Notable Alumni
Jacob Reider 83F P10
… our communities through the innovative use of technology, and the promotion of benevolence in business. He is … Health, a New York health transformation initiative, and serves as adviser, investor, and/or Director for several small health-focused companies. …
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The Singing Tower
… to a railing outside his third-floor residence hall room and hung speaker wires weighted with 200 pounds of rocks … a project he would immerse himself in over the next year and a half, culminating in the creation of a new—and very large—musical instrument and earning him a degree in …
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Hampshire College Student Theatre Presents Fall 2018 Productions
… up this weekend in the Hampshire College Studio Theatre, and tickets are available now. The first, Marisol , is a published work by the award-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, José Rivera. The play … god. The play was "slotted" by Div II Brianna Turnbull, and productions are on October 18th and 20th at 8:00 p.m. …
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Center for Design 20th Anniv Sets the Theme of Div IV Weekend
… the Lemelson Center) is celebrating its 20th anniversary, and the College will mark the milestone by dedicating its … reception, maker-themed workshops featuring alums and faculty, the Makers showcase, an Art of the Book exhibit, plus events with President Lash and faculty and staff, and more. Click for full schedule and …
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They Were a Force of Nature: Catching Up with the Unstoppable Aldersons
… Unstoppable Aldersons Abigail Meisel When you meet Glenna and Earl Alderson for the first time, you really wish you … whitewater. “That was our second winter-term trip, and we were still in our twenties, but we were on duty with … That trip marked the onset of more than 560 weekend and extended trips — paddling, hiking, rock climbing, …
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Students in Game Course Seek to Publish New Game in Four Months
… New Game in Four Months Lara Leilani Matthias Developing and publishing a mobile game for Apple and Android devices in four months would be an aggressive … Studio class are almost halfway through their project, and are hard at work to develop their own point-and-click …
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February 8, 2019: Hampshire Update
… Dear Hampshire Students, Faculty, Staff, Parents, Alums, and Friends, This has been a full-on week of meetings and interactions on campus and off, following Friday’s Board announcement—extremely …
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Hampshire to Host 2017 Northeast Organic Farming Association Summer Conference
… from the mid 1980s to 2007. Gardeners, farmers, growers, and food-lovers from across the Northeast will again share their inspiration and ideas for organic food, farming, health, activism, and beyond. With an array of workshops, seminars, exhibits, …
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Faculty
Jutta Sperling
… Sperling received her M.A. from the Universität Göttingen and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Sperling’s teaching interests focus on medieval/early modern history and visual culture, with a special emphasis on the Italian … decolonial archive studies, (queer) body history, and comparative legal studies of the Mediterranean. Her most …
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Barbara Yngvesson
… emerita of anthropology, received her B.A. from Barnard and her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. … Dean of the School of Social Science at Hampshire College, and founding director of the interdisciplinary Program in Culture, Brain, and Development there. Her interests include the cultural …
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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: July 10, 2019
… College Community, As we start our new fiscal year and prepare for what promises to be a transformative school … anniversary in fall 2020—I want to recognize our staff and faculty who have remained with the College under the most fluid, ambiguous, and in some cases severely challenging circumstances. Since I …
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Hampshire College Welcomes Hitchcock Center for the Environment to its Cultural Village
… 9,000-square-foot facility located between the Red Barn and the Hampshire College Farm, with access to nature trails and a range of ecological habitats on the College's property. … environmental education programs to some 8,000 children and adults each year, and has plans to leverage its new …
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PVTA Agrees to Five Colleges Bus Route Recommendations
… Colleges Bus Route Recommendations Five Colleges leaders and representatives have successfully petitioned the Pioneer … proposed bus service reductions it had announced in May and to retain routes serving the colleges and the local community. In May, PVTA had proposed bus …
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Laura Wenk
… Laura Wenk Laura Wenk, professor of cognition and education and dean of curriculum and assessment, is a founding faculty member of the …
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Five College Womens Studies Research Center Events
… Annie Baker has fabricated a town that feels as real and recognizable as its combined parts of Vermont and her hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts. Theater artists … perhaps now more than ever, seem committed to replicating and reenacting, to borrow a phrase of David Foster Wallace's, …
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Michael Klare
… Michael Klare, Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), holds a B.A. and M.A. …
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Hampshire in Havana Program Embraces Digital Humanities to Create a Dynamic Virtual Immersion Experience
… the fall of 2020, Associate Professor of U.S. Literatures and Cultural Studies Michele Hardesty recognized that the … trip. In order to keep the intellectual exchange vibrant and to offer mutual aid to Hampshire College’s longtime partners in Cuba, Hardesty and Hampshire in Havana partner Roberto García Suárez turned …
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Hampshire College Alum Dr. Justin Xavier Moore Awarded Five-Year NIH Grant
… Moore Awarded Five-Year NIH Grant Amy Diehl Epidemiologist and Hampshire College alum Dr. Justin Xavier Moore 07F was … of Health (NIH) to support his research on geographic and racial disparities in mammography screening and care. The grant from the NIH’s National Institute on …
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Healing the Spiritual Wounds of War
… person inspired by the ancient words of Homer, Euripides, and others, and brings those stories to bear in his work on understanding … high rates of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide in soldiers after they have returned home. The …
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Hampshire College Welcomes Five New Members to the Board of Trustees
… members include alums Vibhu Norby 06S, Mike Plenty 01F, and Ananda Valenzuela 07F, as well as Alice Petty 89F as the elected alumni trustee and Associate Professor of Economics Omar Dahi as the faculty representative. Alums Julie Schecter 71F and Jesús Colmenares 03F were also renewed for additional …
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Flavio Risech-Ozeguera
… of law, holds a B.A. from the University of South Florida and a J.D. from Boston University, and was a Community Fellow in urban studies and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. …
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Welcome Chief Advancement Officer Jennifer Chrisler
… encompass our 50th anniversary celebration next fall. She and I will be developing relationships with community members and new friends who are interested in supporting Hampshire’s … by 39 percent, exceeding their goal; launching Lifetime and Leadership giving societies; developing a new brand …
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Hampshire Appoints Timothy Zimmerman to Endowed Professorship Honoring Jonathan Lash
… a professorship founded last year by the Board of Trustees and Academic Affairs Division to honor President Lash’s tenure. Funded by gifts from more than 100 donors and growing, the endowment supports the professorship that in turn benefits the academic program and students and helps the College increase its total …
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Rebecca Miller
… from Bryn Mawr College, an M.A. from Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. from Brown University in ethnomusicology. She … (Wesleyan University Press, 2008; 2nd edition, 2024) and Are You Dancing?: Showbands, Popular Music, and Memory in Modern Ireland (Indiana University Press, …
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University of California Professor To Talk Class Struggle in Black Studies at 2017 Schocket Lecture
… tenth-annual Eric N. Schocket Memorial Lecture on Class and Culture. University of California English Professor Fred Moten, a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow and researcher of black studies, performance studies, poetics, and literary theory, will deliver his talk, “Manic …
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