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Lisa McFall, associate director, metadata and digital initiatives in LITS, published a chapter in Quick Hits for Teaching with Digital Humanities: Successful Strategies from Award-Winning Teachers, recently released by Indiana University Press.
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A self-translated and revised version of Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang’s scholarly article, titled “Transforming the Liminal Hero: Border-Crossing Interconnections in The Taking of Tiger Mountain and Its Textual Pedigree,” recently appeared in Cinema and TV Culture (Yingshi Wenhua, no. 22: 126-138, June 2020), a journal of Chinese National Academy of Arts.
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Associate Professor of Art History Susan Jarosi was recently selected to serve on a committee assembled by the American Association of University Professors to look into academic governance issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oliva Rissland, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Colorado, read a scientific paper every day for 899 days. At the end of that stretch, she picked her favorite: “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers,” written in 1989 by Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hamilton.
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Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing Emerita Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz recently published an article on Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in the two-volume Brill’s Companion to Euripides (2020).
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Hamilton is one of six institutions — the only undergraduate college — to share a $2.7 million National Science Foundation grant to investigate big questions about climate, tectonics, and the evolution of life at a rich location in Kenya.
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Assistant Professor of Government Erica De Bruin recently participated in a roundtable discussion titled “Everything Looks Like a War: State Security Forces and Citizen Security.”
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Crafting Criminal Justice Reform in Response to Black Lives Matter, an experiential learning practicum in the government department, is a timely offering in this evolving environment.
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The Physics Department is taking learning out of the lab and into the field. Physics 100/200 and Physics 190 classes have been experimenting with launching pressure rockets behind the campus athletic fields. Faculty members Kristen Burson, Viva Horowitz, and Seth Major, and Director of Laboratories/Head Technician Adam Lark are making the most of this outdoor lab to teach the concepts of pressure and distance.
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