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Activity

Lary Opitz, professor and chair, Department of Theater, is the new artistic director of Saratoga Shakespeare Company, replacing William Finlay, who has stepped down after 12 years. Opitz, a founding member of the company, is known to audiences far and wide for his performances in company productions, most recently as Shylock in 2001鈥檚 The Merchant of Venice. Saratoga Shakespeare Company will stage The Merry Wives of Windsor July 16 to 28 in Congress Park.

Publication

Sonia Silva, assistant professor of anthropology, is the author of 鈥淩eification and Fetishism: Processes of Transformation,鈥� in Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 30, No. 1.

In the News

Robert Boyers, professor of English and director, New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore, was a source for an article about Jamaica Kincaid鈥檚 new book, published Feb. 4 in The New York Times. Kincaid has often been a visiting faculty member at the writers institute.

Beth Post-Lundquist, director of financial aid, was a source for published Feb. 4 in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Mary Zeiss Stange, professor of women鈥檚 studies and religion, was a source for published Feb. 12 in the Glens Falls Post-Star, a story about local reaction to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVII; published Feb. 11 in The New York Times; and published Feb. 11 in The Atlanta Journal Constitution.