Anassa Kata

Mawrters Making Their Mark

ALANI HICKS-BARTLETT ’05, M.A. ’06

Alani Hicks-Bartlett ’05, M.A. ’06 was awarded the Dibner Research Fellowship in the History of Science & Technology at the Huntington Library in support of her book on literary discussions of Premodern Disability: Writing the Disabled Self in Premodern Literature: Petrarch, Montaigne, Cervantes. Hicks-Bartlett is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, French and Francophone Studies, Hispanic Studies, and Affiliated Faculty of Italian Studies at Brown University. Her research focuses on disability, histories of science and medicine, gender, race, and authorship in the premodern period, along with their various intersections.

Linda Hill ’77

Linda Hill ’77 was appointed to the Kresge Foundation Board of Trustees in August, joining the Board in overseeing the foundation’s financial management, operations, grantmaking, and social investing. In addition to serving on several other boards, Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and faculty chair of its Leadership Initiative. An internationally recognized authority and academic on the topics of leadership and innovation, Hill focuses her research and consulting on leadership development, leading change and innovation, and implementing global strategies.

Leah Kahler ’16

Leah Kahler ’16 has been appointed the 2024-2025 McHarg Fellow in the department of landscape architecture at Penn's Stuart Weitzman School of Design. As a landscape designer and justice-oriented researcher exploring the socioecological legacies of the plantation landscape, she joins the center with a critical focus on the nursery trade and the complex horticultural histories of the landscape architecture profession. She previously worked at Reed Hilderbrand’s practice in Boston and taught landscape architectural representation at Boston Architectural College.