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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.

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.

Lecturer in Music Ubaldo Valli was recently announced as the winner of a 2023 American Prize in Orchestral Programming.

Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo recognized 10 faculty members with Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards in three categories — career achievement, early career achievement, and notable year — at the May 2 faculty meeting. These awards recognize individual accomplishment and reflect a richness and depth of scholarship and creative activity across the faculty.

Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching excellence were presented to three faculty members by Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo during the May 2 faculty meeting. Munemo said 50 nominations from students were received for the awards.

A double album titled “Ain’t All About You” by Lecturer in Music (folk guitar) Adam Brooks Dudding received a Sammy Award for "Best Jam Band Recording" at the Syracuse Area Music Awards ceremony on March 3.