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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)

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


On June 6-11, 2025, Ombretta Frau gave a presentation at a Round Table on "Italian Studies at a Crossroads: Overviewing Theory, Challenges, and Resistance," Canadian Association for Italian Studies conference, University of Bologna.


Frau, O. (2025) “La verità punge: so che non mi mancheranno nemici. Alvise Piero Zorzi’s Venice,” Canadian Association for Italian Studies conference, University of Bologna, 6-11 June, 2025


Frau, O. (2025) “Giorgia Meloni’s Contradictory Feminist Rhetoric” ALAC Symposium on the far right, Amherst College, 9 May 2025


Frau, O. (2025) “A Wonder Woman,” Wonder Women Festival, Domus Artist Residency, Galatina (Italy), 23-26 July 2025 


Frau, O. (2025). Grazia Deledda’s Landscape Writings: Ignacio Zuloaga’s Pictorial Suggestions in L’uomo nuovo and Lasciare o prendere? in A. Guiso, & V. Picchietti (eds.), Grazia Deledda’s Painterly Aesthetic (pp. 51-73).  Rowman and Littlefield.