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The Kirkland Endowment Advisory Committee sponsors up to four students in its program of Summer Associates. The program is designed to support students who want to do research or creative work that fits under the mandate of the Endowment, “to support the needs and interests of women at Hamilton.” The program is open to all students, but preference will be given to rising juniors and seniors.
  • Working closely with a faculty supervisor, students work full-time on a research or creative project of their own design for 10 weeks, and receive a $5,250  stipend. 
  • The Kirkland College Summer Associates will produce an essay or creative piece and report on their work to the community in the following academic year, typically in the fall, unless they are abroad.
  • We advise students to contact potential faculty supervisors early in the spring semester.
  • Faculty members receive a $1,500 stipend for the first project.

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2025 Kirkland Summer Associates

Nana Hayrumyan ’27
Project: Motherland

Yu Gori Goto ’28
Project: Documentary Filmmaking on the Herring Connection in Alaska and Japan

Yunuo Yao ’26
Project: Do Economic Shocks Impact Genders Differently? The 2008 Recession's Decades-Long Effects on Real Wages Across Gender Groups

Kritika Ghimire ’26
Project: Not Gone, Just Hidden: The Changing Face of Menstrual Exclusion in Nepal

Aderyn (Addy) Grace ’26
Project: In Search of Stolen Time: A Videoessay On Carceral Temporality In The Documentaries Time and Daughters

Isonah Dlodlo ’27
Project: Griot: The Digital Curation and Preservation of Black and African Women’s Art, Culture and Oral History

2024 Kirkland Summer Associates

Abby Marzec ’25 and Emily Van Ecko ’25
Project: Self- Discovery and Womanhood: A Collection of Short Stories 
Advisor: Visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction for Biology Beth Eischen

Lula Dalupang ’26
Project: Developing Title IX Student Ambassadors at Hamilton College
Advisor: Associate Professor of Sociology Matthew Grace

Ally Feisel ’25
Project: “To the Marrow: Poetry on Womanhood and the Body Understanding of Kirkland College’s Legacy”
Advisor: Naomi Guttman, the Jane Watson Irwin Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

Contact

Contact Name

Pavitra Sundar

Chair, Kirkland Endowment Advisory Committee

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