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Presented her research on Teaching Italian in Higher Education: Assessment, Planning & Retention at the ACTFL Convention–American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Washington, DC, November 22-24, 2019.

Sabra Thorner hosted "Ancestral Memories: Artists in Conversation" at the ������Ƶapp Art Museum on April 7, 2022.  This event featured five Indigenous Australian artists-in-residence as part of Spring 2022 Decolonizing Museums course (Anthropology 316).

Ombretta Frau and Sabra Thorner led a gallery talk in the Mount Holyoke Art Museum on “The Afterlives of Objects” on November 7, 2019.

Served as the stage director for the World Premiere of Mystery of the Missing Music: A Musicological Whodunit with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, which performed on April 8 and 10, 2021.

Directed and starred as Derryberry in the Trembling Stage production of “The Day the Bird Flu Came - A Radio Play” by Jonathan Yukich. The recording is available at  through December 20, 2020.

Was a William S. Willis Jr. Fellow of the in March 2023.

President of The National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) 2014-2016. She was the first Division III coach to hold the title.

André White was recently interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) for an episode of their science podcast, Short Wave. The episode, Our More-Than-Five Senses, can be found here:  or wherever you get your podcasts.

Marianna Dixon Williams (GA), Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya (NY), Irene Fenara (Italy) Presents New Worlds: Technologies Panel on March 13, 2024 from 12 to 1 pm ET. Register:

Williams, D. 2023. Visiting Artist Lecture at UMass Amherst on October 12, 2023.