Faculty News

Assistant Professor of Theatre Emily K. Harrison was recently awarded two shared 2025 Westword Best of Denver™ Awards in the Arts and Entertainment Category for her contributions to the World Premiere of Eyes Up, Mouth Agape, produced by Buntport Theater Company (Denver).

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. March’s news topics included varied subjects from gambling during March Madness to a possible third term for President Donald Trump.

Erin Giffin's publication, Early Modern Replicas of the Holy House of Loreto: Translating Space (Routledge, 2025), is the first comprehensive, cross-cultural study of three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, constructed over the 16th through 19th centuries.

Assistant Professor of Biology Peter Guiden was recently named an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal Ecological Solutions and Evidence.

Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill recently published "AfroItalian (Be)longings and Innocent Betrayals," an article she was invited to write for Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context, edited by Meena Dhanda.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Classics Ian N. Mills published an article titled “Marcion as Textual Critic? Heresiological Rhetoric and the Conventions of Roman Scholarship” in the Journal of Early Christian Studies (JECS).

Associate Professor of Philosophy Alexandra Plakias was recently selected to be a Marc Sanders Foundation (MSF) 2025 Media Fellow.

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Jack Martínez Arias oversaw the critical edition of Junín (1930), a poetry collection by Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián. This edition brings back a long-overlooked work that explores the effects of large-scale mining on Indigenous Andean lands.

Assistant professors Viva Horowitz (physics) and Wei Zhan (economics) were approved for tenure at the March meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Associate Professor of Literature Stephanie Bahr recently presented a paper in Boston at the joint session of the Shakespeare Association of America (SAA) and the Renaissance Society of America (RSA).