Faculty News

Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of Economics and economics department chair, published “Gender and Professional Networks on Bank Boards” in the Journal of Financial Services Research on May 23.

Amy Gaffney, Director of the Oral Communication Center, co-authored a chapter in a volume focused on integrating communication across the curriculum.

Invited by the US-based Chinese-language new media outlet WHYNOT, Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang recently wrote a review of the new TV series "Beef," which was co-produced by Netflix and A24.

Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin has been awarded a $192,757 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the causes and consequences of global police militarization-- the process by which police forces come to adopt the weaponry, organizational practices, and accountability structures more typical of military forces.

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang appears as a scholar interviewee multiple times in a newly released three-part documentary series produced by the French-German channel, ARTE.

Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo recognized 10 faculty members with Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards in three categories — career achievement, early career achievement, and notable year — at the May 2 faculty meeting. These awards recognize individual accomplishment and reflect a richness and depth of scholarship and creative activity across the faculty.

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching excellence were presented to three faculty members by Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo during the May 2 faculty meeting. Munemo said 50 nominations from students were received for the awards.

Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently presented “Heroines and Heroes from Greek Mythology to New World Colonization” at the Fort Schuyler Club in Utica.

“Lone Star: Ambiguity as a Philosophical Given and a Philosophical Virtue,” by Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran, was published as a chapter in Philosophy of Film Without Theory, from Palgrave Macmillan.

An article co-authored by Robert Kantrowitz ’82, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Mathematics, appears in the April 2023 issue of the international research journal Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo.