Aeschliman with her daughter, Antonia, hiking by the Potomac River this past summer. Courtesy | Patricia Craig Aeschliman In this Quick Hits, Assistant Professor of Classics Patricia Craig Aeschliman talks Renaissance polyphony, dictionaries, and her family’s new pet cat. What do you believe is underrated about your subject? Everything, to be honest. Classical Greek and Latin literature is undervalued. Reading...
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Alumni to revive works of Anglican theologian
Hillsdale alumnus Ethan Greb ’19 designed the cover of “A Disputation of Holy Scripture.” Courtesy | Josiah Leinbach When Hillsdale alumnus Josiah Leinbach ’20 learned about a 16th-century book written by Anglican theologian William Whitaker, he invited fellow college alumni and affiliates to participate in a project to revive the widely overlooked text. Whitaker wrote his book, “A Disputation of...
Visiting professor spends summer in Israeli bomb shelters
Photo of the Monastery of the Cross, a 5th-century Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem. Courtesy | Michael Weingrad Piercing sirens broke the silence of a warm Israeli night as Iran fired missiles into the country. Michael Weingrad and his wife Tara Helfman joined local Israelis, volunteers, and tourists in rushing to bomb shelters every night. Although they would spend as...
QUICK HITS with Peter Blum
Blum in elementary school. Courtesy | Peter Blum In this Quick Hits, Peter Blum, professor of philosophy and culture and director of sociology and social thought, talks about Stephen King, his stuffed sloth, and folklore. How do you describe what you teach? I tend to emphasize reading difficult texts published in the last two to three centuries, and learning that they...
Campus Character: Daniel Doyle
Doyle sings with student band Runaround at Centralhallopalooza 2024. Courtesy |Caleb Diener Daniel Doyle is a senior biochemistry major from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the senior class vice president, Events Team Lead for the Student Activities Board, and a member of men’s music fraternity Theta Epsilon, leadership honorary Omicron Delta Kappa, and secretary of the Hippocratic Society, a pre-med...
Arnn reflects on 25 years as college president
Arnn at his Inauguration on Sept. 9, 2000. Courtesy | Sabrina Compton When students returned to campus in the fall of 2000, they might have discovered a new member of the administration wandering the quad and asking for directions. It was Larry Arnn, whom the college had just hired as president from the Claremont Institute in California. He told The...
