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Professor emeritus Lawrence Rosenwald reviews James Marcus’s new biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson in the context of the wider canon of work about the great Transcendentalist.

“Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And” marks the first major career survey of the conceptual artist whose work challenges common understandings around gender, race, and class.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Michael Abels, who scored writer and director Jordan Peele’s three horror films—“Get Out,” “Us,” and “Nope”—recently spent time in residence at the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities.

Schwarzman Scholar Diana Lam ’20 said she had no idea that Wellesley would change her life the way that it has. She hopes “to make a difference in the world and implement Wellesley’s motto”—“Non Ministrari sed Ministrare.”

Macy Lipkin ’23 is a finalist in NPR’s 10 best college podcasts in America. The podcast follows a 2023 vote that is challenging oil exploration in the Amazon—and also threatening local people's jobs.

Mathematics professor Ismar Volic examines the flaws inherent in the Oscars’ voting system —and what that shows us about our political elections.

Two professors are using an interdisciplinary lens of population genetics and physiology to study the wet meadows on campus where phragmites—a common reed—have become dominant.

History has been “used to legitimize the regime essentially since the beginning of Putin's rule,” says Cornille Professor Ivan Kurilla. With the war in Ukraine, it “finally took a central place in the state ideology.”

Activist Pashtana Durrani, scholar-in-residence at the Wellesley Centers for Women, runs underground schools in defiance of the Taliban’s education ban.