James T. ("Jay") Hamilton is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Hearst Professor of Communication at Stanford University. The winner of eight teaching awards at Harvard, Duke, and Stanford, he’s spent decades teaching and mentoring undergraduates and designing programs to help them thrive in college.

As chair of the First-Year Requirement Governance Board at Stanford, Hamilton helped implement the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education requirement for first-year students. This set of classes prompts students to reflect on the goals of their college education and their roles as citizens in the twenty-first century.

Hamilton is the author of three award-winning books about media research. He earned a BA in economics and government (summa cum laude) and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.