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Three members of the Hamilton College faculty were recently promoted to full professor. Associate professors Erol Balkan (Economics), Hong Gang Jin (Chinese), and Bonnie Urciuoli (Anthropology) were promoted. Promotion to full professor is based on recommendations of the Dean of Faculty, the Committee of Appointments and senior departmental colleagues.

Erol Balkan, Economics

Balkan holds the James L. Ferguson Endowed Chair in Economics at Hamilton. He came to Hamilton in 1987, after spending two years as a Sea Grant Institute Fellow, studying Long Island fisheries. Balkan was a visiting assistant professor at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton, and master's and bachelor's degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He received a National Science Foundation grant to study Globalization, Crisis, and Response: Education Strategies of Middle Class Families in Istanbul, Turkey, and an International Development Research Center grant to study financial liberalization in Turkey.

He has published articles for numerous economics journals, including Applied Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics and Economica Internazionale.

Hong Gang Jin, Chinese

Jin came to Hamilton College in 1989, after receiving her master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned a bachelor's degree in English language and literature from Shanxi University in China. Jin is program director of East Asian Languages and Literature and was responsible for establishing Associated Colleges in China (ACC), a study abroad consortium in Beijing sponsored by Hamilton, Oberlin and Williams colleges. Jin has also served as field director of the ACC program. She was named the 1998 Outstanding Baccalaureate College Professor of the year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement and Support of Education and received Hamilton's Class of 1963 Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1994.

Jin has co-authored several books about multimedia approaches to teaching Chinese language and culture, as well as numerous articles for professional journals. She has also been involved with writing and designing a series of multimedia computer software to provide interactive exercises in teaching Chinese.

Bonnie Urciuoli, Anthropology

Urciuoli came to Hamilton College in 1988 as an assistant professor of linguistics and director of the Linguistics Program. Previously she was Language Archives Project coordinator, Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University. She also was linguistic consultant for the Hispanic Study Project at Columbia University. Urciuoli earned her Ph.D. and master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago and bachelor's degree from Syracuse University.

Her book, Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race and Class, won the Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America. She has published many reviews and articles for such journals as the Annual Review of Anthropology, Anthropological Quarterly and Visual Anthropology. A specialist in linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology, she is researching how institutional structures and the college experience redefine racial identities as multicultural.

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