Faculty News
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Shoshana Keller, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History and director of the Russian studies program, participated in a webinar on tactics for teaching a new narrative of Russian history in the wake of the Ukrainian war on March 17. It was hosted by the Harvard Davis Center and the University of Pittsburgh's Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Center.
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian Studies Yelena Severina published an article, “Crimean Tableaux of CatherineII’s Court as the Visual Record of the Russian Empire’s Southern Expansion,” in December in E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies.
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Ten Hamilton faculty members were approved for tenure by the College’s Board of Trustees at its March meeting. They include Ryan Carter (music), Jose Ceniceros (mathematics), Alexsia Chan (government), Justin Clark (philosophy), Matt Grace (sociology), Tom Helmuth ‘09 (computer science), Natalie Nannas (biology), Colin Quinn (anthropology), Anne Valente (literature and creative writing), and Keelah Williams (psychology).
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Director and Curator of Special Collections and Archives Christian Goodwillie recently published a book, Richard McNemar: Frontier Heretic and Shaker Apostle (Indiana University Press).
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Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Martinez-Arias recently published an article in the peer-reviewed journal Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, titled "Interpretations of Christianism in the Andean Oral Tradition: Arguedas, Condori Mamani, and the Inkarrí Myth."
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Assistant Professor of Psychology Keelah Williams co-authored a paper “Sometimes we want vicious friends: People have nuanced preferences for how they want their friends to behave toward them versus others” that was published in Evolution and Human Behavior in February.
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A double album titled “Ain’t All About You” by Lecturer in Music (folk guitar) Adam Brooks Dudding received a Sammy Award for "Best Jam Band Recording" at the Syracuse Area Music Awards ceremony on March 3.
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Pavitra Sundar, associate professor of literature, recently published the co-edited volume Thinking with an Accent.
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Research involving students and faculty over the last several months led to a comprehensive study being released on the scope of homelessness in the area and how the City of Utica could address it.
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Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Zhuoyi Wang has recently been appointed a director of the Shanghai Sonatas Foundation (SSF).