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Assistant Professor of Anthropology Hannah Lau was a co-author on a paper on which Nandini Subramaniam ’22 was first author. Former faculty member Colin Quinn was another co-author on “A histological approach to mortuary variability in Early Bronze Age Transylvania” in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

As the 2025-26 academic year wrapped up, students were honored with scholarships and awards, and presented research at professional conferences.

Hamilton’s Class of 2026 has been celebrated, and now its grads are setting off to explore what’s next. They’re launching careers, starting grad school, and pursuing internships to further explore interests they discovered on the Hill. We asked a few recent graduates to tell us about who influenced them, memorable moments, and proudest accomplishments.

In its final meeting of the 2025-26 academic year, the Hamilton Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 33 additional members of the Class of 2026.

Four Hamilton seniors are finalists for the 2026-27 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, a national fellowship for purposeful, independent exploration outside the U.S.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Chenyu Wang delivered a keynote address titled “Learning to Be Vulnerable in American Universities: How Frameworks of Recognition Shape Politics and Belonging among Chinese Students” at the 2026 Ethnography in Education Research Forum.

While Charli XCX may have started the movement, Brat Summer found an unlikely new figurehead in presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Carter Higgins ’26 returns to the scene of Harris’ Brat era to perform a digital and linguistic autopsy, revealing the unstable nature of modern political marketing in the Internet Age.

Chaise LaDousa, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Anthropology, was recently elected to a three-year term on the executive board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale, with former Hamilton professor Colin Quinn, recently co-led a workshop on “The Archaeology of Property Regimes.”

In an email to the Hamilton community on Nov. 5, Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo shared news of the death of George T. (Tom) Jones, the Elias W. Leavenworth Professor of Anthropology Emeritus.