Faculty News

Vincent Odamtten, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Literature, Creative Writing and Africana Studies, presented a talk titled "Africanfuturism vs Afrofuturism: Beyond Contrapuntal Immobility" at the African Studies Association 67th Annual Meeting in Chicago in December.

Assistant Professor of Sociology Stephanie Dhuman recently published an article on respectability politics among Puerto Ricans in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Associate Professor of Literature Pavitra Sundar recently received a Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies honorable mention for her 2023 monograph Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema.

Hamilton College faculty, staff, and alumni continued to make their mark in 2024 as thought leaders, with major national and international media outlets, as well as prominent higher education publications, seeking their expertise on a wide range of topics.

Associate Professor of Sociology Jaime Kucinskas recently published an essay about the use of mindfulness practices to relieve workplace stress in The Conversation, a non-profit open source news outlet focused on promoting faculty research.

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies Claire Mouflard’s article, "Race, Class, and the Imminence of Revolt in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson douce," was published in the peer-reviewed journal Women in French in December 2024.

Lisa Trivedi, the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History, delivered the keynote lecture at the 33rd Tagore Festival at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on Dec. 7.

Steven Yao, the Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English, gave an invited talk titled "The Work of Literary Translation in the Age of Digital Computability; or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Google Translate" in November at SUNY Buffalo.

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. November’s news topics included varied subjects from the Federal Reserve to election polling to awkward holiday situations.

Tiao-Guan Huang, visiting assistant professor of Chinese, was invited by Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan to deliver two lectures in November.