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As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, one Hamilton College student is getting intimately acquainted with our nation’s deep and storied history. Lily Watts ’26 spent her summer on the National Mall working as a curatorial exhibition development intern at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. By sifting through troves of ancient documents and designing object display layouts, Watts reanimated the past two-and-a-half centuries of American life in preparation for 2026’s celebration.

Associate Professor of Art History Susan Jarosi and Associate Professor of Biology Rhea Datta are among the co-authors of an article published recently in the journal Natural Sciences Education.

In an email to the Hamilton community on June 16, Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo announced the death of Professor of Art Rand Carter on June 12.

“The Jewish Museum of New York in a Global Context,” by Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Michael Feinberg, was recently published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Religion.

As the 2024-25 academic year wraps up, we’re proud to celebrate students who have received national fellowships and scholarships, presented at conferences, and earned other recognition.

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.

At Hamilton College, learning transcends geographic boundaries and traditional methods, providing students with unique and memorable experiences that bring their material to life.

In an email to the Hamilton community on Nov. 13, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo announced the death of Associate Professor of Art History Emeritus Stephen Goldberg.

Forty-five new faculty members have entered Hamilton’s ranks, including nine tenure-track professors in anthropology, art, computer science, dance and movement studies, economics, government, mathematics and statistics, music, and Russian. They join 31 visiting professors and lecturers, and four teaching fellows for the 2024-25 academic year.

The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College will host an exhibition called “Menagerie: Animals in Art” from September 7 to June 8, 2025. This exhibit will showcase hundreds of artworks featuring animals from ancient times to today.