Faculty News

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. July’s news topics included coverage of the annual summer philosophy camp, the ALEX program, federal civil servant performance, and AI in the classroom, among others.

Assistant Professor of Theatre Emily K. Harrison recently presented "The Making of Things we Will Miss" as part of a panel titled "Practice What You Teach: The Real Hybrid-Lives of the Teacher/Scholar/Artist" at the 2025 Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference.

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang recently published in China Currents a review of the new Chinese feminist-inspired blockbuster Her Story (2024), often described as China’s answer to Barbie (2023).

From groundbreaking ideas to game-winning goals, the 2024-25 academic year was full of energy and momentum.

Thanks to the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, Professor of Government Kira Jumet will spend the coming academic year in Morocco conducting research on combined military exercises and their side events as multinational spaces of soft power and public diplomacy through the African Lion joint military exercises co-organized by the U.S. and Morocco. She will also connect directly with Moroccan students and academics through teaching at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UM6P).

Associate Professor of Art History Susan Jarosi and Associate Professor of Biology Rhea Datta are among the co-authors of an article published recently in the journal Natural Sciences Education.

Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently completed a residency at the National Humanities Center (NHC) in Durham, N.C., where he worked on two intersectional projects joining classics with science fiction.

Dolly Parton's Jolene, a book by Lydia Hamessley, the John and Anne Fischer Professor in the Fine Arts (Music), was reviewed in The Washington Post on July 7.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. June’s news topics included coverage of the economy, federal employees, and the Army’s 250th anniversary parade, among others.

Season 5 of the Jazz Backstory podcast, created and hosted by Monk Rowe, director of the Fillius Jazz Archive, launches on July 8.