June 9, 2010
Nine Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the College's Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The Board granted tenure to Donald Carter (Africana studies), Anne Lacsamana (women’s studies), Tina Hall (English), Chaise LaDousa (anthropology), Rebecca Murtaugh (art), Angel David Nieves (Africana studies), Edna Rodriguez-Plate (Hispanic studies), Chad Williams (history) and Yvonne Zylan (sociology).
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May 20, 2010
Anna Oldfield, Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of comparative literature, is publishing "Bridging Turkish with Azerbaijani: Music and Musicians – Azeri Folklore in the 20th Century” as part of a Department of Education funded grant project at the University of Wisconsin Center for Education and
Research.
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May 14, 2010
Professor of History Thomas Wilson gave an invited talk, "The Confucius of the Temple Cults," at the China Institute in New York on May 11 in connection with the exhibition, "Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art." He is the co-author with Michael Nylan of
Lives of Confucius: A Cultural History (Doubleday Religion, 4/10).
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May 13, 2010
Asian Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Anna Oldfield has published “‘Confusion in the Universe’: Conflict and Narrative in Qurratulain Hyder’s
River of Fire” in
The Annual of Urdu Studies 25 (2010).
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May 3, 2010
Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell chaired a panel on "Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain" at the 41st annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association held in Montreal, Quebec, April 8-11.
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March 10, 2010
Roberta Krueger, the Burgess Professor of French, will discuss “Piety and Profanity in Medieval French Conduct Books,” on Thursday, March 11, at 4:10 p.m., in the Hamilton Science Center’s classroom 3024. The lecture was rescheduled from Feb. 25, when it was postponed due to inclement weather. It is the sixth in the Hamilton College Humanities Forum and is free and open to the public.
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Served 12 Years as Editor of Society's Journal
March 4, 2010
At the recent annual meeting of the American Microscopical Society (AMS), Professor of Biology and Associate Dean of Faculty Pat Reynolds was guest of honor at the Society’s luncheon and presented with a plaque to commemorate his service as editor-in-chief of the Society’s quarterly journal
Invertebrate Biology. Reynolds served 12 years as an editor, the last six as editor-in-chief.
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Chapter Concerns Interdisciplinary Teaching About Adirondacks
March 2, 2010
A book with a chapter coauthored by Hamilton faculty Ernest Williams, Patrick Reynolds and Onno Oerlemans has been published by the University of Iowa Press. The chapter, “Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Adirondacks,” appears in
Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest, (edited by Pavel Cenkl, 2010).
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