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Mount Holyoke professors have won Guggenheim awards, NASA grants and Carnegie Fellowships.
They receive millions in funding from national foundations, leading to unique research opportunities for students.
They’re intense, passionate, innovative, determined and demanding. Explore their accomplishments here,
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or
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Ximena Abello Hurtado
Honor
Ximena Abello Hurtado
is one of this year's recipients of the Whiting Fellowship. The Whiting Foundation supports writers, editors, educators, librarians, and archivists who preserve our shared cultural heritage. Ximena will spend a summer researching at the Vatican Apostolic Archive; she is currently working on a book manuscript centered on the lives of enslaved Black women writers in Spanish South America.
Arnav Adhikari
Publication
Adhikari, A.
(2025). “The After of the Already Too Late”: Cinema, Time, and Third World Solidarity in Naeem Mohaiemen’s The Young Man Was. Cultural Critique, 127(1), 177–205.
https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2025.a957080
Adhikari, A.
(2024, April 2). "Globalectics (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)." Global South Studies. https://www.globalsouthstudies.org/keyword-essay/globalectics-ngugi-wa-thiongo/
Adhikari, A.
(2023). Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South by Prathama Banerjee. Postcolonial Text, vol. 18, no. 1 & 2.
https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2821/2592
Olivia Aguilar
Publication
Aguilar, O. M.
(2022). The importance of storytelling in reimagining a Latinx Outdoor Experience. Diálogo 25(2).
Aguilar, O.
(2025). A Latine Outdoor Experience: Remembering, Resisting and Reimagining. Texas A&M University Press.
Gibson, L.M., Busch, KC, Stevenson, K.T., Cutts, B.B., DeMattia, E.A.,
Aguilar, O.M.
, Ardoin, N.M., Carrier, S.J., Clark, C.R., Cooper, C.B., Feinstein, N.W., Goodwin, J., Peterson, M.N., Wheaton, M. (2022). What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL.
Environmental Education Research
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2022.2067325
Aguilar, O. M.
(2021). The critical piece missing from a critical food studies curriculum.
Food, Culture & Society, 24(2),
325-335.
Aguilar, O.
(2020, March 26).
Are We Prepared for a Climate Crisis in the Middle of a Pandemic?
Truthout.
Honor
Aguilar, O.
was invited to give the 2026 Rao Annual Lecture on Environmental Racism/Justice at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. She presented her talk, “How Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers made me a climate activist: Exploring the role of the neighborhood and storytelling in climate justice” on March 12th, 2026.
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Home
Academics
Faculty Accomplishments
Faculty Accomplishments
Mount Holyoke professors have won Guggenheim awards, NASA grants and Carnegie Fellowships.
They receive millions in funding from national foundations, leading to unique research opportunities for students.
They’re intense, passionate, innovative, determined and demanding. Explore their accomplishments here,
read recent faculty news articles
or
search the faculty directory
.
Ximena Abello Hurtado
Honor
Ximena Abello Hurtado
is one of this year's recipients of the Whiting Fellowship. The Whiting Foundation supports writers, editors, educators, librarians, and archivists who preserve our shared cultural heritage. Ximena will spend a summer researching at the Vatican Apostolic Archive; she is currently working on a book manuscript centered on the lives of enslaved Black women writers in Spanish South America.
Arnav Adhikari
Publication
Adhikari, A.
(2025). “The After of the Already Too Late”: Cinema, Time, and Third World Solidarity in Naeem Mohaiemen’s The Young Man Was. Cultural Critique, 127(1), 177–205.
https://doi.org/10.1353/cul.2025.a957080
Adhikari, A.
(2024, April 2). "Globalectics (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)." Global South Studies. https://www.globalsouthstudies.org/keyword-essay/globalectics-ngugi-wa-thiongo/
Adhikari, A.
(2023). Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South by Prathama Banerjee. Postcolonial Text, vol. 18, no. 1 & 2.
https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2821/2592
Olivia Aguilar
Publication
Aguilar, O. M.
(2022). The importance of storytelling in reimagining a Latinx Outdoor Experience. Diálogo 25(2).
Aguilar, O.
(2025). A Latine Outdoor Experience: Remembering, Resisting and Reimagining. Texas A&M University Press.
Gibson, L.M., Busch, KC, Stevenson, K.T., Cutts, B.B., DeMattia, E.A.,
Aguilar, O.M.
, Ardoin, N.M., Carrier, S.J., Clark, C.R., Cooper, C.B., Feinstein, N.W., Goodwin, J., Peterson, M.N., Wheaton, M. (2022). What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL.
Environmental Education Research
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2022.2067325
Aguilar, O. M.
(2021). The critical piece missing from a critical food studies curriculum.
Food, Culture & Society, 24(2),
325-335.
Aguilar, O.
(2020, March 26).
Are We Prepared for a Climate Crisis in the Middle of a Pandemic?
Truthout.
Honor
Aguilar, O.
was invited to give the 2026 Rao Annual Lecture on Environmental Racism/Justice at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. She presented her talk, “How Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers made me a climate activist: Exploring the role of the neighborhood and storytelling in climate justice” on March 12th, 2026.
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