Faculty News

Language Center Director Claire Frances, and Rachel Martinie, Language Center coordinator, gave presentations at the Innovative Approaches to Language Education conference held at Colgate University in late March.

Pavitra Sundar, associate professor of literature, published an essay titled “My Accented Ear” in the World Records journal.

Professor of History John Eldevik’s new translation and commentary of “The Passion of Archbishop Thiemo of Salzburg” was recently published by Manchester University Press.

Thomas (TJ) Takis ’26, Ryley McGovern ’25, Trevor Scheuing ’24, and Litchfield Professor of Astronomy Seth Major recently published a paper on black hole entropy in Physical Review D.

Confucian Gods: An Archaeology of Devotional Practice, a new book by Thomas Wilson, the Bates and Benjamin Professor of Classical and Religious Studies, has been published by Oxford University Press. The book is now available in an electronic version and clothbound later in April.

T Kira Mahealani Madden, assistant professor of literature and creative writing, has just released her first novel, Whidbey, a thriller that chronicles three women connected by a convicted child abuser. Named to several “most-anticipated” prominent fiction lists, the book is based in part on events from Madden’s personal life. Hamilton Communications Office student writer Mairin Hoffman ’29 recently connected with Professor Madden to discuss the novel and the writing process.

Two faculty members and a recent graduate shared their expertise at the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Transformation & Repair: Worldmaking in Contexts of Struggle and Constraint."

Jess Buttery, assistant professor of instruction in theatre and production manager,  chaired and presented a session titled “Business of Making Art: Careers in Theater Management” at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) Annual Conference in Long Beach, Calif., March 17-22.

A chapter co-authored by Professor of Economics Emily Conover appears in The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries, an open access edited volume recently published by MIT Press.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, is the co-author of a three year, $500,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to ASIANetwork, a scholarly society that serves 150 liberal arts colleges with Asian Studies programs, including Hamilton.