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Students Christopher Bouton '09, Casey Green '09 and Kelsey Rice '10 along with Lisa Trivedi, associate professor of history and chair of Asian Studies, traveled to Siena College on Nov. 8 for a conference of Phi Alpha Theta, the national honors association for history. The students each gave papers, which were well received and reviewed by the faculty from the other campuses.  Bouton's paper was titled "The Brotherhood of Thieves Riot: The 1842 Anti-Abolitionist Riot on Nantucket"; Green's was "Post-Revolutionary America and the Republican Mother"; and Rice's was "Misinterpreting the Middle East: Western Biases in Approaches to Middle Eastern History."

Students in the Hamilton in New York program met with Randy Cohen, "The Ethicist" for The New York Times Magazine. Cohen gave a talk to the group called "Ten Reasons Not to Drive in Manhattan, or, the Highway to Hell."  They presented him with a homemade MTA subway line cake.

Associate Professors of Economics Ann Owen and Julio Videras and Scholar in Residence Chris Willemsen have authored an article for the Social Science Quarterly (vol. 89, December 2008). In the article "Democracy, Participation, and Life Satisfaction," Owen, Videras, and Willemsen used data on life satisfaction for individuals in 46 countries.

Professor of English Patricia O'Neill lectured at Skidmore College on Tuesday, Nov. 18, as a presenter in the college's International Week program. O'Neill's talk was titled "Where Globalization and Localization Meet: The Films of Spike Lee" and was sponsored by Skidmore's Off-Campus Study and Exchanges and the Speakers Bureau.

Two Hamilton College football players have been selected to the 2008 New England Small College Athletic Conference all-conference team.

Hamilton College's Peter Kosgei '10 will compete in the 2008 NCAA Division III men's cross country championship at Hanover College's L.S. Ayres Athletic Complex in Hanover, Ind., on Saturday, Nov. 22.

Derek Jones, Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, gave an invited talk titled " Econometric case studies - a review of evidence from the US, China, Spain and Finland," on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Copenhagen Business School.

Nathan Goodale, visiting instructor of anthropology, presented the keynote address at the 8th Annual Montana Anthropological Student Association Banquet on Nov. 15 at the University of Montana. The talk, "Cultural Transmission and the Production of Material Goods: Evolutionary Process through Morphometric Measures of Notched Points," focused on one of Goodale's current research projects that involves contributions from Hamilton students Lara Cueni '08, Lisa Fontes '09 and Matthew Eichenfield '09.

Anna Oldfield, visiting assistant professor of comparative literature and postdoctoral fellow in Asian Studies, recently published a book titled Azerbaijani Women Poet-Minstrels: Women Ashiqs from the Eighteenth Century to the Present.

Hamilton College's Erica Dressler '09 (Farmington, Conn./Miss Porters School) has been selected to the 2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's Soccer Team by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).