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Hamilton Professor of Classics Barbara Gold, in conjunction with Professors of Classics Paul Allen Miller and Charles Platter, examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.

In Lucy Ferriss's most recent novel, The Misconceiver, she examines a futuristic America that has renounced abortion rights. Ferriss creates a frightening world set 20 years in the future, uncomfortably close to the political debates of today. Ferriss, a professor of English at Hamilton College, has created a time unsettling to contemplate, where women have lost reproductive rights and “misconceptions” are once again performed secretly in basements and back-alleys.

The power and effectiveness of the scientific method lies in its ability to clarify the causality of phenomena. There are many practical dissimilarities across the various sciences and across research projects with differing goals. Nonetheless, the fundamental procedure is the same: investigators strive to make planned observations that eliminate extraneous variables and identify those independent variables critical for producing changes in one or more dependant variables. Indiana State University Press

Hamilton Professor of Economics Derek Jones has collaborated with University of Delaware Professor Jeffrey Miller to compile a book that examines the early transition experiences of Bulgaria by making comparisons with the experiences from other socialized countries and analyzing the reasons for the uneven pace of change. They highlight important and distinctive features of Bulgaria’s economic reform such as attempts to nurture small farms, introduce progressive human resource management practices and trade union reform.

Feminist Genealogies calls upon us to rethink feminist theories and practices within a complex intersectional and transnational framework. In contesting prevailing notions of global feminism, which tend to depart from resistance practices crafted in the West, Mohanty and Alexander have chosen essays that create new and provocative conversations among activist women involved in important transformative political projects in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. These conversations demand that we think deeply about advanced capitalist relations and how they reproduce and are reproduced through forms of domination that are sexualized, gendered, and racialized. This timely collection of essays should stimulate new discussions about feminist political engagement and about feminist organizing practices as ways of envisioning and struggling for democratic futures. - Angela Y. Davis, University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies

The biography of the proslavery ideologue Henry Hughes by Douglas Ambrose, assistant professor of history, offers a compelling examination of the life and writings of an intriguing antebellum thinker.

In this spirited account of his time spent in Southeast Asia, Douglas Raybeck, professor of anthropology, describes several adventures and misadventures involving field research, as well as the understanding, humility and bruises that these experiences leave behind. Through the lively pages of this narrative, readers gain insight into the human dimension of the fieldwork undertaking, a sense of how the anthropologist builds rapport in a research setting, and how reliable information is obtained.

Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as "the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France." The first major general study in English of eighteenth-century French sensationism, The Authority of Experience presents the history of a complex set of ideas and explores their important ramifications for literature, education, and moral theory.

Vividly documenting the real world of the contemporary hospital, its nurses, and their moral and ethical crises, Hamilton Professor of Sociology Dan Chambliss offers a sobering revelation of the forces shaping moral decisions in our hospitals.