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Professor of Comparative Literature Peter J. Rabinowitz published an article titled “Sedimental Education: or, Reading as We Age” in a PMLA feature on “Reading over Time.”

When Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph ’81 first pitched the idea that would one day become the worldwide streaming service to his wife, she told him: “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.”

The Hamilton New York City Program kicked off the semester by going on a private tour of the Whitney Museum’s exhibition An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940-2017 on Aug. 24. This semester’s program, titled “The Economy of the Social Sector in the Global City” is directed by Professor of Economics Chris Georges and studies social enterprises, the nonprofit sector, corporate social responsibility, and impact investing.

Hamilton’s Model United Nations (MUN) team competed in the Columbia Model United Nations in New York (CMUNNY) conference from Sept. 27 to Sept. 30 in New York City. The conference invited colleges from all over North America to compete over the weekend, engaging students in 19 specialized committees.

Last autumn, Andres “Fluffy” Aguilar ’19 embarked on an extensive year of study abroad in the Southern Hemisphere. Aguilar, a Gilman Scholarship recipient, spent his junior year studying all across South America, from comparative education studies in Chile and Argentina, to youth popular culture and youth media studies in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

André Kneib and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy, by Associate Professor of Art History Stephen J. Goldberg, was recently published by Mare & Martin (Paris) as the first volume in the new Méroé series.

Tarik Desire ’18, an Africana studies major, has just finished a five-month immersion program for software development. He answered three questions for us about his time at Hamilton and about his future.

An open curriculum and studying what you love can take you all over the place, and Andrew Groll ’19 arrived at a literature major with the spectrum-spanning minors digital arts and medieval and Renaissance studies.

This September 2018 marks Google’s 20th anniversary. Chris LaRosa ’03, now a senior product manager at Google, joined the company as an intern on the technical writing team in 2007. To make the company’s milestone birthday, we asked him to share a little about his path to Google and his work at the company.