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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Seth Schermerhorn recently co-organized and presented on a panel in the Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Meeting in Denver.

Jared Belsky ’19 presented joint research at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Jose, Calif., — and won an award for the work about winegrowers in Umbria, Italy.

Assistant Professor of Government Erica De Bruin presented her research on military coups in the aftermath of civil war at the University of California-Berkeley's international relations workshop series on Nov. 26

Members of the Hamilton community gathered on Dec. 4 for what is hoped will become an annual tradition – Lighting of Our Village – outside Sadove Student Center. The event focused on what light means to different people and different cultures.

“Convergence and Competition Among the New Turkish Middle Classes,” co-authored by Professor of Economics Erol Balkan appears in the December issue of Current History.

What does business have to do with the arts? Kate Spencer K’79 learned about this the hard way when she walked in on two professors competing in a critique of her art. “It didn’t even have anything to do with me,” she said. “It was just two professors debating, but I had to watch my pride deflate right in front of them. I learned that day that my ego was something that I had to manage if I really wanted to make a living as an artist.”

For the Japanese department, the close of each semester means the bi-annual Red Pit party-- an evening of communal celebration among students and faculty. Upperclassmen present videos, projects, and skits they have worked on throughout the semester, granting students beginning their studies of the language a glimpse into their future tasks. And, of course, the night is paired with delicious food-- which even draws in attendees outside of the department.

“An engaging account of the rise, fall, resurrection and legacy of the Weavers, the Greenwich Village-based quartet of left-leaning musicians founded near the end of 1948,” was how Maurice Isserman, the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History, described Wasn’t That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America in The New York Times Sunday Book Review section.

Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently presented “Promethean Possibilities and Punishments in Dan Simmons’ Hyperion” at two conferences.