Faculty Members Earn Tenure for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service
February 17, 2026
At their February meeting, the Bryn Mawr College Board of Trustees voted to confirm the reappointment with tenure and promotion to associate professor of C.C. McKee, Aline Normoyle, Ariana Orvell, and Chanelle Wilson, effective at the start of the fall 2026 semester.
C.C. McKee
McKee specializes in the art, visual, and material culture of the modern Atlantic World with an emphasis on the French empire and the colonial Caribbean. McKee has published articles on the role of “Afrotropic” affect and aesthetic materials in contemporary Dutch Caribbean art, and the fantasies of enslavement projected onto laboring black women in Camille Pissarro’s post-abolition oeuvre depicting the Danish West Indies. In addition to their scholarship, McKee has developed these perspectives in various pieces of art criticism, with exhibitions from Chicago to Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The curriculum in History of Art immerses students in the study of visual culture. Structured by a set of evolving disciplinary concerns, students learn to interpret the visual through methodologies dedicated to the historical, the material, the critical, and the theoretical.
Normoyle's research on game development, virtual reality, and game AI explores the intersection of computer programming with art and design. She runs the motion capture lab on campus where puppets – made in collaboration with the Makerspace – and performers sport retroreflective markers, allowing Normoyle and students to track gestures down to each individual finger. Data from this lab can be used for anything from drawing new video game characters to anonymizing data.
Computer Science is the science of algorithms- theory, analysis, design, and implementation; as well as the design and implementation of physical computer systems. The program strives to build a strong foundation in computing for students and prepares them for a lifelong learning experience that extends well beyond their time at Bryn Mawr College.
Ariana Orvell's research centers on identifying basic mechanisms that allow people to effectively regulate their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In studying emotion regulation and self-control, she adopts a ‘toolbox’ approach, embracing the idea that the capacity to regulate one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is facilitated by a constellation of strategies people can learn. She then aims to leverage this knowledge to improve self-control and well-being outside the lab. She runs the CARE Lab, which studies linguistic, social, and cognitive routes to emotion regulation, self-control, and connection—broadly defined.
The goals of the psychology department are to provide students with a foundational understanding of the theories and scientific methods that psychologists use to explore questions fundamental to human and animal behavior. At a broad level, the major equips students with the ability to think critically and evaluate evidence, skills that are essential to a diverse range of careers after graduation.
Wilson joined Bryn Mawr's Education Department in 2017 as a Visiting Instructor. She served as Director of Africana Studies from 2020-23 and enjoyed working interdisciplinarily with colleagues across the Bi-Co. Her current scholarship focuses on critical race praxis in education and decolonization of schools and the mind. Wilson has a passion for using research to improve the educational experiences of marginalized groups, promoting equity and critical race-focused conversations: her life's goal is to rethink, reimagine, and revolutionize education to meet the needs of all children.
The Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Studies Department centers on teaching and learning as fundamental to human life and growth, and fundamentally connected to struggles for understanding, liberation, and justice. The department challenges students to explore the relationships among schooling and other contexts of learning, human development, and social change as they gain knowledge and skills of educational theory and practice.
