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Ashley Bohrer, the Truax Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor of philosophy, made presentations at several conferences this fall.

They are partners in poetry: Marty Cain '13 majored in interdisciplinary poetics at Hamilton, received a M.F.A. in poetics , and published Kids of the Black Hole. Kina Viola '13 majored in creative writing and edits and designs chapbooks. Together, they run Garden-Door Press.

Mike Dubke ’92 P ’19, veteran communications operative and former assistant in the Trump White House, and Marc Elias ’90, a partner with Perkins Coie who served as general counsel for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, met for a live Facebook chat on Dec. 2. The two discussed America’s increasingly polarizing political divide and what created this division, a conversation inspired by Hamilton’s Common Ground event.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Nhora Lucía Serrano’s review of Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present and Future was recently published in the Journal of American Ethnic History.

Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled “The Decline of Elite Uncertainty during Authoritarian Consolidation: Russia under Yeltsin and Putin,” on Nov. 11 in Chicago.

Visitors have only until Dec. 10 to view the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art’s Innovative Approaches, Honored Traditions, an exhibition of 140 works of art drawn from its permanent collection.

A new article appearing on Vox, titled "Trump is still reportedly pushing his racist ‘birther’ conspiracy theory about Obama," featured research completed by Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Professor of Government.

Two former diplomats and experts of foreign relations visited Hamilton College on Nov. 30 for a discussion on U.S.–Iran relations and the nuclear deal. Thomas Pickering, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs and ambassador to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, and Jordan, and Seyed Hossein Mousavian, former Iranian ambassador and research scholar at Princeton University answered questions from moderator Emad Kiyaei, the Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs, and from the audience.

“Mexico’s logging threatens butterflies,” co-authored by William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus Ernest Williams, was published as the lead letter in the Nov. 24th issue of the journal Science.

SpecSpeak and Hillel recently presented Glen Kessler, a Fact Check Columnist with The Washington Post who spoke about the power of words.