Faculty News

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.

In the days following the passing of country music legend Dolly Parton on Aug. 25, media outlets reached out to the Hamilton College John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Arts in Music, Lydia Hamessley, for her expertise as an author of two books about the singer and her songs.

Hamilton welcomes 40 new faculty members for the 2026-27 academic year, including six tenure-track professors in Economics, French and Francophone Studies, Government, German/Russian/Italian/Arabic, History, and Mathematics and Statistics.

Heidi M. Ravven, professor and director of Jewish Studies, gave an invited presentation on "Spinoza and Freud on Moral Responsibility and Law," at the Center for Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychiatry, Norton College of Medicine, SUNY Upstate Medical University, on Aug. 18.

An article co-authored by Associate Professor of Mathematics Jose Ceniceros and Angel Apollos '26 appears in the Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications. The paper is titled "Pointed Racks and Their Applications to Braid Theory." After graduating, Apollos began a Ph.D. program in mathematics at Louisiana State University (LSU).

Professor of French and Francophone Studies Martine Guyot-Bender will spend this fall in Cambodia studying the country’s emerging art-house cinema and teaching screenwriting at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, after having been selected for the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. Her research will explore how a new generation of Cambodian filmmakers represents a society still navigating the legacy of the Khmer Rouge while moving toward modernization.