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Eugene M. Tobin, president of Hamilton College since 1993, has announced his resignation, which will become effective June 30, 2003. The announcement was made at the college’s monthly faculty meeting on October 1.

Professor of Religious Studies Heidi Ravven published a paper, "Spinoza's Individualism Reconsidered: Some Lessons from the Short Treatise," in Spinoza(Ashgate: Aldershot, 2002).

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz contributed a "back-page" op-ed piece to International Piano 6 (No. 23) (September/October 2002).

In September, Soledad Gelles, visiting assistant professor of Spanish, presented a paper titled "Ficciun y finanzas: gÈnero, prensa periÛdica y modernidad en el Per™, 1870-1890," at the Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures at Washington University in St. Louis.

Earlier this summer, Mitchell Stevens' book, Kingdom of Children was nominated as a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Stevens also presented two papers: "Love, Numbers and the Social Organization of Value in Higher Education," at the University of Arizona last spring; and "Rankings as Symbols: U.S. News and World Report Rankings of Colleges and Law Schools," at the American Sociological Association annual meetings in August.

Jeremy Medina, the Burgess Professor of Romance Langauges and Literature, published an article in the January-June issue of Acotaciones: Revista de Investigación Teatral (the journal of the Spanish Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts)on the study of structure in an important play of Nobel Prize winning Spanish dramatist Antonio Buero Vallejo: "Dualidades estructurales de En la ardiente oscuridad de Antonio Buero Vallejo."

Lecturer in Voice Lauralyn Kolb was featured in the opening concert of the Utica Symphony Orchestra's 2002-2003 season. Joining the orchestra for Samuel Barber's "Knoxville: Summer of 1915," a work for soprano and orchestra, the concert also included a tribute to Richard Rogers which Kolb performed with baritone Richard White. Her latest compact disc "Just-spring: Art songs of John Duke" (New World Records) has been very favorably reviewed in the September/October issue of the Journal of Singing.

Author and editor Bakari Kitwana will deliver a lecture "Thuglife and the Hip Hop Generation: Representations of Black Masculinity in Popular Culture," on Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 pm. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton College. Kitwana’s appearance is the next in the Kirkland Project “Masculinities” series. A reception and book signing will follow. Co-sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and the Black Student Union, this program is free and open to the public.

Members of the popular 1970s jazz ensemble, Soprano Summit, will reunite for a performance during Hamilton College’s Fallcoming Weekend, on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts on the Hamilton campus. The event is open to the public.

Assistant Professor of English Dana Luciano's article, "Invalid Relations: Queer Kinship in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady," was published in the Henry James Review 23.2 (Spring 2002). Luciano also gave a paper, "Benito Cereno as Counter-Monumental Narrative," at the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature's conference in April.