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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.”

Wheaton Welcomes Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Sylvia Reed

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow Sylvia Reed joins the Wheaton English department this fall.

Lindsay Powell ’13 awarded Davis Fellowship

During the summer, Lindsay Powell will write reports on proceedings of the South African Parliament for the Parliamentary Monitoring Group

Joe Donahue ’10 in Morocco

Since I graduated from Wheaton in 2010, I have been a Peace Corps volunteer in a rural Moroccan town called Ait Oumghar.

Prof. Kendrick and Bishop Berkeley

Prentice Professor of Philosophy Nancy Kendrick gave a keynote address – “Turning Savage Americans into Indian Scholars: Berkeley’s Bermuda Project”.