Congratulations to our 2025 Faculty Research & Scholarship Winners
Congratulations to our Faculty Research and Scholarship winners, who have demonstrated sustained excellence in scholarship and research. Our 2025 awardees are:
Dr. Lissette Delgado-Cruzata is an associate professor of molecular biology and Fulbright Scholar who researches epigenetic patterns specific to US Latinas and Latin-American women with breast cancer, centering on their genetic admixture. She is passionate about increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who pursue graduate programs and mentors many undergraduates in her research lab. She has published articles in Frontiers in Genetics, Bioorganic Chemistry, Epigenetics and Anticancer Research, among others, and has been honored by the American Society of Cell Biology, American Association for Cancer Research and American Society of Preventive Oncology, among others. Delgado-Cruzata earned her PhD from Columbia University.
Dr. Adam McKible is an associate professor of English and author of Circulating Jim Crow: The Saturday Evening Post and the War Against Black Modernity, The Space and Place of Modernism: The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines and New York and editor of, When Washington Was in Vogue, a previously lost novel of the Harlem Renaissance by Edward Christopher Williams. McKible is also co-editor of a special issue of Modernism/modernity devoted to the Harlem Renaissance and of the collection Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches. He has published essays in African American Literature in Transition, Editing the Harlem Renaissance, The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms, Teaching the Harlem Renaissance and African American Review, among others.
Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard is a professor of community justice and social economic development in the Department of Africana Studies and author of Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice and an internationally recognized political economist specializing in cooperative economics, community economic development and racial wealth inequality. A 2016 US Cooperative Hall of Fame inductee, Gordon-Nembhard has published extensively in leading journals, co-edited several volumes and sits on numerous boards. She holds degrees from Yale University, Howard University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is the recipient of multiple awards for her contributions to social economics and cooperative studies.
Dr. Maria Julia Rossi is an associate professor of modern languages and literatures who explores the politics of representation in Latin American and Spanish fiction, gender studies and translation, with a focus on marginalized voices. She is the author of Narrar las madres and Silvina Ocampo marginal and Ficciones de emancipación and co-editor of Los de abajo and José Bianco’s Epistolario. Her work has appeared in journals like Revista Iberoamericana and Hispamérica. Rossi’s current project examines early queer translations in Latin America. Rossi earned her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Shilpa Viswanath is an assistant professor of public management and is a scholar in human resource management, focusing on equitable workplace practices in the public sector. She serves as an associate editor for Review of Public Personnel Administration and is on the editorial boards of Public Personnel Management and Administrative Theory and Praxis. Her work has been published in Public Administration Review, the American Review of Public Administration, Perspectives of Public Management and Governance, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Administrative Theory and Praxis and Journal of Public Affairs Education. Viswanath earned her PhD from Rutgers University.
