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Living Sociology

Knapton Hall was my favorite building when I started at Wheaton.

Girl Rising

March 27, 2014 The documentary Girl Rising focuses on the education of girls internationally and the push to reform the restrictions by sharing their personal…

Writing for Change: Feminism and Media

April 7, 2014 Writing workshop with Heather Hewett, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and English at SUNY New Paltz. This event is limited to 20…

Negotiation Skills Training Workshops

March 6 & 27, 2014 This workshop will be facilitated by the Women’s Fund of Rhode Island and the WMST Program. Students must attend both…

International Women’s Day Celebration 2014

International Women’s Day Luncheon and Talk: “Re-Imagining Immigrants as Heroes: The Visual Politics of Gender, Race, and Immigration”.

Gina Walker presents The Two Marys: Hays Transforms Wollstonecraft’s Female Biography

March 26, 2014 Professor of Liberal Studies at The New School for Social Research, Walker is an intellectual historian who investigates alternatives to traditional accounts…

Dacia Maraini presents Chiara di Assisi: Poverty, Anorexia and Civil Disobedience

February 27, 2014 Maraini’s strengths are dramatic and political, as has been her life. She is a feminist and a political activist, but while both…

Faculty Lunch: Creating a Process

Wheaton-Emerson Writing Fellow Molly McGillicuddy kicks off this year’s faculty brown bag lunch series on March 20 in PDR 1, from 12:30-200 with “Writing Research…

Campana’s Olympian Writing: The Honors Thesis Pizza Jam

Professor Connie Campana will host a revising and editing workshop for all Honors Thesis writers today, February 19 in the Library’s Greenaway Room from 5-6.

Service Sociology and Academic Engagement in Social Problems

A new book edited by Trevino and McCormack asks, “What do sociologists do to respond to social problems, and how do they do it?”

Finding heavy metal

Professor John Collins and his collaborator Ivan Karbovnyk from the Ukraine have been awarded a grant from CRDF Global to study nanomaterials that could help…

Orly Clerge Keynote Speaker

Orly Clerge ’05 delivers Keynote Lecture at Wheaton’s 32nd Sociology & Anthropology Symposium.