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For Madeline Pittel ’24, interning at Sotheby’s has been a longstanding dream. In high school, she would walk by the auction house’s large New York office en route to a job elsewhere, all the while thinking, “I want to work there one day, and I’m going to wait for my junior year college internship. So this is a five- or six-year plan-in-the-making.”

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Claire Mouflard's article, "Noire n’est pas leur métier : solidarités intersectionnelles et militantisme antiraciste chez Rokhaya Diallo et Aïssa Maïga," was published in the edited volume Solid/taires :Féminismes et sororités dans les productions artistiques françaises et francophones edited by Ramona Mielusel and published with Brill

Every year, Hamilton selects project proposals from members of the senior class that exhibit a “spirit of inquisitiveness and a seriousness of purpose” worthy of $30,000. Hamilton’s Bristol Fellowship awards this generous funding for worldwide research projects that will encourage both “discovery of self and the world.” This year’s recipients, Abigail Moone ’23 and Charlie Ratner ’23 hope to make those same discoveries.

The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship offers participants the chance to explore their “absolute passion.” This mission appealed to Salwa Sidahmed ’23. After graduation, Sidahmed will visit five different countries to follow her passion: plant-based practices and sustainability.

During spring break, Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali visited Yaoundé, Cameroon, where he was an invited guest at a festival celebrating Cameroonian/Ivory Coast writer Werewere-Liking.

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.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Society of the French Academic Palms (ASFAP), Professor Emeritus of French John C. O'Neal was invited to dinner with France's ambassador to the United States, Philippe Etienne, at his residence in Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Claire Mouflard's article, "Stages, Streets, and Social Media: Intersectional Feminism and Online Activism in France during the Pandemic ," was published in the peer-reviewed journal French Politics, Culture & Society in October 2022.

“Typically American? Paris in Contemporary American Crime Fiction,” by Professor of French Cheryl Morgan, was recently published in an edited volume of essays titled Paris in the Americas: Yesterday and Today.

L’impair de la nation, by Professor of French Joseph Mwantuali, was recently published in Paris by Présence Africaine.