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"Reproductive Inequalities," NACLA Report on the Americas 48:1 (2016): 15-17.
"In Argentina, Feminists Versus the Catholic Church," NACLA Report on the Americas, June 7, 2018.
Fitz-Gibbon, D. Art Museum Blog: "Methoughts the Shilling: Teaching History with Money"
Ford, Kristie and Kelly Maxwell. 2024. “What is Intergroup Dialogue?” In Facilitating Transformational Dialogues: Creating Socially Just Communities, edited by Stephanie Hicks and Donna Kaplowitz. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Received a grant from the National Science Foundation (subaward from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) for “Dissecting the dynamic evolution of paralogs in shaping trait variation across the Solanum pan-genome.” The project is for five years. (2022)
Received a grant from the Consulate General of Italy, Boston, to support an Italian tutor.
Ombretta Frau delivered a paper, “Dal Correr a Cividale: Alvise Piero Zorzi, un veneziano ribelle,” ADI (Associazione degli Italianisti) conference, Trento and Rovereto, University of Trento, September 2026.
Ombretta Frau delivered a paper, “Funeral as performance. Wagner’s death in Venice, from Jolanda to D’Annunzio,” Society for Italian Studies Conference, Trinity College and University College, Dublin, July 2026.
Ombretta Frau delivered a paper, “Funeral as performance. Wagner’s death in Venice in D’Annunzio and Jolanda,” at the American Association for Italian Studies, University of Sassari, Italy, June 2026.
Ombretta Frau wrote the text for an Ottocentismi (NIneteenth Century Association) podcast published in June 2026: “La difesa della Basilica di San Marco nelle Osservazioni di Alvise Piero Zorzi,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60TaBCWDGmo
