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Alums Create Student Scholarship Fund To Honor Professor Emerita Bengelsdorf

… Emerita Bengelsdorf John Courtmanche Victor Fresco and Scott Gortikov didn’t plan to concentrate their Hampshire … they took a course with Professor Carollee Bengelsdorf, and they were hooked. A professor of politics who joined the faculty in 1973, three years before Gortikov and Fresco arrived, Bengelsdorf peppered her teaching with …

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Hampshire Offering Innovative Summer Programs

… Hampshire Offering Innovative Summer Programs Created and recognized for shaping bold new educational approaches, … expanding its calendar of academic programs to year-round and opening up opportunities to diverse learning communities. … experience-based education are geared toward professionals and practitioners, advanced high school students, graduate …

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Hampshire College Welcomes Five New Members to the Board of Trustees

… year, starting July 1, 2020. Alums Juana Schurman 72F and Wendy Webb Williams 86F joined the board in February 2021. Erik Benau 03F and Morwin Schmookler 00F joined in fall of 2020, and Warren Gorlick 77F began his three-year term as the …

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Diana Arce 99F

… Arce 99F Diana Arce (she/her) is an artist, activist, and researcher, centering intersectional anti-racist … practices in her work creating campaigns, participatory, and community engaged art. Diana teaches, lectures, writes and lead workshops worldwide as part of her artistic practice …

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'Boundaries Between Bodies' Explores The Effects of Mass Incarceration Through Dance

… The Effects of Mass Incarceration Through Dance Artists and educators Reggie Daniels and Amie Dowling will present and discuss the dance films Well Contested Sites (2013) and

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Leadership Team Update from President Wingenbach

… Dear Hampshire College Community, I arrived in Amherst and launched into my work at Hampshire this week, and I’m enjoying meeting staff and faculty across campus. I’ve only scratched the surface …

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Div II Profile: REJJIA CAMPHOR 16F

… Metamorphosis AREAS OF FOCUS Creative writing, women’s and cultural studies, fine arts FACULTY COMMITTEE Mei Ann … I submitted a play to the Five College Word Festival and was accepted to workshop it with other black and brown people of color. It was an exciting learning …

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Hampshire to Offer 12th Annual ‘Super 8 Filmmaking in Paris’ Course This Summer

… Education Office courses in recent years for Hampshire and Five College students. Scheduled for June 1–21, the course is taught by Professor Emerita of Film and Video Baba Hillman . The course comprises intensive … workshops in cinematography, hand-processing, animation, and editing. It also explores the role of migration and

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Exhibition Questions History of U.S. Relationship with Puerto Rico through Ironic “Museum” of Empire

… John Courtmanche Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, and as its one-year anniversary approaches, an exhibition at … of the colonial relationship between the United States and the island, a U.S. territory for more than a century and a commonwealth since 1952. The Museum of the Old Colony , …

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Roddenberry Foundation Funds Sustainability Solve-A-Thon

… Roddenberry Foundation will challenge Hampshire faculty and students to find interdisciplinary solutions to climate change, sustainability, and social justice through new courses, project grants, events, and even a Solve-a-Thon team contest across all five schools …

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Daphne Lowell

… Daphne Lowell Daphne A. Lowell, professor emerita of dance and movement studies, and member of the Five College Dance Department, holds a B.A. in cultural anthropology from Tufts University and an M.F.A. in modern dance from the University of Utah.  …

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April 18: Schocket Memorial Lecture by Lisa Henderson

… Sixth Annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class and Culture on Thursday, April 18, at 4 p.m. in Franklin … lecturer is Lisa Henderson, whose talk is entitled "Queers and Class: Toward a Cultural Politics of Love and Solidarity." Professor Henderson is the author of Love …

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Baba Hillman

… Baba Hillman, Five College Professor Emerita of Film and Video, grew up in Japan, Venezuela, and Panama. She received a B.A. in French Literature from Duke University and an M.F.A. in Film and Performance from the University of …

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Salman Hameed

… Salman Hameed Salman Hameed holds a B.S. in physics and astronomy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in astronomy from New Mexico State University at … interests have now moved in a sociological direction, and today his research focuses on understanding the reception …

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Hampshire Graduate Jacey Shal’e Carrier 17F Awarded Fulbright to Study in South Korea

… in the spring of 2021. She studied education leadership and entrepreneurship and plans to become an educator supporting students of all … of several student groups including the Culture, Brain, and Development program; the Childhood, Youth and Learning …

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Robert Meagher

… from the University of Notre Dame (summa cum laude) and the University of Chicago, joined the Hampshire faculty … in 1972. Prior to that, he taught religious studies and theology at Indiana University and the University of Notre Dame. He has also held visiting …

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Public Performances To Address U.S. Imperialism from Puerto Rico Viewpoint

… U.S. Imperialism from Puerto Rico Viewpoint On October 20 and 24, a group of visiting artists will present a … of U.S. imperialism from the perspective of the economic and environmental state of Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Hampshire College and Holyoke’s …

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Eli Plenk 10F Receives 2013 Humanity in Action Fellowship

… standing, active participation in human rights issues, and outstanding recommendations. The fellowships bring together international groups of college students and recent graduates to explore different national histories of discrimination and resistance to injustice, as well as examples of …

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Renowned British Writer Sissay To Give Public Reading

… Public Reading Michael Medeiros Renowned poet, playwright, and Manchester University Chancellor Lemn Sissay will give a reading and talk on Sunday, March 27, at 7 pm in the Red Barn.  From a hard childhood in England in failed adoption and harsh fostering situations and quest for his own …

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March 26, 2019: A Letter from the Options Working Group

… March 21, we had the first opportunity to meet as a group, and we wanted to update you on our progress and direction. First, who are we? We are an independent group of alumni, parents, and former trustees who have had experience in business and

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President Nelson Welcomes Class of 2018, Announces Year of Strategic Visioning

… President Miriam Nelson to the class of fall 2018 and returning students, staff, and faculty as the semester began. The College’s seventh president began her tenure by announcing that she and the Board of Trustees would engage the Hampshire …

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Three Hampshire Professors Receive Grants for Research Abroad

… impact on enriching their courses. This year the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation awarded grants to Associate … Professor of Sustainable Architecture Naomi Darling, and Professor of Comparative Literature Jeffrey Wallen. The purpose of the grants is to stimulate and broaden the minds of teachers and to improve and enhance …

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L. Brown Kennedy

… emerita of literature, is broadly trained (at Duke and Cornell) in English literature and has special interests in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and culture (Shakespeare, …

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Hampshire’s Alan Goodman Coauthors 'RACE: Are We So Different?'

… College professor explores the central idea of race and how it has been made real, challenged, and changed throughout history. Watch interview about Race: … a powerful myth. It is important, absorbing, educational, and masterful in its telling." - Daryl G. Smith RACE: Are We …

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Karen Koehler

… Karen Koehler received her B.A. in English literature and M.S. in library science from the University of Illinois, … in art history from the University of Massachusetts, and an M.F.A and Ph.D. in art and archaeology from Princeton University. …

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