In Japan Times, Professor Peipei Qiu comments on the decision not to refer to women forced to provide sex for Japanese troops during World War II as “comfort women.”
Immigrant, Montana, the latest novel by Amitava Kumar, Professor of English on the Helen D. Lockwood Chair, was included in the New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2018” list.
Eva Woods Pieró, Professor of Hispanic Studies, and Eugene Lopez-Huerta ’20 wrote a Poughkeepsie Journal op-ed advocating comfort for asylum seekers instead of anger.