43 New Faculty Members Join Hamilton for 2025-26 Academic Year
These summaries describe some of Hamilton’s 43 new faculty members for the 2025-26 academic year, including eight tenure-track faculty in biology, geosciences, government, literature and creative writing, philosophy, and women’s and gender studies. They join 30 visiting professors and lecturers, and five teaching fellows this year.
In addition, Anurag Advani (Asian studies), Shawn Chen (computer science), Han Dong (computer science), and Kris Kusnerik (geosciences) accepted tenure track positions at Hamilton.
Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo said, “Each year we renew ourselves. Close to 500 new students arrive on campus, with fresh ideas and hopes, eager to begin their college careers. On the faculty side, the renewal is no less significant,” he added. “Forty plus new colleagues start this year, adding new courses, perspectives, and ways of asking and answering questions. It is this ever-present cycle that makes our campus the vibrant learning community that pushes us all toward deeper insight and understanding,” Munemo remarked.
Tenure-Track Faculty
Poetry and poetics, women’s and gender studies, Black feminisms and WOC feminisms, visual culture studies, Black performance theory and queer performance studies, race and aesthetics
Fiction, nonfiction, speculative nonfiction/memoir, Pacific studies, Indigenous and Pasifika literatures, Asian American literatures, food writing, publishing
Feminist theory, LGBTQIA+ studies, feminist art and cultural production
Geochronology, metamorphic petrology, tectonics, solid-earth materials
Epistemology, ethics, aesthetics
Comparative politics, African politics
Transnational feminism; U.S. Women of Color & Global South feminisms; gender & labor; race & caste, militarization & occupation; critical ethnographic, decolonial, and feminist methodologies; feminist and liberatory pedagogies; and global South Asia.
Immunology, cellular and molecular biology, neuroimmunology of pain, cancer biology and immunology, flow cytometry
Visiting Faculty
Gender stereotypes, leadership perceptions, workplace bias, organizational behavior, cross-cultural psychology
Electrokinetics, numerical modeling
Software engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, and space systems
Metaphysics, philosophy of language
Episodic memory; intrinsic memorability; text processing; cognitive psychology
Color evolution, evolutionary ecology, herpetology, thermal physiology, natural history
Contemporary Italian poetry and critical theory
Buddhism, environmentalism, theories and methods in the study of religion, moral philosophy informed by ordinary language philosophy
Macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics
Structural geology, tectonics, sedimentology and stratigraphy, paleoclimate, deep time
Particle physics, particle phenomenology, supersymmetry, neutrino mixing
20th century United States history, U.S. political history, the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, multiracial democracy, neoliberalism, urban history, municipal politics, and public policy
Labor economics, economic history
Islamic art and architecture, art historiography and methodology, postcolonial theory, Late Antiquity and Early Islam, urban studies and art history, contemporary/historical interfaces
History and philosophy of science, early modern philosophy, philosophy of climate change, philosophy of mind, philosophy of mathematics, logic
Machine learning, deep learning, software security, natural language processing, knowledge graphs
Histories of South Asia, intellectual history, Islamic movements, anticolonial thought, history and film, Kashmir
Music and war; music and propaganda; World War II France; music by prisoners of war
Lecturers & Teaching Fellows
Brandi Langsdorf
Director, Hamilton Analytical Laboratory and Lecturer in Chemistry
Katherine Warden
Lecturer in Psychology
