Faculty & Staff Spotlight

What have Dr. Fatiha Benmokhtar, Dr. Alima Bucciantini, Joseph Sheehan and Dr. Philipp Stelzel been up to?

Dr. Fatiha Benmokhtar, assistant professor of physics, recently published an article titled Precision Measurement of the Weak Charge of the Proton in the journal Nature. The publication presents the results of an experiment carried out by an international collaboration of physicists.

Dr. Alima Bucciantini, assistant professor of history, recently had her book Exhibiting Scotland: Objects, Identity, and the National Museum published by University of Massachusetts Press. The book traces how collections in the National Museum of Scotland have helped tell the country’s stories and reflects the Scots’ continuing negotiation of their place within modern Britain.

Joseph Sheehan, assistant professor of composition in the Mary Pappert School of Music, recently released his album Songs of Lake Volta on Ansonica Records. The project was supported by a 2014 Loogman Faculty Research Grant and a Presidential Scholarship Award. The recording attained national and local critical acclaim.

Dr. Philipp Stelzel, assistant professor of history, recently had his book History After Hitler: A Transatlantic Enterprise published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. A comprehensive account of how German and American historians after World War II tackled the question of the roots of national socialism, History After Hitler traces the development of a transatlantic scholarly community as a key part of the intellectual history of the Federal Republic and of Cold War German-American relations.