Faculty News

That we sometimes want friends who are mean is not only the topic of a journal article co-authored by a Hamilton College professor, it’s now award-winning research on a global stage.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Jack Martínez-Arias recently published an article titled “Indigenous Bodies: Sacred Craft and Forbidden Desire in Retablo (2017)” in the peer-reviewed journal South Atlantic Review.

Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History and author of Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering, is featured prominently in Pete Takeda’s Alpinist article “Stepping into the Syllabus: A Veteran Alpinist Sees the Himalaya Through the Eyes of College Students” (Issue 94, Summer 2026), about Isserman’s course History and Literature of Himalayan Mountaineering, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ryan Martinie published a study on the biosynthesis of the antibiotic pantocin A in the journal ACS Chemical Biology. The study was coauthored by alumni Blake Levy '23, Nyaari Kothiya '23, Ben Jakubczak '23, Natalie Beebe '24, Anastasia Passalaris '24, Taylor Bartels '25, Isis Riviere '25, and students Anika Amann '27, Akmaral Tezekbaeva '27, Rachel Alpert '27, Tara Houser '27, and Alice Lee '28.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, chaired a panel at the annual conference of the European International Studies Association in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sept. 4.

Assistant Professor of Government Catherine Chen is elected to the governing council of the Organized Section on Public Policy at the American Political Science Association (APSA) at the 2026 APSA annual conference in Boston on Sept. 4.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Spencer Chen and Senior Fellow Carter Higgins ‘27 presented their co-authored paper titled “#grindrtale: Modulated Sociality, Narrated Intimacies, and Mediated Desires on Grindr” at Lavender Languages and Linguistics 32: Queer (dis)belonging at the University of Edinburgh in Edinburgh, U.K., on Sept. 3.

Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, published her most recent column with 3 Quarks Daily about reading.

A co-written essay by Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus and Ashley Scheichet ’25, "A Contemporary Connections Option for Early Modern Syllabus Diversification," was recently published in Teaching Philosophy, the premiere journal for the scholarship of teaching and learning in philosophy.