Hamilton College

Does Office Type Determine Gendered Campaign Messages?

This study examines how candidates’ gender shapes campaign messaging across different branches and levels of political office. Prior research offers mixed evidence on whether women are more likely than men to emphasize communal traits and women-related policies, often because gen...

Rethinking coherence through contradiction

Abstract This article examines how narrative coherence is achieved in conversational storytelling when speakers confront morally and emotionally ambivalent experiences. Using a naturally occurring conversation in which a narrator reflects on losing romantic feelings for a close f...

Theophilus of Antioch’s Gospel Harmony: Jerome, the Book of Saint James , and Canon Formation

Enigmatic passages in Jerome’s Letter to Algasia and the 12th century Book of Saint James have led scholars to attribute a Gospel harmony to Theophilus of Antioch. This lost harmony has played an increasingly important role in recent attempts to date the four-Gospel canon to the...