Feed Your Mind
A Nourishing Lunch & Learn Series
Highlighting and celebrating the diverse research, creative work, and scholarly initiatives across our faculty community.
Looking to showcase your book, research, or performance to an attentive audience of colleagues—or test out a talk ahead of an upcoming presentation? Sign up for the new Feed Your Mind series!
Feed Your Mind is an initiative designed to celebrate, share, and spotlight the outstanding and diverse pedagogical and creative work being done by Bates scholars.
Sessions are held over the lunch hour (12-1pm), usually in Commons, with a 10-12 minute presentation followed by audience q&a, encouraging discussion and engagement. Our most recent FYM had nearly 60 attendees who were intrigued and curious with what the faculty presented!
Why participate?
- Share your expertise with colleagues across disciplines
- Build connections and spark potential collaborations
- Contribute to a vibrant culture of scholarship on campus
If you are interested in presenting or have questions about the series, please fill out this quick survey OR contact Alison Keegan (akeegan@bates.edu) in the Office of Research and Sponsored Program (ORSP).
We hope you will consider being part of this exciting initiative and helping to strengthen our scholarly community!
The 26-27 FYM season is well underway! The following scholars have presented in Fall of 2026.
Dylan Freas, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry: “Using Organic Chemistry to Create Better Biomaterials”
Joseph Hall, Associate Professor of History: “Remembering Uncomfortable Histories: A Sketch of Bates-Wabanaki Relations”
Shonna Humphrey, Senior Director of Sponsored Programs & Research Compliance and Visiting Lecturer: “Soundtrack to Service: The Hidden History of the U.S. Military Band”
Kirk Read, Professor of French and Francophone Studies: “Teaching (Un)popular Culture: Tintin, the Congo, and the Afterlives of Empire”
Stephanie Pridgeon, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies: “Aging, Narrative Ethics, and Sexual Politics in Contemporary Argentine Fiction”
In AY 25-26, 5 Feed Your Mind lunches were held featuring 7 Bates scholars, drawing a crowd of approximately 212 faculty and staff colleagues. Presentations were given by the following:
Amy Bradfield Douglass, Whitehouse Professor of Psychology: “Nonverbal Cues for Eyewitness Identification Accuracy”
Carrie Cushman, Director, Museum of Art: “Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art”
Francesco Duina, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology: “The Social Acceptance of Inequality: On the Logics of a More Unequal World”
Marina Filipovic, Visiting Lecturer in Russian: “Neo-Noir after Yugoslavia: The Fourth Man and A Balkan Noir”
Amy Huang, Assistant Professor of Theater: “Spending Time with Afong Moy: Asian American Performance, Histories and Firstness”
Curtis Morrill, Assistant Professor of Economics: “Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Plea Bargaining Outcomes”
Larissa Williams, Professor of Biology: “PFAS: The Chemical That Never Says Goodbye”