Academics

A photo portrait of Sabriya Fisher, Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences

Winter 2019

Dissecting Language

By Deborah Lynn Blumberg ’00

Photograph by Richard Howard

Sabriya Fisher joined Wellesley’s Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences this fall. She’s already secured a spot for the College’s first sociolinguistics lab in Clapp Library to gather a database of New England speech to inform research in language variation and change.More

A photo portrait of Rosanna Hertz, Class of 1919 50th Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies

Winter 2019

We Are Family (Right?)

By Elizabeth Lund

Photograph by Richard Howard

Rosanna Hertz, Class of 1919 50th Reunion Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, chairs the women’s and gender studies department. Her new book, Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin , co-authored with Margaret Nelson, takes on the question of who is family in today’s world.More

A photo portrait of Edward Hobbes, professor of religion, in his College office

Fall 2018

Edward Hobbs, 1926–2018

By Stephen Marini, chair, Department of Religion

Edwards Hobbs, professor of religion at Wellesley from 1981 to 2012, passed away on April 4. His scholarship concentrated on the hermeneutics, or interpretation theory, of Biblical texts.More

Heather Corbally Bryant, lecturer in the writing program

Fall 2018

Look Up And Learn

By Catherine O’Neill Grace

Heather Corbally Bryant, lecturer in the writing program, hopes to help students put down their phones.More

A photo from the early days of Wellesley of students studying scientific models in College Hall.

Fall 2018

Uncovering Science at Wellesley

By Alice M. Hummer

There was plenty of excitement during an archaeological dig on Severance Hill last summer when Elizabeth Minor ’03, Mellon Post-Doctoral Scholar in Anthropology, and her students starting uncovering some unusual items.More

Fall 2018

A Foundation for Our Future

By Paula A. Johnson, president

The historic success of the College’s comprehensive campaign has much to tell us about ourselves as a College, a community, and about what we must do next, as a leader in educating and empowering women.More

Fall 2018

The Wellesley Effect in Action

By Jennifer E. Garrett ’98, Catherine O’Neill Grace, and Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99
Photography by Dana Smith

In July, the College’s comprehensive campaign dedicated to the Wellesley Effect surpassed its ambitious $500 million goal, the largest ever set by a women’s college, concluding a full year ahead of schedule. Meet five members of the community who are already benefiting from that success.More

Piper Orton, VP for finance and administration, and Andy Shennan, provost, chatting in Green Hall in front of beautiful old leaded windows

Summer 2018

Building for the Future

Edited by Alice M. Hummer
Photography by Jared Leeds

How can Wellesley support the excellence of its programs and faculty, maintain need-blind admissions, and build for the future, all while eliminating an operating deficit and addressing deferred maintenance of buildings?More

An illustration shows a group of hands being raised, as if to say "Me, too."

Summer 2018

The #MeToo Reckoning

By Alison Stateman ’91
Illustration by Heads of State

As potent as the #MeToo moment seems, once the media spotlight moves on, will the public desire and momentum for change falter?More

The cover image of Listen to the Land depicts a lush Southern woodland garden with green trees, orange and blue flowers, and a small stream.

Spring 2018

Freshink

New books by Wellesley authorsMore