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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. November’s news highlights ranged from challenges faced in higher education to Dolly Parton to heart disease.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, is one of the authors of a $500,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation for a three-year ASIANetwork’s AAPI Voices and Stories Project Pilot. Here Trivedi talks about the project.

Visiting Professor of History Ty Seidule’s schedule has been interwoven with major diversity, equity, and inclusion presentations, media interviews, and U.S. Naming Commission Army base ceremonies this semester. Seidule has also presented at military institutions, museums, universities, churches, and conferences, and has written in and been quoted by major national outlets including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

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. October’s news highlights ranged from coverage of the role of luck in career success to the interrelationship between art and science.

“Why I Just Quit DSA,” an essay written by Professor of History Maurice Isserman, appeared in The Nation on Oct. 23.

Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley presented “The Trouble with Simples: A Professor’s Unfinished Pharmacopeia in Enlightenment Venice” in a recent lecture at New York University.

Shoshana Keller, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Russian and Eurasian History, hosted a conference of the Upstate New York historians of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia on Oct. 14.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, recently presented an invited lecture on “Housing for an Industrial Working Class: Ahmedabad, 1920-1950” at Emory University.

The Perfection of Nature: Animals, Breeding, and Race in the Renaissance, by Assistant Professor of History Mackenzie Cooley, was recently named to the shortlist for the 2023 Cundill History Prize.

Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France, by Associate Professor of History Celeste Day Moore, was recently awarded the 2023 Woody Guthrie First Book Award by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.