Goucher College Undergraduate Student Collection

Mother Goose Rhymes

Ferguson, Lucie (2010)

Ferguson, an art major, examined the illustrations found in different editions of Mother Goose rhymes to create her own artistic renderings of the verses. Ferguson created original illustrations and prints inspired by ...

Existential and Humanistic Psychology: A reflection and dialogue with Rolf Muuss

Donnelly, Claire (2016)

This interview will include questions about a variety of themes that we've covered in our course so far, in existential and humanistic psychology, including freedom, authenticity, optimal experience, and issues associated ...

A Snake in Swans

Hills, David J. (2017)

'A Snake in Swans' is an original, full-length play exploring the relationships between mothers and children through the lens of clinical, ante-, and postpartum depression. A memory play at its core, 'A Snake in Swans' ...

Can Fanfiction be Considered as Good Storytelling?

Head, Julianna (2017)

A speech on why fanfiction should be considered good storytelling.

Enough Is Enough: Genocide Ideology and the Bereavement Process in Baltimore and Rwanda

Sage, Lily (2017-05-10)

This project is a work of collaborative scholarship based in both Rwanda and Baltimore. Through their grief narratives, survivors of homicide victims in Baltimore and survivors of the Rwandan genocide express the ways that ...

A Self Prospective

Staples, Tracy (2017-05-10)

One woman's reflections on her childhood, traumas, struggles, and successes.

From Radicals and Raps to Clairvoyants in Cabinets: The Failed Promise of the Spiritualist Movement

Rines, Emily (2017-05-09)

Although frequently seen as outlandish radicals, the Spiritualist movement in its first half a century bore a striking resemblance to mainstream social mores, and especially to the mass-produced death culture of mid to ...

Christianity and Race in the United States: Calling the White Church to Action

Brudner, Elizabeth (2017-05-08)

My hope in this paper is to reflect upon the ways the white church has perhaps betrayed what it means to be Christian and why when it comes to matters of racial justice. Why, for instance, is the white church not more ...

A Religious America: An In Depth Look at the Free Exercise Clause

Kaseff, Rachel (2017-05-08)

An in depth look at the Free Exercise Clause and the ways in which various Supreme Court cases have evolved religious freedom.

The Compassionate Mother of Carmel: Teresa of Avila and the Carmelite Model for Twenty-First-Century Seekers

Salamony, Ryan (2017-05-04)

The purpose of this document is to, first, analyze the ways that historical contexts like the rise of imperialism and the Spanish Inqui sition impacted Teresa of Avila ’s life , as well as the Christian monastic ...

"In the World but Not of It": The Kingdom of God as Radical Refusal and New Creation

Kniss, Katrina (2017-05-02)

This paper explores the intersections of Christian anarchism, the Anabaptist tradition, and fields of radical thought that decenter the state, drawing from the work of Giorgio Agamben, Autonomist Marxism, and Afro-pessimism.

A Nursery for Militant Suffragists: The History of the Women's Suffrage Movement at Goucher College

Spiegelman, Hannah (2017-02-03)

February 3, 2017 is the centennial of the College Day picket of women suffragists on the White House. To mark the occasion and to open the exhibit, Goucher College alumnae and students will present their original research ...

Mathematics at Goucher, 1888-1979

Cockey, Beale W. (1979)

The mathematics department, though varying in size and curriculum and sometimes including astronomy, has been an integral part of Goucher College since its founding in 1888 as the Woman's College of Baltimore, under the ...

Illuminating the Mission: Seeing the New Evangelization in the Saint John's Bible

Guajardo, Natalie (2016-05)

The Saint John’s Bible is the first completely hand written and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine order since the invention of the printing press. Members of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota worked ...