Arts and Sciences News & Events
See news and events in Merrimack College’s School of Arts and Sciences.
News
Jenna Peccia M’25, who has played lacrosse since she was 7 years old, just completed her first year as a graduate coach for the women’s lacrosse team.
The student-run television station produced its first-ever live pregame show before a men's basketball game in February.
Addison Molloy ’25 heads the Merrimack College chapter of the online magazine created for and by college-aged women.
Dorie Mansen has spent her academic career exploring the historical aspects of religion and organizing community service and engagement programs.
Andrew Daume ’26 leads two of the five student organizations he’s a part of in addition to pursuing a bachelor’s degree in communications.
Notable & Quotable
Associate Professor Allison Seitchik was featured on the New American Colleges & Universities (NACU) podcast, exploring the topic of navigating AI in the classroom. Dr. Seitchik shares insights from her research on the ethical and effective integration of AI in education. Listen to the Episode
Dr. Daniel Herda, associate professor of sociology, has published an article titled "Population Innumeracy and Anti-Immigrant Violence: The Case of South Africa" in International Migration Review. Dr. Herda presented his research at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) conference in Prague in September.
"Digital Blockade or Corporate Boycott?: A New Tactic of War" is an article published by Dr. Alison Russell associate professor and chair of the department of political science and public policy. It examines the information warfare component of Russia's war in Ukraine to develop a better understanding of blockade operations in cyberspace and digital corporate boycotts.
Dr. George Heffernan, professor and chair of philosophy, recently published a chapter titled "Stein’s Critique of Heidegger on Temporality, Eternity, and Transcendence—with Special Attention to Conrad-Martius’s Contribution". This volume is dedicated to the lives and legacies of Edith Stein (1891–1942) and Hedwig Conrad-Martius (1888–1966), two key figures in the early phenomenological movement.
"The Need for Seed: News Framing of the Pandemic Gardening Boom" is an article published by Dr. Lisa Perks, professor of communication and media and coordinator of the Merrimack College Garden. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the U.S. and other countries saw a dramatic increase in the number of people starting pandemic gardens.
Presidential Rhetoric and Indian Policy is a book recently published by Dr. Anne Flaherty, associate professor of political science public policy and interim associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts.
The Business of Emotions in Modern History is a peer-reviewed book that features a range of essays that explore the intersection of business and emotions throughout history, which includes an original work authored by Dr. Debra Michals, assistant professor and director of women's and gender studies.
Dr. Melissa Zimdars, associate professor in the Department of Communication and media studies, recently published Medicalized Reality Weight-Loss Television and the Negotiation of Neoliberalism on My 600 Pound Life. Within the article, Zimdars considers how one of these shows, My 600 Pound Life (2012), negotiates and de-centers discourses of neoliberalism through medicalization and spectacle.
The Imagined Immigration and the Criminal Immigrants: Expanding the Catalog of Immigrant-Related Ignorance is an article published by Dr. Daniel Herda and co-authored by Merrimack alum Amshula Divadkar ’17. In the article, Herda and Divadkar use original data from a sample of college students to examine the crime perception alongside nine established components of imagined immigration, comparing their extent and consequences for a hypothetical anti-immigrant policy.
Dr. Kevin McGravey, associate professor in the Department of political science and public policy, has published an article in the Ethics, Policy & Environment journal titled Between Neutrality and Action: State Speech and Climate Change.
