… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Hampshire Student and Alum Brew Community Connections with Woodnote Coffee … started by current Division II student Kaihla Laurent F22 and graduate Jaydon (Jay) Diamond 15F, is a mobile coffee … based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, focused on community and sustainability. Kaihla Laurent F22, a current Division II …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… Professor Rachel Conrad and Alum Casey Zella Andrews 08F Coauthor Paper on … challenge the merit of traditionally individualistic and hierarchical classroom environments and suggest that fostering opportunities for students to …

… Worlds: An Evening with Acclaimed Filmmakers Ken Burns 71F and Kira Akerman at Hampshire College Emma Rose DeFelice On Thursday, March 28, students, faculty, staff, and community members filled the Main Lecture Hall for a screening and conversation with filmmaker Kira Akerman and …

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

… Hampshire President Wingenbach On Standardized Testing and Inequality In the CommonWealth Beacon , Wingenbach … favor the rich?” “Recent moves by Harvard, Yale, Brown and others to reinstate a standardized testing requirement … full article here. … “Recent moves by Harvard, Yale, Brown and others to reinstate a standardized testing requirement …