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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.

February Warm-Up: Teaching Research Writing

This February, Wheaton-Emerson Writing Fellow Molly McGillicuddy will offer a faculty brown bag talk on breaking down the research writing process for students.

Marise Jiménez: MTV

Learn about Marise Jiménez’s experience during an internship at MTV.

Exploring Society Visually

by John Grady Visual sociology enters the mainstream. Here’s how…

Digital Humanities Assignment Earns National Recognition

The digital timelines made by students for WMST 101 have caught the eye of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Miranda’s Great Adventure

As an ESL teacher living in Korea I have a particular skill set. I’m a pro with band-aids. I can fix anything with twine and…

Putting Sociology Skills to Work

Chris Kelley ‘96 finds sociology is a natural fit for market research and consulting