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Visiting researcher Tamanika Ferguson and co-authors write in Open Global Rights that conservative governments and organizations use human rights language as a smokescreen for regressive ideology.

A Wellesley College professor is reimagining the Battle of Little Bighorn on its 150th anniversary

As fertility rates plummet in much of the world, Wellesley experts explain why it’s happening and what might be done to address it, and alums tell their own stories about their winding paths to becoming parents—or not.

“Because I grew up in Dhaka, in Bangladesh, right in the middle of the smoggy, light-polluted city, I do not remember seeing any star,” says Lamiya Mowla ’13, assistant professor of astronomy. That changed when she arrived at Wellesley.

Single women see IVF as a Plan B when they are ready to be moms, says Rosanna Hertz, sociology professor and author of “Single By Chance, Mothers by Choice.”

Geneva Overholser ’70 and Melissa Ludtke ’73 share stories from their careers

The Anti-Carceral Co+Laboratory at Wellesley offers space to reimagine communities