Faculty News

Four Hamilton College faculty members were awarded Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching by Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo. Announced during the May 6 faculty meeting, those honored were selected from among 47 nominations received from 80 students.

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. April’s news topics included coverage of former President Obama’s visit to Hamilton as well as subjects from diversity on bank boards to a new Levitt Center study on gun violence.

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Aaron Strong co-authored an article titled "Management approach matters: meeting seagrass recovery and carbon mitigation goals" together with co-authors from University of Oxford and several other universities as part of a long-term collaboration.

In an article published recently in the journal International Mathematical Forum, Robert Kantrowitz ’82, the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of Mathematics, took a new look at a classical optimization problem that dates back to Heron of Alexandria (10–75 AD).

Kyoko Omori, associate professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures – Japanese, gave an invited talk on April 22 at Studio X, the XR lab at the University of Rochester.

Dan Chambliss, the Eugene M. Tobin Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emeritus, recently presented in events hosted by Bard and Le Moyne, and at the MSS Annual meeting in Chicago.

Professor of Jewish Studies Heidi Ravven recently presented at Arizona State University (ASU) and St Anne’s College, Oxford.

In an essay recently published in The Montréal Review, Marianne Janack, the John Stewart Kennedy Professor of Philosophy, writes about the dialogue form, teaching and learning about Plato, and how we think about knowledge and myth.

Director of the Oral Communication Center Amy Gaffney and peer consultants Del Gonzales ’25, Tinashe Manguwa ’25, and Lauren Prins ’27 represented Hamilton at the 2025 National Association of Communication Centers (NACC) conference hosted by the University of Southern Mississippi.

Derek Jones, the Irma M. and Robert D. Morris Professor of Economics, Emeritus, was a discussant for two papers presented recently at Rutgers University. He also published a paper co-authored with Associate Professor of Economics Jeff Pliskin.