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Seven Hamilton faculty members wererecently approved for tenure by the college's Board of Trustees. They are:Paul Hagstrom, economics; Philip Klinkner, government; Cheryl Morgan, romancelanguages and literature; Patrick Reynolds, biology; Susan Sanchez-Casal,romance languages and literature; Richard Seager, religious studies; andMichael Woods, music. Appointments and promotions from assistant to associateprofessor will become effective July 1.

Paul Alan Hagstrom, Economics

A member of the Hamilton faculty since 1991, Hagstrom earned his bachelor'sdegree from St. Olaf College and his master's and doctorate from the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. His work has been published in the Journal of HumanResources and he has received several research grants from the U.S.Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. His research interestsconcern the incentive effects of public policy programs and the use ofrevolving credit.

Philip Alan Klinkner, Government

Klinkner received his bachelor's degree from Lake Forest College and hismaster's and doctorate from Yale University. He is the author of numerousbooks, including The Losing Parties: Out-Party National Committees,1956-1993; Midterm: The 1994 Elections in Perspective; and theforthcoming, The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of America'sCommitment to Racial Equality. He also has published articles on partypolitics in journals, such as Polity and Urban Affairs Quarterly.A former Brookings Institution scholar, Klinkner joined the Hamilton faculty in1995.

Cheryl Morgan, Romance Languages and Literature

Morgan first joined the Hamilton faculty as an instructor in French in 1990.She received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, her master's fromMiddlebury College Language School in France and her doctorate from ColumbiaUniversity. Her teaching and research interests include: 19th and 20thcentury cultural studies, contemporary French and Francophone women writers andfeminist theory and criticism. The author of numerous papers and winner of theFrench Government Chateaubriand Fellowship, Morgan currently serves as thedirector of the Hamilton College Junior Year in France study abroad program.

Patrick Reynolds, Biology

Reynolds is an invertebrate biologist whose main area of research concerns thephylogeny of scaphopods. A member of the Hamilton faculty since 1992, Reynoldsreceived his bachelor's degree from the University College Galway, NationalUniversity of Ireland and earned his doctorate from the University of Victoria,British Columbia. The author of numerous articles, Reynolds recently receivedtwo grants from the National Science Foundation totaling over $200,000 to fundhis projects Phylogenetic Systematics of the Class Scaphopoda (Mollusca)and Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change Along the Antarctic Peninsula.

Susan Sanchez-Casal, Romance Languages and Literature

Sanchez-Casal completed her undergraduate and graduate education at theUniversity of California, Riverside and joined the Hamilton faculty in 1992.Her areas of interest are Spanish and Latin American literatures and shespecializes in latino literatures and literary, feminist and post-colonialtheories. The recipient of numerous fellowships and a two-time NationalSpanish Scholar, Sanchez-Casal has published articles in books, as well as inLa Chispa: Selected Proceedings '93. She has delivered many lecturesto the Hamilton campus and to specific classes in various disciplines.

Richard Seager, Religious Studies

Seager received his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and hisdoctorate from Harvard University. His area of expertise is the history ofreligion and culture in the United States and in modern Europe. Seager alsohas done a significant amount of work on the comparative study of worldreligions. The author of several books and articles, Seager's latest book,Buddhist Worlds in the United States will be published by ColumbiaUniversity Press in 1999.

Michael E. Woods, Music

`Doctuh' Woods joined the Hamilton Faculty in 1993. He received hisbachelor's degree from the University of Akron, Ohio and his master's from theUniversity of Indiana. A versatile musician, Woods has composed over 150compositions in all styles, including jazz, classical, funk and rock. Woodsalso has served as the director and bassist for the Zoe Jazz Band and worked asthe composer, arranger and bassist for the Oklahoma Sinfonia. He also hasperformed as a freelance bassist for many artists, including Kay Starr, CarlosMontalya and the Winans.

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