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“The Butterflies (Lepidoptera) of an Isolated Island: Monhegan, Maine, by Ernest Williams, the William R. Kenan Professor of Biology Emeritus, was recently published online in Northeastern Naturalist.

Associate Professor of Philosophy Katheryn Doran discussed her work as director of the Hamilton Oneida Prison Education (HOPE) faculty group and her own long-running prison book group in an interview published on the Engaged Philosophy website.

Professor of Theatre Craig Latrell recently presented a paper at the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in Leiden, Netherlands.

Associate Professor of Government Gbemende E. Johnson published an article on “Adjudicating Executive Privilege” in the peer-reviewed Law and Society Review.

Associate Professor of Theatre Mark Cryer will play the role of Gloucester in the Saratoga Shakespeare Company’s production of King Lear.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, recently attended the Beyster Symposium in La Jolla, Calif., where he was a discussant for a paper titled “Do Employee Share Owners Face Too Much Financial Risk?”

“The impact of receiving SMS price and weather information on small scale farmers in Colombia,” co-authored by Associate Professor of Economics Emily Conover, was recently published online in the journal World Development.

Six faculty members were approved for tenure by Hamilton’s Board of Trustees during a recent meeting. The board awarded tenure to Katherine Brown (physics), Courtney Gibbons (mathematics), Gbemende Johnson (government), Alexandra List (psychology), Max Majireck (chemistry), and Seth Schermerhorn (religious studies).

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang was invited to give a talk to Chinese language and culture instructors in Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, on July 10.