FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP

When Hampden-Sydney’s prestigious faculty members aren’t instructing and inspiring students, they are seeking opportunities to further their expertise in their chosen fields. Faculty scholarship is a crucial component to every teaching institution. By broadening their own expertise, our faculty members enhance their instrouction of our young men and ensure that they are well-informed and well-equipped to handle the problems of today.

Noemi Martin Santo

Assistant Professor of Spanish Noemi

Martin Santo published a chapter titled "The Shipwreck of the Manila Galleon San Felipe in Seventeenth-Century Histories and Accounts on Japan" in Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World.

Marc Hight

Thompson Professor of Philosophy

Marc Hight was on sabbatical for 2021-2022 during which time he was a distinguished visiting professor of philosophy and education at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland, for the fall semester of 2021. Dr. Hight also published "A Catholic Enlightenment in Ireland" in Eighteenth Century Ireland in the fall of 2021, "The Social Nature of Technology Fixes" in the Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences 2021, and an article in the Oxford Handbook of Berkeley titled "Berkeley on the Economics of Poverty" in April of 2022.

Nathaniel Perry

Elliott Professor of English and Editor of the Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review Nathaniel Perry published his second book of poetry titled Long Rules: An Essay in Verse, which won The Backwaters Prize in Poetry.

Ivo Gyurovski ’09

Assistant Professor of Psychology Ivo Gyurovski ’09 and Evan Lester '21 co-authored a manuscript titled “Does Outcome Bias Trump Political Tribalism,” which was published in Translational Issues in Psychological Science, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Psychological Association.

James Pontuso

Charles Patterson Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs

James Pontuso published “Becoming ‘Woke’ Rightly Understood: Peter Lawler on Liberal Arts and the Human Soul in American Heresies and Higher Education” in Perspectives on Political Science 51:3 (2022).

Andre Pagliarini

Assistant Professor of History Andre Pagliarini received a Fulbright research grant to finalize work during the summers of 2022 and 2023 on a book manuscript—tentatively titled Claiming the Nation: Democracy, Development, and the Politics of Nationalism in Modern Brazil—dealing with the contested politics of nationalism in 20th century Brazil.

Kristian M. Hargadon ’01

Trinkle Professor of Biology Dr. Kristian M. Hargadon '01 published an article titled “A Bioinformatic Approach to Enhance Undergraduate Student Understanding of the Cancer‐Immunity Cycle” in the Journal of Cancer Education on August 27, 2022. The article received the American Association for Cancer Education's R. Davilene Carter Presidential Prize for Best Manuscripts (2nd place). It is the second year in a row that Dr. Hargadon has been honored by the society in this international competition.

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