Preview the lead story in the Winter ’09 Radcliffe Quarterly, in which historian Ellen Fitzpatrick RI ’09 draws parallels between 1968 and 2008 and describes how Barack Obama’s election is the culmination of profound changes in American politics over the past forty years.
Experience on-line Radcliffe's fall conference, "Postcolonial Wars: Current Perspectives on the Deferred Violence of Decolonization." Streaming videos are now available.
Hauwa Ibrahim RI '09, the first female lawyer in northern Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim Gombe region, is writing a book on the Shariah penal code and how it relates to human rights and to gender and justice. VIDEO: "Stone Her to Death? Why? Defending Women within Sharia Courts"
Wendy Cadge RI '09, who is is writing a book about religion and spirituality in hospitals, reports that most prayer writers see God as providing strength and support rather than explicit answers to life's difficult questions.
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