography of the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire. His efforts are dedicated to producing research that is based on historical cases while addressing current economic issues; builds on newly produced, discovered, or comp

Sinéad Morrissey is the author of five collections of poetry, the last four of which have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award. Her most recent, Parallax, won the coveted prize in 2013. Her work has received numerous accolades including the Patrick Kavanagh Award (of which she was the youngest ever winner), the Michael Hartnett Prize and the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award. In 2007 she took first prize in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Through the Square Window’, a haunting poem that contrasts an image of the dead gathering outside a window with that of a child sleeping peacefully indoors. Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, she has travelled widely and lived in Japan and New Zealand before returning to her birthplace in 1999. In 2002 she was appointed Writer in Residence at Queen’s University Belfast, and she is currently Reader in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s.

Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor in the School of Humanities and Science at Stanford University, works on historical institutionalism and political theory, focusing on the political thought and practice of the ancient Greek world and its contemporary relevance. He is the author of a number of books mostly published by Princeton University Press, including Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989), Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (2008), Democracy and Knowledge (2008). He has also published about 75 articles and chapters, including recent articles in American Political Science Review, Philosophical Studies, Hesperia, Polis, and Transactions of the American Philological Association.His new book on The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece will appear in Spring 2015, from Princeton UP. It documents and explains the remarkable Greek efflorescence of ca. 800-300 BCE, the Macedonian conquest of the late fourth century, and the persistence of economic flourishing into the Hellenistic era. Other work in progre

John Michael Mason, founder of the Trinity Film Festival and interim head coach of track and field at Trinity, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this (non-faculty) interview episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter. 00:00 – 6:46 – Introduction, The Mill and supporting artists at Trinity College 6:46 – 15:45 – The Shining, Trinity Film Society and Cinestudio 15:45 – 20:42 – Trinity Film Festival: Beginnings and Growth 20:42 – 25:20 – Trinity Film Festival 2014: Recap, Prizewinners and Jinxy Jenkins 25:20 – end – Trinity Film Festival 2015: Preview and the Future

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter 00:00 – 6:30 – NFL Europe, Cultural Hybridity, and hard-to pronounce names 6:30 – 11:45 – Belfast and Modern Ireland 11:45 – 17:40 – Alfred Webb, J.F.X. O’Brien, and Irish Republicanism 17:40 – 28:00 – Learning in Galway and Teaching at Cambridge 28:00 – 32:40 – Imperial Wine, Production of Wine for the Empire 32:40 – End – Downton Abbey in Historical Context Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre is a historian of modern Britain, Ireland and the British Empire. She holds a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast and has taught at the University of Exeter, the American University of Paris and the University of Cambridge, where she was a fellow, the Director of Studies in History and the Assistant Tutor at King’s College. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Regan-Lefebvre is currently writing a monograph

Chaz Firestone is a member of the Department of Psychology at Yale University, where he is currently pursuing his PhD in psychology. Firestone earned a Master's in psychology from Brown University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, also from Brown.

"Bariberi Lecture: Italian Identity in the Making - Migration and Culture" Amara Lakhous was born in 1970 in Algiers, the sixth of nine children. His parents were Berbers, and they sent him to a Koran school for four years where he learned classical Arabic. He learned French at junior school, which meant that he had the role of mediating between his Algerian and his French relatives. He was influenced from an early age by authors like Mahfouz, Flaubert and Hemingway, and after finishing school decided to study at the Faculty for Philosophy in Algiers, where he also delved into the roots of his Algerian identity, religion, the civil war and systems of male superiority. Lakhous has been awarded, among others, the Premio Flaiano per la narrativa in 2006 and Algeria’s most prestigious literary award, the Prix des libraires Algeriens in 2008. The author lives in Rome, Italy.

Leslie Jamison is the author of "The Gin Closet," and a collection of essays, "The Empathy Exams." Her work has appeared or will appear in Harper's, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, among other publications. Jamison is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review, and is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation at Yale about addiction narratives.

Anne Parmenter, head field hockey coach at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter Podcast Chapters: 00:00 - 9:55 - Introduction and Trinity Field Hockey 2014 9:55 - 14:35 - Looking to 2015, Growth, Motivation and Developing Student-Athletes 14:35 - 20:45 - Background, Early Life and Sport in England 20:45 - 29:50 - Primer on Field Hockey, Style, Tactics, and Growth of the Sport in the US 29:50 - 39:25 - Coming to America, England Labor Strife, Worcester, Motorbikes and Package Stores 39:25 - 44:14 - Robin Sheppard, Connecticut College, and Arriving at Trinity 44:15 - 51:50 - Coaching Seminar, Teaching Methodology and Mentoring Student-Athletes 51:50 - End - Mountaineering, Outdoor Education, and Conquering Denali Biography Anne Parmenter completed her 14th season as the head field hockey coach at Trinity College, after guiding the Bantams to a 13-4 record in 2014-15 and collecting both New England Sma

Kevin McMahon, John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter Podcast Chapters: 00:00 - 6:20 - Introduction and Early Political Influences 6:20 - 12:25 - FDR, the Supreme Court, and Civil Rights 12:25 - 23:45 - Nixon's Court and Judicial Liberalism 23:45 - 32:00 - The Professor as Teacher-Scholar and Constitutional Law in the Classroom 32:00 - 39:20 - The Current Court, the Affordable Care Act, and Lecturing in the Courtroom 39:20 - 43:00 - Buffalo, Potsdam, and the influence of Upstate New York 43:00 - End - Teaching in Post-Soviet Russia, Gangsters and Disorder Kevin J. McMahon is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science. His research examines the presidency and the political origins and consequences of Supreme Court decisions. In 2014, the Supreme Court Historical Society awarded his book, Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Co

Dario Del Puppo, Professor of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter Dario Del Puppo is Professor of Language and Culture Studies. Besides teaching all levels of Italian language, he teaches courses on Dante’s Divine Comedy, surveys of Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Food in Italian History, Society, & Art, Italian Cinema, and a course on the history of manuscripts and books from Greek and Roman Antiquity to the age of electronic texts. In all of these courses, Del Puppo encourages students to consider the way cultural phenomena have been transmitted through the ages and students frequently learn about the material formats of literary texts and how that influences interpretation and reception. His research deals primarily with the manuscripts and early printed books of Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature and, more broadly, with popular and

George J. Mead '37 Annual Lecture in History: Caribbean-Connecticut Connection - From the 18th Century to the 21st Century by Heather Cateau Cateau is a senior lecturer in Caribbean History at the University of the West Indies’ St. Augustine Campus and the current Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education. She has held the positions of Head of the History Department, Deputy Dean of Student Matters and Residence Manager of Milner Hall. Her research focus has led to a revisionary approach to plantation and enslavement systems in the Caribbean. Her latest publications include Beyond Tradition co-edited with Rita Pemberton and the Caribbean in the Atlantic World co-authored with John Campbell. She is the lead researcher in the creation of a memory bank repository as part of The Voices of the Past, Oral History Project. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Iowa and the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Timothy Cross '76 returned to campus to discuss the pharmaceutical industry, as part of the "Science for the Greater Good" series at Trinity. Dr. Cross is the Director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University. To follow the presentation slides that accompanied Dr. Cross' talk, visit: http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/NewsArticles/Documents/TrinityCrossPodcastSlides.pdf From his bio: Tuberculosis and influenza are killers. Between 2-3 million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis, and 36,000 in America alone die from complications of the flu. As Director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Program, Dr. Tim Cross has taken up the fight to rid the world of these killers. “We're working on two sets of proteins that have the potential of being important for the pharmaceutical industry and mankind,” he says. “A few anti-influenza virus drugs are on the market, but they have serious side effects. Unless it’s a life and deat

On Feburary 9, 2015, Amity Shlaes delivered a talk at Trinity College entitled: Coolidge in 2016: How Coolidge Said "No" and How He Can Teach Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and Hillary Clinton to say "No," Too” Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers: "Coolidge, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," "The Forgotten Man/Graphic Edition," a cartoon book, and "The Greedy Hand." "The Forgotten Man" has been called the finest history of the 1930's ever written. "Coolidge" was named by Economist Magazine and Alan Greenspan as one of the best books of the year 2013. A veteran journalist, Shlaes writes for Forbes and National Review, and spent over ten years as a columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg. Shlaes chairs the jury of the prestigious Hayek Prize, a $50,000 prize for free market journalism, and chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, which is an expanding national foundation honoring the American president known for his restraint in government

Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican novelist and nonfiction writer. She is the author of the essay collection "Sidewalks," and the internationally acclaimed novel, "Faces in the Crowd." Her work has been translated into several languages, and in 2014, she was the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 award. Her second novel, "The Story of My Teeth" will be published next fall by Coffee House Press.

Patrick is one of the founding members of Patrick L Pinnell AIA/ Architecture & Town Planning LLC. An avid local architectural history buff, Patrick combines this knowledge with current design techniques to provide a unique approach to modern planning that blends with any neighborhood. His specialty is gut-renovations where original details need to be preserved or restored. Pinnell is the recipient of several prestigious awards, the most recent being Higganum Historical Preservation Society's Award of Excellence, and his third consecutive Architect of the Year Award. Pinnell discusses the changes and potential of Hartford.

Amity Gaige is the author of three novels, "O My Darling," "The Folded World," and "Schroder," which was short-listed for the Folio Prize and named one of the Best Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review. Her work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She lives in Connecticut with her family and teaches at Amherst College.

Sean Cocco teaches early modern history at Trinity College. He earned Ph.D. from the University of Washington, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Naples, Italy in 2001. In this podcast, Cocco discusses the Presidential search at Trinity, of which he was a committee member, his time in Italy, Galileo, and more. Chapters: 0:00 – 5:45 – Introduction and Trinity Presidential Search Committee 5:45 – 12:45 – Importance of Liberal Arts and Becoming a Professor 12:45 – 17:05 – Growing up in Italy and on Shaw Island 17:05 – 26:00 – Galileo and the Study of Early Modern Science 26:00 – 30:00 – Planet Earth: Town Meetings and Team Teaching 30:00 – End – Vesuvius and Observing the Natural World Hosted by Kevin MacDermott, The Faculty Profile Podcast highlights the scholarship, teaching, and personality of the members of Trinity College’s Faculty. Kevin is the Head Coach of Men’s Rowing at Trinity, Associate Director of the Craftsbury Sculling Center in Vermont, a Wesleyan University graduate with a Theater degree, a