Faculty News

Atlantic Senior Editor David Frum interviews Colgate Assistant Professor of Political Science Sam Rosenfeld in this new piece about the current state of political polarization in American politics. Rosenfeld’s newest book, The Polarizers: Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era, has generated national interest for how it examines the current political landscape through analysis of political party […]

Colgate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Ellen Percy Kraly has been named as one of the 2018 WCNY Makers: Women Who Make America, for her work with refugee populations in Utica, N.Y., and at the United Nations. “My teaching at colgate has always been connected communities and introduce our students to community leaders.  I […]

When Reader’s Digest was looking to create a list of the world’s most famous lost treasures, they turned to Colgate’s Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics Robert Garland, who offered one of his favorite pieces of missing history. Read the full article online.

Weston Testo ’12 arrived at Colgate as an undergraduate in 2008, the same year that James “Eddie” Watkins joined Colgate's faculty in the Department of Biology. In the 10 years since, Testo has grown from one of Watkins’s undergraduate students to one of his trusted colleagues.

Professors Chris Vecsey and Lourdes Rojas-Paiewonsky will share the 2018 Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching and Student Engagement.

Associate Professor of Political Science Valerie Morkevicius took to Twitter to share her perception of relations between the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom in response to prominent realist Stephen Walt’s latest article in Foreign Policy magazine. She agrees this isn’t Cold War 2.0, but suggests Russia, a declining power, is dangerous. See the full thread […]

How do kin support young women in their transitions to adulthood? Research by sociology professor Janel Benson and Anastassia Bougakova ’16 shows the complex ways that kin networks help young women during this critical time.

The springtime symposium “Women and Religion, Philosophy and Feminism” will honor emeritae faculty members Marilyn Thie and Wanda Warren Berry.

Can war be both politically advantageous and morally just? According to Professor Valerie Morkevicius, the answer to this question is complicated.

Assistant Professor of Geology Joe Levy and his students are using NASA grant funding and images taken from the Mars Orbiter Mission to study glaciers on the red planet in an effort to further understand how that planet’s climate has changed throughout history. Images provided by the orbiter are of such high resolution that researchers on […]