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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. October’s news highlights ranged from coverage of the role of luck in career success to the interrelationship between art and science.
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“Why I Just Quit DSA,” an essay written by Professor of History Maurice Isserman, appeared in The Nation on Oct. 23.
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Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley presented “The Trouble with Simples: A Professor’s Unfinished Pharmacopeia in Enlightenment Venice” in a recent lecture at New York University.
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Shoshana Keller, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Russian and Eurasian History, hosted a conference of the Upstate New York historians of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia on Oct. 14.
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Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, recently presented an invited lecture on “Housing for an Industrial Working Class: Ahmedabad, 1920-1950” at Emory University.
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The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance, by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley, was recently named to the shortlist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize.
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Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France, by Associate Professor of History Celeste Day Moore, was recently awarded the 2023 Woody Guthrie First Book Award by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
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Professor of History John Eldevik has been awarded a €12,000 research grant by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, a private German organization based in Düsseldorf focused on supporting research in the humanities.
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Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, was a featured speaker in conversation with artist Shelly Jyoti, at "Mosaic of Indigo: Exploring Indigo Through Textile Art," at the South Asia Institute, Chicago, on Aug. 12.
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The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 2022) by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley has been awarded honorable mention for the Morris D. Forkosch Prize. The award, established by the Journal of the History of Ideas, recognizes the best book in intellectual history each year.
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