College Bids Farewell to Retiring Professors
Hampshire said goodbye to two long-term professors, each of whom has earned emeritus status.
After 40 years at the College, Alan Goodman stepped down from his role as professor of biological anthropology, where he taught countless students about the health and nutritional consequences of political-economic processes such as poverty, inequality, and racism. Throughout his academic career, he conducted extensive related research, including working on issues such as malnutrition in Mexico and Egypt and the stresses of slavery in New York.
Goodman has published widely, most recently the book, Racism Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (Columbia University Press, 2021), which he co-authored with Joseph L. Graves, Jr. It was honored with the W. W. Howells Book Award from the Biological Anthropology Section of the Anthropological Association in 2024.
Goodman previously served as Hampshire's dean of faculty and the president of the American Anthropological Association, where he continues to co-direct their public education project on race.
Sarah Partan wrapped up a 19-year term as associate professor of animal behavior, during which she taught courses ranging from Animal Communication Across the Senses to Urban Wildlife Behavior and Responses to Environmental Change. She has been particularly interested in multisensory signaling: how and why animals (including humans) combine signals from multiple sensory channels during communication.
Partan has studied these and related questions in observational studies of wild African elephants, rhesus macaques monkeys, squirrels and lizards, and in controlled laboratory studies of birds and dolphins. Her research has been published in an array of scientific journals.
Hampshire is grateful to these dedicated teachers and researchers for their service and contributions to our community. We wish them a fulfilling retirement.
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