Senior Fellows
The final project is comparable to producing a master’s thesis. A fellowship proposal should grow out of earlier coursework, and must be framed in consultation with two faculty advisors of the student’s choice.
The Senior Fellowship serves as the concentration for the Fellow and counts for 8 credits. Fellows are exempt from taking a normal course load, but they may take such courses as are appropriate to their projects and their educational goals. A Fellow may not earn more than 10 credits for the academic year of the fellowship. The final project is required at the close of the fellowship year, along with a public lecture to the College community. Evaluation is made by the advisors and an examination committee.
The courses (if any) taken by the Senior Fellow appear on the transcript, and the instructor grades the student with a CR or an NC (on Self-Service/Academic Planning) depending on whether they pass or don't pass.
The principal advisor writes a letter to the Dean, explaining how the student achieved the goals of the project and evaluating the presentation and final examination. The letter can be sent along with the official transcript at the student’s request.
Important Information
Senior Fellow Projects
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Connecting distant destinations with local lands, senior fellow Clare Robinson spent her final year at Hamilton delving into community reactions to climate change and environmental policy. Advised by professors Aaron Strong in environmental studies and Jaime Kucinskas in sociology, Robinson compared community reactions in New Zealand to those of Upstate New Yorkers.
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Over her four years at Hamilton, Sophia Wang has done it all. With classes in math, history, languages, economics, and art, Wang’s liberal arts education sparked her passion for independent research and eventually lead her down the path toward a senior fellowship.
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Senior Fellow Ben Mittman, who has a post-Hamilton job in a neuroscience lab at MIT, spent his final year at Hamilton studying how the brain collects and processes information related to social interaction.
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Published novelist Amy Zhang '18 has been named a Hamilton Senior Fellow, which means she can spend her senior year studying a project she developed. Its title:“ Birds of the Body: a Poetic Exploration of the Performance of Asian-American Femininity.”
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