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Amidst the bustling crowds at Commons and McEwen dining halls, language faculty and students sit around a table to enjoy a meal while conversing in their chosen studied language. Hamilton’s “language tables,” as they are known, provide both valuable speaking experience and community building opportunities.

Hamilton welcomed 51 new faculty members including eight new tenure-track in addition to visiting professors, lecturers, and teaching fellows for the 2021-22 academic year. The College is in the midst of a 10-year period, begun in 2015, during which nearly half of its faculty will reach average retirement age.

Given the chance to serve as a Young Ambassador for The German Academic Exchange Service, Eamon Gibbons ’21, a biology major and German minor, eagerly said yes.

Assistant Professor of German & Russian Jason Cieply published an article, "The Enthusiastic Objectifications of Skaz: Mikhail Zoshchenko and the 'Simple-Souled' Soviet Reception of Jazz," in the Summer 2020 issue of Russian Review.

The sequence of events lined up perfectly. In July, Charlotte Carstens ’16 finished up a five-month fellowship at the German Bundestag in Berlin just in time to begin a two-year master’s program in German and European studies at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Hamilton College offers students the opportunity to study over 10 languages from Chinese and Spanish to Arabic and Japanese. While most of the learning takes place inside the classroom, foreign language enthusiasts have ample opportunity to brush up on their language and culture skills within the community.

Allison Zuckerman ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. A history and German studies major at Hamilton, she studied at the University of Munich in 2016-17.

Deasia Hawkins ’18 has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. She studied abroad in Germany during the 2016-17 academic year and says she “looks forward to returning and immersing myself once again in the culture and history Germany has to offer.”

Roger Paas ’67 recently completed his multi-volume edition “The German Political Broadsheet, 1600-1700” with the release of Volume 14 (index volume). Published by Harrassowitz Verlag in Wiesbaden, Germany, Paas’ work reproduces over 5,000 broadsheets (early newspapers) produced during the European warfare of the 17th century.

Back in the U.S. barely long enough to shake the jet lag, Allison Zuckerman ’18 already missed Munich, where she studied for 10 months, focusing on German history, culture and language.