Rohma Khan (PhD '20) has been named an Emerging Voices Fellow by the American Council of Learned Societies. The program offers a two-year residential fellowship at an ACLS Consortium University for academic years 2022-23 and 2023-24. Rohma will be the Davis Humanities Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis.
Jim Rankine (PhD '21) won a University of Rochester Outstanding Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Shaving Blackbeard: Reappraising Pirates and Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic, 1660-1760," which he successfully defended in July 2021.
Gloria O'Toole Ulterino (BA '62) began studying theology in the 1980's. After serving Catholic parishes and the Rochester Diocese, she turned to writing and storytelling. Her third book has just been published by Wipf and Stock Publications: What Time Is It? A Deep Reading of Our Lives throughout the Liturgical Year. This book creatively addresses two of her passions: (1) the possibilities for inspiration within the liturgical year and (2) the full participation of women in church leadership.
Joy Wiltenburg (BA '76, MA '78) wrote a new book, Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit, which will be out from Routledge in June 2022. She is now professor emerita of history at Rowan University.
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