Professor Emeritus of English David Graham, an editor and poet, was the featured guest May 13 at a meeting of the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West’s Mountain Writers & Poets. He spoke via Zoom. Graham has seven collections of poetry and co-edited the anthology “Local News: Poetry About Small Towns” and the essay anthology “After Confession: […]
Kurt Dietrich, professor emeritus of music at Ripon College, will speak Monday, May 9, at Winchester Academy in Waupaca, Wisconsin. His talk will be “Wisconsin Jazz: From the Roots to the Present.” He will give an overview of important jazz artists from Wisconsin and the trends that have led from the early days up to […]
A peer-reviewed article by Professor of Spanish Timothy Reed was published in The Coastal Review. “Hauntology and Epistemology in Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and Juan Antonio Bayona’s The Orphanage” touches on contemporary Hispanic cinema, historical memory and the fantastic. The abstract reads: “This article analyzes the narrative function of the fantastic in two commercial […]
DIANE MOCKRIDGE Diane Mockridge started at Ripon College in 1982. She has served as assistant, associate and professor of history; chair of Department of History; Visiting Professor in the ACM’s Florence Program twice; coordinator of Ripon College Reading Experience; and coordinator of the First-Year Studies Program. In retirement, she plans to spend time with her […]
Dr. Andrea Young, interim president at Ripon College, has been named the next vice president for finance and administration as well as chief financial officer at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. She will remain in her role at Ripon through the current academic year and will assume her new role at DePauw July 15. Ripon […]
Each year, thanks to the support of generous donors, Ripon College is able to recognize the outstanding achievements of faculty, staff and students at the annual Awards Convocation. The 2022 awards were presented Wednesday, April 20. A full list of honorees is available here. (Photo: Sarah G. Nakis ’23 receives the Dr. Edwin W. Webster, […]
The paper “Social polygyny in the Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis),” by Professor of Biology Memuna Z. Khan, was published in the December 2021 volume of the Wilson Journal of Ornithology. In 2018, Khan observed a rare occurrence of social polygyny, in which a male simultaneously tended nests with two different females at his second and […]
“The Great American Trailer Park Musical,” a riveting musical comedy with a touch of Jerry Springer drama, will be presented April 27-30 by the departments of theatre and music at Ripon College. Performances will begin each evening at 7:30 p.m. in Benstead Theatre, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free, but reservations are […]
Rafael Francisco Salas, professor of art and chair of the Department of Art and Art History, will speak Thursday, April 21, for the spring Identity Series lecture at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (MIAD). The event will start at 6:30 p.m. in the Union. The MIAD Identity Series engages a diverse set of […]
A recital with Adjunct Professor of Music Jessica Jensen, trumpet, and Visiting Instructor of Music Deb MacKenzie, piano, will be presented Saturday, April 23, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 1 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public. Selections will be […]
The Ripon College Jazz Ensemble will present their spring concert Friday, April 22. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public. The 18-member ensemble, which features Ripon College students as well as Ripon faculty and staff and area […]
The late Lester O. Schwartz, professor of art at Ripon College from 1944 to 1977, will be the focus of a presentation by the Ripon Historical Society Thursday, April 21. The event is free and open to the public. It will begin at 7 p.m. at the historical society headquarters, 508 Watson St., but people […]
“Quarantine,” a poem by Kate Sontag, retired visiting assistant professor of English, was published March 16, 2022, by Tupelo Quarterly. Her poem can be read here. “Clearing,” a short piece of prose written by Sontag, also was published by Tupelo Quarterly on its website March 14 and can be found here. Sontag is co-editor of […]
Christopher T. Wood, adjunct instructor of art, has been named the 13th artist-in-residence at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee. Wood, a Milwaukee-based pataphysical illustrator, will work in hotel’s lobby-level Artist Studio for one year beginning April 1. By applying unique processes he has developed, Wood creates drawings consisting of powdered graphite and exquisite shading that […]
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater” will be presented in a faculty-student recital Friday, March 25, at Ripon College. The performance will begin at 5 p.m. in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Admission is free. Assistant Professor of Music Erin K. Bryan will sing the soprano solos and Lydia Wiley Deal ’22 […]
Henrik Schatzinger, professor of politics and government and co-director of the Center for Politics and the People, will speak March 17 for the League of Women Voters of the Ripon Area. The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in the Ripon City Council Chambers. The audience will be limited to 25 and masks are encouraged. […]
Professor Emeritus of Politics and Government Martin Farrell will present a talk at 6 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Manitowoc Public Library. His discussion of the Quad Alliance is part of the library’s Great Decisions lecture series. The Quad Alliance is an informal alliance between the United States, India, Japan and Australia that is committed […]
Assistant Professor of Music Erin Bryan, soprano, and Visiting Instructor of Music Deb MacKenzie, piano, were invited to present a recital as part of the Sam Houston State University Art Song Festival this month. The performance, which was offered virtually, highlights American composer Lauren Spavelko’s Baby Book, a song cycle the composer describes as “truly […]
Mary I. Unger, associate professor of English and coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, will speak Wednesday, Feb. 16, for the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Black History Month programming. Her talk, “Bad Girl Brooks: Refusing Respectable Reading in the Black Chicago Renaissance,” will be held virtually via Zoom from 1-2 p.m. She will discuss […]
Creating the Modern Army: Citizen Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919-1939, a new book by Professor Emeritus of History William J. Woolley, will be published in March by the University Press of Kansas. Woolley taught at Ripon from 1969 to 2001, and the book was inspired by the course American Military Institutions that […]
Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas to the Wisconsin Arts Board, the state agency responsible for the support and development of the arts throughout Wisconsin. Salas’ work has been exhibited in New York City, San Diego, Boston and venues in the Midwest, including Neville Public Museum, Museum of Wisconsin Art, […]