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Two book reviews written by Hamilton College Professor of History Maurice Isserman were featured in The Chicago Tribune (Aug. 29, 2004). Isserman reviewed Mona Z. Smith’s Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee (Faber and Faber) and Nadine Cohadas' Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington (Pantheon) for the daily newspaper. Both Canada Lee and Dinah Washington were African-American pioneers in the world of entertainment, helping to achieve equal rights for African-Americans in both movies and music in the 1940s.

If you're an undergraduate majoring in political science, attending the 2004 Republican National Convention is something to brag about to classmates. If you're also an editorial intern at Time magazine, it's a good reason to miss the first week of classes. If the Time building in which you work is less than 20 blocks away from the convention at Madison Square Garden-and you have a press convention pass-it's better than college; it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (professors take note).

Young Han '06 was interviewed for an Associated Press article, "Students fighting for right to register to vote in college towns."

Hamilton College Professors Cheng Li, Ann Frechette, Thomas Wilson and Kyoko Omori have been awarded research grants from the Freeman Foundation for their proposals for Asian studies research projects. The grant program funds both long-term and short-term projects. Projects that receive funding from the Freeman Foundation are focused on professional development of the Hamilton Asian studies faculty.

Pam Cederquist, a 1983 graduate of Hamilton College, is the producer of the Imagine Festival, a six-day arts and cultural event taking place in New York during the Republican National Convention, Aug. 28-Sept. 2. The festival will feature 200 issue-based cultural events at 70 venues.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies Steve Humphries-Brooks was interviewed for a TV Guide article (8/22/04) about a recent surge in the number of religious-themed movies, due in part to the popularity of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Humphries-Brooks said, "People may not identify with the church, but they still see Jesus as a significant figure they wish to explore. The interest was latent with all the Armageddon movies, The Matrix in particular. The Passion made it blatant. And The Da Vinci Code offered an alternative view of Christianity," Humphries-Brooks said. He teaches "The Celluloid Savior," about the depiction of Jesus in movies, and is writing a book, Cinematic Savior: Hollywood's Making of the American Christ from DeMille's King of Kings to Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.  

Members of Hamilton's Class of 2008 arrived on the Hill on August 24 to begin orientation. A full schedule of activities this week will culminate with Convocation on Sunday, Aug. 29, at 4 p.m. in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center. President Joan Hinde Stewart will deliver a talk titled "A Fahrenheit Summer."

Gita Rajan, associate professor of English and director of literature at Fairfield (Conn.) University, has been appointed to the Jane Watson Irwin Visiting Professor of Women’s Studies chair for the 2004-2005 academic year at Hamilton College. The Irwin professorship supports the needs and interests of women at Hamilton.

Monk Rowe, musician and The Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, has been chosen as a recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) Popular Music Survey Award. According to ASCAP, the awards are based upon the unique prestige value of each writer's catalog of original compositions, as well as recent performances in areas not surveyed by the society.

Judith Owens-Manley, Associate Director for Community Research for the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, was interviewed by the Utica Observer Dispatch for an August 22 front-page article on poverty in the city.  Owens-Manley commented in “In city of need, poor feel abandoned – Utica & Poverty: Tough Lives, Bright Hopes” on poverty’s effects on children and the shrinking safety net of available federal funds to help those whose incomes are too small to provide for basic living necessities.