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“Racial Barrier Falls in Decisive Victory” read the New York Times front-page headline on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, a day after Barack Obama defeated John McCain to become the 44th president, and first African American president, of the United States. “I hate this title,” exclaimed Melissa Harris-Lacewell, startling a full house in the Science Center Kennedy Auditorium on Nov. 18.

Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, has published "Is Bella Cohen Jewish? What's in a Name?" in Volume 18 of European Joyce Studies (New York: Rodopi, 2009).

Campus service organization Hamilton Association for Volunteering, Outreach, and Charity (HAVOC) is sponsoring its traditional mitten tree and will make the holidays a bit cheerier for many children. This year the tree has more than 90 mittens marked with a child’s gift request.  Stop by to pick a mitten between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Wednesday through Friday, in Beinecke.

Silas D. Childs Professor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel recently took part in a panel exploring the role of research at primarily undergraduate institutions at Washington College, host of the 43rd meeting of the Middle Atlantic Association of Liberal Arts Chemistry Teachers. Kinnel and his co-panelist, Shaun Murphree (Allegheny College), discussed the experiences of their departments in the significant growth in publications that was described in a recent article in the Journal of Chemical Education.

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, associate professor of politics and African American studies at Princeton University, will present a lecture, “Rethinking Race and Citizenship in the Age of Obama,” on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium at Hamilton College. The lecture, sponsored by the Diversity and Social Justice Project, Dean of Faculty and Kirkland Endowment, is free and open to the public.

A rapid-fire-rapped history lesson about Hamilton College’s namesake was one of the most popular presentations at the White House’s first-ever poetry slam. Assuming the role of Aaron Burr, Lin-Manuel Miranda offered a review Alexander Hamilton’s life as part of this event titled “Poetry, Music and Spoken Word.”

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics James Wells recently published two translations in the literary journal The Connecticut Review, Fall 2009, Vol. XXXI No. 2. The translations are titled "Olympian 14" and "Pythian 7," composed originally in ancient Greek by Pindar.

Professor of Anthropology Emeritus Douglas Raybeck responsed to a Chronicle of Higher Education commentary, “Springsteen, U2, Rod Serling, and Robin Hood," with a letter to the editor that appeared in the Nov. 1 issue.

Professor of Economics Ann Owen was interviewed by American Public Media Marketplace reporter Jeremy Hobson about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s Nov. 16 speech. Owen, a former Federal Reserve Board of Governors economist, said that the chairman's words are part of the Fed's strategy to deal with inflation.

Associate Professor of History Shoshana Keller presented recent research, titled "Public Morality in Soviet Central Asia: Did Islam Matter?" at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held in November in Boston. This paper is part of a larger project on the creation of modern childhood in Central Asia.