2024 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded To Hampshire Alum and Faculty Emerita The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2024 Fellowship to Professor Emerita of Film and Video Baba Hillman and Hampshire College alum Mara H. Benjamin 90F, who …

Hampshire College Exceeds Admissions Targets for Fall 2022 Semester More than 250 students make deposits as the College continues to meet its ambitious financial sustainability goals. Hampshire College is pleased to announce that as of its May 1 deposit …

Dr. Sheila Lloyd Joins Hampshire College as Senior Vice President for Justice, Equity, and Antiracism Dr. Sheila Lloyd will join the senior administration at Hampshire College to provide vision, leadership, and direct support for all aspects of the …

National Lab Hosts Campus Study of Bird Impact from Solar Panels, Offering Unique Opportunity for Hampshire Students Argonne National Laboratory, a science and engineering research center working on affordable clean energy and environmental protection …

Mellon Foundation Awards Five Colleges $1.6 Million Faculty Development Grant The Five College Consortium has been awarded a $1.6 million grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create programming that will develop faculty members’ administrative …

Dr. Gary Hawkins Joins Hampshire College as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Hawkins, an active poet, artist, editor, scholar, and administrator, will join Hampshire College as vice president of academic affairs and dean of faculty …

An Evening with Ed Wingenbach: Presidential Speaking Tour Kicks Off in Brooklyn Since the pandemic put a halt to travel, this academic year presents Ed’s first opportunity to visit with the wider Hampshire College community. Brooklyn was the first stop on …

Student Entrepreneur Nick Riolo F22 Crafts and Sells Traditional, Hand-Forged Ironwork Before college, first-year student Nick Riolo F22 had already turned his blacksmithing passion into a business. Fascinated by the traditions of yesterday, Nick forges …

Historian Michael Trotti 83F Explores the History of Public Executions and Racism in New Book Trotti’s latest book examines the extreme and overtly racist history of legal executions in the United States and tells the story of how capital punishment in …

Tana Boone Named Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer of Hampshire College Hampshire College is pleased to announce the appointment of Tana Boone, a seasoned finance, operations, information technology, and human resource executive, …

Five College Filmmakers, Five Weeks, Five Films Each week in October, Amherst Cinema will celebrate a film written, directed by, or starring a graduate from the Five College Consortium. The finale of the series “ Five on Film ” will take place on Monday, …

Professor Nathalie Arnold Koenings Publishes Book on Mysticism, History, and Politics on African Island Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast: Uchawi in Pemba (Boydell and Brewer/James Currey) traces changing visions of supernatural ability and …

Jonathan Stevens 81S on Baking, Community, and “The Hungry Ghost Bread Book” Emma Rose DeFelice Jonathan Stevens 81S, a Hampshire College alum and co-owner of Hungry Ghost Bread in Northampton, is celebrating the release of The Hungry Ghost Bread Book …

Hampshire Alums Artist Elizabeth Atterbury 00F and Curator Kate M. McNamara 99F Join Forces for Exhibition The Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA), in Rockland, is currently hosting Leaf Litter , an exhibition featuring the sculptures of Elizabeth …

Hampshire College Alum Sylvia Bashevkin 72F Recognized for Leadership in Gender Equality Bashevkin is an activist, scholar, writer, and prize-winning researcher in the field of gender and politics.  She is a professor emerita of political science at the …

First Learning Collaboratives Symposium Addresses Decolonization and Decarbonization Koby Leff 15F On October 25, Hampshire held its inaugural Learning Collaborative Symposium, “Decolonize & Decarbonize,” a panel discussion and conversation at the …

Spring Learning Collaborative Symposium Explores the Future of Art Making for Social Good Koby Leff 15F On March 14, Hampshire held its second Learning Collaborative Symposium, “Speculative Praxis,” a panel discussion on what art making can offer us as we …

Global Study Intensives Offer Hampshire Students Immersive Opportunities All Over the World Hampshire College’s Global Education Office (GEO) offers exchange, field study, and short-term fieldwork to integrate international experiences into students’ …

Collage Exhibit by Visiting Professor of Photography Richard Kraft on View Through April The Long Border and Other Works is currently on display in the Jerome Liebling Center’s main gallery. For the Italian writer Italo Calvino, “multiplicity” begins with …

Alums on the Front Line of Immigrant Rights Meet with Hampshire Students Seth Freed Wessler 03F and Genia Blaser 01F spoke with students about the challenges facing immigrants and asylum seekers in the United States. The conversation addressed domestic …

“Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life” Is Hampshire College’s 2024 Common Read Year of the Tiger , by Alice Wong, offers a glimpse into an activist’s journey to finding and cultivating community and the continued fight for disability justice. Chosen by …

A Journey of Art and Healing: Student’s Div III Explores Grief and the Inner Child For Fable Babb-Cheshul F20, Hampshire wasn’t merely a choice; it was a return to roots — a homecoming and a search for multidisciplinary learning.  Born in Amherst but …

Student and Afghan Journalist Fatima Faizi F22 was Born Into War Emma Rodrigue Raised in Kabul, Afghanistan, incoming student Fatima Faizi F22 has already been documenting war and its atrocities for seven years.    In 2015, thousands gathered in Kabul to …

Hampshire Student Levi Ebnit F22 on Trans Studies, Inclusive Weightlifting, and His Band Div II student Levi Ebnit has been exploring art, science, and identity while creating community in original ways. We talked to him about what he’s been doing in and …

Solo Exhibition by Internationally Renowned Video Artist Nicole Cohen 88F at Stony Brook On view at the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University through October 18, Super Vision showcases large-scale, room-filling installations of static and …