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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.

With an eye for data and years of experience working with information companies on government compliance, Ed Keating ’87 saw potential gold in the relatively obscure data being reported by the burgeoning cannabis industry.

Professor of Government and Department Chair Sharon Rivera co-authored an op-ed in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog titled "Russia’s referendum could keep Vladimir Putin in power until 2036."

Emma Belanger ’20 knew that she wanted to explore pursue her interests in Chinese and Russian language and culture after graduation, but wasn't sure how. Then, while studying abroad, she learned of Harbin, a town in China on the border of Russia.

'Teaching a language is really exciting in that you get these raw, unmolded people who don’t understand any of the language, and within a few months they’re already understanding quite a lot.'

Students in Hamilton’s Russian Studies Program visited Holy Trinity Monastery, a Russian Orthodox church, museum, and seminary in Jordanville, N.Y., on Oct. 12. Michael Perekrestov, director of the museum, led a private tour of the exhibit “Revealing the Divine: Treasures of Russian Sacred Art.” The exhibit on Russian religious imagery features icons, architecture, and symbols of ecclesiastical life in Russia from the medieval period to the present.

As a resettlement case manager Erin Sullivan ’13 helps Russian speaking refugees from the former Soviet Union establish new lives.

A regimented academic path? Why? Isabella Schoning ’16 was interested in so many things her first year at Hamilton College she took courses in seven departments and not one was physics. Still, she’s managed to double major in physics and Russian studies - and study abroad. Schoning went to St. Petersburg, Russia, an experience supported by a Gilman International Scholarship Program award. She is a dean’s list scholar and the 2014 recipient of the College Scholar Athlete Award. She’s also worked as a College tour guide, taught English to refugees and is a member of the women’s varsity tennis team.

Ross Ufberg ’07 co-founded New Vessel Press, a publishing firm that specializes in translating foreign literature into English.