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Hamilton College faculty, staff, and alumni continued to appear in national media outlets and prominent higher education publications in 2025 as thought leaders, providing their expertise on a wide range of topics.

Enzo Battaglia ’26 entered Columbia Law School this fall through the highly selective Accelerated Interdisciplinary Legal Education (AILE) program, which permits students to earn both a bachelor’s degree from Hamilton and a juris doctor degree from Columbia after three years of study at each institution.

In celebration of National First-Gen Student Week, we are recognizing our many students who identify as “first-generation” — the first in their families to complete or pursue a bachelor’s degree. Alejandro Sosa Hernández ’26 recently interviewed several of our first-gens to get their thoughts on being college trailblazers.

“The Institutionalization of Loyalty Traps under Trump’s Second Presidency,” by Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas, was recently published by the Israeli chapter of the International Society of Public Law – Israel (ICON-S).

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. September’s news topics included coverage of international students, Confederate monuments, and inflation, among others. Links are provided, but some may require subscriptions to access content.

Hamilton was well-represented at the American Sociological Association (ASA) annual meeting in Chicago where several Sociology Department faculty members presented their research.

An article co-authored by Associate Professor of Sociology Matthew Grace and Danny Lee ’23 was recently published in the journal Social Science & Medicine.

Through Emerson Foundation Grants and Levitt Summer Research Fellowships, Hamilton students forge their own research paths. Explore what three summer grantees said about the inspiration and significance of their projects.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. August’s news topics included coverage of campus speech, Upstate New York brain drain, and reinstallation of Confederate statues, among others.

Allie Ennis ’25 may have been singled out by the Class of 2025 as its student Commencement speaker, but when she stepped up to the podium, her remarks were all about community.