2020-21 new faculty

B.A., Barnard College; M.A., University of Southern California; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Areas of expertise: history of photography; 19th and 20th century visual culture; intersections of art with mass media and journalism; artist networks and collaboration; digital humanities

J.D., Catholic University of America

nkbonaco@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Brown University
Areas of expertise: structure, function, and evolution of plants; Devonian paleobotany; plant reproductive morphology; heterospory

cbotha@hamilton.edu

D.M.A. candidate, University of North Texas; M.Mus., Nelson Mandela University
Areas of expertise: Choral repertoire and conducting; phonetic transcription of Afrikaans choral music; group vocal technique; choregie and interdisciplinary ensemble performance; text-painting in a cappella music; children’s choir composition; equity, diversity and inclusion in the choral literature canon

abrener@hamilton.edu

M.F.A., Hunter College
Areas of expertise: sculpture, drawing and digital media

schaudha@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Areas of expertise: international trade, environmental economics, environmental justice, health economics

sxchaudh@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Kentucky
Areas of expertise: philosophy of technology, ethics of digital technology, philosophy of space

M.F.A., Laguna College of Art and Design
Areas of expertise: classical drawing, printmaking, classical sculpture, and digital sculpture illustration and graphic design

ccoscia@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Dartmouth College
Areas of expertise: combinatorics, probability, graph theory, Markov chain Monte Carlo, political redistricting

kfaig@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Chicago
Areas of expertise: emotion, social stress, psychoneuroimmunology, psychophysiology, neurogenetics

sgriffis@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of expertise: history of early Christianity, New Testament, early Christian martyrdom, ancient Christianity in a Jewish and Greco-Roman context, archaeology, ancient reception of the classics, literary theory and genre studies, theory and method in the study of religion

eharriga@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Areas of expertise: social surrogacy, narrative effects, need to belong

eherland@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Golden Age Spain, theater studies, Baroque literature and culture, and spectral studies

ykarakay@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Areas of expertise: sociological theory, political sociology, global sociology, comparative-historical sociology, cultural sociology, social movements, collective memory, nostalgia, populism, popular culture, qualitative methodology, emotions, Turkey

M.A., M.P.A, Princeton University
Areas of expertise: public affairs, U.S. foreign policy, Chinese-American relations

gkoutnik@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of expertise: environmental political theory, agrarianism, property and economic thought, populism

hkropp@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Arizona State University
Areas of expertise: environmental data science, ecohydrology, ecology, geospatial analysis

mmackenz@hamilton.edu

M.P.A., O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Areas of expertise: American social welfare policy, public program evaluation, state and local public finance

jmancill@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Chicago
Areas of expertise: electrophysiological recordings for the analysis of sensory processing, inhibitory interneurons, general physiology, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy and sensory systems.

aamannin@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Areas of expertise: race and racism, sports, families, youth, reproduction of inequality

amenon@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Columbia University
Areas of expertise: South Asian art; visual culture of Indian Ocean trade; churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples in Kerala; syncretism; religious iconography; artistic agency; digital art history

ahuff@hamilton.edu

M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts
Areas of expertise: hybrid and multimedia performance; sound; technology and interactivity; collaborative media and performance strategies

omorenik@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria
Areas of expertise: genomics, functional genomics, epigenetics, Immunology, bioinformatics, disease/complex trait expression, transcriptional control, population genomics, genome stability, genome evolution, and comparative genomics

spackard@hamilton.edu

psanchez@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Graduate Center, City University of New York
Areas of expertise: psychology and law; media influences on attitudes; interrogations and false confessions; plea bargaining

shschill@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., University of Washington
Areas of expertise: Renaissance, drama, book history and history of early print and rhetoric

tseidule@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Ohio State University
Areas of expertise: military history, Civil War memory, African American military history

yshemesh@hamilton.edu

M.A., University of Chicago Divinity School; M.S., Fordham University Graduate School of Education

tsingh@hamilton.edu

M.A., Teachers College Columbia University

jctaylor@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Harvard University
Areas of expertise: Latin bucolic and epic poetry; classical historiography and geography; natural philosophy in classical antiquity; history of science and geology; environmental criticism and history

fvlossak@hamilton.edu

J.D., George Mason University

rewall@hamilton.edu

Ph.D., Stanford University
Areas of expertise: environmental history, African history, digital humanities, history and anthropology of development, history of technology, French colonialism