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Lijek's research was the subject of an editorial in The Scientist by James L. Sherley, Exorcising Ghostwriting from Peer Review. In an invited response, Lijek published the essay Postdocs as Competent Peer Reviewers also in The Scientist. Her editorial summarizes for a lay audience the policy recommendations that she details in her recent academic manuscript, Practical changes to reduce ghostwriting in peer review.


Interviewed for articles in The Scientist, Inside Higher Ed, Science, Nature, and Physics Today about her recent publication on making the peer review of manuscripts more equitable for early career researchers.


Jacquelyne Luce and colleagues Kristin Bright at Middlebury College and Sarah Willen at the University of Connecticut have been awarded a $5,000 seed grant from the New England Humanities Consortium for their project, "Feminist Health Futures: Enacting Collaborative Pedagogies in Health Humanities." The grant will support a series of online dialogues about emerging models of collaborative undergraduate research and public scholarship in the health humanities and a workshop at Middlebury College in the late spring of 2023.


Maciuba, A. (2024) Confluence, Solo Exhibition. September 5—October 16, 2024, Oresman Gallery, Smith College, Brown Fine Arts Center.


Maciuba, A. (2023) Tributary, Solo Exhibition at the Lawrence Arts Center


, an exhibition by Amanda Maciuba, Jessica Tam & Jen Morris will be open at A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery in Northampton, MA. November 10 – December 4, 2021. Reception: Fri, Nov. 12, 5-8PM and Zoom Panel Discussion: Thurs, Nov. 18, 7:30PM with the artists and moderator Amy Brady.


Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for the project 'Contested Places: Cartography, Conflict, and the Visual Arts in Early Modern Europe.' The project is for one year. (2020)


Maier, J. (2022). Print Culture, Cartography, and Breaking News: Mapping the Great Siege of Malta. Renaissance Quarterly, 75 (2), 459-507.


Maier, J. (2020). The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps. University of Chicago Press.  


Markley, M., 2020. . Nature Geoscience, 13(6). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0588-z