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Women’s History Month Open Courses

Every year during Women’s History Month, faculty in the Women’s and Gender Studies Program offer a series of “open classes” which anyone in the Wheaton…

Writing Now, Right Now, Together

We often think of writing as a solitary pursuit—a lonely habit isolating us from others. Perhaps that is why writers are experts at procrastination. That…

Lissy Hodge ’15

Lissy Hodge ’15 is teaching in Malaysia via a Fulbright English Teaching Award.

Upcoming Workshops

Upcoming workshops and papers: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6-8, 2017 LeBlanc, M.D. & Boylan, K. (2017). From coding to curating: a…

ELL Professional Development

Wheaton is hosting a professional development session on teaching English language learners on Friday, February 3

Boston Urban Teaching Fellows

Students participate in winter internships at Boston public schools

Senior Symposium Keynote: Sherine Hamdy

Sherine Hamdy (Brown University) will be presenting this year’s keynote address at on February 2nd at the 35th Annual Sociology Anthropology Senior Research Symposium.

Conversation with George Kunhardt ‘09

February 10, 2017 Emmy Award-winning documentary producer and Wheaton alumnus George Kunhardt ’09 will discuss the art and practice of producing documentaries with a spotlight…

Dana Polanichka receives tenure

On 12 December, the Tenure Committee enthusiastically granted tenure to Prof. Polanichka. Please join us in congratulating her!

Government in action

Students from Urban Politics course travel to the Rhode Island State House.

What is the value of Philosophy?

Recently Robert Audi said this: “I see philosophy as having a unique and essential role in education, in strengthening democracy, and in advancing human knowledge.”…

Gender matters in the legislature

Professor Westfall works collaborates with a former student to show that gender quotas to increase the number of women can indeed make a difference to…