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As part of Swarthmore’s yearlong Celebration of Black Excellence, five alumni instrumental in establishing the College's Black Cultural Center returned to campus 50 years later to discuss their efforts.
Seven of the eight authors of Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s returned to campus last month to share thei
Jessica Schleider ’12 explains her research on depression and anxiety in children and adolescents while explaining how youth mental health interventions work.
In this Constitution Day talk, Dan Korobkin ’02 of the Michigan American Civil Liberties Union discusses the claim by some individuals and organizations that their religious objections give rise to a Constitutional right to discriminate.
Earlier this semester, Patty Park ’03 returned to Swarthmore to read from her new book, El Chino. She also discusses growing up as a Korean-American in Queens, N.Y., and the cognitive dissonance she experienced in reconciling where she came from and what she was becoming while she was a student.
Eichenwald details challenges he faced as a Swarthmore student and his decades-long battle not only to survive, but to thrive.
Delivering the 2019 Genevieve Lee Lecture in Asian American Studies, Mannur examines what it means to eat alone and how Asian American cultural production encourages us to think more about the social freight of solo dining.
"It's my hope that by studying our visitors responses to the exhibitions, we might be able to understand something more about the brain and contribute to neuroscience itself," says Asher, a neuroscience researcher at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Speaking to English majors and minors, Phillips trace her career path as a writer for The New Yorker, The Village Voice and many other publications.
"Drugs, in an important way, made war," Andreas says in a new book, "and war, in turn, shaped drugs and made new drugs."
In the 2018 Kitao Lecture, Riehl proves, with help from the audience, the distributivity of multiplication over addition—a(b + c) = ab + ac—using unconventional methods.
Egan (left) and Lee explore the 2018 midterm congressional elections with Claude C. Smith '14 Professor of Political Science Rick Valelly '75.
Rosa draws on ethnographic research to examine borders delimiting Latinx and American identities as well as co-naturalizations of language and race.
Otu, an assistant professor at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, discusses the contested politics of queer self-making in neoliberal Ghana.
Kumashiro outlines five considerations for engaged scholarship and social justice education: the problems of common sense, the purposes of education, the paradoxes of teaching, the practices of solidarity, and the promises of movement building.