Faculty News

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Aaron Strong co-authored a United Nations report on ocean acidification.

In an email to the Hamilton community on June 16, Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo announced the death of Professor of Art Rand Carter on June 12.

“The Jewish Museum of New York in a Global Context,” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Michael Feinberg, was recently published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Religion.

Associate Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley is one of nine winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize. Winners are awarded $300,000 each to recognize their contribution to the study of the human past and to support their future endeavors, making it the largest history prize in the world.

Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus recently published an essay, "Free Speech and the Philosophy Classroom: The Wrong Question," on the APA blog. In the essay, he argues that free speech rights are inadequate to the task of improving conversations across disagreement in our classrooms and helping students to learn and grow.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Jessica Burke and several Hispanic Studies students recently presented on “Language Study as a Gateway to the Humanities.”

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. May’s news topics included coverage of global politics, international student issues, and faculty evaluations, among others.

Assistant Professor of Art History Nadya Bair is one of 15 scholars awarded a 2025-2026 fellowship by the Frankel Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Michigan.

Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Kenneth Leonardo was recently accepted into the visiting “Scholars from Overseas” program at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan.

The Loyalty Trap by Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas “explores how civil servants navigated competing pressures and duties amid the chaos of the Trump administration, drawing on in-depth interviews with senior officials in the most contested agencies over the course of a tumultuous first term,” according to the Columbia University Press.