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Chaise LaDousa, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of Anthropology, was recently elected to a three-year term on the executive board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).

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.

Three faculty members were named recipients of Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching in the 2019-20 academic year. Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen announced the honors at the May faculty meeting.

Members of the AHA! group Killjoy Studies: Feminist Praxis Towards a More Just Academy recently conducted a roundtable discussion at the annual National Women’s Studies Association conference in San Francisco.

Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa recently co-edited a special issue of Culture, Theory and Critique honoring the pioneering work of Bonnie Urciuoli, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Anthropology Emerita.

Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa recently edited Language and Schooling in India and Sri Lanka: Language Medium Matters, a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (IJSL).

Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa was recently named co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (JLA).

“The Queer Sound of the Dandiya Queen,” by Assistant Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar, was recently published on the “Sounding Out!” blog.

Professor of Anthropology Chaise LaDousa and Ana Baldrige ’12 recently published an article in Ethos, the journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.

Hamilton College President David Wippman announced the promotion of four faculty members to the rank of professor.  Heather Buchman, music; Stephen Ellingson, sociology; Ella Gant, art; and Chaise LaDousa, anthropology, were promoted effective July 1.