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Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Jason Cieply spoke at Bard College on Artemy Magun's 2024 book, "The Temptation of Non-Being: Negativity in Aesthetics," which Cieply co-translated with Anastasia Osipova and Ruth Averbach.

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.

Associate Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literatures (Russian) Emeritus Frank Sciacca recently gifted a collection of books related to Ukrainian arts and culture to The Icon Museum and Study Center.

In the 20 years since the Fulbright Program began announcing its top-producing colleges and universities, Hamilton has appeared on that list nearly every time.

As the spring semester wound down, there were many student accomplishments remaining to applaud. Check out what some of our students achieved in the last few months.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Yelena Severina published an article, “Crimean Tableaux of CatherineII’s Court as the Visual Record of the Russian Empire’s Southern Expansion,” in December in E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies.

President David Wippman recently announced the appointment of seven Hamilton faculty members to endowed chairs. All were effective July 1.

When Wyn Pennybacker '19 was evacuated from Ukraine to Poland by her Fulbright program because of the Russia-Ukraine war, she continued to engage the students she had been teaching and took every opportunity to volunteer locally to help Ukrainian refugees.

Journalist — and now Fulbright researcher — Katie Jickling ’15 will travel to Chennai in Southern India to study the efforts of two Protestant churches to build gender-inclusive leadership. Jickling is a recipient of a 2021 Fulbright Research/Study Award.