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15 de mar. de 2024 · Continuing Bryn Mawr students are invited to apply for two (2) summer internships working on the next phase of the Who Built Bryn Mawr? project. The project will involve extensive historical research and writing to produce labels for objects on campus and a public presentation of their work as part of the four-year focus on Asian histories at the college.
No single person founded Bryn Mawr College. Instead, a circle of progressive Orthodox Quakers from the north- and southeastern United States came together to debate and realize a collective vision.. Troubled by contemporary social ills – the horrors of slavery and devastation of the Civil War, the struggles of Freedmen and women, the displacement and exploitation of Indigenous peoples, the ...
The College's principal architect was the College’s first dean and second president, M. Carey Thomas, who became an influential national advocate for women’s advancement. Like some who were part of the Progressive Movement, however, Thomas embraced and contributed to the eugenics movement, and her vision for Bryn Mawr and for women excluded African Americans and reflected ethnic and anti ...
Bryn Mawr students attending a civil rights conference at Yale in March of 1960 heard socialist community organizer Paul DuBrul urge Northern students to picket stores as a concrete step beyond the debates and conversations already happening on campus. The next month, 62 students from Bryn Mawr and Haverford joined thousands of Northern college ...
Who Built Bryn Mawr? is an ongoing project that supports research and curatorial opportunities for students interested in changing the way the College understands its history. Over its 135+ years, the College has been sustained by countless individuals — not just the presidents, trustees, and donors memorialized on campus.
Prospective students: Check out the Growth and Structure of Cities page in Majors, Minors, and Concentrations. The interdisciplinary Growth and Structure of Cities major challenges the student to understand the dynamic relationship of urban spatial organization and the built environment to politics, economics, cultures, and societies.
Erdman Hall Dormitoriesat Bryn MawrPennsylvania1960—1965. Erdmann Hall of Bryn Mawr College is designed as three cubic structures with smaller cubic structures within. According to Louis Kahn, the three cubes connected at the corners of this building represent three interconnected families. The geometry was not meant to be ‘pure’, but ...
