Dear College Faculty and Staff,

I would like to begin by acknowledging our colleague Laura Callahan in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures who was mistakenly left off last week’s list of retiring faculty. On behalf of the College, I wish to extend my thanks for her myriad contributions to SCU.

On Sept. 1, we will welcome 22 new faculty members into 14 different departments across the College of Arts and Sciences. Their photos and bios are all in this issue of College Notes. Significantly, this cohort includes the successful completion of a faculty cluster hire in LGBTQ+ Studies that will expand our scholarly and creative impact in this field. Students, staff, and faculty are seeking more research and creative collaborations, academic courses, and community-engaged learning partnerships in the‬ field of LGBTQ+/Queer Studies. President Sullivan has already made a significant public commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion through the formation of the SCU LGBTQ+ Equity, Justice and Belonging Working Group. This faculty cluster hire helps us to realize the call in the AJCU’s 2021 publication,‬ Characteristics of Jesuit Higher Education, that, “Jesuit universities are compelled to‬‭ address historical‬‭ exclusion‬‭ based on race, gender,‬ sexual orientation, disability, or other identities—and‬‭ the faculty have an irreplaceable role‬ in assuring that academic life reflects this commitment.‬‭” We welcome the five new members of this cluster hire in the departments of English, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Public Health, and Theatre and Dance.

Four new faculty members from the departments of Communication, Environmental Studies and Sciences, Modern Languages and Literatures, and Political Science will join the existing cluster hire in Social Justice and Inequality.

We look forward to welcoming all of our new colleagues as they transition to Santa Clara next fall.

Here is a poem by the Greek poet, C. P. Cavafy; I thought it was apt for many reasons!

Sincerely,

Daniel

As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you’re seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind—
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you’re destined for.
But don’t hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you’re old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.

And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

New Associate Professor

Paul Gilbert
Public Health

Substance use disorders and the multiple pathways to recovery; sexual and gender minority health; mixed-methods study designs; participatory research methods; the social determinants of health

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