Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect
by P. Gary Wyckoff (May 2009)
Associate Professor of Government Gary Wyckoff has written a book titled Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect, published in May by Urban Institute Press. Wyckoff directs Hamilton’s Public Policy Program. More ...
Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul
by Erol Balkan (January 2009)
Professor of Economics Erol Balkan and Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Henry Rutz have co-authored “Reproducing Class: Education, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of the New Middle Class in Istanbul,” a text published in January by Berghahn Books. More ...
Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World
by S. Brent Plate (November 2008)
S. Brent Rodriguez Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies, recently published the book, Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World with the London-based film studies press, Wallflower (distributed in the US via Columbia UP). The book is one of the first truly interdisciplinary works on the topic, investigating religions via film studies, and film via religious studies. Religions and films are akin, Plate argues, in that they both create worlds for their seers, hearers, doers, believers. At the altar and before the screen, audiences are invited to become participants via myths and rituals, cinematography and editing. More ...
Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context
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Professors of Government Carol Drogus and Stephen Orvis have written a textbook, Introducing Comparative Politics: Concepts and Cases in Context, that has been published by CQ Press. More ...
Greek Tragedy
by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (February 2008)
Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature, has published a new book titled Greek Tragedy (Wiley and Blackwell). More ...
More than 50 Hamilton students, employees and alumni and their family members participated in the 32nd annual Boilermaker, a 15k road race in Utica, on July 12. This year's race boasted 10,580 finishers, led by Moroccan Ridouane Harroufi, who won with a time of 43 minutes, 56 seconds. The Boilermaker annually attracts elite runners from all over the world, including Olympians and world record holders. The 9.3 mile Boilermaker is rated as one of the top 100 races in the U.S. by Runner's World magazine. See statistical summaries for 2009 here. More ...
John Murad '80 Appointed to SUNY Board of Trustees
John L. Murad Jr. '80, a partner with the Syracuse law firm Hancock & Estabrook LLP, has been appointed to the State University of New York Board of Trustees. SUNY is the nation's largest public university system. Murad was nominated for the position by Gov. David Paterson, and his nomination was confirmed by the New York State Senate June 3. The Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall central administration, supervision and coordination of the SUNY institutions. More ...
