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Michael Klare
… of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies … a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. He has written widely on U.S. military …
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New Faculty Q&A with Jennifer Bajorek
… fourth-year student Emily Lawson gets to know one of the College’s newly appointed faculty members, Jennifer … Bajorek, who earned her PhD in comparative literature at the University of California Irvine and followed that with a postdoc in the rhetoric department at Berkeley. Before Hampshire, she …
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Commencement Speaker Sonya Renee Taylor
… Commencement Speaker Sonya Renee Taylor The 2015 graduating class has selected award-winning poet, … will be held on Saturday, May 16, at 11 a.m. on the Harold F. Johnson Library Lawn. Taylor is founder and radical executive officer of The Body is Not An Apology. The Body is Not An Apology …
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Hampshire College Student Dances for Parkinson’s
… research and dance,” she said. “And Hampshire was one of the only schools that would let me study two seemingly … King’s research was made possible by funding from the Foundation for Psychocultural Research-Hampshire College … of my Division III is a written component that reviews the current published literature on movement as an …
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Pustejovsky Examines Responses to Trauma through Music, Art, and Art History
… Painting, Art History I’ve always been interested in the bizarre, drawn to the bizarre. Musically, I’m interested in things that make … people pleasure. For my Division III project, I performed the fourth movement of Philip Glass’s Concerto for Saxophone …
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Div III Gallery: Charlotte Hawkins – Vinegar Then Honey
… with an original exhibit of her work premiering in the Hampshire College Art Gallery on April 2-5, 2017. Here we … both Boston and New York. As an art student, that’s one of the most important things you can do: be in cities as often … project is an effort to reconcile a complicated history of the American South. I know that it can be a problematic …
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Hampshire Student Awarded Five College Digital Humanities Student Fellowship
… of a Five College Digital Humanities Student Fellowship. The fellowships, part of the Five College Digital Humanities Program, are given to one student from each college and receive funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Nyröp arrived at Hampshire …
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Hampshire Alum Asher Edes 03F Awarded Grant for Jewish Community-Building Project
… designed by Edes and artist and farmer Alexander Vickery. The project takes its name from Shmita, the year of rest every seven years on the Jewish calendar. Historically, in communities that …
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Faculty
Marty Ehrlich
… emeritus of jazz and contemporary music, is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, critically … on 30 different recordings of these groups, including the recent "A Trumpet In the Morning" for Jazz Orchestra on New World Records. As a …
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Kimberly Chang
… psychology from Syracuse University. She is an alumnus of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and was a resident writer at the Vermont Studio Center. She publishes under the name, Q.M. Zhang , and and is the founder of MemoryWorks …
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Statement In Support of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
… Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, whom we invited to be the keynote speaker at Hampshire’s commencement ceremony on May 20. We are appalled by the vicious and explicitly racist, misogynistic, and … Taylor in response to her remarks. And we condemn the actions of those who are inciting violence by willfully …
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Donna Cohn
… associate professor of applied design, holds a B.S. from the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, and a master's in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has worked with the Boston Center for Independent Living as a designer and …
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Notable Alumni
Jon Krakauer 72F
… a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild , Into Thin Air , and Under the Banner of Heaven Krakauer is a mountaineer and author of such bestselling books as Into the Wild and Under the Banner of Heaven , the latter of which …
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Hampshire College to be Honored with Legacy Award
… Hampshire College will be honored with a Legacy Award by the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce at its Annual Awards Dinner on Thursday, October 1, 2015. The Chamber is honoring Hampshire “in recognition of their … to green building and sustainability, and creation of the village center,” according to the Amherst Chamber. Other …
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Div III Profile: Syrian Refugee Accounts Inspire Student's Emergency Response App
… to a semester in Jordan, where David Pearl learned of the medical inadequacies at the Za’atari refugee camp. More than 80,000 Syrians have fled to the Jordanian camp since 2012 to escape the violence of the …
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Div III Tests Boundaries
… Sharon Goldberg (04F) sought to break down barriers. The walls she hopes to dissolve are those between audience … began before Hampshire and led to her choice to attend the college. "I have unique interests and wanted to be … fall 2006, Goldberg was set to do field study in Israel in the northern town of Haifa, where she had briefly lived as a …
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Division III Profile: Sally Monroe Studies Renaissance Hospital Art
… Renaissance Hospital Art For Sally Monroe, paintings from the Renaissance are a bridge between time periods. "There's … really fascinating about having an object that bridges the gap between you and a historically-distant person. You … they were or what their lives were like, and yet you share the experience provided by a given artwork," she says. For …
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Five Colleges, PVTA agree to more buses, faster routes
… to an agreement forged between Five Colleges, Inc. and the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, the PVTA-Five College bus service will be improved for … this year, so anyone expecting to ride a PVTA bus in the Five College area should consult a 2011/12 bus schedule …
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Alum Jason Cilo Helps Students Focus on Professional Video Production
… When Jason Cilo 88F advises students about careers in the entertainment industry, he sets them straight on how to … said during a recent presentation to about 20 students at the Career Options Resource Center . “I hire people who are … and know how to make themselves indispensable.” The founder of Meetinghouse Productions , Cilo creates …
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Hampshire College Alum and Somatic Movement Therapist Martha Eddy Featured in New York Times on ‘Slowing Down to Feel’
… 74S was one of several practitioners interviewed about the ways somatic practices can help individuals better connect with their bodies during the pandemic, a time when movement can be limited. Somatic … focus on internal attention and awareness to movement and the body. “We’re talking about allowing the living body to …
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Alumni Profile: Its Hampshire. You cant just do one thing.
… or some people that do know it but need to work on the mechanics of the language. It's my job to help them," Céspedes Pérez says. She was sold on Hampshire College the moment she saw the admissions slogan "an education as …
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Sandra Matthews
… is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A.) and the State University of New York at Buffalo (M.F.A.). Her … photographic work is represented in collections including the Smith College Art Museum; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Block Museum of Art, …
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Feb. 25: Lecture by Gregory White
… Feb. 25: Lecture by Gregory White The public is invited to "Climate Change as a Security Issue: Where Catastrophism Meets the Militarization of Human Migration" on Tuesday, February 25, at 6 p.m. The lecture by Smith College Professor of Government Gregory …
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OPRA's Karen Warren Selected to Give 2014 Kurt Hahn Address
… Athletics (OPRA) instructor Karen Warren will give the 2014 Kurt Hahn Address at the 42nd Annual International Association for Experiential … Education (AEE) Conference in October. Selection for the Kurt Hahn Address is the AEE's highest award. It …
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Alan Hodder
… and mythology; an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in the history of religion; and an M.A. and Ph.D. in the study of religion from Harvard University. Before coming … where for three years he directed undergraduate studies in the comparative study of religion. He is the author of two …
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