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A former National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, whose research focuses on how plate tectonics is recorded in rocks and minerals.
An immunologist whose research interests span immune regulation, inflammation, chronic pain, and cancer.
A philosopher whose research is aimed at understanding what we ought to believe when faced with misleading information.
An author whose memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, was named a New York Times Editors' Choice and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize.

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 for the 2025-26 academic 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

Tara M. Holman

Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

tholman@hamilton.edu

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

T Kira Mahealani Madden

Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

tmadden@hamilton.edu

Fiction, nonfiction, speculative nonfiction/memoir, Pacific studies, Indigenous and Pasifika literatures, Asian American literatures, food writing, publishing

Amy Marvin

Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

amarvin@hamilton.edu

Feminist theory, LGBTQIA+ studies, feminist art and cultural production

Amy Moser

Assistant Professor of Geosciences

amoser@hamilton.edu

Geochronology, metamorphic petrology, tectonics, solid-earth materials

Phyllis Pearson

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

ppearson@hamilton.edu

Epistemology, ethics, aesthetics

Lindsey Pruett

Assistant Professor of Government

lpruett@hamilton.edu

Comparative politics, African politics

Taveeshi Singh

Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

tsingh@hamilton.edu

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.

Elena Tonc

Assistant Professor of Biology

etonc@hamilton.edu

Immunology, cellular and molecular biology, neuroimmunology of pain, cancer biology and immunology, flow cytometry

Visiting Faculty

Fiona Adjei Boateng

Visiting Assistant Professor in Psychology

fadjeibo@hamilton.edu

Gender stereotypes, leadership perceptions, workplace bias, organizational behavior, cross-cultural psychology

Sally Booth

Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics

sbooth@hamilton.edu

Electrokinetics, numerical modeling

Mason Brown

Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

mbrown1@hamilton.edu

Software engineering, artificial intelligence, robotics, and space systems

Jaime Castillo-Gamboa

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

jcastill@hamilton.edu

Metaphysics, philosophy of language

Andrew Cook

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

acook1@hamilton.edu

Episodic memory; intrinsic memorability; text processing; cognitive psychology

John David Curlis

Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology

jcurlis@hamilton.edu

Color evolution, evolutionary ecology, herpetology, thermal physiology, natural history

Valeria Dani

Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian

vdani@hamilton.edu

Contemporary Italian poetry and critical theory

Nan Kathy Lin

Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

nlin@hamilton.edu

Buddhism, environmentalism, theories and methods in the study of religion, moral philosophy informed by ordinary language philosophy

Sanjay Moorjani

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

smoorjan@hamilton.edu

Macroeconomics, monetary economics, and time series econometrics

Freya Morris

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences

fmorris@hamilton.edu

Structural geology, tectonics, sedimentology and stratigraphy, paleoclimate, deep time

Ariel Rock

Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics

arock@hamilton.edu

Particle physics, particle phenomenology, supersymmetry, neutrino mixing

Caleb Smith

Visiting Assistant Professor of History

csmith4@hamilton.edu

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

Jian Qi (Jay) Tan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

jtan1@hamilton.edu

Labor economics, economic history

Theodore Van Loan

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History

tvanloan@hamilton.edu

Islamic art and architecture, art historiography and methodology, postcolonial theory, Late Antiquity and Early Islam, urban studies and art history, contemporary/historical interfaces

Michael Veldman

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

mveldman@hamilton.edu

History and philosophy of science, early modern philosophy, philosophy of climate change, philosophy of mind, philosophy of mathematics, logic

Wenbo Wang

Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

wwang@hamilton.edu

Machine learning, deep learning, software security, natural language processing, knowledge graphs

Suvaid Yaseen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

syaseen@hamilton.edu

Histories of South Asia, intellectual history, Islamic movements, anticolonial thought, history and film, Kashmir

Mary Margaret Zrull

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music

mzrull@hamilton.edu

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

blangsdo@hamilton.edu

 

Melissa Larish

Lecturer in Dance and Movement Studies

mlarish@hamilton.edu

 

 

Dan Sato

Lecturer in Music (piano)

dsato@hamilton.edu

 

 

Paige Spencer

Lecturer in Religious Studies

pspencer@hamilton.edu

 

 

Kathy Weber

Lecturer in Music (voice)

kweber@hamilton.edu

 

Katherine Warden

Lecturer in Psychology

 

Bich-Phuong (Gigi) Bui

Teaching Fellow in Chinese

pbui@hamilton.edu

 

Hitomi Hamada

Teaching Fellow in Japanese

hhamada@hamilton.edu

 

Ting-Jung (Connie) Huang

Teaching Fellow in Chinese

thuang3@hamilton.edu

 

Emma Mestre

Teaching Fellow in French

emestre@hamilton.edu

 

Juan Sebastian Riaño

Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies

jriano@hamilton.edu

 

Atsumi Shibata

Teaching Fellow in Japanese

ashibata@hamilton.edu

 

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