The Bates College Faculty Recognition Program
The Bates College Faculty Recognition Program is a college-sponsored program that recognizes faculty at three points during their career; promotion, tenure, and retirement. The Bates College Faculty Recognition Program encourages them to either add to or identify a book in the College Library collection. The Bates College Faculty Recognition Program is a recognition of the time and experiences our faculty colleagues have committed leading to their promotion, tenure, and retirement from Bates College. The Bates College Faculty Recognition Program started in the fall of 2025.
A commemorative bookplate will be added to the library’s physical books, and a digital bookplate will be added to electronic books. The bookplate will list the employee or retiree’s name, their department(s)/program(s), and their rank at the time of dedication.
Questions about the program? Contact deanoffaculty@bates.edu
2026
- David Cummmiskey, Professor of Philosophy. Book Selection: John Stuart Mill. On Liberty, Utilitarianism, and Other Essays. (Oxford World’s Classics, 2015)
- Jakub Kazecki, Professor of German and European Studies. Book Selection: Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel
- Seulgie Lim, Associate Professor of Politics. Book Selection: Feminism in Africa: Gender, Knowledge and Resistance by Fatou Sow (translated by Matthew B. Smith)
- Zhenzhen Lu, Associate Professor of Chinese. Book Selection: Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis
- Sarah Lynch, Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History. Book Selection: Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
- Mary Rice-DeFosse, Professor of French and Francophone Studies. Book Selection: Christopher L. Miller, The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade
- Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Associate Professor of Classical and Medieval Studies and History. Book Selection: Whose Middle Ages? Teachable Moments for an Ill-used Past
2025
- Jess Anthony, Senior Lecturer in English. Book selection: RUMORED ISLANDS, by Bates Senior Lecturer Emeritus Robert Farnsworth
- Lauren Ashwell, Professor of Philosophy. Book selection: A Critical Approach to Ficationalism, by Frederick Kroon, Jonathan McKeown-Green, and Stuart Brock
- Laura Balladur, Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies. Book selection: Birthing Bodies in Early Modern France: Stories of Gender and Reproduction, by Kirk Read.
- Carrie Diaz-Eaton, Professor of Digital & Computational Studies. Book selection: Toward What Justice? Describing Diverse Dreams of Justice in Education, edited by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
- Ian-Khara Ellasante, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies. Book selection: Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 40th anniversary edition, edited by Barbara Smith
- Myronn Hardy, Associate Professor of English. Book selection: The Collected Poems of Robert Hayden
- Mara Tiekan, Professor of Education. Book selection: Belonging: A Culture of Place, by bell hooks.
- Larissa Williams, Professor of Biology. Book selection: Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons, 9th Edition, by Curtis Klaassen.
Faculty members who were promoted or tenured in the previous year will be recognized at the Faculty Recognition celebration in the fall semester. This event is open to the Bates College community, additional information will be available in BatesNow.
Book selection Guidelines
- Newly promoted and tenured faculty will receive an email following the approval of their tenure by the Board of Trustees regarding the book selection process.
- Retirees will receive an email in early Autumn of their sabbatical year with details regarding the book selection process.
- Newly promoted or tenured faculty and retirees can select a book of personal or professional significance. It can be their publication, a book that inspired them, a work in their field, or any other publication of note.
- Books should cost no more than $200.
- If the selected book is already available within the library as either physical or electronic, a book plate will be added.
- If the selected book is not already available within the library, either a physical or electronic copy will be acquired.
- The same book can be selected by more than one faculty member. Not all book selections must be academic; faculty are encouraged to find books with meaning to them.
- Previous book selections will be found on this site. Fall 2025 is the inaugural group of book selectors.
- Participation in this program is completely voluntary.
- Ladd Library regularly undertakes deaccessioning projects to ensure the collection remains relevant to the research and curricular needs of the institution. Selection of a book will not ensure it will remain in the Bates catalog.