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Faculty News

Anna Malavisi and Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented conference papers at the�� European Conference on South Asian Studies in Heidelberg, Germany on October 4. Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox’s paper:�� “Thích Nữ Diệu Không, Moral Education, and Female Leadership in Vietnam’s Buddhist Protests of 1963” and Anna Malavisi’s paper:�� “Understanding (in)compatibilities between Religion and Human Rights” were part of the roundtable titled Are Religion and Human Rights (In)Compatible Value Systems? Buddhist and Hindu Religious and Cultural Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia

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Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox appeared on the radio program Wake Up! With Bill Finch, along with CT Senator Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox, on August 31, 2025. ��My contribution was to talk about our current immigration enforcement in the context of the history of anticommunist refugees. You can listen to the discussion here:

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Kevin Gutzman has published an essay as part of�� The Papers of James Madison, “a nonprofit documentary editing project established to procure, edit, annotate, and publish the lifetime correspondence of James Madison”, housed at the University of Virginia, and which is nearly complete.

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Kevin Gutzman has been invited to serve as editor-in-chief of the special semiquincentennial commemorative issue of The Independent Review, a prominent libertarian review headquartered in Oakland. Dr. Gutzman will select the scholars who write essays in the issue, essay topics and themes for this special 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

Danielle King earned her Ed.D. this May from Central! Her dissertation “Navigating Crossroads of Culture and Gender: Experiences and Outcomes of Caribbean Immigrant Women in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York’s Higher Education Institutions” is a qualitative, autoethnographic study with narrative inquiry of intersectional analysis that explores how Caribbean immigrant women from Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York universities handle challenges and assert their identities, while pursuing academic and career goals in academic environments. Congratulations!

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Kevin Gutzman has been appointed as a Summer Fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, MA.

Anna Malavisi spoke at the Kathwari Honors Spring Seminars about Ethics, engaging in the debate over the ethical question: “What is Right Right Now?” on March 3.

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Leslie Lindenauer has published a workbook about open sources and pedagogy. Here is a link to the workbook that was just published through GoOpenCT, the repository for open educational resources.��

Leslie Lindenauer��participated in the on-campus “Dialogues with Democracy” event hosted by Macricostas Experiences and co-sponsored by �Թ�ͷ�� Libraries and CELT with her her talk, “Aggrieved, Oppressed and Fraudulently Deprived: Women and the Fight for Suffrage” in Haas Library on October 21.

Kevin Gutzman has been asked to host a book signing for��The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2022) in the Danbury Mall Barnes & Noble at noon on Saturday, September 14.

Katherine Allocco presented her conference paper “The Strange Narrative of Isabella of France in Huntington MS HM 131, an Abbreviated version of the Middle English Prose” at the Brut in Bristol conference at the University of Bristol, June 27-29, 2024.

Joshua Rosenthal presented his conference paper “Husbands, Fathers and Sons in the Civil War of New Granada” for the�� “Imagining Men: The Creation and Negation of Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico and Colombia,” panel at the Latin American Studies Association, (LASA), Congress, Bogotá, Colombia, June 13-15, 2024.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox has published a new article! “Vietnamese Buddhist encounters with South Asia in the 1950s” is a featured article in Modern Asian Studies and was published online on March 25, 2004. The article can be found here:

Kevin Gutzman will be speaking at the Redding Community Center on April 13, 2024 as part of the Founding Fathers Lecture Series.

Anna Malavisi presented her talk “War on the Environment,” at the Climate and Human Civilization Lecture Series, April 2, 2024, �Թ�ͷ��

Stuart Dalton published his new book: Three Answers to the Question “What is Philosophy?” A Comedy in Three Acts. Cascade Books, 2024.

Michael Nolan has been elected to the Faculty Advisory Council, Board of Regents.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox has published a new article!��“Thích Nhất Hạnh’s Critiques of Enlightenment Rationality and Academic Buddhism,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies��19:1 (March 2024): 49-76.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox .presented his conference paper “Thích Minh Châu and Vietnamese Buddhism,” Presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 2024.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox “presented his conference paper “Women and Representation in Buddhist Asia,”�� at the Asian Studies Development Program Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, March 2024.

Marcy May�� retired in December 2023. Congratulations, Marcy!

Anna Malavisi published�� “In Search of Moral Clarity,” CT Mirror, November 16, 2023,

Stuart Dalton presented his conference paper “How all the Bad Writing in the History of Philosophy is Useful to Understand the Nature of Philosophy.” at the Northwest Philosophy Conference at Lewis and Clark College, November 3–4, 2023.

Anna Malavisi presented her paper “The Trials of Non-violence,” at Concerned Philosophers for Peace,�� in Knoxville, Tennessee, October 27-28, 2023.

Kevin Gutzman will be speaking at the Ridgefield Library on September 5, 2023.

Kevin Gutzman was invited to present the 2023 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture, given on July 19, 2023. This is a prestigious annual lecture series. Congratulations!�� The recording can be found here:

Anna Malavisi presented her paper “Philosophy and The Climate Crisis,” at Shandong University, China, July 27, 2023

Anna Malavisi presented her paper “Was Philosophy Once a Woman’s World?” at Shandong University, China, July 20, 2023

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox has been invited to speak at the Library of Congress in Washington DC about the American Impact on the Culture of the Republic of Viet Nam on May 2, 2023. You can watch his talk here:

Anna Malavisi published��“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance,” CT Mirror, May 18, 2023, .

Katherine Allocco will be participating on the Community Conversations panel for �Թ�ͷ��’s Marat/Sade matinee performance on April 29. These panels, which are included in one performance of each of the VPA’s plays, provide audience goers with an opportunity to discuss the play with the director, students actors and crew, and with faculty in a related field thus enriching their experience and understanding of the performance.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox and Olga Dror (Texas A&M) edited the March 2023 issue of the��Kyoto��Review of Southeast Asia��which focuses on the Intellectual History of Buddhism in the Republic of Vietnam (1954-75). ��This journal is very popular in Asia and is simultaneously released in English, Japanese, Filipino, Bahasa, Vietnamese, Burmese, and Thai. You can read Dr. Gadkar-Wilcox’s article on the aftermath of the 1963 Buddhist crisis in the volume here:

Katherine Allocco will be spending part of her Spring 2023 sabbatical conducting archival research at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA which possesses an extensive collection of medieval manuscripts.

Stuart Dalton published his new book: How to Misunderstand Kierkegaard: An Instruction Manual for Assistant Professors and Other Immoral and Disreputable Persons. Cascade Books, 2022.

Stuart Dalton published his article “Three forms of philosophical theatre in Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks” Philosophy and Social Criticism��48��(1):��86-127. 2022.

Stuart Dalton published his article “How to avoid getting killed by a statue: Some lessons on teaching and lying from Nietzsche’s thus spoke zarathustra”��Think��21��(60):��79-90. 2022.

Jennifer Duffy��presented a paper at the “Where Do We Go From Here: Revisiting Black Irish Relations” (Virtual Conference) Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, November 2021

Katherine Allocco presented her conference paper: “Disinterring Giants: Kings, Men, Monsters and the Brut��in Kazuo Ishiguro’s��The Buried Giant (2015)” at the Brut in New Troy Conference, which will be hosted virtually by the University of Notre Dame, July 2021.

Leslie Lindenauer presented her conference paper “Open Pedagogy: Whose Side Are You On? First Year College Students Confront the American Revolution” at the Connected Learning Summit at MIT in July 2021.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his conference paper “Continental Philosophy and Buddhism in the Journal��Tư Tưởng��(Thought), 1967-1975,” at the Literature and Journalism in the Republic of Vietnam Conference, University of Hamburg, June 11, 2021.

Joshua Rosenthal delivered a zoom lecture “Fuentes digital y actualidad: Perspectiva histórica e investigación virtual.” for the Doctorado en Ciencias de la Educación Universidad Pedagógicca y Tecnológica de Colombia, in Tunja, Colombia on May 13, 2021.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his conference paper “False Flag Operation? Symbolism and Nostalgia for the Republic of Vietnam,” at the 16^th��Annual IASESP Conference, Southern CT State University, New Haven, April 23, 2021.

Jennifer Duffy received �Թ�ͷ�� Faculty Development Funds to participate in an online course, “Picturing the City: New York on Canvas, Paper and Film,” through the Gotham Center at CUNY this upcoming summer 2021.

Leslie Lindenauer presented�� her talk “Giving Entertainment to Satan: Witchcraft and Witch Persecution in Early New England” at the Norwalk Historical Society on March 25, 2021.

Leslie Lindenauer participated as a panelist in A Conversation on Open Pedagogy at the Connecticut OER Summit in March 2021.

Jennifer Duffy��presented a paper at the Teaching History Writing Conference (Virtual Conference) which was hosted by The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March 2021

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his conference paper “Reflections on John Whitmore’s Contributions to the Study of Confucianism in Vietnam,” at the John K. Whitmore Conference, MacMillan Center, Yale University, October 2020.

Kenneth Young, Professor Emeritus, published his memoir Back in the Day: The Education of an Oklahoman Boy. Ray Hill Publishing, 2020.

Kevin Gutzman��was a commentator in the 2020 Amazon film��Safeguard: An Electoral College Story.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his talk “The Legend of the��Vọng Phu Stone Outcropping in Vietnamese History,” as an invited speaker by the Danbury Library, Danbury, CT, August��2020

Kevin Gutzman served as a contributor to the new AP US History text��Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness published in 2020.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his talk “What Can the Trưng Sisters Rebellion Mean to Us Now?” as an invited speaker by the Danbury Library, Danbury, CT, July 2020.

Joshua Rosenthal’s 2012 monograph Salt and the Colombian State. Local Society and Regional Monopoly in Boyacá, 1821-1900 was translated into Spanish by Mariana Serrano Zalamea�� under the title La sal y el Estado colombiano. Sociedad local y monopolio regional en Boyacá (1821-1900) and published by the ��Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (2020). This project was funded by a grant from the Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox published “Five Themes toward Teaching the History of Vietnamese Buddhism,” in Micheline Soong and Nicholas Brasovan, Eds.,��Buddhisms in Asia: Traditions, Transmissions, and Transformations. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019: 139-164.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his conference paper “Political Philology and Academic Freedom: A Defense of��Thích Minh Châu,”��at the “Studying Republican Vietnam” workshop, University of Oregon, October 2019.

Joshua Rosenthal published his article ��“La Historia fiscal de Boyacá (1863-1886), in Las cuentas del federalismo colombiano” in the 2019 collection edited and translated by Salomon Kalmanovitz and Edwin López Rivera for the Universidad de Bogotá, Jorge Tadeo Lozano, 141-172.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his conference paper “Modernity, French Encroachments, and Confucian Examinations, 1862-1877,” at��The Vietnamese Confucian Examination System (1075-1919) and Its Legacy��International Conference, Institute of Sino-Nom Studies and Institute of History, Hanoi, Vietnam, August 14, 2019.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his conference paper “European History and Confucian Value in Vietnam, 1877-1932,” at the International Conference on Asian Studies 11, Leiden, the Netherlands, July 18, 2019.

Joshua Rosenthal was the invited moderator for the panel: “The Ties that Bind and Those that Break: The Intersection of Law, Power and State Building in Nineteenth-Century Latin America.” At the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies in Santa Fe, NM in 2019.

Kevin Gutzman��published the chapter “Thomas Jefferson’s Virginian Revolution,” in Jeffersonians in Power: The Rhetoric of Opposition Meets the Realities of Governing, eds. Joanne Freeman and Johann Neem (Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 2019), 105-27.

Leslie Lindenauer published her article “Every Atom No. 55, Reflections on Walt Whitman at 200, “Whitman, Witches, and the Martyrs” North American Review, July 2019.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his conference paper “Laos, North Vietnam, and the Credibility of Indian Leadership in Asia,” at the Sixth International Conference on Lao Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 13-15, 2019.��

Kevin Gutzman was invited to participate in the New York City American Revolution Roundtable, Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary on June 4, 2019.

Leslie Lindenauer presented her conference paper “Open Discovery – Strategies for Finding Open Educational Resources (OER),” AND her poster “Wait, What?!: Syllabus co-creation with students as an open pedagogy,” during the Poster Session at the�� FAC Conference on Student Success and Shared Governance, April 2019.

Joshua Rosenthal organized and moderated a panel, “Historias Afrodescendientes in Colombia. Region, identity, politics, and culture.” Afro-Latin American Research Instituted, First Continental Congress on Afro-Latin American Studies at Harvard University, 2019.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox published the textbook East Asia and the West in collaboration with With Xiaobing Li and Yi Sun.��San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing. 2019.

Leslie Lindenauer published “Women’s Colleges,” Encyclopedia of American Women’s History, Hasia Diner, Ed.

Leslie Lindenauer published “Founding Mothers: Colonization, Revolution, and the New Nation,” one of five Introductory Essays, Encyclopedia of Women in Popular Culture.

Kevin Gutzman delivered his talk “Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary First Inaugural Address,” which was the Kartch/Jefferson Lecture for 2018 at William Paterson University on�� October 31, 2018.

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox published his article “Universality, Modernity, and Cultural Borrowing Among Vietnamese Intellectuals, 1877–1919,”��Transcultural Studies��3 (2018): 33-52.

Stuart Dalton published his article “How to be a Terrible Teacher: Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments on what Education is not”��Philosophy and Social Criticism��45��(3):��241-264. 2018.

Kevin Gutzman published his article “Jeffersonian Republicans vs. Federalist Judges,” in the The University of St. Thomas Law Journal 14:1 (2018)

Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox presented his conference paper��“The Antecedents to the Tết Offensive: Patterns in Vietnamese History,” as an invited speaker at the Reunion of International Volunteer Services, Newport, RI, October 29, 2018..

Leslie Lindenauer presented her conference paper “’We Can’t Do That Here’ Crossing the Faculty / IT Divide to Achieve Grassroots Innovations for Student Success,” at the NERCOMP workshop, April 2018.

Michael Nolan will be delivering a series of four weekly lectures at Founders Hall in Ridgefield on the topic of ��“Interwar Europe,” throughout the Fall 2017.

Kevin Gutzman was this year’s on-campus Constitution Day speaker! He delivered his address “The Philadelphia Convention: Moderates Triumphant,” on September 13, 2017.

Leslie Lindenauer has been selected to be�� the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CELT).

Katherine Allocco presented her conference paper��“Isabella of France and the Secular Contemporary Chronicles” 8^th International Conference of the Medieval Chronicle Society in Lisbon, Portugal, July 10-14, 2017

Stuart Dalton published his article “From Eyesight to Insight”��Philosophy Today��61��(3):��633-653. 2017

Leslie Lindenauer will be attending the 2017 NEH Summer Institute on race and memory.

Michael Nolan presented his conference paper “Charles de Gaulle and Verdun” at the 15^th Annual International Conference on History & Archaeology: From Ancient to Modern, Athens, Greece on June 26, 2017.

Katherine Allocco presented her conference paper “Depictions of Queen Isabella’s Life and Letters in The Prose Brut” The Conference of Brut Narratives, Lawman’s Brut, and the Conception of Britain, hosted by Brigham Young University, June 27-29, 2017

Joshua Rosenthal published his article “Conditional Clemency after the Golpe de Melo of 1854. Constitutionalism and tradition in early republican Colombia,” Historia Crítica, 63, (2017) 75-96.

Kevin Gutzman presented his conference paper “The Monroe Administration in Contemporary Perspective,” at the Lebanon Valley College Center for Political History conference on The Era of Good Feelings, May 2017

Surekha Davies’ new book Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters (Cambridge University Press, 2016) has won two book awards! Her excellent research was recognized with both the 2017����in History/Theolog, awarded by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference and the 2016����for the best first book by an author in the field of intellectual history awarded by the Journal of the History of Ideas at the University of Pennsylvania Press. Congratulations, Surekha!

Kevin Gutzman delivered a public lecture “Thomas Jefferson—Revolutionary: A Radical’s Struggle to Remake America” at Monticello, Jefferson’s Historic Home in Charlottesville, VA on March 28, 2017. His talk was also broadcast on�� C-SPAN.

Katherine Allocco published��“The Symbiosis of Norse and Medieval Christian Eschatology in DC Vertigo’s Lucifer series” in Apocalyptic Chic: Visions of the Apocalypse and Post-Apocalypse in Literature and Visual Arts. Barbara Bordman and Jim Doan, eds. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017, 29-45.

Joshua Rosenthal��posted his article “Memory and Peace in Colombia” on the American Historical Association’s blog, on March 20, 2017. It can be found here: ��

Kevin Gutzman delivered his talk “Whose Constitution: The Framers’ or the Judges’?” at the University of Georgia Law School, on March 16, 2017

Katherine Allocco��published��“Could Guinevere ever be a Superhero? Depictions of a Warrior Queen in Camelot 3000 (1982- 1985)” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comic Books (March 9, 2017) DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2017.1299022

Kevin Gutzman was invited to be a panelist on John Donahue’s “The Roundtable” on NPR (WAMC & five others in NYS) on February 10, 2017

Katherine Allocco, Jennifer Duffy and Leslie Lindenauer served as volunteer judges for National History Day at the Westside Middle School Academy that was held on February 3, 2017.

Katherine Allocco became chair of the Peter C. Rollins Book Prize Committee for the New England Popular Culture Association in 2016.

Kevin Gutzman��was featured in the Danbury News-Times!

Michael Nolan will be delivering a series of four weekly lectures at Founders Hall in Ridgefield on the topic of ��“The First World War,” throughout the Fall 2016.

Kevin Gutzman��was featured in��Connecticut��Magazine!��

Jennifer Duffy��was honored with the Teaching Excellence Award by National Honor Society for Leadership, Spring 2016

Michael Nolan delivered a public lecture “The Beginning of the End: The Origins of World War I”�� at the Gunn Memorial Library and Museum in Washington, CT, June 2014.

Leslie Lindenauer presented her conference paper “From PTA to MRS: the Teacher on Film, 1935-1965,” at the PCA/ACA Annual Conference in Chicago, April 2014

Jennifer Duffy was invited to write an op-ed titled “A More Irish Parade Tradition?” for�� The Irish World, which was published on April 2, 2014

Surekha Davies was invited to be the guest editor of Science, New Worlds and the Classical Tradition, 1450-1850, a special double issue of the Journal of Early Modern History, 18:1-2 (Feb 2014).

Katherine Allocco published��“Costumes, Bodies and Gender in The Queen’s Company 2004 Production of Edward II” Marlowe Studies: An Annual 3 (July 2013), 1-23.

Surekha Davies has won two research grants this year: 2013 American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant and the 2013 American Historical Association, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for European, Asian or African History! Congratulations, Surekha!