The Wellesley Centers for Women is pleased to announce that the archives of Senior Research Scientist Nan Stein, Ed.D., are now part of the Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History at Smith College.

The Sophia Smith Collection was founded in 1942 and is one of the most substantial, interconnected, and diverse collections of women’s history in the United States. Composed of over 1,000 unique archives of women working on behalf of other women and gender minorities, the collection is used annually by hundreds of local, national, and international scholars, researchers, and educators. Its strengths include women’s reproductive rights and justice, women’s liberation movements, suffrage and civil rights, community activism, iconoclast creators, women’s economic justice, lesbian and queer communities, and women’s environmental justice. It reflects the diversity and complexity of women’s lives and identities through the lens of social, political, and cultural change.

The collection houses the papers of organizations like Planned Parenthood and the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and luminaries like Gloria Steinem, Susan B. Anthony, Margaret Sanger, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf. 

Stein’s collection, officially titled “Nan D. Stein papers on sexual harassment and related topics,” offers a powerful record of her work to identify, analyze, and prevent sexual harassment, gender violence, and teen dating violence in K-12 schools. Materials in the collection date from the 1970s to the early 2020s and include speeches, media interviews, professional correspondence, teaching and training files, surveys, photographs, video recordings, and published writings. 

As a body of work, Stein’s papers provide a comprehensive view of her remarkable achievements as a leading scholar of sexual harassment and gender violence in schools for more than 40 years. 

Explore the Nan D. Stein papers on sexual harassment and related topics.