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eScholarship@Goucher accepts scholarly material created by students, faculty, and staff members of the Goucher community. Members can upload completed research and scholarship to enhance the global visibility and accessibility of their work on the Internet. A wide variety of scholarly materials are accepted in any file format up to a 2GB limit on file size.
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HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AS VEHICLES OF PRESERVATION: A STUDY OF NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
(2018-04)Thousands of local historical societies operate throughout the United States and often act as the first or only preservation-related organization with which the public interacts. The multiplicity of historical societies ... -
The Smartphone Revolution
(2017)Over the past week, I joined the very few adults in the world that do not have a phone. I previously referred to myself as a technology assailant. However, living on a college campus without a phone for a week illuminated ... -
The Political is Personal: Examining the Role of Personal Connection to a Disease as an Access Point for Single-disease Interest Groups
(2017)Approximately 133 million Americans live with a chronic illness (“The Power of Prevention”). Government funding through the National Institutes of Health and other programs are an important source of research funding for ... -
The Fundamental Shared Essence of Dance and Mathematics
(2017)This paper seeks to investigate the intricate, inherent relationship between dance and mathematics. Although perhaps not initially obvious to all, mathematics is apparent in all forms of dance. It manifests in a plethora ... -
Museums: Supporting the Varied Needs of their Communities
(2017)Museums have long been institutions dedicated to preserving objects and significant cultural and historic artifacts. Growing out of cabinets of curiosities in the 16th century, museums have a strong association with ... -
THE GOUCHER COLLEGE ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION OF 1938
(1972-05)In I92I Dr. William Westley Guth, President of Goucher College, purchased a 42I acre tract in Towson, Maryland with the intention of moving the College from its crowded city location to a more suitable site in the suburbs. ... -
Porn Stars and Politicians
(2018-01-04)”Porn Stars and Politicians” is an exercise in media literacy, personal consciousness and value constructions of ideal and real culture. The project design invites Internet users to engage in an exercise of value constructions ... -
Fear and Terror: The Expulsion of Polish Jews from Saxony/Germany in October 1938
(2017-12-05)This article is a regional study that focuses on the expulsion of Jews with Polish citizenship from Saxony, mostly long-term legal residents of Germany, in the context of the so-called ‘Polenaktion’ (27–29 October 1938). ... -
Stretching the boundaries of transformative sustainability learning: On the importance of decolonizing ways of knowing and relations with the more-than-human
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2016-12-07)This paper chronicles students’ experiences of transformative sustainability learning through ‘epistemological stretching’ – a pedagogical orientation which focuses on expanding the ways of knowing that someone respects, ... -
Tennis et distinction sociale en France
(2018-01)I have a deeply-rooted passion for tennis. The game, the physicality, the mental aspect and the players. It is in this latter group that this paper finds its genesis. In the immediate aftermath of my placement in the ‘Paris ... -
Bare Life, Bare Architecture: Deconstructing the Violence of Architecture in Al-Khalil, Palestine
(Goucher College, 2018-01)The political philosopher Giorgio Agamben theorizes on the role, structure, and establishment of the state, and the way in which state power controls and dominates in the current era. He builds on Michel Foucault’s biopower ... -
“Quaring” the Scene: Negotiating Black Queer Identity in the Punk Community
(Goucher College, 2018-01)Over the course of my four years at Goucher I developed ties to Baltimore’s DIY punk scene. As do most punks who are not cisgender heterosexual white men, I had a complicated relationship with the scene: I loved going to ... -
“It Goes Both Ways”: Negotiating Passing, Identities of Liminality, and Everything In-Between
(Goucher College, 2018-01)This paper on “passing” was of a particularly personal nature to me. As a student at Goucher, I explored and was exposed to critical theories and experiences of race both inside the classroom and out. But as a non-black ... -
Finding Procedural Justice in Baltimore’s Department of Public Works
(Goucher College, 2018-01)This paper emerged from my desire to bring attention to local environmental injustices occurring in our Greater Baltimore community. For months preceding my research, headlining cases of environmental injustice, like the ... -
Why Does the Tigress Roar? Exploring the Role of Female Suicide Bombers in the LTTE
(Goucher College, 2018-01)Why did women join the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and why did they then become suicide bombers?” There is no single psychological profile of a terrorist. Terrorism is a political action, not a disease or mental ... -
La identidad sexual: la sociedad, el individuo, y la pérdida de la virginidad
(Goucher College, 2018-01)As a controversial and popular issue within many, if not all, cultures, sexual intercourse is an intriguing topic to examine. While reading Almudena Grandes’s novel Malena es un nombre de tango for a Spanish seminar, I was ... -
Breeding from biotechnology: a look at the infrastructures behind the production of flood-resistant rice in India and Bangladesh
(Goucher College, 2018-01)This paper was written for professor Marko Salvaggio’s Environmental Sociology seminar. The assignment follows an unconventional format, exploring the material, cultural, and environmental infrastructures that contribute ... -
Alicia Garza: Situated Analysis and Practicing Being Free
(Goucher College, 2018-01)This paper explores the tension between remaining situated in the context of the current socio-political moment and looking ahead to how the world could be different when practicing activism or working towards social ... -
The Berners Hours: A 237-leaf Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript Prayer-Book (Horae)
(2017)The Berners Hours is a 237-leaf illuminated manuscript prayer book written on parchment in the Netherlands for English users by artists associated with William de Vrelant (ca. 1420-1481). The scribes’ script and painting ... -
Past Forward: Oral History Interviews with Holocaust Survivors and Storytelling (Telling their Stories)
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2017)This article highlights new research opportunities on Oral History interviews and storytelling. From 2003-2013 Goucher College students interviewed Holocaust survivors in Baltimore and publicly retold their stories on ...
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