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The biography of Mount Holyoke College alum Ella Grasso ’40 was written by Linda Melconian ’70 with research assistance from recent alum Belinda Mazzaferro ’25.
Mount Holyoke College student Phoenix Nehls ’27 spent the summer of 2025 doing “detective work” — creating an exhibit about international students to fit together the puzzle of the past.
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.
