Event Details
The inauguration of Steven Tepper as the 21st president of Hamilton College will take place on Saturday, Sept.28, at 10:30 a.m., in the Margaret Bundy Scott Field House. Daniel Bernard Roumain, an associate professor at Arizona State University and a Haitian-American composer, performer, and violinist, will offer remarks to open the ceremony along with greetings from student, faculty, staff, alumni, and trustee representatives.
The inauguration ceremony, which will be attended by more than 200 delegates representing academic institutions and honor societies, is free and open to the public and will be streamed live at www.hamilton.edu/inauguration.
Steven Tepper
Steven Tepper assumed the Hamilton presidency on July 1 after serving after serving 10 years as dean and director of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. A sociologist, Tepper is a leading writer and speaker on higher education and U.S. cultural policy, and his work has fostered national discussions about cultural engagement, creative work and careers, art and democracy, and the transformative possibilities of a 21st century creative campus.
Prior to joining Arizona State, Tepper was on the faculty at Vanderbilt University where he was a key architect of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, a national think tank for cultural policy and creativity. He also worked as deputy director and lecturer of sociology and public policy at the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University.
Tepper holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a doctorate in sociology from Princeton University.
Daniel Bernard Roumain
Daniel Bernard Roumain is a Black, Haitian-American composer who sees composing as collaboration with artists, organizations, and communities within the farming and framing of ideas. He is a prolific and endlessly collaborative composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), Roumain has worked with artists from J’Nai Bridges, Lady Gaga and Philip Glass to Bill T. Jones, Marin Alsop and Anna Deavere Smith.
