Softball standout Emma Tansky ’25 didn’t retire her bat and glove after her career as a Continental came to an end. When not working as a dermatology assistant at Bryn Mawr Skin & Cancer Institute, she’s a ball girl for the Philadelphia Phillies.

A book review by Nhora Serrano, director of academic technology, teaching, and research services, is included in the American Civil Liberties Union’s 2026 Back-to-School Bookshelf, a national reading list highlighting books that engage with civil liberties, civil rights, and the work of building a more perfect union.

Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies Amy Marvin recently co-curated a night of trans short films in Buffalo featuring a Q&A with filmmaker Nyala Moon.

That we sometimes want friends who are mean is not only the topic of a journal article co-authored by a Hamilton College professor, it’s now award-winning research on a global stage.

Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies Jack Martínez-Arias recently published an article titled “Indigenous Bodies: Sacred Craft and Forbidden Desire in Retablo (2017)” in the peer-reviewed journal South Atlantic Review.

Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History and author of Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering, is featured prominently in Pete Takeda’s Alpinist article “Stepping into the Syllabus: A Veteran Alpinist Sees the Himalaya Through the Eyes of College Students” (Issue 94, Summer 2026), about Isserman’s course History and Literature of Himalayan Mountaineering, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.

Director of Athletics Kristine Fowler arrived at Hamilton in March after 28 years in college athletics administration, most recently at Dartmouth College where she served as senior deputy athletics director and chief operating officer. We asked her to share her thoughts on Division III athletics and her priorities as she begins her first full academic year on the Hill.

Professor of Religious Studies S.B. Rodríguez-Plate recently made presentations in Singapore and Scotland. In Singapore, they were invited to run a half-day workshop on publishing at Singapore Management University’s College of Integrative Sciences.

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ryan Martinie published a study on the biosynthesis of the antibiotic pantocin A in the journal ACS Chemical Biology. The study was coauthored by alumni Blake Levy '23, Nyaari Kothiya '23, Ben Jakubczak '23, Natalie Beebe '24, Anastasia Passalaris '24, Taylor Bartels '25, Isis Riviere '25, and students Anika Amann '27, Akmaral Tezekbaeva '27, Rachel Alpert '27, Tara Houser '27, and Alice Lee '28.

Alan Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Relations, chaired a panel at the annual conference of the European International Studies Association in Lisbon, Portugal, on Sept. 4.