A fleet-footed scholar
Melissa Hardesty, an assistant professor of social work at Binghamton and a marathon runner, qualified for the recent 2020 Olympic trials. Read more
Historian traces fight for sexual rights
In her latest book, Leigh Ann Wheeler looks at how the ACLU took on controversial issues such as obscenity, abortion, prostitution and sexual harassment throughout the 20th century. Read more
How porn became a civil right
Binghamton historian Leigh Ann Wheeler’s new book, How Sex Became a Civil Liberty, catalogs the development of the concept of sexual rights and offers an unapologetic feminist critique of the extremes of sexual civil libertarianism, Salon reports. Read more
One affair, two standards
The popular narrative surrounding David Petraeus’ affair reflects a sexist double standard — one that is quick to forgive men and eager to blame women for transgressing the sexual boundaries of matrimony, Binghamton’s Leigh Ann Wheeler writes in the Times-Union of Albany. Read more
