Trinity College

John Michael Mason, founder of the Trinity Film Festival and interim head coach of track and field at Trinity, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this (non-faculty) interview episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter.

00:00 – 6:46 – Introduction, The Mill and supporting artists at Trinity College

6:46 – 15:45 – The Shining, Trinity Film Society and Cinestudio

15:45 – 20:42 – Trinity Film Festival: Beginnings and Growth

20:42 – 25:20 – Trinity Film Festival 2014: Recap, Prizewinners and Jinxy Jenkins

25:20 – end – Trinity Film Festival 2015: Preview and the Future

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter

00:00 – 6:30 – NFL Europe, Cultural Hybridity, and hard-to pronounce names

6:30 – 11:45 – Belfast and Modern Ireland

11:45 – 17:40 – Alfred Webb, J.F.X. O’Brien, and Irish Republicanism

17:40 – 28:00 – Learning in Galway and Teaching at Cambridge

28:00 – 32:40 – Imperial Wine, Production of Wine for the Empire

32:40 – End – Downton Abbey in Historical Context

Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre is a historian of modern Britain, Ireland and the British Empire. She holds a PhD from Queen’s University Belfast and has taught at the University of Exeter, the American University of Paris and the University of Cambridge, where she was a fellow, the Director of Studies in History and the Assistant Tutor at King’s College. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Regan-Lefebvre is currently writing a monograph provisionally entitled 'Imperial Wine: The British Empire and the Making of the New World' which examines the growth of wine industries in (former) British colonies. She is analysing the relationship between production in the colonies and consumption in the metropole and is interested in how the British domestic wine market changed over time, how it shaped production of particular styles of wine, and whether imperial policies stimulated New World production.

Her published research has focused on the Irish in the British Empire, particularly on connections between Ireland and India in the nineteenth century. She is the author of a monograph, Cosmopolitan Nationalism in the Victorian Empire, which explores collaboration between Irish and Indian nationalists in late-Victorian London and contributes to the literature on the 'Empire at home'. She also published the first critical edition of the autobiography of the Irish fenian J.F.X. O'Brien, which recounts his travels in France, New Orleans and the Caribbean in the 19th century.

Chaz Firestone is a member of the Department of Psychology at Yale University, where he is currently pursuing his PhD in psychology. Firestone earned a Master's in psychology from Brown University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, also from Brown.

"Bariberi Lecture: Italian Identity in the Making - Migration and Culture"

Amara Lakhous was born in 1970 in Algiers, the sixth of nine children. His parents were Berbers, and they sent him to a Koran school for four years where he learned classical Arabic. He learned French at junior school, which meant that he had the role of mediating between his Algerian and his French relatives. He was influenced from an early age by authors like Mahfouz, Flaubert and Hemingway, and after finishing school decided to study at the Faculty for Philosophy in Algiers, where he also delved into the roots of his Algerian identity, religion, the civil war and systems of male superiority.

Lakhous has been awarded, among others, the Premio Flaiano per la narrativa in 2006 and Algeria’s most prestigious literary award, the Prix des libraires Algeriens in 2008. The author lives in Rome, Italy.

Leslie Jamison is the author of "The Gin Closet," and a collection of essays, "The Empathy Exams." Her work has appeared or will appear in Harper's, Oxford American, A Public Space, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, among other publications. Jamison is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review, and is currently finishing a doctoral dissertation at Yale about addiction narratives.

Anne Parmenter, head field hockey coach at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter

Podcast Chapters:

00:00 - 9:55 - Introduction and Trinity Field Hockey 2014

9:55 - 14:35 - Looking to 2015, Growth, Motivation and Developing Student-Athletes

14:35 - 20:45 - Background, Early Life and Sport in England

20:45 - 29:50 - Primer on Field Hockey, Style, Tactics, and Growth of the Sport in the US

29:50 - 39:25 - Coming to America, England Labor Strife, Worcester, Motorbikes and Package Stores

39:25 - 44:14 - Robin Sheppard, Connecticut College, and Arriving at Trinity

44:15 - 51:50 - Coaching Seminar, Teaching Methodology and Mentoring Student-Athletes

51:50 - End - Mountaineering, Outdoor Education, and Conquering Denali

Biography

Anne Parmenter completed her 14th season as the head field hockey coach at Trinity College, after guiding the Bantams to a 13-4 record in 2014-15 and collecting both New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Regional Coach of the Year honors. Parmenter is 125-92 in 14 seasons at Trinity and 223-184-4 in 28 years of coaching field hockey at Connecticut College and with the Bantams.

Parmenter, who ranks 19th in wins among active Division III coaches, and 32nd in wins among all-time Division III coaches, has taken Trinity to 10 NESCAC Tournaments and two NCAA Tourneys since 2000. In 2009, Parmenter guided the Bantams to a 13-1 regular season, and an appearance in the NESCAC Finals which Trinity hosted on Robin L. Sheppard Field as the top seed in the conference tournament. Trinity won NCAA contests in both 2008 and 2009, advancing to its fourth NCAA Quarterfinal Round. Parmenter also served as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach for 13 seasons and is a physical education instructor in the Trinity athletic department.

Prior to her arrival at Trinity, Parmenter was the head field hockey coach at Connecticut College for 14 seasons, compiling six ECAC Division III New England Championship appearances. She was also the head women’s lacrosse coach at Conn. College from 1991-2001 with a career record of 107-47, nine ECAC Division III New England Championship appearances, ECAC titles in 1994 and 2000, and an NCAA Division III Championship Tournament appearance in 1996. In addition, Parmenter was assistant athletic director at Conn. College. Parmenter has also been an assistant field hockey, lacrosse, and squash coach at Amherst College and an assistant field hockey coach at the University of Massachusetts and Holy Cross.

A native of England, Parmenter graduated from Chelsea College in 1981 with a degree in education. She earned her master’s degree from Massachusetts in 1987. She took a year off from assisting the Bantam lacrosse team in 2006 to fulfill a lifelong dream of climbing Mount Everest.

Kevin McMahon, John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter

Podcast Chapters:

00:00 - 6:20 - Introduction and Early Political Influences

6:20 - 12:25 - FDR, the Supreme Court, and Civil Rights

12:25 - 23:45 - Nixon's Court and Judicial Liberalism

23:45 - 32:00 - The Professor as Teacher-Scholar and Constitutional Law in the Classroom

32:00 - 39:20 - The Current Court, the Affordable Care Act, and Lecturing in the Courtroom

39:20 - 43:00 - Buffalo, Potsdam, and the influence of Upstate New York

43:00 - End - Teaching in Post-Soviet Russia, Gangsters and Disorder

Kevin J. McMahon is the John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Political Science. His research examines the presidency and the political origins and consequences of Supreme Court decisions. In 2014, the Supreme Court Historical Society awarded his book, Nixon's Court: His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences (University of Chicago Press, 2011), its Erwin N. Griswold Prize. The Society only awards the Griswold Prize occasionally, and last did so in 2009. Nixon's Court was also selected as a 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. Professor McMahon's first book, Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown (University of Chicago Press, 2004), won the American Political Science Association’s Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book published that year on the American presidency. He is also the co-author/co-editor of three books on the presidency and presidential elections and author of numerous book chapters and journal articles.

Dario Del Puppo, Professor of Language and Culture Studies at Trinity College, sits down with Kevin MacDermott on this episode of the Trinity Faculty Profile podcast series. Follow @FacultyProfile on Twitter

Dario Del Puppo is Professor of Language and Culture Studies. Besides teaching all levels of Italian language, he teaches courses on Dante’s Divine Comedy, surveys of Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present, Food in Italian History, Society, & Art, Italian Cinema, and a course on the history of manuscripts and books from Greek and Roman Antiquity to the age of electronic texts. In all of these courses, Del Puppo encourages students to consider the way cultural phenomena have been transmitted through the ages and students frequently learn about the material formats of literary texts and how that influences interpretation and reception.

His research deals primarily with the manuscripts and early printed books of Medieval and Renaissance Italian literature and, more broadly, with popular and material culture in Italy during the 14th-16th centuries. He also has a longstanding research interest in the Romantic poet, Giacomo Leopardi. Del Puppo is currently working on a book project “Poets, Scribes, and Enterprising Readers in Quattrocento Florence” which examines the development of vernacular literary culture before and at the time of the invention of the printing press.

He is also Chairman of the Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture which organizes lectures, exhibits, and performances dealing with all facets of Italian culture.

George J. Mead '37 Annual Lecture in History: Caribbean-Connecticut Connection - From the 18th Century to the 21st Century by Heather Cateau

Cateau is a senior lecturer in Caribbean History at the University of the West Indies’ St. Augustine Campus and the current Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education. She has held the positions of Head of the History Department, Deputy Dean of Student Matters and Residence Manager of Milner Hall. Her research focus has led to a revisionary approach to plantation and enslavement systems in the Caribbean. Her latest publications include Beyond Tradition co-edited with Rita Pemberton and the Caribbean in the Atlantic World co-authored with John Campbell. She is the lead researcher in the creation of a memory bank repository as part of The Voices of the Past, Oral History Project. She has held Visiting Fellowships at the University of Iowa and the University of Cambridge.

Dr. Timothy Cross '76 returned to campus to discuss the pharmaceutical industry, as part of the "Science for the Greater Good" series at Trinity. Dr. Cross is the Director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Program at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory at Florida State University.

To follow the presentation slides that accompanied Dr. Cross' talk, visit: http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/NewsArticles/Documents/TrinityCrossPodcastSlides.pdf

From his bio:

Tuberculosis and influenza are killers. Between 2-3 million people worldwide die each year from tuberculosis, and 36,000 in America alone die from complications of the flu.

As Director of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Program, Dr. Tim Cross has taken up the fight to rid the world of these killers. “We're working on two sets of proteins that have the potential of being important for the pharmaceutical industry and mankind,” he says. “A few anti-influenza virus drugs are on the market, but they have serious side effects. Unless it’s a life and death situation, they're generally not prescribed.”

It’s the same with multiple drug resistant strains of tuberculosis. “There’s not been a new drug on the market for 30 years.” One-third of the world’s human population is a carrier of tuberculosis, but they won’t suffer symptoms unless their immune systems are compromised, as with AIDS victims. The tuberculosis emerges from its latent phase and attacks.

Membrane proteins may be the key. Says Cross, “If we could get the structural information on these proteins, a more specific drug could be designed.” A specialist in nuclear magnetic resonance, Cross has created a consortium of 13 top scientists from around the country, who have brought their own technologies—x-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, high-resolution mass spectrometry, and computational biochemistry—to work together on a common goal. The National Institutes of Health will fund the project over the next five years with an $8 million grant.

“The research is exciting at many different levels,” says Cross, “and a great challenge for my eight graduate students and several post-doctoral students to participate in. Once understood, the structural information can be published in the public sector—after all, we’re in the public funding sector—and everyone will have access to it.”

For more on the Science for the Greater Good Series, visit:

http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/NewsArticles/pages/Nancy-Davis-%E2%80%9979-Continues-%E2%80%9CScience-for-the-Greater-Good%E2%80%9D.aspx