Faculty News and Notes

Professor of Film and Photography Abraham Ravett’s films were recently featured in a retrospective at the Festival Film Dokumenter in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, the oldest documentary-only film festival in Southeast Asia.

Hampshire College Professor Lee Spector has received a Google Computer Science Engagement Award.

Professor Michael Klare's recent post for TomDispatch looks at how carbon-based fuel companies are going on the offensive in the face of mounting criticism.

Over the course of three months, a group of students, faculty, staff, and community members designed, developed, and published the free digital game Word Snack.

When Andrea Dezsö, associate professor of art, got a request from an editor at Princeton University Press to illustrate The Original Folk & Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, she hesitated, but only briefly.

Professor of Philosophy Marlene Gerber Fried participated in a conversation on reproductive rights on “Difficult Dialogues: Voices from the Valley.” The program produced by sister Five College institution Mount Holyoke discusses complex social issues. Professor Gerber Fried is faculty director of CLPP, the Civil Liberties and Public Policy program at Hampshire.  

 In John Slepian's performance piece "Transcendence," the associate professor of art and technology uses his brainwaves, and a few essential pieces of equipment, to levitate off the ground.

Abraham Ravett's recently completed film, Joyas Voladoras (Flying Jewels) premiered internationally at the Vienna International Film Festival—Viennale.

Hampshire College Professor Marlene Gerber Fried was honored with the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) 2014 Felicia Stewart Advocacy Award.

The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm featuring illustrations from Associate Professor of Art Andrea Dezsö is currently  #1 on Amazon's bestseller list in the Mythology and Folktales literature section.

Professor Robert Meagher is featured in a Newsweek article on the physical and mental traumas of the war in Afghanistan.

PopDev, the Population and Development Program at Hampshire College, is proud to announce the launch of the UN Women flagship report The World Survey of the Role of Women in Development: Gender Equality and Sustainable Development. The report has been presented to the UN General Assembly and translated into all six official UN languages.

Art and technology professor John Slepian's humorous conceptual performance/installation/video work, inspired by early conceptual art, makes the thinking of the artist visible.

Hampshire College Professor Sara Greenberger Rafferty is featured on ArtSpace's list of "10 Artists to Watch This October." Works by Rafferty were recently shown in the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

The Daily Hampshire Gazette on how a single image led Professor of Film and Photography Abraham Ravett back to his birth country of Poland for his newest film project, Holding Hands with Ilsa.