Faculty
Kane Stewart
… his B.A. from Hampshire College and his M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. He is currently facilities director of the film and photography program at Hampshire College. Kane … Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His photographs …
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Notable Alumni
Leslie Hiebert 73F
… criminal defense litigator in Alaska. After supervising the Criminal Defense Section of the state Office of Public Advocacy for 20 years, she went … private practice for a few years before leaving to help the older generation in the family in their end of life care. …
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Board Member
Wendy Webb Williams 86F
… 86F Chair Academic Affairs Wendy Webb Williams 86F joined the board in February 2021. She currently serves as chief … She has previously held positions as general counsel for the North America and Europe regions at Mead Johnson … general counsel for US Foods. Wendy holds a J.D. from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from The University …
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Ailey Picasso Performs at Kennedy Center
… May graduate Ailey Picasso (pictured right) performed in the National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on June 6, 2014. She choreographed her …
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Photos from Family & Friends Weekend
… workshops, exhibitions, and other events that showcase the amazing work of Hampshire College students, faculty, and alums. The 2014 Family & Friends Weekend was held October 24-26. Trouble viewing the album? Check out the album on Flickr . AlumniFamily and …
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Fiction Writing Helped Amani Smith 15F Explore Relationships Between Time, Memory, and Generational Trauma
… about Hampshire through a friend of mine who attended the Institute for Collaborative Education and was interested in the prospect of alternative education. After visiting … that got you to your Div III? Were you surprised at all by the journey? I think I was surprised at how much control I …
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Faculty
Serena Himmelfarb
… in Residence at Hampshire College. They hold an M.F.A from the California Institute of the Arts, Post-Bacc Certificate from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago, and a B.A from …
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Staff
Robert Horowitz, M.D.
… and New York Medical College and did his residency at the University of Virginia. He lived and worked for 10 years with Native Americans in Arizona, on the Navajo reservation and with Pueblo tribes in the Santa Fe, NM area. He is American Board of Family …
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Division III Art Exhibitions Now on Display in Library Gallery
… III Art Exhibitions Now on Display in Library Gallery The following Division III art exhibitions will be on display in the Harold F. Johnson Library Gallery in the month of April: Alexandra Wilson, Emma Rentz and Xiaotong …
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Faculty
Myrna Breitbart
… University. Her teaching and research interests focus on the gender, race, and class dimensions of built environments … urban community development, with a current emphasis on the new cultural economy and its role in urban regeneration. She has also explored the spatial dimensions of social change and examined the …
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Notable Alumni
Diana Arce 99F
… TV, radio, press and online about her work and cohosts the monthly radio show about fighting the right wing around the world, Like It Is on reboot.fm . Her ongoing project …
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Faculty
Michael Lesy
… Columbia University, an M.A. in American social history at the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. in American cultural … Professor Lesy's most recent book, Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century, 1900-1910 (2013), written in …
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Devoted Veterinarian
… Control, Njeri Cruse 88F consistently puts in long days. The city-affiliated nonprofit rescues, cares for, and finds … medical care for five shelters, one in each borough, with the two largest in Brooklyn and Manhattan each caring for up … a day. Care is given to all creatures that come through the doors, which means a wide variety of species with diverse …
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Faculty
Robert Goodman
… emeritus of architecture, received his B.Arch. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Massachusetts, and the Columbia University …
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Notable Alumni
Melissa Hoffer 84F
… 84F Melissa Hoffer is an environmental lawyer and chief of the Energy and Environment Bureau of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Melissa Hoffer serves as the Massachusetts Climate Chief in the Office of Climate …
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Mother-Child Relationships
… Toni Morrison's Beloved , and I became overwhelmed by the idea of a mother killing her children out of love, or … death by her own hand as more honorable and just than the death her children might meet at the hands of another," she says, explaining how she began …
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March 7-8: Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Conference
… and Sexuality Conference Hampshire College will host the Five College Queer Gender and Sexuality Conference on March 7 and 8. The conference, entering its fifth year, is student-led and … and class in a specifically queer context," says one of the event's student organizers, Abigail Carpenter-Winch 10F. …
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President Ed Wingenbach Interviewed in Boston Business Journal on Hampshire’s Untraditional Path Back to Success
… recently spoke with Boston Business Journal on how the College successfully pivoted from its crisis in 2019. Under Wingenbach leadership, the College has since launched a robust fundraising effort, … into one that further pushes traditional boundaries. From the article: "We've done this extensive work to try to …
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Faculty
Nancy Lowry
… in organic chemistry, and began teaching at Hampshire in the fall of 1970. She coordinated women and science events at Hampshire and published articles concerning the scientific education of women. Her interests include the shapes and functions of organic molecules; …
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Faculty
Laurie Nisonoff
… professor emeritus of economics, holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.Phil. from … Fellowship in women's studies, and in 1993-94 a fellow of the Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Center. She has been an editor of the Review of Radical Political Economics , recently editing …
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Faculty
Sarah Partan
… Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. in animal behavior from the University of California, Davis. Her research interests are in the areas of animal social behavior and communication. She is … displays to use in field playback experiments that combine the rigor of laboratory experiments with the natural setting …
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Faculty
Lynn Miller
… Lynn Miller Lynn Miller, professor of biology, was one of the 'founding faculty' of Hampshire. His Ph.D. (biology) is from Stanford. He taught and studied at the University of Washington, the American University of Beirut, and the University of …
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A Hampshire Education is More Challenging, Independent, Community-Based – National Survey Shows
… Courtmanche In a widely used national survey measuring the quality of a higher education, responses by students … than an education from hundreds of comparison colleges. The annual National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) … nationwide each year to assess two critical features of the quality of a higher education: the amount of time and …
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Board Member
Catherine Smith 71F
… Smith 71F Chair Business Operations Catherine Smith joined the Board in 2019. She recently served as the Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Economic and … economic activity and expansion of business presence in the state. Prior to her service as Commissioner of the DECD, …
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Faculty
Laura Wenk
… curriculum and assessment, is a founding faculty member of the Childhood, Youth, and Education Program at Hampshire College supporting college students in examining the relationships among cognition, development, and instruction. She is also the curriculum director for the Collaboration for Excellence …
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