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"99 Questions You've Always Wanted to Ask an African American But Were Too Afraid to Ask," a play by Assistant Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer, will be staged at the annual Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, S.C., May 30-June 12. The one-person multi-media play is a look at what we think and what we know about African-Americans.

Associate Professor of Economics Ann Owen was recently interviewed by George Kasparian for two radio stations, WBNW and WPLM. The interview was part of the program "Financially Speaking, Financial News and Business Intelligence for and About Women." Owen spoke about Federal Reserve policies and the current state of the economy.

A recent news item appearing in The Item (Sumter, S.C.) featured a photograph of Hamilton and Colby crew teams practicing on Lake Marion in South Carolina.

Professor of Comparative Literature Peter Rabinowitz recently published two articles. "Lolita: Solipsized or Sodomized?; or, Against Abstraction--in General" appeared in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism.  A second article, "Music, Genre, and Narrative Theory" was published in Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Also, The Ohio State University Press series ("Theory and Interpretation of Narrative") that Rabinowitz co-edits with James Phelan has published a new book, I Know That You Know That I Know by George Butte.

Professor of French John O'Neal was named an associate member of the Sorbonne's Center for 17th- and 18th-Century French Language and Literature Studies at the University of Paris IV in January 2004.  He has been active with the center's study group on the 17th- and 18th-century moralists.  This year O'Neal became involved with the Rousseau study group, preparing for the conference which he will chair in June 2005 at Hamilton on Rousseaus's Reveries for the North American Rousseau Association. He also recently edited with Ourida Mostefai Approaches to Teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of the Solitary Walker for the Modern Language Association (New York, 2003).

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Marianne Janack and Associate Professor of Chinese De Bao Xu have been named co-recipients of the Richardson Award for Faculty Innovation. Janack’s grant will fund an intensive three-hour training session for teaching assistants and the development of a three-year rotation of unit quizzes for her Symbolic Logic class. Xu will create a stand-alone computer program for DVD-based class instructions and exercises, and develop a Sophomore Seminar jointly offered by the Computer Science and East Asian Languages and Literatures departments.

Construction workers worked diligently through central New York’s harsh winter and have Phase I of the new Science Center nearly finished. “I would say the construction is 97% complete, with professors moving into their new offices within the month,” said assistant director of construction Bill Huggins.

Four members of Hamilton’s faculty recently received the Class of 1966 Career Development Award. Recipients are: Assistant Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer; Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Soleded Gelles; Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Melek Su Ortabasi; and Assistant Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera.

Two Hamilton College faculty members have been awarded Class of 1963 Faculty Fellowships. Associate Professor of Economics Jeff Pliskin and Associate Professor of Psychology Penny Yee received the fellowships, which were established by the Class of 1963 on the occasion of its 30th reunion.

The Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs Alan W. Cafruny was interviewed by renowned author and radio host Adriane Berg for Business Talk Radio New York.  Berg interviewed Cafruny about the argument behind his book A Ruined Fortress? Neoliberal Hegemony and Transformation in Europe (Rowman & Littlefield July 2003).