Hamilton Welcomes New Faculty for 2026-27
- A former American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow who worked on the minority staff of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
- A sociologist whose dissertation was a five-year ethnography into how ties between higher education and the market shaped STEM training.
- An MIT computer science Ph.D. who worked as a senior machine learning research engineer at Genesis Molecular AI.
- A macroeconomist whose research focuses on the implications of environmental policies and shocks.
These describe just a few of Hamilton’s 40 new faculty members for the 2026-27 academic year, including six tenure-track professors in Economics, French and Francophone Studies, Government, German/Russian/Italian/Arabic, History, and Mathematics and Statistics. In addition, Yelsy Hernandez Zamor (Hispanic Studies), who joined the Hamilton faculty in 2024, accepted a tenure-track position.
They join 30 new visiting professors and lecturers, and four teaching fellows.
“College is, at its core, a place where people ask questions together,” said Provost and Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo. “This month roughly 480 new students arrived carrying questions they don’t yet know how to ask well, and approximately 40 new faculty colleagues arrived who have spent their careers learning how to ask them. What happens between those two groups — in classrooms, in labs, in studios, in theatres, on fields, in water and on it, and in office hours in the late afternoon — is the whole of what we do here. I am enchanted each year to watch it begin again.”
Tenure-Track Faculty
19th-century literature; science fiction; environmental humanities; history of science and literature
Law, labor history, Latinx/e studies, racial capitalism, modern Latin America, US political history
American politics, campaigns and elections, money in politics, U.S. Congress, interest groups
Combinatorics, graph theory
Macroeconomics, environmental economics
German media studies and visual culture studies, global and transnational histories, science and technology studies, medical humanities
Visiting Faculty
Dallas Amico-Korby
Truax Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Social epistemology, philosophy of technology
Anthony Brindisi
Visiting Professor of Government
Lawmaking, judging, civil litigation
Indigenous poetry and literature of the long nineteenth century, transatlantic Romanticism, ecocriticism, the history of American poetics
Zachary Desjardins-Mooney
Visiting Assistant Professor of French & Francophone Studies
Modern French intellectual history, 20th century French literature, medical humanities, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, postwar French cinema, critical theory
Video, performance, installation, painting, drawing, printmaking
Truth, metaphysics, Eastern philosophy, philosophy of language, ethics, epistemology, philosophy of sport, history of philosophy
Jessina Emmert
Elihu Root Peace Fund Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Black feminist theory, African American history, Nineteenth-century U.S. history, Black women's geographies, digital humanities
Sociology of elites, counterrevolution, critical criminology, race and ethnicity, social movements, authoritarianism
Environmental justice, conservation security, environmental governance, peacebuilding, conservation social science
Global modern and contemporary art, ecology and the environment, aesthetic theory, decolonial theory, performance, Black diasporic art, conceptualism, science and technology in art
Archaeology of West and Central Asia, community archaeology, landscape archaeology, remote sensing, museum and cultural heritage politics
Nonperturbative aspects of quantum field theory, theoretical particle physics, lattice gauge theory
Machine learning, AI, statistics, data science, machine learning for healthcare and drug discovery, causal inference
Geomorphology, landscape evolution, hillslope erosion and weathering
American religious history and cultural studies, theory and method in religious studies, new religious movements, religion and secrecy, religion and politics, Cold War American history, popular culture, conspiracy theories, and magic
Surrealism, intermedial poetics, transatlantic studies, peninsular literature, visual art, cinema
Contemporary dance technique, choreography, improvisation, vernacular jazz dance technique, jazz dance history, Black studies
Foreign policy and international relations, diplomacy and strategic negotiations, security and counterterrorism, crisis management
Ancient Mediterranean religions, death and the dead, digital humanities, early Christianity, history of medicine, Late Antiquity, material culture, New Testament
Landscape archaeology, the Andes, ceramic analysis, craft production, Inka imperialism, Spanish colonialism, displacement and placemaking
Science, knowledge, and technology, higher education, organizations, occupations, and work, culture, social inequalities in science, qualitative research methods
19th-21st Spanish and Latin American literature and visual culture, posthumanism, utopian studies, speculative fiction, Spanish as a second language, film, television and media studies, Spain and Asia, weird studies, disability studies
American Jewish history, modern Judaism
Dynamical systems, operator algebras, K-Theory
Economics of education, labor economics, experimental economics
Particle physics, flavour physics, hadronic physics, future detectors
Teaching Fellows
Lecturers
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