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Introducing Professor of Studio Arts and Visual Culture Vick Quezada

… Introducing Professor of Studio Arts and Visual Culture Vick Quezada Hampshire College is pleased … new professors to campus to support its growing enrollment and incoming fall class. Among the new faculty is Assistant Professor of Studio Arts and Visual Culture Vick Quezada , who comes to us after …

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Introducing Assistant Professor of Photography, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture Veronica Melendez

… Assistant Professor of Photography, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture Veronica Melendez Hampshire College is … new professors to campus to support its growing enrollment and incoming fall class. Among the new faculty is Assistant Professor of Photography, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture Veronica Melendez , who comes to us after …

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Hampshire College Welcomes an Increasingly Large and Diverse Incoming Class

… Hampshire College Welcomes an Increasingly Large and Diverse Incoming Class On August 31, under clear blue … skies, 335 new students arrived on campus: 262 first-years and 73 transfers. The fall 2023 class represents a 22 percent … step in Hampshire’s plan for returning to full enrollment and financial sustainability.   After announcing in March …

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Introducing Assistant Professor of Animation, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture Sarah E. Jenkins

… Assistant Professor of Animation, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture Sarah E. Jenkins Hampshire College is … new professors to campus to support its growing enrollment and incoming fall class. Among the new faculty is Assistant Professor of Animation, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture Sarah E. Jenkins. Professor Jenkins's …

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Tana Boone Named Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer of Hampshire College

… Tana Boone Named Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer of Hampshire College Hampshire College is … a seasoned finance, operations, information technology, and human resource executive, as vice president for finance …

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Introducing Jonathan Lash–Endowed Chair Professor of Environmental Education and Sustainability Andrew S. Yang

… Lash–Endowed Chair Professor of Environmental Education and Sustainability Andrew S. Yang Hampshire College is … teaching spans environmental studies, ecological art, and expanded natural history with a focus on … hiring that focuses on bringing together different fields and disciplines in support of key areas of student inquiry.  …

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Introducing SHIFT Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics and the Common Good Dr. Jina Fast

… Introducing SHIFT Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics and the Common Good Dr. Jina Fast Hampshire College is … new professors to campus to support its growing enrollment and incoming fall class. Among the new faculty is SHIFT Assistant Professor of Applied Ethics and the Common Good Dr. Jina Fast . Established with a gift …

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Hampshire Professor Rachel Conrad Recognizes and Advocates for Young Creators of Literature

… Hampshire Professor Rachel Conrad Recognizes and Advocates for Young Creators of Literature Teaching at … with her own writing on youth authors, environmentalism, and social justice. We spoke to Hampshire College Professor … of Childhood Studies Rachel Conrad about her courses and the ways in which they have influenced her recent …

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Student's Multimedia Art Installation Interweaves Personal and Political Histories

… Student's Multimedia Art Installation Interweaves Personal and Political Histories For her Div III, recent graduate … Belgrade facilitated through the Global Education Office—and her own personal history, she filled the Hampshire Art … Belgrade facilitated through the Global Education Office—and her own personal history, she filled the Hampshire Art …

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Student Creates Documentary/Memoir About Experience of Adoption and Trust

… Creates Documentary/Memoir About Experience of Adoption and Trust For her Div III, recent graduate Daily Miyamoto 18F … Journey to Trust: an adoption story,  explores family and identity in relation to adoption and trust using a collage of home video footage from …

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Hampshire Alum Ellyn Gaydos 09F’s Memoir Reveals the Hard and Beautiful Truths of Life as a Farmhand

… Hampshire Alum Ellyn Gaydos 09F’s Memoir Reveals the Hard and Beautiful Truths of Life as a Farmhand A captivating tale of love, labor, and loss, Pig Years catapults American nature writing into … Gaydos’s experiences as a farmhand in Upstate New York and Vermont. Detailing five years of work on varying farms, …

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Alum Anders Zanichkowsky 04F Weaves together Death, Spirituality, Craftsmanship, and Sustainability

… 04F Weaves together Death, Spirituality, Craftsmanship, and Sustainability Anders Zanichkowsky began exploring themes of death, spirituality, and activism as a student at Hampshire. While their journey into traditional crafts and printmaking was not always on the College's campus, it …

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Historian Malcolm Purinton 98F Brews Together the Study of Sociology, Globalization, and Beer

… 98F Brews Together the Study of Sociology, Globalization, and Beer Malcolm Purinton 98F has sampled thousands of beers. … goes on. Purinton is not your average beer connoisseur and craft enthusiast. In fact, he’s a beer historian and scholar with a doctorate in history from Northeastern …

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David L. Sloss 76F’s New Book Examines Misinformation Campaigns on Twitter and Beyond

… New Book Examines Misinformation Campaigns on Twitter and Beyond Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from … studied a combination of philosophy, political theory, and religion, and has spent his career at the forefront of research in …

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Student Creates and Performs One Hour Stand-Up Special for Final Project

… Student Creates and Performs One Hour Stand-Up Special for Final Project … College graduate Sunny Laprade 18F wrote, directed, and performed an hour long stand-up comedy special for her … revolves “around the themes of queerness, transness, and mortality.” The full special is free to watch on YouTube …

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Student Investigates the Idea of Care Through Portraits of People and Their Emotional Support Animals

… Investigates the Idea of Care Through Portraits of People and Their Emotional Support Animals For her final project in … along with an ethnographic description of her process and its relationship to course themes. The class, taught by … drew on a range of work, she says, such as “cultural and linguistic anthropology, as well as feminist and

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Hampshire Alum Robin Coste Lewis 86S’s New Book Is an Exploration of Photography, Poetry, and Family

… 86S’s New Book Is an Exploration of Photography, Poetry, and Family Born from the discovery of Lewis’s grandmother’s … Perfect Helplessness , is a rumination on death, ancestry, and migration told through the mediums of poetry and photography. Twenty-five years ago, following the death …

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Alum Brings Hampshire Critical Skills to Harvard Law School and Beyond

… Alum Brings Hampshire Critical Skills to Harvard Law School and Beyond Recent graduate Marlon Beccera 15F discusses his … a lawyer as a child to studying at Harvard Law School and working for social justice organizations such as Legal Outreach and The Innocence Project. Focusing on political science and

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Alum Suzanne Perkins 85F Awarded Grant to Research Child Trauma and Maltreatment

… Suzanne Perkins 85F Awarded Grant to Research Child Trauma and Maltreatment The rarely bestowed grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development will allow her to complete work she put … on hold due to a cancer diagnosis. Hampshire College alum and parent Suzanne Perkins 85F P18 is a lecturer in …

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1984 Conversation Between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin at Hampshire to be Reenacted in New York City  

… 1984 Conversation Between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin at Hampshire to be Reenacted in New York … a never-published-in-full conversation between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin, edited for the occasion by Claudia Rankine, acclaimed writer and MacArthur Fellow. In 1984, preeminent African-American …

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Black History Month: Selections from Our Students and Librarians to Read, Listen to, and Watch

… Black History Month: Selections from Our Students and Librarians to Read, Listen to, and Watch The Hampshire library is showcasing a range of materials to celebrate Black authors, musicians, and filmmakers. “These are all selections made by our student …

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Professor and Author Robin Wall Kimmerer Delivers Talk on Environmental Justice

… Professor and Author Robin Wall Kimmerer Delivers Talk on Environmental … Anne Pinkerton 91F The professor of environmental biology and author of the bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass , which was … to both an in-person audience in Franklin Patterson Hall and a virtual audience on Zoom, Kimmerer explored Indigenous …

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Hampshire Mourns the Loss of Former Spiritual Life Advisor and Environmentalist Ellen Bernstein

… Hampshire Mourns the Loss of Former Spiritual Life Advisor and Environmentalist Ellen Bernstein Rabbi Bernstein, who worked as advisor for identity and praxis at Hampshire from 2016 to 2020, was renowned for … was inspired by the Hebrew Bible's “veneration of nature,” and made her life's work the delivery of messages of …

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Karen A. Frenkel 73F Delivers a Documentary Project on Her Family and the Holocaust

… Frenkel 73F Delivers a Documentary Project on Her Family and the Holocaust Hampshire College alum Karen A. Frenkel 73F produced Family Treasures Lost and Found , in which she is the reluctant star, telling the story of researching her family’s mysteries and their experience of surviving the Holocaust. It debuted …

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Transfer Student Leo Giannini S23 Explores the Intersection of Biochemistry and Art

… Leo Giannini S23 Explores the Intersection of Biochemistry and Art Div II student Leo Giannini transferred to Hampshire … restrictions. Her interests combine elements of science and art, creating projects that are beautiful and sometimes educational. Next up: cancer research.   What …

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