Friday, January 1, 2021
Research into 9,000-year-old Wilamaya Patjxa burial site suggests women were big-game hunters
Ancient manuscripts reveal the role of 17th century women
Science, art combine to reveal face of ancient Peruvian noblewoman
Saturday, December 12, 2020
BC names new Calderwood University Professor in Islamic and Asian Art
Emine Fetvaci, a prominent scholar and accomplished teacher whose research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid art and architecture, has been appointed to Boston College’s Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art, effective January 1, 2021.

Emine Fetvaci (Daniel Star)
"Emine Fetvaci is one of the world's leading scholars of Ottoman painting, and she is playing an important role in redefining Islamic art history by exploring Islamic art in conversation with a broader early modern world,” said Boston College Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gregory Kalscheur, S.J.
“She brings to Boston College both this scholarly expertise and a deep commitment to formative liberal arts teaching. I am delighted that she will be joining us as the Calderwood Professor of Islamic and Asian Art."
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Four leading female academics enter race to become Trinity provost
Abortion and Contraception in the Middle Ages
Thursday, November 26, 2020
Scotland becomes first nation to provide free period products for all
Period poverty – the struggle to pay for basic sanitary products on a monthly basis – has surged during the coronavirus pandemic, according to charities.
Sunday, November 15, 2020
The True Story of Rose Dugdale - The Woman Who Stole Vermeer
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Lady Judith Montefiore: A Brief History
This group of highly educated, ambitious Jews called themselves the “Cousinhood” – brilliant Jewish families who built empires of business and service, married into each other’s families and created a new, vibrant Jewish community. One of the most prominent of these immigrant Jews was the Dutch-born Levi A. Barnet Cohen who moved to London in the 1770s and eventually became one of a dozen Jews newly elected to Parliament, without compromising his Orthodox Jewish faith. He married a brilliant Jewish woman named Lydia and together they raised an observant Jewish family. Their daughter, Lady Judith Montefiore, became a great – and little known – patron of Jewish life.