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More than a dozen professionals from museums in central New York came together on College Hill in November to talk about their collections and missions with faculty and other members of the College community interested in Hamilton’s new curatorial studies initiative.

Thomas Wilson, the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies, recently joined the editorial board of The Journal of Asian Studies as an associate editor.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Hamilton College a $150,000 grant for a new curricular effort that will connect students and faculty with four regional cultural institutions, as well as the College’s Wellin Museum of Art and Burke Library’s Special Collections.

Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies Thomas Wilson presented a paper titled, "Confucian Ritual Hermeneutics of the Gods,” at the "Confucianism Enchanted" panel of the national meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver, in November.

An article about Confucian cult rites, by Thomas Wilson, the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies, appears in the November issue History of Religions.

Rising senior Ethan Dunn wants you to question what you’re told, even if it means questioning him. Tenacious in both his curiosity and eagerness to critique the zeitgeist, he is spending his summer dispelling the “myth of capitalism.”

Thomas Wilson, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of History, was recently named to the advisory board of the Central New York Humanities Corridor.

The opportunity: A 15-month paid fellowship with Hamilton’s Digital Humanities Initiative to work on a website with a renowned scholar of Confucian ritual and the cult of Confucius. Learning 3-D imaging would be part of the package.

Thomas Wilson, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of History, was awarded a grant by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to complete a book manuscript on the history of the ancestral and official cults of Confucius.

Thomas Wilson, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of History, presented a talk titled "God and Ritual Governance in Late Imperial China” at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin in May. He also led a graduate workshop titled “Temporalizing the Modern: Formulating an Analytics of Governance."