Kenyon’s Board of Trustees considered the recommendations of the Tenure and Promotion Committee at their April meeting. These seven members of the College’s faculty have earned appointment without limit and the title of associate professor, effective July 1, 2026.
Hilary Buxton
Assistant Professor of History
Hilary Buxton is a historian of the British Empire, focusing on the history of medicine and the body in the 19th and 20th centuries. Her research centers on histories of colonial intimacy and the production of knowledge. She is the author of ”Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain,” which rewrites the history of military medicine as an imperial story through the experiences of South Asian and West Indian servicemen. She is working on two projects, a history of care bureaucracy at the end of empire and a study of plural medicine and medical jurisprudence in imperial murder trials. Prior to joining Kenyon, she was a Past & Present Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London.
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Doctor of Philosophy in history from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2018)
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Master of Arts in history from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2014)
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Bachelor of Arts in history from Smith College (2011)
Katherine Calvin
Assistant Professor of Art History
Katherine Calvin’s research and teaching areas include early modern European and African art; histories of collecting and the art market; and museum studies. She interrogates how debates about art’s value, both aesthetic and financial, have informed economic speculation, art-related lotteries, and the materiality of art and money. Her research has been published in Eighteenth-Century Studies and Journal18 and supported by fellowships at the Newberry Library, Huntington Library and Art Museum, and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. A member of Kenyon’s faculty since 2020, she is currently finishing her first book, “Old Money and New Media: Antiquarian Speculations, 1400-1800.”
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Doctor of Philosophy in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020)
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Master of Arts in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2015)
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Bachelor of Arts in art history and English literature from Vanderbilt University (2013)
Marci Cottingham
Associate Professor of Sociology
Marci Cottingham’s research and teaching focus on the unequal cultural pressures that shape healthcare and American life today. Her varied research includes studies of sports fandom, the nursing profession, the pharmaceutical industry, and neo-emotions. Her book, “Practical Feelings,“ was published in 2022 with Oxford University Press. She completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, prior to joining Kenyon in 2022, she was an associate professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. She was recently a global faculty fellow at the Freie Universität–Berlin.
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Doctor of Philosophy in sociology from the University of Akron (2013)
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Master of Arts in sociology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2009)
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Bachelor of Arts in theological/historical studies from Oral Roberts University (2006)
Tomás Gallareta Cervera
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latino/a Studies
Tomás Gallareta Cervera is an anthropologist and archaeologist who works mainly in the Maya area. His research focuses on the role of place-making and monumental architecture in the development of royal authority in the ancient Maya culture between 800 B.C. and A.D. 900. His other projects include the “Voices Of The Puuc Angels: Rural Life Among The Archaeological Ruins In The Yucatán Peninsula,” which contributes to the decolonization of contemporary archaeology through oral history. He also is codirector of the Kenyon Archaeological Project, a campus historical archaeology project dedicated to understanding the life of Gambier in the 19th century.
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Doctor of Philosophy in archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016)
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Master of Arts in archaeology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2010)
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Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, México (2006)
Ruth Heindel
Dorothy and Thomas Jegla Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Ruth Heindel is an interdisciplinary biogeochemist and has conducted field research in Greenland, the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, the Colorado Front Range, and locally in central Ohio. Her field-based approach combines methods from ecology, geomorphology and geochemistry to answer questions about the impact of changing climate and land use on sensitive alpine and polar ecosystems. Locally, her research focuses on the atmospheric deposition of nutrients and particulate matter to Ohio ecosystems. She teaches courses on earth systems science, climate change and environmental field methods, and frequently incorporates her local field research into her courses.
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Doctor of Philosophy in earth sciences from Dartmouth College (2017)
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Bachelor of Science in geological sciences from Brown University (2010)
Travis Chi Wing Lau
Assistant Professor of English
Travis Chi Wing Lau’s research and teaching focus on 18th- and 19th-century British literatures and culture, health humanities, and disability studies. His poetry and public writing have appeared in many publications, and he has published three chapbooks — ”The Bone Setter,” “Paring” and “Vagaries” — as well as last year’s full-length collection of poems, “What's Left Is Tender.” He also is co-editor of “Every Place on the Map Is Disabled,” an anthology of disability poetry and poetics published earlier this year. Since joining Kenyon in 2020, he received the LGBTQ+ Faculty/Staff Advocate Award in 2022 and the LGBTQ+ Trailblazer Award in 2025.
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Doctor of Philosophy in English from the University of Pennsylvania (2018)
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Master of Arts in English from the University of Pennsylvania (2013)
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Bachelor of Arts in English with a minor in classical civilization from the University of California, Los Angeles (2012)
Michael Leong
Robert P. Hubbard Assistant Professor of Poetry
Michael Leong is the author of the critical study “Contested Records: The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry“ and several poetry books, including last year’s “Dear Vase Already Shattered Against the Fragile Floor.“ Others include “e.s.p.,“ “Cutting Time with a Knife,“ “Who Unfolded My Origami Brain?“ and “Words on Edge.” Co-editor of the Journal of Modern Literature, his creative work has been anthologized in numerous collections as well. He is currently working on a long poem called “Disorientations“ and a critical book tentatively entitled “Post-Craft: Essays on Pedagogy, Poetics, and Experimental Literature.“
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Doctor of Philosophy in English from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (2013)
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Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College (2003)
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Bachelor of Arts in English from Dartmouth College (2000)