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Inside Knowledge: Incarcerated People on the Failures of the American Prison, by Doran Larson, the Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature and professor of Literature and Creative Writing Emeritus, was recently named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2025 by Choice.

Associate Professor of Government Alexsia Chan recently discussed the research that went into her book Beyond Coercion: The Politics of Inequality in China, in a talk sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Political Science Department at Clark University.

The Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival (TINFF) recently named More than You Can Know: A Marriage Story, by Jane Watson Irwin Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Naomi Guttman, a 2025 Best Short Documentary.

The Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC) recently named Professor of Comparative Literature Emerita Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz the winner of its 2025-26 WCC Public Scholarship Award.

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.

Four Hamilton College faculty members were awarded Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching by Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo. Announced during the May 6 faculty meeting, those honored were selected from among 47 nominations received from 80 students.

Assistant Professor of Theatre Emily K. Harrison was recently awarded four 2024 OnStage Colorado Awards for Theatrical Excellence for her collaborative contributions on the World Premiere of EYES UP, MOUTH AGAPE, produced by Buntport Theater Company (Denver).

“Deafening: The Sense of Sound [Re]Verbed,” a video essay by Pavitra Sundar, associate professor of literature and director of the Cinema and Media Studies program, was included in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound poll of  “The best video essays of 2024.”

“More Than You Can Know,” a film by Naomi Guttman, the Jane Watson Irwin Professor in the Humanities, was recently screened at the Manhattan Film Festival Expo and the Maine International Film Festival (Waterville). Guttman also participated in a filmmaker's panel at the Hamilton New York International Film Festival, where the film was screened.

Three faculty members were awarded Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching by Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo during the May 1 faculty meeting. Forty-seven nominations from students were received for the awards.