Faculty News

Associate Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar recently received a Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies honorable mention for her 2023 monograph Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema.

Hamilton College faculty, staff, and alumni continued to make their mark in 2024 as thought leaders, with major national and international media outlets, as well as prominent higher education publications, seeking their expertise on a wide range of topics.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas recently published an essay about the use of mindfulness practices to relieve workplace stress in The Conversation, a non-profit open source news outlet focused on promoting faculty research.

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Claire Mouflard’s article, "Race, Class, and the Imminence of Revolt in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce," was published in the peer-reviewed journal Women in French in December 2024.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, delivered the keynote lecture at the 33rd Tagore Festival at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on Dec. 7.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, gave an invited talk titled "The Work of Literary Translation in the Age of Digital Computability; or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Google Translate" in November at SUNY Buffalo.

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. November’s news topics included varied subjects from the Federal Reserve to election polling to awkward holiday situations.

Tiao-Guan Huang, visiting assistant professor of Chinese, was invited by Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan to deliver two lectures in November.

Hamilton professor Charles Collett recently became a member of the College Choir, a group traditionally made up of student singers. He talked about rehearsing and performing, as well as his inspiration for joining.

Professor of Cinema and Media Studies Scott MacDonald recently published two books on cinema and discussed his work in a talk at New York University.