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Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin gave invited talks this semester at Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Public Affairs, and the University of Johannesburg. Most of the talks focused on her recently published book, How to Prevent Coups d'Etat: Counterbalancing and Regime Survival (Cornell University Press, 2020).

Following up on a series of webinars held last year, the College-Community Partnership for Racial Justice hosted a discussion on Oct. 28 aimed at assessing the progress of local police reform measures. The earlier webinar series, which featured local experts and community leaders and focused on issues such as racial equity, criminal justice, and the prison industrial complex, was initiated in response to then-Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order mandating reforms for all New York law enforcement agencies.

Associate Professor of Government Gbemende Johnson recently published an article titled “Gender, Diversity, and the United States Judiciary” in The SAIS Review of International Affairs.

In Hamilton’s annual Constitution Day lecture, Amherst College Professor Austin Sarat delivered a talk titled “Everyone Knows That American Democracy Is in Trouble: But Maybe Donald Trump Is Not to Blame.” Sarat’s presentation cataloged the demonstrable deterioration of American democracy, focusing in particular on evidence gathered prior to the Trump presidency

Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin recently published a peer-reviewed article in the journal Small Wars & Insurgencies. “Policing insurgency: are more militarized police more effective?” examines whether militarized policing is an effective way to combat insurgencies.

This semester, Associate Professor of Government Gbemende Johnson is working with the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) as a Pracademic Fellow.

Hamilton welcomed 51 new faculty members including eight new tenure-track in addition to visiting professors, lecturers, and teaching fellows for the 2021-22 academic year. The College is in the midst of a 10-year period, begun in 2015, during which nearly half of its faculty will reach average retirement age.

Along Genesee Street, just across Route 12 from Utica College, stands a stately, columned building marked by a lamppost sign that reads Oneida County History Center. It’s here where Joey Moore ’22 is spending the summer working as a funded Hamilton intern, a job, he said, that demands “a little bit of everything.”

“It’s time we recognized our mutual vulnerability,” an essay by Professor of Government Peter Cannavò, appeared on The Hill’s website on Aug. 3.

Associate Professor of Government Gbemende Johnson’s legal note on a Supreme Court Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) case was recently published in The Justice System Journal.