Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

W W W. P A C E . E D U / D Y S O N 25 SETTER STORIES Standout Scholars Faculty Dyson Professors Receive Kenan Award for Teaching Excellence NEW YORK CITY CAMPUS Sarah Blackwood, PhD, associate professor, English, is a scholar of nineteenth-century US literature and a and author of The Po rait's Subject: Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States; multiple peer-reviewed a icles on race, realism, and nineteenth-century visual culture; as well as works of literary criticism wri en for general audiences in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. At Pace, she guides student exploration of gender, race, and creative expression in classes including Early American Black Lives Ma er, a seminar on Black US writers and thinkers from before the Civil War, and Selfies and Literature, a course on the visual culture of selfhood from 1839 to the present. PLEASANTVILLE CAMPUS Michelle D. Land, '02, JD, clinical associate professor, environmental studies and science, and founding director of the MA in Environmental Policy program (now the MA in Environmental Science and Policy), is an expe in the theory and practice of environmental policy and law. She has enabled graduate and undergraduate students to be architects of groundbreaking policy design and regularly involves them in her areas of research, the intersection of animal welfare and conservation policy with a focus on local and statewide animal protection. Her passion is helping students realize their career aspirations of becoming effective environmental stewards. Chemistry Professor Receives Homer Pace Award Elmer-Rico E. Mojica, PhD, associate professor, chemistry and physical sciences, is the recipient of the 2021 Homer and Charles Pace Faculty Award, given at the Spirit of Pace Awards ceremony. The award is bestowed upon a faculty member whose commitment to education has had a transformative effect on students, as voted by Pace alumni. A professor at Pace since 1998, Mojica has incorporated a practice of using popular media in teaching chemistry, and closely mentors students, giving them oppo unities to conduct research, present their results at conferences, and become authors and co-authors in publications. Professor of Sociology, Anthropology Awarded Fulbright Amy Foerster, PhD, associate professor, sociology and anthropology, has received a Fulbright Scholar Award to travel to Belgium, where she will conduct research at the Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations (Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies), University of Liège, as pa of a project to examine municipal and national responses to undocumented/ irregular migration. The Fulbright will be a continuation of Foerster's research, which began in 2019, on the reception of migrants, the undocumented, and the sans-papiers (without documentation) cross-nationally, examining municipal effo s in Belgium, Germany, and the United States. CRJ Professor Receives Corrections Award Kimberly Collica-Cox, PhD, professor, criminal justice and security, was honored in April with the John Howard Award at the Corrections Section of the annual Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) conference for significant and sustained contributions to corrections in both her academic work and practice. ACJS is an international association created to promote criminal justice scholarship, education, and policy, and the John Howard Award is based on the work of John Howard, a well-known corrections reformer.

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