News

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of International Affairs and Professor of Government, was recently a guest commentator for Voice of America.

Julian Damashek, visiting assistant professor of biology, and Reilan Garczynski '26 both presented research conducted at Hamilton at the 2024 Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) conference in Madison, Wisc.

Far out in the dark recesses of our solar system, the gravitational orbits of certain Kuiper Belt objects behave strangely.

“Police-involved killings and economic sentiment of black households,” by Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, and Assistant Professor of Economics Cody Couture, was recently published in Applied Economics Letters.

Debra Boutin, the Samuel F. Pratt Professor of Mathematics, gave a plenary research talk at the New York Graph Theory Workshop at CUNY Graduate Center in May.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. May’s news topics included varied subjects from twin co-valedictorians to communism to the consumer price index.

Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, wrote an essay titled "I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned" for The Guardian published on May 16. Reflecting on “why so many intelligent and admirable people remained so loyal for so long to a fundamentally flawed movement,” Isserman delved into the paradoxical nature of American communism.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas was recently elected to the position of chair-elect for the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Religion Section.

Professor of Economics Erol Balkan introduces “Displaced and Dispossessed,” a collection of photographs he has taken of Syrian refugees at their camps in Turkey.

In a letter to the editor titled “What’s in a mane? Everything, if it honors treason and slavery” in The Washington Post, Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule emphasized that “Whom we honor reflects our values.”