A Founder of Women’s Studies—Jeanne Marecek
When Jeanne Marecek joined Swarthmore’s Psychology Department in fall 1972, there were just 18 women among 128 tenured and tenure-track faculty members—and just two full professors, Hilde Cohn (German) and Helen North (Classics).
Marecek was 25, barely older than her first students and months shy of completing a Ph.D. at Yale, [...]
Elizabeth “Sis” Bassett passed away in September at age 96. She will be remembered by alumni from the 1940s to the 1970s for her work as secretary for the Men’s Athletics Department—and for the key role she played as unofficial “team mom” for hundreds of Swarthmore athletes.
Bassett joined the staff in 1945 under Carl Dellmuth [...]
Ben Berger, associate professor of political science and an expert in political theory, is representing Swarthmore in the first cohort of 26 faculty members—one each from the Project Pericles member schools—at the Periclean Faculty Leadership Program. This signature program of Project Pericles is designed to champion civic engagement in the classroom, on campus, and in [...]
Associate Professor of Linguistics David Harrison and fellow linguist Gregory Anderson recently received worldwide attention for their discovery of a Koro, a previously unknown language, in a remote region of northeastern India. Harrison and colleague Greg Anderson were searching for speakers of Aka and Miji. After finding speakers of Koro, Harrison took the first known [...]
On a dazzling green and blue Sunday morning in Swarthmore Ville, the town hummed with anticipation. Wood pigeons warbled, squirrels screeched, chipmunks chirruped, and rabbits romped. More hungry humans than usual peeked into Vicky’s Place and Hobbs’ Café, seeking breakfast. Something was afoot. Not just any Sunday, this was the day of Swarthmore College’s 138th [...]
Visiting Associate Professor of Studio Art Daniel Heyman spent four years traveling through Jordan and Turkey, speaking with former Iraqi detainees who had been subjected to torture at the Abu Ghraib prison, recording their statements, and portraying their faces and their words in a series of paintings. Another series of portraits by Heyman shows African [...]
Hallowell, the only dorm that allows smoking and houses first-year students, will become smoke-free after the end of the academic year.
Hallowell, the only dorm that allows smoking and houses first-year students, will become smoke-free after the end of the academic year.
The decision to end smoking inside Hallowell was based upon discussions among students, resident assistants, [...]
At a Debating for Democracy conference sponsored by Project Pericles in April, an original letter by Jovanna Hernandez ’13 in support of the Development, Relief, and Education Minors Act (DREAM) was a finalist in a letter-writing competition. Hernandez brought Swarthmore a $500 award to be used for advocacy and education projects including lobbying for the [...]
USA Today and the Princeton Review have named Swarthmore the “best value” among all private colleges and universities for 2009–2010—for the second year running. The Princeton Review selected the schools based on surveys of administrators and students at more than 650 public and private college and university campuses in the United States. According to USA [...]
When Professor of Studio Art Syd Carpenter heard that the National Council on Education in Ceramic Arts was planning to hold its annual conference in Philadelphia in early spring this year, she decided to participate—not with one but two shows.
Carpenter scheduled a one-person show of her own new work titled A Place of Our Own, [...]