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The cover of The People's Painter is a stylized illustration of Ben Shahn at work on a painting of a dove.
Spring 2022

Showing and Telling About Social Justice

By Olivia Funderburg ’18

The People’s Painter , a picture book for young readers by Cynthia Yenkin Levinson ’67, tells the story of artist Ben Shahn and how he grew into his purpose of depicting injustice and activism.More
The cover of The Plum Trees is an illustration depicting a flowering plum tree against a red and grey background.
Spring 2022

Never Forget

By E.B. Bartels ’10

The Plum Trees by Victoria Shorr ’71, a beautiful and painful novel, is a tribute to those who survived and those who died in the death camps of the Holocaust. It is nothing like current events, yet it feels particular powerful at this moment in history.More
A photo portrait of Rodney Morrison, professor of economics
Spring 2022

Rodney J. Morrison

By Guy Rogers, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History and Classical Studies

Rodney J. Morrison, emeritus professor of economics at Wellesley College, passed away on Dec. 16, 2021, in Chicago at the age of 87. Throughout his career, Rod was a productive and internationally recognized scholar. He was a NATO Fellow in economics and published many articles in respected journals and several influential books, including Portugal: Revolutionary Change in an Open Economy (1981), a work that synthesized economics, international relations, and history.More
A photo portrait of Madeleine Korbel Albright wearing a pin that depicts the Earth
Spring 2022

Madeleine Korbel Albright ’59

By Stacie E. Goddard, Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science and Paula Phillips Bernstein ’58 Faculty Director of the Albright Institute for Global Affairs; Takis Metaxas, professor of computer science and former faculty director of the Albright Institute; and Joseph Joyce, M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations, professor of economics, and former faculty director of the Albright Institute.

“Everything I am now is due to Wellesley.” So said Madeleine Korbel Albright ’59, who died of cancer on March 23 at the age of 84. She is remembered for her career as a diplomat and her service as the U.S. ambassador to the UN and as the country’s first female secretary of state. She will also be remembered for her role as an educator and a fierce advocate for women.More
A headshot photo of Sheron Fraser-Burgess '87.
Spring 2022

Confronting Systemic Racism in Education

By Sarah Ligon ’03

As a professor in the philosophy of education, Sheron Fraser-Burgess ’87 has spent the past 17 years as a “teacher of teachers,” training teachers, administrators, and doctoral candidates about the philosophical foundations of education.More
Chipo Dendere
Spring 2022

Africa Illuminated

By Sarah Ligon ’03

“The one thing I hear most from students is this idea that you can learn about Africa for the sake of learning about Africa, and not because it’s tangential to something else,” says Chipo Dendere, assistant professor of Africana studies.More
Stacie Goddard
Spring 2022

A Pivotal Moment for Political Science

By Emily Bader ’18

Stacie Goddard, the Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science and the faculty director of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, studies great power politics and international security, including why and how states engage in war.More
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Spring 2022

Support for Afghan Women’s Education

By Lisa Scanlon Mogolov ’99

In January, President Johnson hosted a virtual roundtable attended by leaders in higher education, business, and government to generate ideas for supporting Afghan women’s education and empowerment, in collaboration with the Asian University for Women.More
Pashtana Durrani
Spring 2022

In Exile, but Undaunted

By Josh Idaszak

Before last summer, human rights activist Pashtana Durrani lived in Kandahar, working as executive director of LEARN Afghanistan, a nonprofit she founded in 2018 to expand educational opportunities in the country. All that changed when the Taliban regained power in August.More
President
Spring 2022

A Seat at the Table

By Paula A. Johnson, president

One of the great lessons I took from my career in academic medicine and public health is that when you are trying to solve large problems, it really matters who is around the table. If…More
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