Four Faculty Members Awarded Tenure

Four Hamilton College faculty members were approved for tenure by the college's board of trustees during their recent meeting. The Board granted tenure to Jennifer Borton, psychology; Michelle LeMasurier, mathematics; Onno Oerlemans, English; and Tiffany Patterson, Africana Studies.

The granting of tenure is based on recommendations of the vice president for academic affairs and dean of faculty, and the committee on appointments, with the president of the college presenting final recommendations to the board of trustees. The tenures are effective July 1. With the granting of tenure comes the title of associate professor.

Jennifer Borton

Jennifer Borton came to Hamilton in 1998. She earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and education from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Minnesota. Her current research program involves understanding the effects of suppressing negative self-referent thoughts on mood, self-esteem and interpersonal processes. Her work in this area has been published in several journals, including the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and Self and Identity. She has published several papers with Hamilton student co-authors.

 

Michelle LeMasurier

Michelle LeMasurier received her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and joined the Hamilton faculty in 2001. Her areas of interest include dynamical systems and topological dynamics. In 2006 she received The Class of 1963 Excellence in Teaching Award, which was established in 1988 to recognize one Hamilton faculty member each year who demonstrates extraordinary commitment to teaching.

 

 

Onno Oerlemans

Onno Oerlemans earned his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has published articles on the form and function of lyric in Whitman, Milton, and Wordsworth, on literary theory and Henry James, and on animal rights and taxonomy in romanticism. His book Romanticism and the Materiality of Nature (University of Toronto Press, 2002) examines the many ways in which romantic-period authors explore and represent the physical presence of the natural world. He has recently published articles on the representation of animals in Coetzee and Gowdy, the romantic origins of environmentalism, and architecture in romantic period writing. His current research is on the representation of animals in 20th century literature.

Tiffany Patterson

Tiffany Patterson came to Hamilton from the department of history at Binghamton University. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and master's degree from Southern Illinois University. She is the author of Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life, editor of A Question of Color and associate editor of Black Women in United States History. Patterson has also written articles for Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History, The Oxford Companion to United States History, the French publication Les diasporas dans le monde contemporain. Un etat des lieux, and Encyclopedia of Black Women in the United States.