WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Board of Trustees voted in April to promote Sara Dubow, assistant professor of history, to the position of associate professor with tenure. The promotion will take effect July 1.
Dubow's research and teaching interests look at the intersections of gender, law, and politics in the United States during the 20th century. Her book, "Ourselves Unborn: A History of the Fetus in Modern America," published in 2011 by Oxford University Press, won the 2011 Bancroft Prize from Columbia University.
Since her arrival at Williams in 2007, Dubow has taught classes in the department of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies departments. During the 2011-12 academic year, she served on the Faculty Steering Committee and on the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Advisory Committee.
She received her bachelor's degree from Williams in 1991 and her doctorate from Rutgers University in 2003. Before arriving at Williams, Dubow taught at the Brearley School, Hunter College High School, and Hunter College.
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Williamstown Fin Comm Hears from Police Department, Library
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Police Chief Michael Ziemba last week explained to the Finance Committee why an additional full-time officer needs to be added to the fiscal year 2027 budget.
The 13 officers in the Williamstown Police Department are insufficient to maintain the department's minimal threshold of two officers on patrol per shift without employing overtime and relying on the chief and the WPD's one detective to cover patrol shifts if an officer is sick or using personal time, Ziemba explained.
Some of that coverage was provided in the past by part-time officers, but that option was taken away by the commonwealth's 2020 police reform act.
"We lost two part-timers a couple of years ago," Ziemba told the Fin Comm. "They were part-time officers, but they also worked the desk. So between the desk and the cruiser shifts, they were working 40 hours a week, the two of them. We lost them to police reform.
"We have seen that we're struggling to cover shifts voluntarily now. We're starting to order people to cover time-off requests. … We don't have the flexibility when somebody goes out for a surgery or sickness or maternity leave to cover that without overtime. An additional position, I believe, would alleviate that."
Ziemba bolstered his case by benchmarking the force against like-sized communities in Berkshire County.
Adams, for example, has 19 full-time officers and handled 9,241 calls last year with a population just less than 8,000 and a coverage area of 23 square miles, Ziemba said. By comparison, Williamstown has 13 officers, handled 15,000 calls for service, has a population of about 8,000 (including staff and students at Williams College) and covers 46.9 square miles.
Police Chief Michael Ziemba last week explained to the Finance Committee why an additional full-time officer needs to be added to the fiscal year 2027 budget. click for more
