To the Colgate Community:
I am honored to announce that at their meeting on January 28, 2023, the Board of Trustees formally and enthusiastically approved that the following faculty members be granted continuous tenure and be promoted to the rank of associate professor, effective July 1, 2023. I am including in this announcement the professional biographies of each faculty member, crafted by their Division Directors for the board’s consideration. They offer a nice sense of this new tenure cohort’s many and varied accomplishments.
Sally Bonet, Assistant Professor of Educational Studies (BA University of California-Los Angeles, MS University of Pennsylvania, PhD Rutgers University)
Sally Bonet joined the Department of Educational Studies in 2017. She is a specialist in migration studies and education policy, particularly the relationship between education and citizenship for refugee populations, blending ethnographic research and policy studies. She has published nine articles in distinguished professional journals, most recently in Anthropology and Education Quarterly and Curriculum Inquiry. Her monograph, Meaningless Citizenship: Iraqi Refugees and the Welfare State, was published in November 2022 by the University of Minnesota Press. She has served on the Curriculum Committee, on both the Fulbright and Watson Committees, and as a member of the Middle East and Islamic Studies (MIST) Advisory Committee. She teaches Child and Adolescent Development, Forced Migration and Education, Global Anthropologies of Education, Seminar in Curriculum and Instruction in English and Social Studies, Core: The Middle East, and is an important part of the M.A.T. teacher preparation program.
Seth Coluzzi, Assistant Professor of Music (BA University of Rochester and Eastman School of Music; MA, PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Seth Coluzzi came to Colgate from Brandeis University, where he served as Assistant Professor of Musicology. Seth’s research interests include the music and poetry of the Italian Renaissance, music analysis, text–music relations, 18th- and 19th-century chamber music, and popular music. He has also taught Legacies of the Ancient World. His recently published book, Guarini’s ‘Il pastor fido’ and the Madrigal: Voicing the Pastoral in Late Renaissance Italy, is the result of years of extensive work in archives throughout Europe. It provides the first thorough study of the Pastor fido madrigal. The book’s interdisciplinary reach combines early modern theater and poetry with music theory and the close musical-textual analysis make it an essential resource and a significant contribution to the field. His teaching areas include music history, music theory and analysis, music appreciation, songwriting, and world music, as well as Legacies of the Ancient World. Most recently, Seth originated Explorations in Global Music, a course that significantly expands the scope of music our students encounter. Gateways Through Music, an ambitious concert series, accompanies the course and is open to the public. Last year, in collaboration with the Longyear Museum of Anthropology’s exhibition Beyond the Beat, it included an Indonesian Gamelan concert. This year concerts include Music from China and a performance of Arabic music and dance. Seth serves as an Editorial Board Member for the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Tasso in Music Project. He has served on the Colgate Arts Council, and is a member of the Sustainability Council and Asian Studies Program.
Aaron Gember-Jacobson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science (BS, Marquette University; MS, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Aaron Gember-Jacobson came to Colgate in 2016 as a specialist in detecting and correcting errors in the configurations and software deployed on routers in computer networks. He has presented and published widely in leading conferences including ACM SIGCOMM, USENIX NSDI, ACM CoNEXT, and ACM SOSP. He is currently branching out into related areas such as assessing and improving the extent to which networks are socially responsible (e.g., minimize energy consumption, adhere to net neutrality practices, and treating all data packets equally). He serves on the Benton Center Users Group, and he recently became a co-leader of the Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences initiatives in diversity, equity, and inclusion. He has taught Introduction to Computing, Introduction to Computer Systems, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, as well as a Core Scientific Perspectives course on The Unreliable Internet.
Margaretha Haughwout, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History (BA University of Maine, Orono; MFA University of California, Santa Cruz)
Margaretha Haughwout came to Colgate from the California College of the Arts. A tremendously active scholar, her creative practice is most often collaborative, and involves technology, new media, and concepts of ecologies that imagine creating sources of abundance and relationships across species. She travels internationally to participate in residencies, workshops, and exhibitions focusing on technological and ecological systems that envision “new futures.” Closer to home, she has established the Food Forest Studio at Colgate’s Schupf Studio Center, a permaculture laboratory open to our campus and wider community. An interdisciplinary scholar, Margaretha has designed Fabrication Labs for the new Benton Center, given presentations to a wide range of classes, and is a participant in a Natural Science Foundation Grant with Colgate colleagues across the curriculum. She teaches introductory and advanced Digital Art and a range of studio art courses. She contributes courses to the Film and Media Studies program, and has taught Challenges of Modernity. Her studio teaching addresses conceptual, perceptual, and technical ability, with an emphasis on cultivating a dialogue between “art and life.” She has brought numerous artists to campus for residencies and workshops, significantly augmenting departmental courses as well as courses across the curriculum. Her service includes reviewing grant proposals to distribute New York CARES funds for N.Y. cultural non-profits impacted by the pandemic, and on campus, serving on the Colgate Arts Council, Sustainability Council, and the Upstate Institute Executive Board.
Santiago Juarez, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (BA, MA, and PhD, Northwestern University)
Santiago Juarez is an archeologist who joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 2017. He is a specialist on the rise of urbanism in the Maya region during the Late Preclassic period (400 BCE-250 CE), and studies household remains of residents at the site of Noh K’uh, in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. He works extensively with the local communities, in initial consultations, training local residents for fieldwork, and sharing results with them. He has published his results widely in both English and Spanish, in such venues as the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, The Cambridge Archaeological Journal, and Latin American Antiquity. At Colgate he has served on the Committee on Africana, Latin, Asian, and Native American (ALANA) Affairs, the Faculty Development Council, and as a reviewer for Colgate’s Office of National Fellowships and Scholarships. He is a member of the advisory committees of Native American Studies (NAST) and the Ho Tung Visualization Lab. He regularly teaches the Introduction to Archaeology, Native American Cultures, Archaeology of Warfare, Environmental Archeology, and Core: Maya.
Jennifer LeMesurier, Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric (BA, MA, PhD University of Washington)
Jennifer LeMesurier came to Colgate as a visiting professor in 2015 and was hired into the tenure stream in 2017. She incorporates her studies of Dance, Communications, English, Language, and Rhetoric into the study of how beliefs and associated messages circulate through words, speech, and bodies, focusing on performers from Judy Holiday to Childish Gambino. She has published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Peitho, POROI, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, as well as several scholarly edited volumes. LeMesurier has served Colgate on the Nominating Committee, the Athletics Committee, the Advisory and Planning Committee, and the Liberal Arts Practices Implementation Committee. Beyond Colgate, she serves on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals: Quarterly Journal of Speech, XChanges, Present Tense, and Capacious. She teaches Movement, Gender & Performance; Kairos: The Art of Rhetoric; The Experiment of Writing; Introduction to Comparative Rhetoric, and the Rhetoric of Science.
Benjamin Lennertz, Assistant Professor of Philosophy (BA Vassar College; PhD University of Southern California)
Ben Lennertz comes to Colgate from Western Kentucky University where he served as assistant professor in the department of philosophy and religion. Ben also served as visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Colgate in 2015–16. He is a prolific scholar whose work incorporates the philosophy of language, formal epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and logic to explore the structure of our thoughts. His research, often mirrored in his teaching, asks questions: to what degree can we use logic to represent our system of beliefs and how do we express them using language? To what degree can we use probability theory to do the same for our degrees of confidence? How does the structure of our thoughts affect central questions across philosophical subdisciplines? For Ben, questions about rationality and disagreement get to the heart of doing philosophy. Ben’s teaching specialties include philosophy of language, epistemology and philosophy of mind. Most recently, he developed a new First Year Seminar titled Introduction to Philosophical Traditions of Africa, the Americas, and Africa, expanding the department’s offerings in significant ways. Ben is vice president of the New York Philosophical Association’s Creighton Club. He has served on a number of elected committees including the Athletics and Academic Advising Committees. He is a member of the Mind Brain and Behavior Executive Advisory Committee.
Joseph Levy, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Geosciences (BS, University of Chicago; MS, PhD, Brown University).
Joseph Levy came to Colgate in 2017 having previously been a research associate at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences. His research program investigates three groups of questions in Earth and planetary science: 1) How does Antarctica fit into global biogeochemical processes in a post-glacial world? 2) How are the oldest ice-bearing landforms on Earth preserved and how are they destroyed by positive melting feedbacks? 3) How does the architecture of ice-dominated landscapes drive surface evolution in permafrost environments on Earth and other rocky worlds like Mars? He has published prolifically in leading multidisciplinary and field-specific journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Earth and Space Science, Icarus, Geomorphology, Remote Sensing, Sedimentology, and Geology. In addition to research in Antarctica, he has leveraged funding from the Colgate Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute and the Geology Department Boyce Fund to form a miniature critical zone observing system on Colgate’s campus and the Payne Brook watershed, aimed at addressing Colgate’s hydrological contribution to Hamilton region flooding and changing patterns of precipitation, runoff, and groundwater flow. He serves on the Implementation Committee for the Liberal Arts Practices, Colgate Sustainability Council, and he is a co-director of the Colgate Climate Network. He has taught Sedimentology and Surficial Processes, Hydrology and Geomorphology, Geoinformatics, Solid Earth Processes, and Geology of America’s Parks, as well as Core Scientific Perspectives courses on Fire, Earth Resources, and Global Change and You.
Matthew D. Luttig, Assistant Professor of Political Science (BA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, MA and PhD, University of Minnesota)
Matt Luttig joined the Political Science department at Colgate in 2017, after a postdoctoral scholarship at the University of Chicago. He is interested in exploring the intersection between psychology and politics, and has studied the psychological basis of political partisanship. He has published twelve articles in distinguished journals, including most recently The Journal of Politics. His forthcoming book, The Closed Partisan Mind: A New Psychology of American Polarization, will be published by Cornell University Press in the spring of 2023. He has served on the Colgate University Assessment Committee, and has appeared on Reunion Panels on contemporary politics as well as a Colgate University post-election podcast. He regularly teaches America as a Democracy, Political Psychology, Campaigns and Voting Behavior, and Public Opinion.
Andrew Pattison, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies (BA Skidmore College; MPA, PhD University of Colorado, Denver)
Andy Pattison came to Colgate in 2016 as the Burke Chair in Regional Studies, and became an assistant professor in 2017. Trained in political science, he studies environmental politics, policy, and planning from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has published frequently in the Review of Policy Research; Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences; Ethics, Policy & Environment; Environmental Science & Policy; Policy Studies Journal; Journal of Industrial Ecology; and Canadian Political Science Review. Infusing his research specialty into his service and teaching, he has been a member of the ENST Steering Committee, the Advisory and Planning Committee, the Upstate Institute Executive Board, the Udall Scholarship Selection Committee, and the Sustainability Council, and he has been a Faculty Affiliate of Hancock Commons. He has also played a leadership role in the deer cull in Hamilton. Beyond Colgate, he serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. His courses include Sustainability and Climate Action; US Environmental Politics; Environmental Justice; Environmental Policy Analysis; and Core Wilderness.
As I hope is clear, our newly-tenured colleagues are all very accomplished professionally and together have made significant contributions to our academic curriculum and intellectual community, as well as to their respective scholarly communities. Please join me in congratulating them on their well-deserved promotions.
With best regards,
Lesleigh
Lesleigh Cushing
Provost and Dean of the Faculty
Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion