NEW LONDON — Colby-Sawyer College honored Wilmot resident and international poet Ewa Chrusciel with the M. Roy London Endowed Chair at the start of the 2024-25 academic year. The M. Roy London Endowed Chair, named for an educator who spent more than 30 years at the college as a teacher and dean, is held by a faculty member whose work and vocation combine excellence in teaching with an influential and attentive persona on campus in the wider community. 

Chrusciel, who joined the Colby-Sawyer faculty in 2006, holds an MA in English and philology from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and a PhD in English from Illinois State University. She is an award-winning poet who has published books in both Polish and English.