Courtesy | Davenant Institute A history professor’s new book argues that during the early American republic, military men understood the relation between church and state better than pastors and priests. “We tend to give religious people a bit too much credit on how they understand the relationship between military policy, foreign policy, and religion,” Associate...
Joseph Ritzer with dinosaur miniatures. Courtesy | Isaac Ritzer A spontaneous purchase of the game Star Wars: Legion inspired an alumnus to create a scientifically-accurate dinosaur miniatures game, Dinoniche. In summer 2022, Joseph Ritzer ’24 spent several months in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, working alongside other students as a research assistant to David Houghton, professor of...
Josh Herring delivered his lecture Sept. 11. Courtesy | Anna Northcutt Josh Herring ’11 said a transformative study of history must assume that human beings of the past were rational creatures who acted for discernible reasons in a lecture hosted by the history department Sept. 11. Herring, founder and director of the Logres Institute for...
Courtesy | Kierstin Sorensen Kierstin Sorensen, visiting assistant professor of physics, spent her last two summers taking daily photos of the sun. Eventually, she hopes to publish a paper with her observations, demonstrating how the sun rotates based on how its sunspots change over time. Sorensen joined the physics department in fall 2026, teaching College...
Award-winning opera singer Julie Adams joined Hillsdale’s music department faculty as artist-teacher of music in voice this fall. Adams defies the stereotype that the best opera singers are always demanding and temperamental, according to Melissa Knecht, chairman of the music department. “Julie is the opposite of a diva and one of the most accommodating faculty...