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Associate Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley is one of nine winners of the 2025 Dan David Prize. Winners are awarded $300,000 each to recognize their contribution to the study of the human past and to support their future endeavors, making it the largest history prize in the world.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. May’s news topics included coverage of global politics, international student issues, and faculty evaluations, among others.

The Loyalty Trap by Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas “explores how civil servants navigated competing pressures and duties amid the chaos of the Trump administration, drawing on in-depth interviews with senior officials in the most contested agencies over the course of a tumultuous first term,” according to the Columbia University Press.

The Society of American Historians has elected Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History Maurice Isserman a member of the society in recognition of the “narrative power and scholarly distinction of [his] historical work.”

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. April’s news topics included coverage of former President Obama’s visit to Hamilton as well as subjects from diversity on bank boards to a new Levitt Center study on gun violence.

Naval Lappalainen ’25 and Xavier McMahon ’27 have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) to study Russian this summer. Lappalainen, a double major in history and Russian Studies, from Wilmington, Del., will study in Kyrgyzstan, and McMahon, a double major in world politics and Russian studies from Louisville, Kentucky, will be based in Daugavpils, Latvia.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. March’s news topics included varied subjects from gambling during March Madness to a possible third term for President Donald Trump.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. February’s news topics included varied subjects from President Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to campus to the possible economic and political effects of decisions made by President Donald Trump.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, is co-editor of the scholarly book series ASIANetwork Books with Lever Press/UMichigan.

Shoshana Keller, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Russian and Eurasian History, presented work at the University of Illinois Central Asia Research Forum on February 19.