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Chang Presents at Utica College

February 27, 2007
Wei-Jen Chang, assistant professor of biology, gave a talk in the Asa Gray Seminar series held by the Biology department of Utica College on February 26. His talk, titled "Genome Organization in Spirotrichous Ciliates (Protozoa)," summarized progresses made toward understanding the complicated genome architectures found in unicellular organisms - ciliates. He also discussed ongoing research projects in his lab with faculty and students in Utica College.

Domack Research Featured in NSF Annual Report

February 26, 2007
Research performed by Eugene Domack, Johnson Professor of Environmental Studies, and his students during a recent expedition to Antarctica is highlighted in the National Science Foundation's 2006 annual report along with a photograph taken by geosciences technician Dave Tewksbury.
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Savas is Co-Translator of New Book

February 26, 2007
Visiting Instructor of Japanese Minae Yamamoto Savas is the co-translator of the new book titled Virtual Kyoto, edited by Yano Keiji, Isoda Shigeru, Nakaya Tomoki, and Philip Brown (Nakanishiya Shuppan, Kyoto, 2007). This book introduces historic Kyoto's past, present and even explores its future in virtual time and space. It is a part of the on-going larger interdisciplinary research project launched by Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan. The project is funded by the Japanese Ministry of Science, Education, and Culture.

Adair Awarded Grant From The Community Foundation

February 26, 2007
Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, was awarded a generous grant from The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc. These funds, which Hamilton College is matching, will be used to support ACCESS students' technology needs. Adair adds this to the more than $750,000 in grant and contract money that she has secured and turned over to Phyllis Breland, the new director of the ACCESS Pathways Program at Hamilton College this year.

Isserman Article on SDS Appears in Chronicle of Higher Ed

February 26, 2007
An article titled "How Old is the New SDS?" by history professor Maurice Isserman appears in the March 2 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education's Chronicle Review. Isserman discussed the history of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organization in the 60s and compared the new incarnation of the organization with that of the previous era. He suggested that the current generation might be better off shifting its focus away from the past.  More ...

Ellingson Receives Grant from the Louisville Institute

February 26, 2007
Stephen Ellingson, assistant professor in the sociology department, has been awarded a research grant from the Louisville Institute. The award will allow him to collect and analyze data during the 2007-08 academic year for his project titled: "Green Partnerships: A Sociological Investigation into the Factors that Facilitate and Constrain Cooperation among Religious and Non-Religious Environmental Organizations."

Jin Presents Research at Washington, D.C., Language Meetings

February 24, 2007

Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin attended two events in Washington, D.C., related to language development in February. She participated in a STARTALK meeting at the National Foreign Languages Center to work with a group of national leaders in the Arabic and Chinese language fields to put together a resource guide for the Arabic and Chinese programs as well as for building the infrastructure of these two language fields. She also participated in the U.S. Department of Education's International Education Programs Service (IEPS) conference on key issues related to language teaching, acquisition, and assessment.

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Elgren and Whitebean ’08 Present at the National Press Club

February 22, 2007
As members of a panel sponsored by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) at the National Press Club, Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren and neuroscience major Kateri Whitebean '08 spoke on the value of undergraduate research. The event, held on Feb. 21, was organized to spark a national conversation on the topic by introducing CUR's new publication, Developing and Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Practices. Elgren and Kerry Karukstis, professor of chemistry at Harvey Mudd College who was also a presenter, co-edited the volume.  More ...

Bayolo Lectures at Syracuse University

February 22, 2007
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New Edition of Isserman's America Divided Released

February 20, 2007
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s, written by Hamilton Professor of History Maurice Isserman and Georgetown Professor of History Michael Kazin, has been revised and re-released. This third edition of the book expands its interpretive survey of the political, social and cultural history of 1960s America through additional coverage of youth movements and the New Left including Latino and Asian radical movements.  More ...

Franklin Delivers the Inaugural Lecture for Colgate Lecture Series

February 19, 2007
Todd Franklin, associate professor of philosophy, delivered the inaugural lecture for Colgate University's Nietzsche and Beyond Lecture Series on Feb. 15.  Titled "Nietzsche, Genealogy, and Race,"  Franklin's lecture outlined the major methodological features of Nietzschean genealogy and went on to describe how it can serve both critical and existential functions in relation to the history and future of conceptions of racial hierarchy.

Sandra Guerrero Presents at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies

February 19, 2007
Sandra Guerrero, visiting assistant professor of sociology, presented findings of her research on the role of women in the formation, consolidation and legalization of squatter settlements in Latin America, at the National Association of Hispanic and Latino Studies in Baton Rouge Louisiana, Feb. 12-17.  More ...

New Band Music Symposium Features Composer Bayolo

February 16, 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Armando Bayolo was a featured composer at the 32nd Annual Symposium for New Band Music held at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, this month.  Bayolo conducted a series of clinics and rehearsals of his wind ensemble work, Fanfares, with the Virginia Intercollegiate Band, students selected from seven institutions participating in the symposium.  More ...

Hamilton Joins New Web Consortium

February 15, 2007
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Mariani Presents Paper at Political Science Meeting

February 15, 2007
Mack Mariani, visiting assistant professor of government, presented a paper he co-authored with government professor Philip Klinkner last week at the American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference. Titled "The Effect of a Campaign Internship on Political Efficacy, Trust and Responsiveness," the paper examined how student participation in campaign internships affected their attitudes about political efficacy, trust in government and government responsiveness.  More ...

Isserman Publishes Article in Reed Magazine

February 15, 2007
History Professor and Reed College graduate Maurice Isserman has written an article for the winter issue of  Reed Magazine titled "And All That – Radicals, Hippies and SDS at Reed." With the relaunch of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) on Reed's campus, Isserman explores the legacy of radicals, hippies, and SDS at the college. He chronicles the evolution of the organization at Reed and throughout the nation and reflects on how the organization might have been more effective.   More ...

Austin Briggs Delivers PEN Lecture in Mexico

February 12, 2007
Austin Briggs, Tompkins Professor of English, Emeritus, and lecturer in Englsh, delivered "The Joys of Joyce: Reading Ulysses" at the Belles Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico on January 30. The lecture, which was attended by more than 200 people, was sponsored by the San Miguel chapter of PEN International, an organization of 141 chapters in 101 countries that is dedicated to fighting for freedom of expression and to defending writers suffering from oppressive regimes around the world.

Cryer to Perform "99" as Part of Black History Month Celebrations

February 12, 2007
Assistant professor of Theatre Mark Cryer will be performing his one man show, "99 Questions you've always wanted to ask an African American," at Bentley College, Clarke University and SUNY Geneseo as part of their Black History Month celebrations in February.

Isserman Writes Article on Himalayan Mountaineering

February 9, 2007
"Highest Adventure," an article in the March issue of American Heritage magazine, tells the stories of the first Americans to summit Mount Everest.  History professor Maurice Isserman, who wrote the article, is also the co-author of a forthcoming book on Himalayan mountaineering.  More ...

Kinnel Presents Poster at 12th International Conference on Marine Natural Products

February 8, 2007
Following up on work carried out by Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel at the University of Hawaii during the spring of 2005, two students, Andrew Glossner '06 and Danielle Massee '07 completed the synthesis of a natural product isolated from the sponge Amphimedon compressa; this was reported at the meeting in a poster. In addition, Kinnel served as one of six judges for the poster prizes at this meeting in Queenstown, New Zealand, which took place from February 4 to February 10.

Boutin Publishes in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics

February 7, 2007
Debra Boutin, associate professor of mathematics, has published "Using determining sets to distinguish Kneser graphs," co-authored with Michael Albertson, in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. This paper establishes the distinguishing number of each graph in a well-known family called Kneser graphs. The paper proves that (with only one notable exception) every Kneser graph can have its vertices colored with one of two colors in such a way that the resulting colored graph has no symmetry. The  proof was accomplished using the determining sets that Boutin defined and studied in a previous research article.  More ...

Weldon and Students Publish Article in Behavioural Brain Research

February 7, 2007
Douglas Weldon, the Stone Professor of Psychology, published an article in the journal Behavioural Brain Research (vol. 177, 2007). The co-authors are Jennifer DiNieri '03, Aliscia Thomas '04, Matthew Silver '04, and Rebecca Wright '08. DiNieri contributed data as part of her senior project in neuroscience, and Thomas and Wright participated in summer research supported by the General Electric Fund and a STEP-NSF grant, respectively. The paper, titled "Reward-Related Neuronal Activity in the Rat Superior Colliculus," documents neural correlates of attention to significant environmental stimuli.  More ...

Latrell Serves as Editor for Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre

February 7, 2007
Associate Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell served as editor for modern Southeast Asian theatre for the Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre, recently published by Greenwood Press, as well as a contributor to the project. The two volume work totals 400,000 words, covering all aspects of Asian theatre. The general editor was Samuel L. Leiter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, noted specialist in Japanese theatre. Other Editorial Advisory Board members with Latrell were Colin MacKerras, Sreenath K. Nair, Richard Nichols and Richard Frasca, presenting specialties in other regions of Asia.

Williams Contributes Article to American Butterflies

February 7, 2007
Professor of Biology Ernest Williams contributed an article to American Butterflies 14(2):4-13. The article, "Baltimore Checkerspots: Butterflies of Privilege" uses the scientific literature to summarize and describe the biology of the Baltimore checkerspot, a butterfly well known to watchers in the East. Megan Malone '06 and Heather Michael '07 were summer research students who worked with Williams in studying egg laying in Baltimore checkerspots. American Butterflies is the main publication of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA).

Reynolds Serves as Visiting Scientist at Berkeley's South Pacific Research Station

February 6, 2007
Professor of Biology Patrick Reynolds was a guest of the Sea Education Association on a cruise of the Society Islands in January. He was invited to experience the program as students do and assess it as a possible study away program. He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Berkeley's Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station in Moorea. Reynolds is an expert on marine invertebrate biology, particularly the evolution of Mollusca -- the phylum that includes snails, clams and squid.  More ...

Haley Completes Term as Chair of Advanced Placement Latin Exam Development Committee

February 6, 2007
Professor of Classics and Africana Studies Shelley Haley presided over her final meeting (Feb. 2-4) as chair of the Advanced Placement Latin Exam Development Committee.  The group met at the Chauncey Conference Center in Princeton. She has been chair of the committee since 2003 and was the first African American woman to hold that position. 

Philosophy Professor Bob Simon Named to National Panel on College Sports

February 5, 2007
Hamilton College Philosophy Professor Robert Simon has been named to the advisory and editorial board for the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium on College Sports. He is the only representative from a Division III college on the 13-member group, which was created by NCAA President Myles Brand.  More ...

Seager Lectures at University of Toronto

February 3, 2007
Professor of Religious Studies Richard Hughes Seager presented a lecture, "The Globalization of Buddhist Humanism," at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies on January 27. It was sponsored by the Asian Institute and the Centre for the Study of Religion. Seager is the author of Encountering the Dharma (University of California Press, March, 2006) which offers a rare insider's look at Soka Gakkai Buddhism, and Buddhism in America (Columbia, 1999).

Kantrowitz and O'Neill Participate on National Math Panel

February 2, 2007
Professor of Mathematics Robert Kantrowitz and Mary B. O'Neill, academic support coordinator and director of the Quantitative Literacy Center were invited panelists for the discussion "Current Practices in Quantitative Literacy: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" at the national joint meetings of The American Mathematical Society and The Mathematical Association of America in New Orleans last month.  More ...

Seniors Margaret Van Wyk and Tyler Zink Present at Society for Personality and Social Psychology

February 2, 2007
Two senior psychology concentrators, Margaret Van Wyk and Tyler Zink, along with  Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton and Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Mark Oakes, presented a poster at the 8th annual conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology on Jan. 26 in Memphis, Tenn. The research described in the poster was conducted this past summer during Hamilton's summer science research program, and involved examining the effects of suppressing negative self-referent thoughts on implicit and explicit self-esteem.

Murtaugh Installation in Georgia Gallery

February 1, 2007
An installation titled "Breath," created by Assistant Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh, is currently featured at the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Athens, Georgia. It is part of an exhibition titled "Transience: The Paradox of Being" that offers the perspectives of 16 artists whose work inspires contemplation of the universal issue of transience. The show was curated by Katy Logue Thompson and Chris MacKay.  More ...

Seager Gives Two Papers at McGill University

February 1, 2007
Professor of Religious Studies Richard Seager presented two papers in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in January.  His papers were titled "Tradition and Transformation: Asian Buddhism in the West: A Forum for Canadian Buddhists," and "Globalization of Nichiren Buddhism in Soka Gakkai International."  He delivered both papers at McGill University for the faculty of Religious Studies.

Goldberg Presents Lecture at Colgate

January 31, 2007

Art history professor Stephen J. Goldberg presented a lecture titled "Memory, Authenticity, and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art," as part of the Spring 2007 Art and Art History Lecture Series at Colgate
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Elgren Presents Research at Metals in Biology Conference

January 31, 2007
Professor of Chemistry Tim Elgren presented "Halogenase and Oxidative Dehalogenase Activities of Sol-Gel Encapsulated Peroxidases" on Jan. 31 at the "Metals in Biology" Gordon Research Conference in Ventura, Calif. The work presented was done this past summer in collaboration with Hilary Gamble '07, Kathryn Hansen '07 and Marielle Matthews '09. Their efforts focused on the development and characterization of novel biologically active materials which are capable of catalyzing the degradation of toxic halogenated compounds. A grant from the National Science Foundation funds the work.

Omori Receives Research Award From University of Maryland

January 26, 2007
Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori has been awarded a "Twentieth-Century Japan Research Award" for 2006-07 from the University of Maryland.  The grant supports research in the University's McKeldin Library's Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied Occupation of Japan and its aftermath, 1945-1960. Omori is currently a visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan.  More ...

Tampio Publishes Article on Rawls and Kant

January 23, 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government Nicholas Tampio published an article on "Rawls and the Kantian Ethos" in the January issue of Polity. The article shows how Rawls transforms Kant's philosophy in order to revitalize the Enlightenment. The article is part of his book manuscript on Kant's legacy in contemporary political theory.  More ...

Latrell to Open Faculty Lecture Series With "Headhunter in Spandex: Cultural Performance in East Malaysia"

January 23, 2007
Associate Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell will present "Headhunter in Spandex: Cultural Performance in East Malaysia" on Friday, Jan. 26 at 4:10 p.m. in the Red Pit, K-J, to launch the spring semester's Faculty Lecture Series.  More ...

Goldberg Presents Workshop at Belmont University

January 23, 2007
Stephen Goldberg conducted a day-long workshop for K-12 teachers titled "Incorporating Asian Art into the Public School Classroom." The workshop was hosted by Belmont University in Nashville in conjunction with the 2007 annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association of Asian Studies on January 13.  More ...

Lacsamana Participates in Roundtable on Philippine Women's Liberation

January 23, 2007
Anne E. Lacsamana, assistant professor of women's studies, was invited by several founding members of the Philippine women's movement to participate in a roundtable discussion titled "Philippine Women's Liberation: Nationalism, Feminism and Strategies for the Future" on Jan. 4 in Quezon City.   More ...

Omori is Visiting Research Fellow at International Research Center for Japanese Studies

January 22, 2007
Assistant Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori is a visiting research fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (also known as Nichibunken in Japanese) in Kyoto, Japan, from December through March. The primary purpose of her stay is her book project: Detecting Modanizumu: New Youth Magazine, Tantei Shôsetsu, and The Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism, 1920-1950. She is also part of a seminar led by Professor Sadami Suzuki at the Center, titled Key Concepts and Methods of Cultural Studies. It is a comparative investigation of the fundamental concepts in cultural studies on nature, religion, art, nation, tradition, sexuality in English, French, German, Japanese, Chinese and other languages.

Patterson Publishes Article in Les Diasporas Dans le Monde Contemporain

January 22, 2007
Associate Professor of Africana Studies Tiffany Ruby Patterson has published an article titled "Diaspora and Beyond: The Promise and Limitations of Black Transnational Studies in the United States" in Les diasporas dans le monde contemporain. Un etat des lieux, edited by W. Berthomiere and C. Chivallon (Paris, Pessac, Editions Karthala and Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine, 2006) pp. 125-133. The essay was originally presented at a conference on comparative diasporas in Bordeaux, France in 2004. It continues a discussion on the definition of the African Diasporas in the Americas that she began in article co-authored with Robin D.G. Kelley in 2000 which was published in the African Studies Review in April of that year.

Ravven Presents Paper at American Philosophical Association

January 18, 2007
Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven gave an invited paper, "How Jewish Philosophy Could Help Standard Philosophical Ethics Out of its Dead End," at the American Philosophical Association in late December in Washington, D.C. Ravven's paper was part of a panel on Ethics and Jewish Philosophy, organized by the Academy for Jewish Philosophy.  More ...

Rowe Presents Film Program at Jazz Educators Conference

January 17, 2007
Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, presented a film program at the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in New York City in January. The concert documentary, "Joe Williams: A Portrait in Song," was screened for an enthusiastic audience on Saturday, Jan. 13. The late Joe Williams H'89, was filmed in concert with the Count Basie Orchestra in Wellin Hall in September, 1996. Co-presenting with Rowe was the noted jazz film maker, Burrill Crohn, the director of "A Portrait in Song." Norman Simmons, Joe Williams' pianist/music director, and John Levy, Joe's longtime manager, were in attendance. While in New York, Rowe also conducted an interview with author James Lincoln Collier '50.  More ...

Jin Publishes Article in Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association

January 16, 2007
Professor of Chinese Hong Gang Jin published an article on Syntactic Complexity and Second Language Writing in the Journal of Chinese Language Teachers Association, a refereed journal in the field of teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language. "Syntactic Complexity in Second Language Writings: A Case of Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL)," appears in Vol. 42:1, pp. 27-52.  More ...

College Names Domack to Environmental Studies Chair

January 15, 2007
Dean of Faculty Joseph Urgo has announced the appointment of Professor of Geosciences Eugene Domack to the J. W. Johnson Family Professor of Environmental Studies in Environmental Studies. The newly endowed chair, established this year by Hamilton alumnus and charter trustee Joel W. Johnson '65 and his wife Elizabeth B. Johnson with a $2.5 million gift, is the largest endowed professorship in the college's history. Income from the endowment will support the chairholder's compensation, benefits and a research program involving undergraduates.  More ...

Gold Participates in Annual Meetings for American Philological Association

January 14, 2007
Professor of Classics Barbara Gold attended the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in San Diego in January. In her capacity as vice president for outreach of the APA, she oversaw several committees and their activities (Outreach Committee, Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance, and the Committee on the Classical Tradition). Each committee sponsored a panel and in addition CAMP sponsored a full performance of Aristophanes' Birds (in English) complete with music and costumes.  More ...

Wu Presents at Wayne State University

January 12, 2007
Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu delivered the ninth annual Waino Pihl Lecture at Wayne State University in November 2006. The lecture was titled "Incorporating Behavioral Factors in Economic Research" and cited work that he had published in this area.  More ...

Kamiya Presents Paper at Linguistic Society Meeting

January 12, 2007
Assistant Professor of Japanese Masaaki Kamiya and Seiki Ayano (Mie University in Japan) presented a paper titled "Multi-level nominalization: evidence from Verbal Noun in Japanese" at the 81st annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, held in Anaheim on January 4 -7.

Russell Blackwood Passes Away

January 12, 2007
Hamilton lost an outstanding teacher and friend when Professor Russell Blackwood died Friday morning (Jan. 12). He was a member of the faculty for nearly 50 years. Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart sent news of Professor Blackwood's passing to the College community.  More ...

Rubino Publishes Paper in American Philological Association's Amphora

January 11, 2007
Carl Rubino, the Edward North Professor of Classics, published a paper titled "It Was their Destiny: Roman Power and Imperial Self-Esteem" in Amphora 5.2 (Fall 2006) 10-11 and 19. Amphora is a publication of the American Philological Association. Rubino, along with Caroline Winterer of Stanford University, presided over a panel that he organized on "Alexander Hamilton and the Classics" at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association in San Diego on January 6. The panel was sponsored by the APA Committee on the Classical Tradition. Frank Anechiarico, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law at Hamilton, was among presenters.

Wu's Research Cited in InsideHigherEd.com

January 11, 2007
A paper co-authored by Stephen Wu, "The Search for Economics Talent: Doctoral Completion and Research Productivity," was one of the key research sources referenced in a Jan. 9 story in InsideHigherEd.com. Titled "Defining What Makes an Economist," the article discussed what factors might play a role in predicting student success in ultimately completing a Ph.D. in economics, publishing and landing a tenure-track job at a top-20 program  More ...

Rabinowitz Gives Paper at American Philological Association Meeting

January 10, 2007
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, presented a paper in January at the American Philological Association on "Male Medea," as part of the panel on Performance and Sexuality, sponsored by the Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance (CAMP). It focused on cross-dressing in Charles Ludlam's version of Euripides' play, Medea.  More ...

Jones Chairs Session at Comparative Economics Conference

January 10, 2007
Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, chaired a session and presented a paper at the Association of Comparative Economics Conference, part of the Allied Social Sciences Conference, in Chicago on Jan. 6.The paper, titled "Teams, Performance-Related Pay, Profit Sharing and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from a Food-Processing Plant" was co-authored by Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen, both members of the Helsinki School of Economics faculty. The authors assembled and analyzed new panel data to investigate the impact of important changes in human resource practices on firm performance for a food-processing plant.  More ...

Owen Serves as Panelist at American Economic Association Meeting

January 10, 2007
Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen participated in two sessions at the American Economic Association's annual meeting in Chicago during the first week of January.  More ...

Vaughan Delivers Paper at the Society for Computers in Psychology

January 10, 2007
Professor of Psychology Jonathan Vaughan presented a paper, "PsySquash X: A Utility Program for Analyzing PsyScope Data Files," on November 16, 2006 at the Society for Computers in Psychology. The paper's co-authors were Associate Professor of Psychology Penny Yee, Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Borton and Virginia Vaughan. Jonathan Vaughan serves as an elected member of the society's steering committee.  More ...

Westmaas Gives Paper at American Historical Association Conference

January 9, 2007
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a paper at the American Historical Association conference held January 4-7 in Atlanta. His paper, "Scholarship and Resistance: Walter Rodney's Impact and Influence on student rebellion in Guyana" evaluated the role of the author of Groundings with my Brothers and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa on the student movement in the South American republic before and after his assassination in 1980. Westmaas's paper was part of a panel under the theme: Race, Repression, and Resistance: Postwar Student Movements in International Perspective.  More ...

Hamilton Included in Museum of American Finance Exhibit

January 5, 2007
Associate Professor of Government Robert Martin will join other Alexander Hamilton scholars and authors on a panel presentation on Thursday, Jan. 11, as part of the first Alexander Hamilton Symposium at the Museum of American Finance in New York City. The event is part of the museum's commemoration of the 250th birthday of Alexander Hamilton, our nation's first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.  More ...

Rivera-Cordero Presents Paper at MLA Annual Meeting

January 3, 2007
Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Victoria Rivera-Cordero presented a paper at the Modern Languages Association meeting in Philadelphia on December 28. titled "The Silent Space of the Text: Conceptualizing Deafness in Teresa de Cartagena," the paper explored the links between deafness and knowledge in Teresa de Cartagena's treatise "Arboleda de los enfermos" (c. 1453) as a hybrid text in which medical discourse is intertwined with religious, philosophical and autobiographical elements. The usage of a hybrid genre allows her not only to palliate her physical and psychological suffering, but also to acquire agency. This is a new approach to the text which brings together phenomenological studies of illness and embodiment in order to question the very notion of normalcy and disability using Cartagena's text as an example. Cartagena confers a new meaning on illness while visualizing it in her work in order to highlight a new state of self-awareness as an intellectual.

MacDonald Featured in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video

December 29, 2006
Visiting Professor of Film Studies and F.I.L.M. Director, Scott MacDonald, is featured in the current issue of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Volume 24, No. 1) in an article titled "Nathaniel Dorsky and Larry Jordan on Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, and Bruce Conner: A Conversation Edited by Scott MacDonald."  More ...

Adair Lectures at University of Washington - Tacoma

December 20, 2006
Vivyan Adair, the Elihu Root Peace Fund Associate Professor of Women's Studies, lectured in December at the University of Washington - Tacoma. Her lecture was in conjunction with an exhibit of "The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education," an exhibit of 50 photos that examines the lives of poor students who are changing their lives through higher education.

OSU Series, Co-Edited by Peter J. Rabinowitz, Publishes 23rd Book

December 19, 2006
The "Theory and Interpretation of Narrative" series, published by the Ohio State University Press and co-edited by Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz and James Phelan, has just announced its 23rd volume, Brian Richardson's Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction.  More ...

Videras Publishes Paper With Former Hamilton Student

December 15, 2006
Assistant Professor of Economics Julio Videras published a paper "Ethnic Heterogeneity and the Enforcement of Environmental Regulation," in the Review of Social Economy, vol. LXIV, No. 4, December 2006 (with Christopher J. Bordoni). The paper, co-authored with former Hamilton student Christopher Bordoni, is the result of a collaboration following a Hamilton College Levitt Center Research Fellowship in 2004.  More ...

Li Article Featured on Jamestown Foundation Web Home Page

December 13, 2006
Cheng Li, William R. Kenan Professor of Government, has written an article, "China's Inner-Party Democracy: Toward a System Of 'One Party, Two Factions'?," posted on the front page of the Jamestown Foundation Web site. Li writes about two coalitions, the "elitist" and the "populist," and the ongoing balancing of power between these two groups within the Chinese Communist Party. He describes these developments as an evolving "system of 'one Party, two factions'."  More ...

Jones Published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy

December 11, 2006
Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, recently published "Human Resource Management Policies and Productivity: New Evidence from An Econometric Case Study" in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. The study, co-authored by Panu Kalmi and Antti Kauhanen, both members of the Helsinki School of Economics faculty, identified various approaches used by economists to assess the impact of human resource management practices on productivity and reviewed and illustrated studies that represent different approaches.  More ...

Xu Publishes Interactive Software for Textbook China Scene

December 8, 2006
De Bao Xu, professor of Chinese, published China Scene, a cross-platform, interactive software equipped for a 16 lesson-textbook China Scene-the Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course written by Hong Gang Jin, De Bao Xu and James Hargett, (Cheng & Tsui Company, 2000). A test-use version of the software is available at http://academics.hamilton.edu/eal/home//Software.html.  More ...

Boutin Publishes Paper in Journal of Graph Theory

December 6, 2006
Debra Boutin, associate professor of mathematics, has published a research article in the Journal of Graph Theory. This paper presents Boutin's continuing work in the area of geometric graph theory, a subfield of discrete geometry. The article "Distinguishing Geometric Graphs," co-authored with Michael Albertson, proves that (with one exception) every complete straight line network has the property that we can color each node with one of three colors in such a way that the resulting colored network has no symmetry.

Simulated U.S. Senate Hearings on Climate Change

December 5, 2006
Students in government professor Peter Cannavo's "Introduction to Environmental Politics" class will hold a simulated U.S. Senate Hearing on climate change policy on Thursday, Dec. 7, from 4 - 7 p.m. in the Red Pit auditorium in the Kirner Johnson building.  More ...