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- Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
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- Associate Dean of the Faculty for Global and Local Initiatives Professor of Environmental Studies and Africana and Latin American Studies
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President Brian W. Casey reviews Colgate's 200 year history, and shares his vision for the third century of Colgate University.
Brian W. Casey was inaugurated as Colgate's 17th president in 2016. After starting a career in law, Casey transitioned to higher education after earning a PhD from Harvard University in the history of American civilization, focusing specifically on the history of American higher education and American intellectual history.
President Casey earned a bachelor of arts in philosophy and economics at the University of Notre Dame and his JD from Stanford University Law School. He joined Davis Polk & Wardwell and practiced law in New York City and London before attending Harvard University, where he earned his PhD in the history of American civilization.
President Casey, in partnership with senior administrators, the Board of Trustees, and the University faculty, has developed a comprehensive, long-term vision for Colgate's third century. That vision is articulated in the Third-Century Plan, and its initial priorities will be addressed through the recently announced $1B Campaign for the Third Century - the most ambitious campaign ever undertaken by an institution of Colgate's size.
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- Associate Dean of the Faculty for Faculty Recruitment and Development Associate Professor of Theater
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Christian DuComb is associate professor of Theater at Colgate University, where he teaches theater history, dramatic literature, and performance studies. He has previously taught at Haverford College and Brown University, where he received his Ph.D. in Theater and Performance Studies in 2012. His first book, Haunted City: Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia (Michigan, 2017), traces the deep roots of Philadelphia's annual Mummers Parade through the city's history of blackface minstrelsy and other forms of racial impersonation. His essays and reviews on a variety of topics have appeared in Theater magazine, Modern Drama, Performance Research, Theatre Journal, TDR: The Drama Review, and the Washington Post, as well as several edited collections.
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- Special Projects Assistant to the Provost & Dean of the Faculty Assoc. Professor & Director of LGBTQ Studies
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Danny Barreto received his PhD in Hispanic Languages & Literature and a graduate certificate in Women's Studies from Stony Brook University, SUNY (2010). His research centers largely on Galician and Spanish narrative, while drawing heavily on his background in Latin American and Caribbean studies and gender theory.
Danny's most recent work in the area of Galician studies engages with sexuality, gender, language, and national identity in literary and cinematic production from the late 19th through 21st centuries. Recent publications have appeared in journals such as Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Galicia 21 and Abriu: Textuality Studies on Brazil, Galicia and Portugal, as well as the edited volumes Rerouting Galician Studies: Multidisciplinary Interventions (2017) and Queering Iberia: Iberian Masculinities at the Margins (2012). He has taught courses on Spanish and Latin American literature, women's studies, translation, and language.
His current research focuses on queer cultural production and history in Galicia.
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- Dean of Academic and Curricular Affairs William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
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Douglas Johnson received his BA from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins University. As a scholar, he studies human cognition, with an emphasis on attention, memory, and the development of expertise. He has published in a variety of professional journals, including Psychological Science, Memory and Cognition, Neuropsychopharmacology, Psychopharmacology, and The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Prof. Johnson joined Colgate's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in 1996. Within the department, he teaches a variety of courses, including Introduction to Psychology, Human Cognition, Research Methods, Statistics, and Attention and Memory. Within Colgate's Core Curriculum, he has taught two Core Sciences courses (one on the malleability of human memory, and another on the psychology of sport and exercise). He has won numerous teaching awards at Colgate, including the Jerome Balmuth Award for Teaching, the Colgate Alumni Corporation Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Phi Eta Sigma "Professor of the Year".
Professor Johnson has served a variety of administrative roles at Colgate. In addition to considerable committee work, he has served as associate dean of faculty (2007-2010; 2019-2023), chair of the scientific perspectives program (2004-2007), and director of the Center for Learning, Teaching, and Research (2014-2017). As of July 1, 2023 he serves as Colgate's inaugural Dean of Academic and Curricular Affairs.
Students performing senior research with Professor Johnson have gone on to careers in business, medicine, and law, as well as graduate school in psychology and neuroscience (including Princeton, UVA, and Cornell).
Professor Johnson is married to Mary (Molly) Treadway Johnson, PhD, JD, and they have two children, Daniel and Sarah.
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- Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Professor in Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion
Cushing arrived at Colgate in 2002, after receiving a BA in English literature and religious studies from McGill University, a master of theological studies degree from Harvard Divinity School, and her PhD in religion and literature from Boston University. In 2015, she was named Murray W. and Mildred K. Finard Associate Professor in Jewish studies and associate professor of religion. She was promoted to the rank of full professor at Colgate in 2018.
Her scholarly work is focused on the intersection of religion and literature-put Jewishly, literatorah-and she has written on a range of topics, including intertextuality in Genesis, images of the flood in contemporary fiction, the intersection of ritual and memory in Exodus, the book of Ruth in historical-critical and theological perspective, and midrash in Jewish American literature. She is the co-author of The Bible in the American Short Story (2018) and author of Sustaining Fictions: Midrash, Intertextuality, Translation and the Literary Afterlife of the Hebrew Bible (2008). She is the co-editor of both From the Margins: Women of the Hebrew Bible and their Afterlives (2009) and Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs (2006), and she has published numerous articles focusing on the intersection of religion and literature. Her current book project is on Jewish identity and textuality in contemporary Jewish cookbooks.
Her courses include Bible in American Politics, The Literary Afterlife of the Bible, Fasting and Feasting, Gender and Judaism, The Word in the World, and Core 151: Legacies of the Ancient World. In 2015, she was recognized with the Colgate Alumni Corporation Distinguished Teaching Award.
Immediately prior to becoming Provost/ Dean of the Faculty, Cushing served as senior advisor to the president for arts and innovation initiatives. In this role, she worked collaboratively with colleagues in art, computer science, creative writing, entrepreneurship and innovation, film and media studies, museum studies and the University Museums, music, sociology and anthropology, theater and dance, the University Libraries, as well as with University technology specialists and countless others to realize a vision for the Middle Campus and a plan for its full implementation.
Between 2017 and 2021, Cushing served as Associate Dean of the Faculty, focused on faculty recruitment and development, a role in which she worked with many campus colleagues to develop several of the academic dimensions of the Third-Century Plan. In coordination with the Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity Maura Tumulty, she helped to develop new, more equitable hiring guidelines and processes; offered hiring workshops foregrounding best practices in DEI and implicit bias training; and assisted in the hiring of approximately 30 tenure-stream faculty members. During this time, she also led a team of 32 faculty and staff members in developing a vision for the Initiative in Arts, Creativity, and Innovation in Colgate's Middle Campus.
Prior leadership roles at the University include directing the Jewish Studies program, being University Professor for CORE 151: Legacies of the Ancient World. In addition, she has served on numerous university committees, including being co-chair of the Strategic Planning Working
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