March 2025: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments

Associate Professor, Adj. Suman Chhabra published two poems, "A Fool's Pradakshina" and "Time's Camp," in The Georgia Review. Her poem "Wow" also appeared in Bennington Review.

Associate Professor Pablo Garcia has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to develop and publish his ongoing research on the history of drawing machines, from the Renaissance to artificial intelligence. The project will continue through 2025 and launch at drawingmachines.org.

Professor and Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Chair Bruce Jenkins was honored with a 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award by the College Art Association. 

Professor, Adj. Don Pollack’s exhibition South of the Yellowstone features recent paintings and drawings exploring identity, history, and landscape through his family’s relationship to homesteading in Johnson County, Wyoming over a century ago. The exhibition was recently reviewed by ARTS ATL.

Mohn Family Professor of Contemporary Art History David Raskin contributed to a New York Times feature article about artist Abbott Pattison, who taught sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1940s and '50s. Raskin also published an ekphrastic poem in the anthology Poetry is Dead II.

Assistant Professor, Adj. Christian Sheppard published The Ancient Wisdom of Baseball: Lessons for Life from Homer’s Odyssey to the World Series (Greenleaf, 2025). Theo Epstein praised the book as "a love letter to baseball that explains its connections to our inner lives and to classical lore in a way that makes one pine for Opening Day."