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Forty-five new faculty members have entered Hamilton’s ranks, including nine tenure-track professors in anthropology, art, computer science, dance and movement studies, economics, government, mathematics and statistics, music, and Russian. They join 32 visiting professors and lecturers, and four teaching fellows for the 2024-25 academic year.

“It is with a great deal of excitement that I welcome a strong cohort of new faculty this year, and I’m thrilled to see them finding their way around campus and getting started in their classrooms and research projects,” said Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo. “These new faculty bring a lot of energy to the Hill that epitomizes the excitement we all feel with the start of a new season of hunkering down to commit ourselves again to the project of learning and exploring together.”

Among this year’s newcomers are:

  • A visual artist, dancer, and educator who grew up weaving and learning traditional folk dances
  • A government professor who investigates sexist and racist attitudes and how threats to economic, social, and political power affect American’s political attitudes
  • A former mathematician at the Air Force Research Laboratory who focuses on optimization theory and its practical applications to signal processing and machine learning

Other new faculty members come with expertise on such topics as creating wireless networks for rural areas, and the ways that psychological and social forces affect gender, racial, and other gaps.

Ani Abrahamyan

Assistant Professor of Russian Studies

aabraham@hamilton.edu

19th-century Russian literature and culture; history of Imperial Russian ethnography; transgression and criminality in literature; language pedagogy

Anurag Advani

Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

aadvani@hamilton.edu

South Asian history, Sufism, Persian and Urdu Literature, History of Medicine, early modern Islam, Histories of Madness

Bhen Alan

Assistant Professor of Art

malan@hamilton.edu

Painting, drawing, printmaking, weaving, performance

Sarah Atkinson

Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian Studies

satkinso@hamilton.edu

Intersections of film, literature, and painting in Italian culture; Neorealism and Italian art cinema; women writers and filmmakers; Italian feminist thought; linguistic diversity; translation; adaptation; Mediterranean visual culture; transnational Italian studies

Casey Avaunt

Assistant Professor of Dance and Movement Studies

cavaunt@hamilton.edu

Contemporary dance technique, choreography, dance theory and history, Asian and Asian American performance

George Baker ’74

Sol Linowitz Lecturer in American Government

gbaker@hamilton.edu

 

Margarita Blush

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre

mblush@hamilton.edu

Directing, movement-based performance, devised theatre, physical theatre, visual and puppet theatre, Lecoq-based pedagogy

Allison Cardon

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature & Creative Writing

acardon@hamilton.edu

18th century British literature, 19th century British literature, 18th and 19th century British legal history, critical theory

Catherine Chen

Assistant Professor of Government

cchen1@hamilton.edu

Energy policy and justice, environmental politics, behavioral experiments, computational social science

Xiao Chen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science

schen3@hamilton.edu

Deep learning, computational biology, bioinformatics

Yuting Chen

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

ychen5@hamilton.edu

Computational chemistry, electronic structure theory, physical chemistry, theoretical chemistry

Gabe Condon

Assistant Professor of Music

vnietobe@hamilton.edu

Jazz, composition, jazz pedagogy, jazz pedagogy in European Sinti communities

Corbett Costello

Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

ccostell@hamilton.edu

South Asian languages and literature, religion, Jainism, textual studies, poetics, Sanskrit, classical and modern Hindi, manuscript culture, art history

José Carlos Diaz Zanelli

Visiting Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies

jdiazzan@hamilton.edu

20th and 21st century Indigenous literature and culture; Andean and Mesoamerican cultures; Anthropocene, environmentalism, and ecosocialism; Indigenous intellectual production; anticolonial discourses in the Americas

Karyn Doke

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

kdoke@hamilton.edu

Wireless networks for rural areas; spectrum sensing and analytics; spectrum sharing and coexistence

 

Christiane Fischer

Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies

cfische1@hamilton.edu

Twentieth and twenty-first century Germanic literatures, cinema studies, media theory, narratives of migration, translation studies

Erin Giffin

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History

egiffin@hamilton.edu

Early Modern European art and visual culture; Italian identity construction; cross-cultural relations; print media, sculpture and architecture; trends in replication; religious art; digital humanities

Juliette Haon

Teaching Fellow in French

jhaon@hamilton.edu

Teaching through the use of games, knowledge transmission based on the characteristics of group learners

Yelsy Hernández Zamora

Visiting Instructor of Hispanic Studies

yhernand@hamilton.edu

Early modern Hispanic literatures and cultures; early modern art and visual culture; death and memory studies; gender studies; the supernatural; history of the book

Tiao-Guan Huang

Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures

thuang2@hamilton.edu

Chinese linguistics, teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language, learning and teaching strategies

Annabelle Hutchinson

Assistant Professor of Government

ahutchin@hamilton.edu

American politics, political economy, gender, race, and inequality, quantitative research methods

Ronald Jerozal

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry

rjerozal@hamilton.edu

Organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry

Elissa Johnson

Lecturer in Environmental Studies

ejohnso1@hamilton.edu

Intersection of social systems of power, cultural foodways, environmental shifts

Shreya Kanakiya

Visiting Assistant Professor of Geosciences

skanakiy@hamilton.edu

Solid-earth processes, volcanology, rock-fluid interactions

Michael Lewis

Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology

mwlewis@hamilton.edu

Stress and resilience, posttraumatic stress disorder, fear learning, psychophysiology, genetics and gene expression, public health

Montiniquë McEachern

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

mmceache@hamilton.edu

Black feminism, podcasting, queer of color mental health, digital feminism, queer liberation movements

Nina Medvedev

Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies

nmedvede@hamilton.edu

Housing, platforms, ethnography, feminist science and technology studies, political economy, racial capitalism, social movements, trans studies

Asuka Miyamoto

Teaching Fellow in Japanese

amiyamot@hamilton.edu

Japanese language and pedagogy, language acquisition

Giampaolo Molisina

Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian Studies

gmolisin@hamilton.edu

XX and XXI century Italian literature and cinema, film theory, urban studies, visual and performance studies, postcolonial and transcultural studies, food studies, ecocriticism

Lukas Ovrom

Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies

lovrom@hamilton.edu

Medieval French literature, Old French romance, Chrétien de Troyes, farce theatre, codicology and philology, reception theory, gender and sexuality studies

Alexander Pho

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

apho@hamilton.edu

Moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Chinese philosophy, philosophy of sport and games, philosophy of race

Samodh Porawagamage

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

sporawag@hamilton.edu

Elegy, disaster writing, postcolonial poetry, literary activism, and the bildungsroman

Hannah Ruebeck

Assistant Professor of Economics

hruebeck@hamilton.edu

Labor economics, behavioral economics

Amy Searight

Sol M. Linowitz Visiting Professor of International Affairs

Asia policy

Sarah Sgro

Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature & Creative Writing

smsgro@hamilton.edu

Creative writing, poetry and poetics, short fiction, digital studies, queer theory, waste

Martin Shedd

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

mpshedd@hamilton.edu

Roman historiography and rhetoric, early Christian historiography and doctrinal development, Late Antiquity, Greek and Roman educational methods, Latin lexicography

Erin Tripp

Assistant Professor of Mathematics

etripp@hamilton.edu

Mathematical optimization, machine learning, signal and image processing

Mariangela Ugarelli

Visiting Instructor of Hispanic Studies

mugarell@hamilton.edu

Latin American literatures and cultures, Gothic literature, genre studies, gender studies and ecocriticism

Frank Vlossak ’89

Distinguished Lecturer in American Public Policy and Practice

fvlossak@hamilton.edu

 

Hsun-Chih Wang

Teaching Fellow in Chinese

hwang2@hamilton.edu

Chinese language and pedagogy, language acquisition

Serena Witzke

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

switzke@hamilton.edu

Ancient comedy, ancient gender and sexuality, classical reception studies, pedagogy

Lulu Yuan

Teaching Fellow in Chinese

lyuan@hamilton.edu

Chinese language and pedagogy, language acquisition

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