Biography and economics will be the two major genres engaged by participants in the Mohawk Valley Monthly Book Club as it prepares for its first meeting in late September. In February 2011, two high school teachers, Lou Parrotta of Proctor High School and Peter Anderson of New Hartford High School, joined with the Alexander Hamilton Institute to [...]
Marc Elias, Firmwide Chair of Political Law at Perkins Coie in Washington D. C. will serve as a visiting fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute during the fall semester. During that time, he will be teaching a class "Modern Campaigns & Elections" for the Department of Government at Hamilton College. Mr. Elias a 1990 graduate of Hamilton College [...]
What is “Justice?” Has our conception of it changed over time, or has it remained constant as societies and governments have changed around it? Is law purely man-made, or does it have a moral component external to ourselves? Is all morality changeable? Has the idea of liberty always been a part of justice? Dr. Chris Hill, a [...]
Mr. Calkins was graduated from Hamilton College in 1954 with a BA as a chemistry major. He is the chairman and CEO of Rochester Midland Corporation, a leading supplier in North America of industrial cleaners and other chemical products. Mr. Calkins serves on the boards of numerous business and philanthropic organizations, including Security Trust, Highland [...]
Professor Theodore J. Eismeier, Professor of Government at Hamilton College, has announced his retirement in 2012 after more than thirty years of service to the College. During that period, he has touched the lives of hundreds of undergraduates, many of whom, as alumni, fondly refer to themselves as "Tedheads." "As a Senior Fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute," [...]
During the spring semester, Hamilton College awarded AHI Undergraduate Fellow Marta Johnson from Austin, Texas, the Katharine Eckman '09 Internship. The internship, established in memory of Katharine C. Eckman (Hamilton Class '09), provides a generous summer stipend for a student interested in politics, government, and public policy. Ms. Johnson, an economics major at Hamilton College, recently concluded [...]
The Stuttering Foundation (www.stutteringhelp.org), the world’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization that works toward the prevention and improved treatment of stuttering, has awarded a summer internship to Susannah Parkin, an AHI Undergraduate Fellow and psychology major at Hamilton College. "Susannah is an incredibly bright and talented young lady," commented Stuttering Foundation President Jane [...]
What is Market-Based Management? What are its ten guiding principles? AHI co-founder Robert Paquette found out as an invited guest of Koch Industries to the Third Annual Market-Based Management University at Koch headquarters in Wichita, Kansas. During the three-day conference (July 20-22), attendees exchanged views on economics, law, business, and political theory with a range of [...]
At the time of her death on 2 January 2007, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ranked as one of the nation’s most important and influential scholars and public intellectuals. As the Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities and the founding director of the Institute for Women’s Studies at Emory University, the first Ph.D. granting program in Women’s Studies [...]
The Alexander Hamilton Institute will hold its Third Annual Summer Conference June 27-28. Paul Cantor, Clifton Waller Barrett Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will direct five sessions on the theme of “Economic Liberty and Literature in the plays of William Shakespeare and Benjamin Jonson.” Professor Cantor is not only an internationally known [...]
