Faculty News

History faculty member Carol Pal has been named next year's Dibner Fellow in the History of Science at the renowned in California. During her year at the Huntington, Carol will be working on her second monograph, Transient Technologies. Her first book, Republic of Women, will be published in May by Cambridge University Press.

Bennington music faculty member Susie Ibarra joined leading musicians from all 204 Olympic nations for a two-day music festival celebrating the opening of the 2012 Summer Games in London.

Visual arts faculty member Ann Pibal鈥檚 small-scale paintings are on view in a group exhibition at Sikkenma Jenkins & Co Gallery on West 22nd St., New York.

Photography faculty member Liz Deschenes has collaborated with Austrian photographer Florian Pumh枚sl on an exhibition currently on view at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition, Parcours鈥攁 French word for 鈥渞oute鈥濃 is inspired from an unrealized exhibition proposal of the 1930s by Austrian-born Bauhaus designer Herbert Bayer, according to the museum.

History faculty member Carol Pal鈥檚 debut book, 鈥攔eleased this month by the Cambridge University Press鈥攖ells the story of a transnational network of female scholars who were active members of the 17th-century republic of letters, and demonstrates that this intellectual commonwealth was a much more eclectic and diverse assemblage than had previously been assumed.