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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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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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Notable Alumni

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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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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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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Faculty

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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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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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 … AND BE INSPIRED here . bio:  http://lemnsissay.com/biography/ Civic …

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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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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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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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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 Alum Curates Exhibit by Professor Sara Greenberger Rafferty at SUNY New Paltz

… such as domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion and violence, is now on exhibit at the Samuel Dorsky Museum … as a metaphor to characterize brutal political campaigns and post-9/11 military interrogation—aptly describes the … decade, Rafferty has referenced the language, gestures and props associated with stand-up comedy. This exhibition …

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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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Study of Acceptance of Evolution Among Muslim Physicians

… of how the Muslim world views evolution by collecting and analyzing data on the perspectives of physicians and medical students. The three-year study is funded by a … as controversial. We're trying to use how physicians and medical students think about evolution as a way to …

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Michele Hardesty

… Michele Hardesty Michele Hardesty received her M.A. and Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University, and her B.A in English from the University of …

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Recent Graduate Searches for Paradise Amidst Upheaval in Div III Film

… Quispe (virtually) to learn more about her current work and her journey to filmmaking as a medium for exploring … campus, I met so many people dedicated to their work and their causes and their beliefs, and I wanted to be a part of that …

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Professor Koehler Named Visiting Senior Fellow at the National Gallery of Art

… This summer, Hampshire College Professor of Architectural and Art History Karen Koehler will conduct research for her … art school, in Germany, was a major influence on early- and mid-20th-century modernist culture. While in Washington, Koehler will research the Walter and Ise Gropius Papers in the Archives of American Art, a …

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Trustees Establish Environmental Professorship to Honor Jonathan Lash Presidency

… Jonathan Lash’s tenure as Hampshire’s sixth president and lifetime of service to the global environmental movement, … the Jonathan Lash Endowed Chair in Environmental Education and Sustainability. Environmental ethics and justice will be the primary focus for inquiry and

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