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Schopenhauer and Toni Morrison on happiness

Students in “What is the Good Life?” an FYS course taught by Professor Partridge, met at the Mars Science Center outdoor classroom on Thursday, September…

Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World wins award

The volume, Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Spain and the New World (Ashgate 2011) has been chosen by the Award Committee of the Society for…

Finding Plato in a Bomb Shelter

Elana Weiner ’11 recently visited Wheaton and shared this update. “It’s wonderful to be a Philosopher in the desert! After graduation, I decided to spend…

Call for Papers: Undergrad Philosophy Conference

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies will host the third Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on March 8-9, 2013 at Marist College. Undergraduates are…

Philosophy Majors rock the GRE

Among all undergraduate majors, philosophy majors get the highest scores on the Verbal and Analytical Reasoning parts of the GRE. Among Humanities majors, philosophers get…

Martin Lecture Series presents Kecia Ali

September 27, 2012 The Religion Department welcomes feminist Islamic scholar and Boston University faculty member Kecia Ali, who will present a lecture entitled “Making Muhammad…

Courtney Gilman ’15

Women’s Studies major Courtney Gilman ’15 spent the summer as an intern at the Family Violence Project in Maine.

Welcome Professor Eileraas!

This fall the Women’s Studies program welcomes Karina Eileraas, Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in Islamic Studies.

Professors Torres and Yllo to Host an International Conference on Sexual Violence at Wheaton College

Professors Yllo and Torres received a Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop Grant to host a workshop on global perspectives on sexual violence in marriage at Wheaton.

Professors Torres and Yllo to Host an International Conference on Sexual Violence

.. funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, to promote the development of anthropological research and theory on kinship, gender, violence and social suffering.

Congratulations, Jessica Gordon-Roth, PhD!

The Philosophy Department is proud to congratulate Jessica Gordon-Roth ’04 on completing the requirements for a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Illinois at…

Getting to Philosophy

There’s a game you can play called “Getting to Philosophy.”