Keep up with all the ways in which the Mount Holyoke community is pushing the limits of human knowledge, building lasting bonds and leading the way forward — on campus and around the world.
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Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (MHCAM) hosted a panel to celebrate the artist Anni Albers. An exhibition of Albers’ work will be on view through Dec. 9, 2025.
The Department of Classics and Italian’s new professor isn’t new to Mount Holyoke. As a member of the class of 2001, she describes her return to campus as a homecoming.
Arnav Adhikari, whose area of expertise is the intersection of postcolonial thought, contemporary literature and visual media, joins Mount Holyoke College’s Department of English this fall as an assistant professor.
Whitney Adana Kite, Mount Holyoke College’s newest assistant professor of art history, loves teaching her students to decode everyday visual information.
Marco Avilés, incoming assistant professor of Spanish at Mount Holyoke College, hopes to introduce students to the optimism in Indigenous literature as he takes on his family’s proud tradition of teaching.
Ishmael Annang, Mount Holyoke College’s new assistant professor of history, has a passion for African history that flows from his experiences growing up in Ghana.
In the Berkshires, D. Caleb Smith, assistant professor of history at Mount Holyoke College, hosted a reading and discussion of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July.”
Mount Holyoke College has selected “Parable of the Sower” for its Common Read for the 2025–2026 academic year. The New York Times named the novel a Notable Book of the Year for its prescient treatment of racial justice, climate collapse and fascism.
Mount Holyoke College Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Philosophy James Harold spoke to Yahoo News about the age-old question of the possibility of separating the art from the artist.
Mount Holyoke College’s annual Senior Symposium is one of the crowning achievements of a student’s intellectual journey.
