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Six faculty members were approved for tenure by Hamilton’s Board of Trustees at its recent meeting. They include Catherine Beck (geosciences), Erica De Bruin (government), Susan Jarosi (art history), Jaime Kucinskas, (sociology), Alexandra Plakias (philosophy), and Jesse Weiner (classics).

Assistant Professor of Art History Nadya Bair was recently named the winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2021 PROSE Award in Media and Cultural Studies for her book The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market.

Associate Professor of Art History Emeritus Steve Goldberg recently published “Approaches to the History of Chinese Calligraphy in American Scholarship” as the first chapter in Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Studies in Postwar America.

Arathi Menon joined the faculty in July as assistant professor of art history. Here she shares impressions of Hamilton and its students after her first semester.

Associate Professor of Art History Susan Jarosi is the co-principal investigator of a four-person team recently awarded a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) Incubator grant.

A recent afternoon celebration of Kevin ’70 and Karen Kennedy’s generosity and participation in American Art 1900-1950 offered all those involved, directly and tangentially, an opportunity to revisit the wealth of experiences incorporated in the course.

Associate Professor of Art History Susan Jarosi was recently selected to serve on a committee assembled by the American Association of University Professors to look into academic governance issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

Associate Professor of Art History Steve Goldberg recently served as an external examiner for a viva voce (oral examination) at the University of Birmingham, U.K. The evaluation was conducted via the internet.

It’s a job, which means it comes with deadlines, bottom lines, clients, crazy hours, and stress. Such things are rendered incidental, however, when reverential colleagues gather to watch the uncrating of a Monet. Six Hamilton alumni who work at the venerable auction house Sotheby’s New York talk about what they do.

After graduation, art history major Lila Reid ’20 will spend the year as an intern at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center in Massachusetts. The paid opportunity will provide her with the experience necessary to study art conservation at the graduate level.