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The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently awarded Hamilton College a $150,000 grant for a new curricular effort that will connect students and faculty with four regional cultural institutions, as well as the College’s Wellin Museum of Art and Burke Library’s Special Collections.

“The home” cannot be defined by one thing. As a place of significance to billions of people, it takes on different meanings in different contexts, transforming walls and floors into a dimensional concept that is ripe for philosophical study.

The New York Six Liberal Arts Consortium, of which Hamilton College is a member, has been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the Mellon Foundation to create the NY6 Mellon Academic Leadership Fellows Program, a three-year program to provide an intensive leadership experience for faculty in the humanities who aspire to academic leadership roles.

When Jacob Hane ’22 began studying Latin in middle school, he never imagined it would lead him to pursue graduate studies at a divinity school. But through that love for Latin came a love for the classics, and through that, an interest in the New Testament and its cultural significance.

Hispanic studies major Anyi Rescalvo ’22 will teach in Mexico through a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship after graduation.

Jahmali Matthews ’22 has been awarded an FAO Schwarz Fellowship, a highly selective two-year award in social impact that includes a paid position with a leading nonprofit, personalized mentoring, and professional development experiences.

Assistant Professor of Classics Amy Koenig recently participated in the SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference and the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies.

Arianna Robertson ’23 recently presented her Emerson grant research project at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention.

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.

Nominated by faculty, Jacob Hane ’22 and Nyaari Kothiya ’23 will receive mentoring from leading scholars and other humanities professionals as they explore the importance of humanistic perspectives in addressing contemporary challenges.