Publicizing Your Research February 11, 2026 12:45-2pm, Humanities Hub (LIB 181) Lunch will be provided. Open to faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Register here. Space is limited. The registration form will be closed when the capacity has been met. Featuring: Stacey Schmeidel Stacey Schmeidel joined the Wellesley staff as director of […]
Reflection: Healing Minds and Bodies Through Music (Fall 2025 TSSL Course)
Author: Gurminder Bhogal (Music) I conceived of Healing Minds and Bodies through Music as an upper-level seminar for all students interested in thinking about how the mind and body engage with sound, especially with regards to wellness and healing. The students who found their way into the course were from unique backgrounds: environmental studies, neuroscience, […]
Faculty Discuss Their Fall 2025 TSSL Courses
Watch these reels from Prof.s Anjeana Hans, Gurminder Bhogal, and Dan Chiasson to learn more about their Fall 2025 TSSL courses!
Photos: First-Gen Celebration Week
Check out photos from TSSL’s Fall 2025 First-Gen Celebration Week event where students learned about paid research opportunities in the humanities and enjoyed mochi donuts! Photographer: Yoon Byun (Strewn Wonder)
Reflection: How Do We Sound? Sound Ethnography of Global Identities in Reykjavik, Iceland (Summer 2025)
Authors: Ria Lowenschuss (‘27), Samara Mellis (‘27), and Justin Armstrong (Writing/Anthropology) Justin Over the course of two weeks in May 2025, the three of us foraged for endemic sounds in and around Reykjavik with the goal of gathering material for a series of audio ethnographies reflecting the importance of sound as a text that presents […]
Reflection: Complex Problems, Complex Solutions Research Fellowship (Spring 2025)
Author: Mary Kate McGowan In the spring of 2025, I started working on a project with Yixi Gao ’28 and Lenox Balzebre ’28; it’s called “Complex Problems, Complex Solutions.” Yixi and Lenox worked on a preproduction plan for the first episode of a multi-media online magazine that aims to showcase the indispensability of having a […]
Reflection: Bad Bunny Syllabus Research Fellowship (Summer 2025)
Author: Petra Rivera-Rideau This summer I had the pleasure of working with Yahana Streeter (2028) as a Summer Research Fellow. Yahana worked on several different tasks related to the Bad Bunny Syllabus. Bad Bunny is a groundbreaking reggaetón and trap artist from Puerto Rico. He was the first Spanish-language artist to be nominated for Album […]
Reflection: Bernie For Burlington Research Fellowship (Summer 2025)
Author: Dan Chiasson It was a pleasure to work last summer with Cheynie Singleton ‘26 on the production phase of my book Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician. Cheynie read the entire book, 900 pages in manuscript, and gave me detailed feedback about its structure and composition. It was great to entrust […]
Faculty Working Group Professional Development Series
The Faculty Working Group Professional Development Series is a set of events intended for humanities faculty at Wellesley College interested in working with research fellows and conducting public humanities research. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP, so we can order enough food. How to Work with a Student Research Fellow October 6, 2025 12:45-2pm, FND […]
Spring 2025 Narrative Lab Research Prospectus: Coco Zhang
Note: in spring 2025 Narrative Lab student research fellows were asked to develop a research prospectus that describes a project that they might undertake, its rationale, scope, and methods. This example was written by Coco Zhang. Narrative is the lens through which I understand the world: collective memories behind public statues, ideological quarrels on social […]