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Nhora Lucía Serrano
Director of Academic Technology, Teaching, and Research Services
Bio: Nhora Lucía Serrano is the Director of Academic Technology, Teaching, and Research Services at Hamilton College, where she leads academic technology, research support, and pedagogical innovation for faculty and students. A former Comparative Literature faculty member, her research interests include Latin American and Latinx studies, editorial cartoons and illustration, digital humanities, and visual material culture and book arts. Her work has been recognized through several prestigious awards, including the National Humanities Center grant for public library programming, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum Scholarship, an NEH Summer Institute grant, and a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship at MIT Press. Most recently, Serrano is the curator of Depicting Mexico and Modernism: Gordo by Gus Arriola // Representando México y el Modernismo: Gordo de Gus Arriola (Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, 2023–24), and the guest editor for “Inked Latinidades: Latinx/e Voices and Narrativas en Viñetas” for Inks: Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Volume 9, Issue 3. Fall 2025.

Alex Wohnsen
Senior Research Librarian, Academic Initiatives & Experiential Learning
Bio: Alex Wohnsen is the Senior Research Librarian for Academic Initiatives & Experiential Learning at Hamilton College, where she leads information fluency instruction to the First Year Course Program and provides leadership in expanding, enhancing and assessing the delivery of library and technology instruction to students. As part of a combined team of research librarians and instructional designers, Alex leads the continuous improvement of instructional programs and practices. Alex collaborates closely with her colleagues, as well as the leaders of campus academic resource centers to support students' information fluency across the curricula and beyond higher education. She is the recipient of a National Humanities Center grant for library programming as part of the inaugural US Being Human Festival (2024) and the current Vice President of the Central New York Library Resources Council Board of Trustees. Alex has been selected as one of ten mid-career librarians to participate in the 2026 Leadership Empowerment and Acceleration Program (LEAP) Oberlin Group cohort.