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Faculty

  • Pavitra Sundar

    Associate Professor of Literature, Director of Cinema and Media Studies
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4218
    Email:
    psundar@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    cultural politics of voice; postcolonial studies; sound studies; South Asian film and media studies; feminist theory, especially women-of-color and transnational feminisms

  • Sarah Atkinson

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4079
    Email:
    satkinso@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    Intersections of film, literature, and painting in Italian culture; Neorealism and Italian art cinema; women writers and filmmakers; Italian feminist thought; linguistic diversity; translation; adaptation; Mediterranean visual culture; transnational Italian studies

  • Nadya Bair

    Assistant Professor of Art History
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    Contact
    Phone:
    Email:
    nbair@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    History of photography; photojournalism and news media; modern and contemporary visual culture; media studies; digital humanities; World War II and the Holocaust; Jewish Studies

  • Katheryn Doran

    Associate Professor of Philosophy
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4135
    Email:
    kdoran@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    American philosophy; the problem of skepticism; contemporary Anglo-American philosophy; environmental ethics

  • Laurie (Ella) Gant

    Professor of Art
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4265
    Email:
    egant@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    video, performance, installation, photography, electronic media, and history and contemporary practices in each of those areas

  • Martine Guyot-Bender

    Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Award Professor of French and Francophone Studies
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4287
    Email:
    mguyotb@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    French 20th- and 21st-century literature and film; narrative representation of trauma (war, poverty); social documentary from the 1970s to today; literature and film of the Nazi occupation of France (Patrick Modiano); women writers (Amélie Nothomb, Assia Djebar, Simone de Beauvoir)

  • Lydia Hamessley

    John and Anne Fischer Professor in Fine Arts
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4354
    Email:
    lhamessl@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    Dolly Parton; American folk and traditional musics; banjo, music and film; medieval and renaissance music; music and gender

  • Robert Knight

    Chair, Professor of Art; Director of Digital Arts
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4266
    Email:
    rbknight@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    photography, history of photography, video capture and editing, Adobe premiere, art foundations curriculum, and 2D and 4D fundamentals

  • Scott MacDonald

    Professor of Cinema and Media Studies
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4186
    Email:
    smacdona@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    film history; documentary, experimental and avant-garde film; cinema and place; institutional histories of organizations that have served independent film; 20th century American literature

  • Celeste Day Moore

    Associate Professor of History
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    Contact
    Phone:
    315-859-4731
    Email:
    cdmoore@hamilton.edu
    Expertise
    African-American history; diasporic and transnational history; race and empire in 20th-century U.S. and France

Contact

Department Name

Cinema and Media Studies Program

Contact Name

Pavitra Sundar, Program Director

Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

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