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In an email to the Hamilton community on Nov. 13, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo announced the death of Associate Professor of Art History Emeritus Stephen Goldberg.

Forty-five new faculty members have entered Hamilton’s ranks, including nine tenure-track professors in anthropology, art, computer science, dance and movement studies, economics, government, mathematics and statistics, music, and Russian. They join 31 visiting professors and lecturers, and four teaching fellows for the 2024-25 academic year.

The Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College will host an exhibition called “Menagerie: Animals in Art” from September 7 to June 8, 2025. This exhibit will showcase hundreds of artworks featuring animals from ancient times to today.

In 2023, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Hamilton a grant for its new curatorial studies program, and this summer a handful of students had the opportunity to work behind-the-scenes as interns at regional galleries and museums. We talked with a few about their experiences.

Members of Hamilton’s Class of 2024 have walked off the Commencement stage, canes in hand, and out into the world ready to make a difference.

Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo recognized eight faculty members with Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards in three categories — career achievement, early career achievement, and notable year — at the May 14 faculty meeting.

The Wellin Museum of Art exhibition René Treviño: Stab of Guilt, which runs through June 9, offers an exuberant selection of works with wide-ranging themes that illuminate the artist’s colorful and complex aesthetic. Included among the new work on display are 20 mixed-media collages that incorporate imagery from 19th-century star charts made by C.H.F. Peters, Hamilton’s first professor of astronomy.

Six Hamilton students — Lara Barreira ’25, Nikki Conlogue 25, Miranda Gregory ’25, Kelvin Nunez ’24, Christina Stoll ’25, and Mimosa Van ’26 — are studying abroad this semester, thanks to assistance from Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships.

Assistant Professor of Art History Nadya Bair recently organized a panel on “Representation and the Holocaust: Responses and Perspectives in Historical Context” at the Association for Jewish Studies conference in San Francisco.