Faculty News

“Social media advertising and macroeconomic expectations: Evidence from Meta,” co-authored by Assistant Professor of Economics Cody Couture and Ann Owen, the Henry Platt Bristol Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, was recently published in the journal Economics Letters.

“These Pieces of Time Had to Ricochet Off Each Other,“ Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald’s interview with filmmaker Robb Moss, was recently published online in Documentary magazine.

The glens of Hamilton College are poised to receive national attention through Assistant Professor of Biology Peter Guiden’s new project funded by a $500,000 National Science Foundation grant. Alongside Associate Professor of Biology Andrea Townsend and Northern Illinois University’s Holly Jones, Guiden seeks to untangle the complex relationships between deer and rodents that could be shaping our forests.

National and regional news organizations regularly interview Hamilton faculty, staff, alumni, and students for their expertise and perspectives on current events, and to feature programs and activities on campus. August’s news topics included coverage of campus speech, Upstate New York brain drain, and reinstallation of Confederate statues, among others.

Professor of Economics Emerita Betsy Jensen co-authored the 6th edition of Industrial Organization: Theory and Practice, published recently by Routledge.

Hamilton’s 43 new faculty members for the 2025-26 academic year include eight tenure-track faculty, 30 visiting professors and lecturers, and five teaching fellows.

"On Listening," a video essay by Pavitra Sundar, associate professor of literature, was featured in the 12th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, which took place between August 19 and 23 in Middlebury, Vt.

A. Todd Franklin, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Africana Studies, along with co-editor George Yancy, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, produced a recently released volume marking 70 years since the murder of Emmett Till in August of 1955.

Martine Guyot-Bender curated a program of Cambodian films at the 28th Maine International Film Festival in Waterville, Maine. The selection featured five works from Cambodia’s emerging New Wave, ranging from shorts to feature-length films. Filmmaker and producer Kavich Neang traveled from Cambodia to present his acclaimed film Last Night I Saw You Smiling (2019).

Assistant Professor of Theatre Emily K. Harrison recently participated in the 2025 Indy Convergence, an intensive artist residency based in Indianapolis that brings artists of all disciplines together for two weeks of project development.