Faculty News

Sharon Werning Rivera, the Sidney Wertimer Professor for Excellence in Advising and Mentoring, Associate Professor of Government David W. Rivera, and Alex Nemeth ’22 recently published “Russia’s Descent into Authoritarianism: Are the Siloviki to Blame?” in Slavic Review, the flagship journal of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Crow research from Associate Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend was featured on a recent episode of the podcast "OK, But... Birds."

New research by Assistant Professor of Literature & Creative Writing Tara M. Holman has been published by Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory.

Thomas Wilson, professor of history and Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies, gave an invited talk on his new book, Confucian Gods: An Archaeology of Devotional Practice (Oxford University Press, 2026), at the East Asia Center of the University of Virginia.

Assistant Professor of Russian Jason Cieply’s forthcoming book, Voicing Soviet Enthusiasm: Revolutionary Feeling and the Politics of Interclass Imitation, has been selected to receive a subvention through the Fall 2026 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies First Book Subvention Program.

A book review by Nhora Serrano, director of academic technology, teaching, and research services, is included in the American Civil Liberties Union’s 2026 Back-to-School Bookshelf, a national reading list highlighting books that engage with civil liberties, civil rights, and the work of building a more perfect union.

Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies Amy Marvin recently co-curated a night of trans short films in Buffalo featuring a Q&A with filmmaker Nyala Moon.

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.