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Daniel Czitrom appears as a featured commentator in the documentary film , premiering on PBS/American Masters, Tuesday, October 20, 2020.


Darling, N. (2021) A Performative Regionalist View on Site. In Andrea Kahn and Carol Burns, editors, Site Matters - Strategies for Uncertainty Through Planning and Design, 2nd ed., (pp. 269). New York, NY: Routledge.


Naomi Darling Architecture was awarded two AIA awards in December from the Western Mass AIA Chapter.    Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library was awarded a Merit Award. This was a conversion of a ground floor walk-out basement and garage into a one bedroom loft-style apartment and library in Milford CT.   Solar Time was awarded a Citation Award. The project was a collaboration with Darrell Petit, and was part of the XTCA - Cross Town Contemporary Art Exhibition organized by the UMass University Museum of Contemporary Art.

Naomi Darling Architecture LLC received an AIA (American Institute of Architects) New England Merit Award for Design Excellence for Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library Project in Milford CT. The Takahashi-Harb Loft and Library is an interior renovation and conversion of an existing ground floor walk-out basement and two-car garage into one-bedroom loft-style mother-in-law apartment and separate library workspace. The project enables three generations to live together, and apart, enabling the many social and economic benefits of an intergenerational household.  


Margaret Robinson PI with Co-PIs Giuliana Davidoff, Dylan Shepardson and Jessica Sidman (Mathematics) received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for 鈥淐ollaborative Proposal: Hudson River Undergraduate Mathematics Conference 2020-2022鈥 鈥 with Keene and Siena Colleges. The project is for three years.

National Science Foundation


Day, I. (2024) One Week Residency and Conference: 鈥淐risis and Urgency: Scholarship in a Shifting World,鈥 Japan Association for American Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.


Day I. (2021) Invited Fellow at the Asian American Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The Fellowship is for six months.


Day, I. (2021) William H. Morton Distinguished Senior Fellow, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College. Institute focus: Transnational and Decolonial Humanities: U.S. Ethnic Studies and Its Global Other


Day, I. (2024) 鈥淗aunted by Answers.鈥 Guest Column in Daily Hampshire Gazette, online and print, Jan 9, 2024. Retrieved from: https://www.gazettenet.com/Guest-columnist-Day-53579030


Day, I. (2024). 鈥淐risis Infrastructures.鈥 Forum essay on Laleh Khalili鈥檚 Sinews of War and Trade. Critical Ethnic Studies 8.2