Hamilton College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Clinton, New York, has announced the hiring of eight new assistant professors. All eight of the new hires are women.
Tara M. Holman is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing. She writes and teaches about twentieth- and twenty-first-century African American and Black Atlantic literature and culture, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and international studies from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in English from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
T Kira Mahealani Madden is an assistant professor of literature and creative writing. A native Hawaiian, she is the author of the memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019). She is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design & Eugene Lang College at the New School in New York City. She earned a master of fine arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
Amy Marvin was appointed assistant professor of women’s and gender studies. Her book Trans Fascination, which focuses on ruinous obsessions with trans people, is under contract with Oxford University Press. Dr. Marvin is a graduate of West Chester University in Pennsylvania. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Oregon.
Amy Moser was named an assistant professor of geosciences. Prior to joining the faculty at Hamilton, Dr. Moser was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a research associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies how rocks and minerals preserve a record of plate tectonics across Earth history. Dr. Moser is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She holds a master’s degree from Utah State University and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Phyllis Pearson is a new assistant professor of philosophy. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Central European University in Vienna, Austria. Her research is focused on understanding what we ought to believe when faced with misleading information. Dr. Pearson is a graduate of the University of Toronto. She holds a master’s degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.
Lindsey Pruett is an assistant professor of government. She studies the security sector, gender, and state-building processes, with a regional focus on francophone West Africa. Dr. Pruett is a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. She earned a master’s degree at the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. at Cornell University in New York. Her dissertation – “Soldiers and the Colonial State” – won the Janice N. and Milton J. Esman Prize for Best Dissertation in the Cornell government department.
Taveeshi Singh was appointed an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto’s Center for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies. She is currently working on her book Domestic Exertions: Soldier-Servants, Military Elites, and Securitized Labor in India. Dr. Singh is a graduate of Delhi University in India. She holds a master’s degree from Teachers College at Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University in New York.
Elena Tonc was appointed assistant professor of biology. Her research interests span immune regulation, inflammation, chronic pain, and cancer. At Hamilton, Dr. Tonc will investigate how altered immune responses to environmental chemicals may contribute to chronic vulvar pain. A graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she majored in chemistry and biology, Dr. Tonc earned a Ph.D. in immunology at Washington University in St. Louis