Episodes

  • Episode 3: The Unnaming

    Episode 3: The Unnaming
    Dec 22 2021
    Who writes Harvard’s history, and who gets to be included? In this episode of The Annex, host Matteo Wong dives into the a controversy in which hundreds of alumnae have accused the University of erasing women’s and Radcliffe’s contributions to Harvard by renaming — or “un-naming” — the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
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    50 mins
  • Episode 2: The Non-merger Merger

    Episode 2: The Non-merger Merger
    Dec 16 2021
    It was only in 1999 that Radcliffe and Harvard fully merged into one school. In this episode of The Annex, host Matteo Wong continues the story of the decades-long struggle for women’s college at the University, zooming in on the series of “non-merger merger” agreements in the 1970s that in theory, but less so in practice, gave women equal educational opportunities.
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    46 mins
  • Episode 1: Harvard’s ‘Womanless’ History

    Episode 1: Harvard’s ‘Womanless’ History
    Dec 16 2021
    Radcliffe College, for many decades the women’s college at Harvard, began as “The Harvard Annex,” both physically and symbolically secondary to the men-only Harvard. In this episode of The Annex, host Matteo Wong traces connections between Radcliffe’s origins and the present-day controversy over the rebranding of the “Harvard Radcliffe Institute.”
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    45 mins