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May’s news highlights ranged from Russian President Putin’s future to the College’s Commencement. Links are provided, but some may require subscriptions to access content. Please contact Vige Barrie if you cannot open a link or do not have a subscription.

Professor Emerita of Classics and Africana Studies and Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature, consulted with Netflix on the docuseries “Queen Cleopatra.” Haley’s scholarship on Cleopatra has been cited in op-eds in the Guardian and the New York Times, and the NYT has featured articles on her contributions to the series, which debuted on May 10.

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.

“Transgender Saints: Perpetua’s Legacy,” by Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor Classics and Greek Literature Emerita, appears as a chapter in a new addition to The Routledge Companion series.

Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently presented lectures in Belo Horizonte and Manaus, Brazil.

Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Writing Emerita Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz is the primary investigator on a new publication titled Queering the Past(s), available on the Classical Association website.

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented to four faculty members by Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen during the May 3 faculty meeting.

Six Hamilton students recently shared their work at Parilia, an undergraduate classics conference in honor of the founding of Rome, traditionally dated to April 21, 753 BCE.

When J.R. Hane ’22 began studying Latin in middle school, he never imagined it would lead him to pursue graduate studies at a divinity school. But through that love for Latin came a love for the classics, and through that, an interest in the New Testament and its cultural significance.

Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association / Classical Association of Scotland. The event took place at Swansea University in Wales.