Williams College Announces Tenure for Latino/a Studies Faculty Member

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.

Williamstown Fire Committee Talks Station Project Cuts, Truck Replacement

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:17AM / Friday, April 26, 2024

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Prudential Committee on Wednesday signed off on more than $1 million in cost cutting measures for the planned Main Street fire station.

 

Some of the "value engineering" changes are cosmetic, while at least one pushes off a planned expense into the future.

 

The committee, which oversees the Fire District, also made plans to hold meetings over the next two Wednesdays to finalize its fiscal year 2025 budget request and other warrant articles for the May 28 annual district meeting. One of those warrant articles could include a request for a new mini rescue truck.

 

The value engineering changes to the building project originated with the district's Building Committee, which asked the Prudential Committee to review and sign off.

 

In all, the cuts approved on Wednesday are estimated to trim $1.135 million off the project's price tag.

 

The biggest ticket items included $250,000 to simplify the exterior masonry, $200,000 to eliminate a side yard shed, $150,000 to switch from a metal roof to asphalt shingles and $75,000 to "white box" certain areas on the second floor of the planned building.

 

The white boxing means the interior spaces will be built but not finished. So instead of dividing a large space into six bunk rooms and installing two restrooms on the second floor, that space will be left empty and unframed for now.