Politics+Society

Dominique Hazzard ’12
Fall 2020
“If you’re organizing every day and you have those relationships between yourselves and the community, then you can harness moments like this to really create change through direct action.”More
2020 Alumnae Achievement Awards
Fall 2020
This year’s recipients of Wellesley’s highest honor are Joan Wallace-Benjamin ’75, M. Darby Dyar ’80 , and Kimberly Dozier ’87 .More
A black-and-white photos depicts a Black Lives Matter protester carrying an American flag as tear gas fills the air outside the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, Ore., on July 21.
Fall 2020
Kellie Carter Jackson, the Knafel Assistant Professor of the Humanities and an assistant professor of Africana studies at Wellesley, offers her perspective on protests that erupted across the country this year.More
Illustration of Zoe teaching students
Fall 2020
Rana Zoe Mungin ’11 had always planned to be known—as a writer. She had not expected to become nationally famous as the face of the pandemic that has devastated New York and that continues to rampage around much of the globe.More
The cover of Hill Women shows black-and-white photo of a mother standing by a pickup truck holding a baby while a young boy stands alongside.
Fall 2020
Hill Women captures with grace and nuance the identity of Appalachian women, and in doing so acknowledges the role that luck, education, and community play in changing a life.More
Architect Denise Villar de Castro ’98 and her collaborators stand in an emergency quarantine facility they created outside the Taguig Pateros District Hospital.
Summer 2020
“To see the bayanihan spirit every day in the selfless and generous efforts of everyone involved in this project gives me hope that we can indeed build as one to heal as one through this pandemic.”More
A Forthright Look at the Foremothers of Woman Suffrage
Summer 2020
By the end of the book, readers will have a deeper, richer understanding of the long struggle to win the right to vote and the three generations of women—and occasionally men—who made this struggle their priority.More
Catia Confortini
Summer 2020
“We are living through something that was predicted but no government took seriously—or not seriously enough. … I thought there is no better moment to study a global pandemic than when a global pandemic is happening.”More
A suffragist holds a banner reading "Mr. PRESIDENT HOW LONG MUST WOMEN WAIT FOR LIBERTY"
Summer 2020
More than a century ago, Wellesley faculty, alumnae, and student activists fought to gain women the vote, but in the early days, they faced campus opposition.More
President
Summer 2020
Hope was manifest in this community when it rallied around Rana Zoe. Now, we must show this same power as we step up as citizens.More