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Professor Girmay's New Book Is A National Poetry Month Pick by Oprah.com, NBC News
… , published this month, is being recognized by a number of prominent national media including the Los Angeles Times , NBC News, Oprah.com, and Chicago Review of Books . The poetry collection was recognized by critic … Times and NBCNews.com, where the writer dubbed it one of five exceptional new books of poetry by Latino poets. The …
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Five College Consortium Awarded $2.5 Million for Native and Indigenous Studies
… American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), with the goal of enhancing teaching, learning, and scholarship in the field. The grant is one of the largest made by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the consortium to date, and is also one of the consortium’s largest grant awards from any funder in …
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Area Of Study
Mathematics
… Mathematics Mathematics can be regarded as a way of thinking, not simply a collection of results. You are here Sitewide Search Most of Hampshire's math students find the subject an essential …
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Ken Rosenthal and Friends Endow Fund for Hampshire Faculty
… years after helping to found Hampshire College as one of its first employees, Ken Rosenthal wanted to leave a gift … including his own and his daughter’s. Rosenthal thought of Hampshire professors, known for engaging with their … professors not only commit to more intensive advising of students than do their peers elsewhere; they are also open …
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Letter from Ken Rosenthal, Interim President: June 13, 2019
… own education and lead independent work. As a community of lifelong learners, we are not satisfied with knowledge … exercise and active inquiry. This remains the heart of Hampshire's program, as Franklin Patterson and Chuck Longsworth wrote in The Making of a College . Five decades later, we see the results of …
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Faculty
Laura Sizer
… Laura Sizer Laura Sizer, professor emerita of philosophy, received a B.A. in philosophy from Boston … in 1990, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. She specializes in the philosophy of mind and philosophy of psychology/cognitive science. Her …
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Writing a Lived Landscape
… Writing a Lived Landscape Four stories cast over a span of two centuries, all centered around one particular piece of land in northern California. It is a collection of neither history nor fiction, but a blending of the two …
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Gabriela Quiñones-Torres, M.S.
… student studying clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She conducts research on marriage and close relationships in hopes of cracking the code for enduring satisfying relationships. … While her clinical work is informed by a variety of psychological perspectives, her therapy approach is guided …
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L. Brown Kennedy
… L. Brown Kennedy L. Brown Kennedy, professor emerita of literature, is broadly trained (at Duke and Cornell) in … and research interests include the literature and culture of the Southern U.S.; women's writing and the representation of gender; the representation of childhood and children's …
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Shakespeare and Pie
… stopping by the Merrill Living Room for the first meeting of the Shakespeare and Pie club, Josh Parr 08F was pretty … to him shortly after he arrived on campus. The addition of pie, he said, was something he hoped would boost the … chocolate, and pumpkin pies filled the center island of the Merrill kitchen, and, as it is a literary club, each …
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Div III Profile: Milo Muise's 'Magic, Exile, and Defiant Miracles'
… Gorry-Hines 11F "For me, poetry is all about rich layers of complexity and contradiction," Division III student Milo … and multiplicity makes it "a profound mirror of what it means, to me, to be alive," they say. For Div III, Muise has created a two-part project, consisting of a poetry manuscript and a creative essay. The poetry …
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Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for Hampshire Professor
… academic year 2013-2014. Rubinstein is associate professor of American literature and Jewish studies and the dean of academic support and advising at Hampshire College. She … In her Fulbright application materials, she wrote of the courses she will offer there: "One of the …
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Art by Numbers
… show up aplenty in her final project. After four years of helping friends hang their Div III shows, the Philadelphia native thinks of the college gallery as much more than space waiting to be … the gallery door, and the library, just up a short flight of stairs. Her reflections on the gallery and what she …
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He Was Frequently Headed Off On a Bus
… Headed Off On a Bus Jim Collins James Miller was reminded of that in September, when the communications professor and a dozen others gathered to dedicate a new bus stop outside of the Robert Crown Center in memory of one of Miller’s former students, Sander Thoenes 87F. …
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Animated Film Takes Owen Neuburger from Div III to Pixar
… then continued the following year with Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences Chris Perry, an Academy … Perry would end up as his Div III chair, with Professor of Computer Science Lee Spector the other member of the committee. Neuburger’s talent with animation, coupled …
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Area Of Study
Digital Media
… a field crosses boundaries: It occurs at the intersection of technology and art, and explores how one influences the … installation, computer graphics, and animation, all of which explore the potentials and limits of new technology, innovative sources for creative …
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New Case Study Details Hampshire College’s Mission-Based Endowment Investing
… Intentional Endowments Network has published a case study of how Hampshire College undertook this challenge as it … widely known for aligning endowment investing with issues of social responsibility and justice: It was the first … weapons contractors in 1982 and in 2015 published a list of disfavored industries that included private prisons. …
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Hampshire Course on Special Education and Inclusion Receives Endowment Gift
… on special education and inclusion, available to students of the Five College Consortium. Hampshire first offered the … Special Education: Learning Differences and the Role of Inclusion, in 2013, as part of its curriculum in Critical Studies of Childhood, Youth, …
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Martha Pskowski 09F Receives Fulbright Award
… Pskowski 09F Receives Fulbright Award Martha Pskowski 09F of Hampshire College has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. … in environmental studies, the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently. Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic and …
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Chautauqua Institution Features Professor Darlington and Advisor Bernstein in Summer Lecture Series
… guests each summer, is dedicated to the exploration of the best in human values and the enrichment of life through a program that explores the important religious, social, and political issues of our times. Darlington, professor of anthropology and Asian …
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Hampshire College Receives Historic $5 Million Gift Honoring Alum Ken Burns
… to Transform Higher Education, propelling implementation of Hampshire’s innovative approach to undergraduate liberal … arts by placing globally relevant questions at the center of our curriculum and challenging students to become agents of momentous change. This donor—who has no previous …
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A Project-Based Approach to Teaching Game Design
… tradition meets the professional world. Over the course of three months, a group of students, faculty, staff, and community members designed, … skills they have learned at Hampshire to the process of developing a product that will be used in the real world. …
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Research Explores How Microorganisms May Help Form Minerals
… Form Minerals Are living things involved in the creation of minerals? Hampshire College microbiology professor Jason Tor and an interdisciplinary team of Five College consortium professors recently received a … The funding will support the group, with the inclusion of six students, in field and laboratory research aimed to …
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Faculty
Jennifer Bajorek
… professor working on questions at the intersection of photography, art, and poetry. She has a particular interest in the aesthetic aftermaths of colonialism in French and Francophone worlds, with a … and poetry); photography and film; and philosophies of the image and of liberation. Bajorek has published and …
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Norman Holland
… Norman Holland Norm Holland, professor emeritus of Hispano literatures, received his A.B. in Comparative … Hopkins University. He also studied at the University of Toulouse and the University of Buenos Aires. He has served as associate dean of faculty …
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