Faculty Accomplishments

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"Abortion Decriminalization in Uruguay: Lessons and Liabilities," Different Takes, Fall 2012


"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)

National Science Foundation


Received a grant from the Consulate General of Italy, Boston, to support an Italian tutor.


Frau, O., Guzzetta, J. (2026). Female Sovereignty: Disorienting Feminist Rhetoric in the Italian Far Right. Public Humanities, 2:e53. doi:10.1017/pub.2026.10157


Frau, O. (2026) Maria Majocchi (Jolanda) encyclopedia entry for the Dizionario biografico e tematico delle donne in Italia 1730-2020, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, Rome 2026, 476-480.