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Associate Professor of English Doran Larson's story, "Samba," appears in the currrent issue of Alaska Quarterly Review. He has also recently delivered papers at two international conferences: "Writing the Prison: Reflections on a Creative Writing Course Taught at Attica Correctional Facility," at the New Directions in the Humanities Conference in Paris; and, "Fantastic Sexualities: Djuna Barnes and James Baldwin Imagining the Third Sex," at the International Association for the Study of the Fantastic in the Arts Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.

While some Hamilton students did their internships in business offices this summer, it was all hands-on for senior Megan Brousseau who returned to her home in Heidelberg, Germany, to work in a U.S. Army hospital. During her summer at the hospital, Brousseau worked in the emergency room and the orthopedic clinic, at everything from data entry to surgery.

In an article titled “Grade inflation traced to Vietnam War” in Boulder, Colorado’s Daily Camera, Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, was quoted on what he views as a possible “tenuous connection” between grade inflation to the Vietnam War.

In "The Eighteenth Century: An Entire Other World," Professor of French John C. O'Neal recounts his experience in the field of eighteenth-century studies research, tracing the threads that have tied together his scholarship over the past three decades. Solicited by the editor of the volume, Carol Blum, this article appears in Etre dix-huitiémiste II, published by the Centre International d'Etude du XVIII Siècle in Ferney-Voltaire, France in 2007.

This summer, art history major Xin Wang ’09 secured an internship at one of the most prestigious museums in the country. Wang worked in the newly-established Media Department of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as an archivist and art previewer; during her summer, she gained a huge amount of experience in the field and business of modern art.

In their newly released book Europe at Bay, Alan Cafruny, Hamilton’s Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, and J. Magnus Ryder, professor of international relations at Oxford Brookes University, contend that “Absent the fundamental social and political changes that might engender a positive and coherent regional agency, Europe appears condemned to continuing dependency on the United States’ precarious imperium.”

Ryan Lindsay Bartz (’07), Romina Memoli (’09),and Melanie Leeds (’08) spent six weeks in the United Kingdom and worked at the largest fringe festival in the world this summer, thanks to Hamilton’s Theater department. The students spent two weeks at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff training for the fringe by building a replica of the venue and running a few shows before heading up to Scotland. In Edinburgh they worked at Venue 13 where they were the running crew, box office managers, and assistant venue managers.

Barbie Zelizer knows that war is not a happy topic. On August 30, the former journalist thanked students for coming out to the Science Center during the first week of classes to think about heavy issues. Zelizer hoped that thinking about images of war would inspire students beyond her talk.

Professor of Communication Catherine W. Phelan has completed an entry on "museum as communication" for the International Encyclopedia of Communication. The Encyclopedia is a joint project of Blackwell Publishing and the International Communication Association and its content draws on the expertise of scholars worldwide. The Encyclopedia will give more space to areas related to public and mediated communication but include other communication forms and phenomena as well, since they represent basic elements of the human communication processes. The 10 volumes are scheduled to be published in December 2007.

Rising senior Mikhail Bell ’08 (New York, N.Y.) knew that he didn’t want to spend another summer working in an insurance agency. Bell, a major in world politics with a concentration on gender studies and development, wanted experience in a profession related to his academic interests. After some research, Bell applied for and received a position as a volunteer at the Carter Center.