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Doran Larson’s essay addressed Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently announced return to a pre-Obama policy of seeking maximum penalties for all drug crimes as well as the mismanagement of the prison system.
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Doran Larson, the Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences, presented “The Prison Writer as Witness: Introducing the American Prison Writing Archive” at the Stockholm Criminology Symposium on June 19.
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Twelve Hamilton students visited Sweden for a two-week study trip, looking at Swedish prisons, courts and policing practice. Ryan Bloom ’18 blogged about the trip. Following is her final update about a visit to border control, a police precinct and the court.
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From providing a virtual look at India’s sacred centers to collecting oral histories in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, Hamilton’s Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi) provides students an interdisciplinary — and often interactive — approach to collaborating with faculty.
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Hamilton Professor Doran Larson’s American Prison Writing Archive project has been awarded $262,000 by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), the single largest NEH grant awarded solely to a Hamilton faculty member in 17 years.
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“I’d rather die than suffer another day as one of the obedient, silent ones,” said award-winning poet and writer Jimmy Santiago Baca during his public reading in the Chapel on March 1.
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The Los Angeles Review of Books described Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America as “an important work” in an Oct. 8 review titled “Locked Up in America: The Essay in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Edited by Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences Doran Larson, Fourth City is a collection of 71 essays by current and former prisoners on a wide range of topics about prison life, solicited over approximately five years.
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Walcott-Bartlett Chair of Ethics and Christian Evidences Doran Larson delivered a paper titled "Prisoners Write the Rights-Bearing Person: Extrapolations from the American Archive," at the 2015 meeting of the Critical Legal Studies Conference in Wroclaw, Poland.
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“Private institutions have been at the forefront of the cause since Pell funding was stripped in 1994,” Doran Larson, the Walcott-Bartlett Professor of Ethics and Christian Evidences, said in a Chronicle of Higher Education article on reaction to President Obama’s pilot program to make some prisoners eligible for Pell Grants.
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Five Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds on Class & Charter Day on May 11. The awards recognize individual accomplishment but reflect a richness and depth of scholarship and creative activity across the entire faculty.