Williams College Announces Tenure for Latino/a Studies Faculty Member

03:10PM / Thursday, October 31, 2019Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Trustees of Williams College voted to appoint Nelly Rosario, the 2017-18 W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies and the 2018-20 Artist in Residence of Latino/a studies, to the position of associate professor with tenure.

The appointment took effect July 1, 2019.

Rosario's research interests range from creative writing, world literature and graphic novels to history, archival studies and data visualization. Author of "Song of the Water Saints: A Novel" (Pantheon, 2002), winner of a PEN Open Book Award, and its translation "El canto del agua: Una novela" (Emecé Planeta, 2003), her recent work includes chapters in the 2018 books "Everyday People: The Color of Life" (ed. Jennifer Baker. Atria Books) and" The Nation and its Writing: Collection of Dominican Voices" (1965-2017) (eds. Carmen Cañete Quesada and Franklin Gutiérrez. Editorial Santuario). In addition, she contributed the chapters “Latinx + DNA: Complicando the Double Helix” for the forthcoming publication "Critical Diálogos in Latina and Latino Studies" (eds. Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas and Mérida M. Rúa, NYU Press) and “Th/Inking in Black: Notes on Teaching Creative Writing” for the forthcoming publication "Teaching Black: Pedagogy, Practice, and Perspectives on Writing" (eds. Drea Brown and Ana-Maurine Lara, University of Pittsburgh Press).

Rosario received the Archives and Library Research Award from City College-CUNY's Dominican Studies Institute in 2017 for research on her novel-in-progress "How the Medicines Go Down" and a Creative Capital Artist Award in Literature from the Creative Capital Foundation in 2016 for a photo story she is co-authoring with journalist Macarena Hernández and poet Sheila Maldonado.

At Williams, her course teaching includes Latina/o Identities: Constructions, Contestations, and Expressions, Ficciones: A Writing Workshop, and DNA + Latinx: Decoding the “Cosmic Race,” among others. She earned an S.B. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University.

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Williamstown Housing Trust Agrees to Continue Emergency Mortgage, Rental Programs

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
04:14AM / Tuesday, December 30, 2025

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust at its December meeting voted to extend its mortgage and rental assistance programs and discussed bringing in some consultants early next year before embarking on any new programs.

Chair Daniel Gura informed the board that its agreements with Pittsfield's Hearthway Inc., to administer the Williamstown Emergency Rental Assistance Program and Williamstown Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program was expiring at the end of the year.

Gura sought and obtained a vote of the board to extend the programs, born during the COVID-19 pandemic, through the end of January 2026, at which time the board plans to sign a new long-term agreement.

"In 2024, we distributed $80,000," through the programs known as WERAP and WEMAP, Gura said. "This year, to date, we gave $16,000, and Ihere's $17,000 left. … It's a little interesting we saw a dropoff from 2024 to 2025, although I think there were obvious reasons for that in terms of where we are in the world."

Gura suggested that the board might want to increase the funding to the programs, which benefit income-qualified town residents.

"If you look at the broader economic picture in this country, there's a prospect of more people needing help, not fewer people," Thomas Sheldon said in agreeing with Gura. "I think the need will bump up again."

The board voted to add an additional $13,000 to the amount available to applicants screened by Hearthway with the possibility of raising that funding if a spike in demand is seen.

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