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Assistant Professors of Dance Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists in residence at the internationally-renowned Bates Dance Festival to develop their collaborative dance project, "Concourse." The work will premiere at Íøºì±¬ÁÏ September 16 and 17, 2022.


Barbie Diewald was named a Faculty Research Fellow by the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Archives for her project "Consoling Clarity: Queer and Lesbian Aesthetics in Twenty-First Century Dance."


Barbie Diewald and Shakia Barron were artists-in-residence at the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. At the culmination of their residency, they shared an excerpt of their shared research, "Concourse" at the annual Jacob's Pillow College Partners Convening. Their next choreographic residency will be at High Street Studios in Ipswich, MA in December 2021.


Kansanga, M., & Dinko, D. H. (2025). Visualizing the Gendering of Agricultural Mechanization in the Global South: A Review of the Underlying Drivers. Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture, 39-50.


Dinko, D. H., Kansanga, M., Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., & Luginaah, I. (2024). Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood. Land Use Policy, 136, 106962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106962


Dinko, D. H., & Bahati, I. (2023). A Review of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Security and Livelihoods in Semiarid Africa: Cases From Kenya, Malawi, and Ghana. Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice, 1, 107–118. https://doi.org/10.1162/crcj_a_00002


Dinko Hanaan Dinko & Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong (2023): Uneven Geographies of the Embodied Effects of Water Insecurity Among Women Irrigators in Northern Ghana, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2231528


Received a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Collaborative Research: Redox Ratios in Amphiboles as Proxies for Volatile Budgets in Igneous Systems. The project is for three years.


Ytsma, C., and Dyar, M.D. (2022) Calculations of limits of blank, limits of detection, and limits of quantification for multivariate analyses of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) in geological materials. Spectrochimica Acta Part B, 191, 106395.


Steven, C.J., Dyar, MD., McCanta, M.C., Newville, M., and Lanzirotti, A. (2022) The absorption indicatrix as an empirical model to describe anisotropy in x-ray absorption spectra of pyroxenes. American Mineralogist, 107, 654-663. Doi: 10.2138/am-2021-7950.