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A Fresh Look at Local Flavor
… market The Pioneer Valley has a new cookbook, the product of an academic project completed at Hampshire College last … from the Pioneer Valley was written by a May 2005 graduate of Hampshire, Andrea Davis, as part of her senior thesis (called a Division III). The …
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Brooke Huguley 17F Examines How Reproductive Justice and Embodied Movement Can Heal Trauma
… Texas, and grew up with a very alternative education of homeschooling and unschooling. I was trying to find a … with that upbringing, and my mom and I were doing a lot of research around that. I was on the fence about Hampshire … so at home! How did you first get interested in the themes of your Div III, namely reproductive justice and embodied …
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Student-Driven Theatre On Display in Hampshire’s Theatre Board
… College Theatre Department was founded when a group of between 30 and 50 students, indignant and outraged at the lack of performing arts on campus, occupied the main lecture hall … that it’s fact —is unimportant; its existence as part of Hampshire’s zeitgeist is enough to continue the tradition …
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Hampshire's Concentration in Psychoanalytic Studies
… For them to be able to shape an individualized course of study in psychoanalytic studies in a manner that parallels … opportunity. Hampshire recently celebrated the launch of its psychoanalytic studies concentration, with Marilyn Charles of the Austen Riggs Center as keynote speaker. Dr. Charles is …
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Hampshire Writing Program To Host Award-Winning Author Helen Benedict for Public Reading
… novelist, playwright and professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, Helen Benedict, whose groundbreaking coverage of sexual assault in the U.S. military inspired the Academy … a landmark lawsuit against the Pentagon on behalf of victims of military sexual assault. Benedict has spoken at …
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Hampshire to Offer Summer Social Justice Institute
… College is offering a new social justice institute as part of its summer 2015 programs. Running June 8 through July 3, … is a four-week program focused on the study and practice of creating social change. Taught by Hampshire professors, … issues that contribute to the emergence and performance of the prison industrial complex will be explored. Drawing on …
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Womens Activism in 20th Century Iran
… Dooler Campbell's 07F Division III—"Nature and Development of Women's Activism in 20th Century Iran"—ended up being 79 pages long is "kind of perfect," she says, because so much of it centers on the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Campbell has …
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First All-Campus Address by President Ed Wingenbach: September 3, 2019
… everybody—particularly the students—for taking the risk of sticking with us and sticking with Hampshire College, … for education, for the world, that fundamentally the goal of this place is not just to provide the best education … safety, but to risk everything to build the best version of education. And it's to act with courage and creativity and …
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Language Learning
… student Charlotte Giles was able to learn the basics of Urdu through resources within the Five College consortium, … it came to digging deeper into the grammatical foundations of the language, she decided to go a little farther afield. … Institute for Indian Studies in Lucknow, the capital of India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. Urdu is the …
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Hampshire College Installation Presents GPS For Birds Disoriented by Climate Change
… Birds Disoriented by Climate Change The migratory flyways of birds have evolved over eons, oriented to correspond with … Gallery beginning on February 1 st , in a new iteration of an exhibition originally conceived with the Samek Art … cameras detect optimal habitats." GPS for birds is one of nearly a dozen human innovations that Mr. Keats is …
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Notable Alumni
Jonathan Friedland 77F
… Netflix shows such as Orange is the New Black and House of Cards —and has overseen the international expansion of Netflix's reach into 190 countries. Friedland joined … Netflix in 2011 after serving as the senior vice president of corporate communications for The Walt Disney Company, and …
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Faculty
Laurie Nisonoff
… Laurie Nisonoff Laurie Nisonoff, professor emeritus of economics, holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.Phil. from Yale University, where she … candidate. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, recipient of a Ford Foundation Fellowship in women's studies, and in …
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When Students Stop and Think About What They're Learning
… a poor model for learning. Now, for my sins, I’m president of a college that requires students to write reflective evaluations of their own work as they complete each course, internship, … study, and retrospective portfolios after each phase of their studies. The theory behind this practice isn’t new; …
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Division III: Whose Story Does History Tell?
… incident he had to know more about: The Houston Riot of 1917 grew out of a series of events that escalated racial tensions between an …
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It's On You: Symposium Shows What it Takes to be an Entrepreneur
… or career. Hamilton is cofounder and artistic director of KO Festival of Performance, a themed summer festival of original performances, workshops, internships, and …
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Mary Pless Awarded Earl Ubell Grant
… whose distinguished career has influenced generations of American science writers. Pless is studying HIV and AIDS … sex industry, and was projected to infect millions of people by the new millennium. A national campaign for 100 … in the commercial sex industry severely impacted the rate of transmission, with the number of new infections …
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Finding Immutable Personality on Facebook
… than you realize. Daniel Chapsky's Division III is a study of 615 individuals' behavioral tendencies, collected through … Chapsky created an application through which a group of respondents answered a series of questions about themselves, via the social networking …
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New Graduate’s Div III Uses Her Own Poetry to Address the Western Literary Canon
… Lillian Mabel 16F For my Div III, I wrote a collection of poetry in conversation with the Western literary canon — … with their source texts. I integrated numerous fields of study, such as literature, creative writing, and history: A comprehensive understanding of a specific work necessitates substantial contextual and …
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Notable Alumni
Eugene Mirman 92F
… Mirman 92F Actor, comedian, and writer Mirman is the voice of Gene Belcher on the Fox animated sitcom Bob’s Burgers , played Eugene on Flight of the Conchords , cohosts StarTalk Live! with Neil deGrasse … such as Bob’s Burgers and Delocated , and the author of The Will to Whatevs. In an article in Worcester Magazine , …
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NSF awards $300,000 to Five Collegeled collaboration
… (May 12, 2011) ? A new, Five College-led collaboration of K-12 school districts, higher education institutions, and … Mathematics Project (WMMP) is the latest project of the 27-year-old Five College Schools Partnership. WMMP … Westfield State University and the member institutions of Five Colleges (Hampshire, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, and Smith …
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Div III Gallery: Charlotte Hawkins – Vinegar Then Honey
… III project, Charlotte Hawkins created original works of art culminating with an original exhibit of her work premiering in the Hampshire College Art Gallery on April 2-5, 2017. Here we present highlights of an interview with Hawkins 13F by Josh Murray along with …
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Matthews Retirement Exhibit Reflects on Her Time at Hampshire
… Time at Hampshire Jenna Baillargeon Commemorating 34 years of teaching at Hampshire, Sandra Matthews will premiere a … which dates back more than 10 years and features images of people connected to the College combined over intervals of time or in generational groups. In the second part, …
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Hampshire Alum Curates Exhibit by Professor Sara Greenberger Rafferty at SUNY New Paltz
… violence, is now on exhibit at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. The exhibition is curated by … large-scale work entitled Jokes on You, featuring images of ephemera from the collections of the National Museum of American History, which was part of …
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Area Of Study
Animal Behavior and Cognition
… the world in very complex ways, and often exhibit the kind of adaptive behavior that might be called "intelligent." You … and biologists want to understand how the minds and brains of animals work, how they evolved, and what they can tell us … Whine, Whimper, and Woof: A Study in the Barking Frequency of the Vocal Communication in Blue Jays Domestic Sheep: A Two …
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Is Hampshire College Closed? Nope. No Way. Not By a Long Shot.
… Not By a Long Shot. To paraphrase Mark Twain, “Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated.” Sure, we had a … We continue to do just that, evolving to meet the needs of today’s students, instilling essential skills to prepare … reimagine the liberal arts and serve as the agent of change in higher education. And, in fact, every element …
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