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Peter Magee
“Our field school in the United Arab Emirates lets students tell a very important story. For a long time it was assumed that the region supported only nomads with camels, eking out an existence....
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Maggie Siff ’95
Mark Lord, the Bryn Mawr-Haverford theater director, understands that his students are deeply committed to their studies, and he invites them to bring to their acting everything they’re thinking about...
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Kate Thomas
“Teaching Victorian literature and culture through the lens of Queer Theory is about productively defamiliarizing things we think are stable: neither Victorians nor sexuality are what they seem. Queer...
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Shayna Israel ’08
“For me, its utterance means liberation. I am thankful to have worked on revitalizing the BMC Women’s Center because it has helped me find amazing women who are not afraid to shout the ‘F-word’ —...
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Ellen Stroud
“Most writers who treat environmental issues tend to focus on either cities or wilderness, but not both. But we need to be thinking about how cities can function well in relation to nature. The...
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Farar Elliott ’87
“People often remark on my tremendous enthusiasm and passion for my work. As a curator of historical collections, I’m constantly fascinated by the power of the stories we tell with the objects, both...
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Nicole Gervasio ’09
“I grew up in a family that valued traditional labor—not ‘scholarship,’ ‘writing,’ and ‘academia.’ There was nothing theoretical about their definition of ‘work.’ Although I have grappled with the...
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Bernadette Sargeant ’83
“Considering the effects of your actions on the larger community is a critical part of citizenship, and Bryn Mawr’s Honor Code nurtures and develops that habit. Bryn Mawr probably attracts students who...
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Aheli Purkayastha ’09
“I chose Bryn Mawr because I wanted a place where I felt I could be challenged and be motivated by my peers, and a community where women from all different backgrounds could come together and apply...
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Drew Gilpin Faust ’68
“A liberal education demands that you live self-consciously. It requires you to seek and define the meaning inherent in all you do. It makes you an analyst and critic of yourself, a person in this way...
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Katherine Bakke ’11
“In summer 2009, a Kaplan-Kandel Internship supported my volunteer work with the Migrant Outreach Project at the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Cornelius, Oregon. The Migrant Outreach...
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James Wright
“When cultural artifacts are illegally ripped out of context and sold, it is impossible for archaeologists even to begin the painstaking process of reconstructing something about the cultural meaning...
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Katherine Rowe
“We are all grappling with rapid transformation in the tools we use to read, write, and express ourselves. This makes the liberal arts classroom a very exciting place to be right now, where student...
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Mary Florence Sullivan ’11
“I am a Classical languages major with a concentration in Peace and Conflict Studies. This combination is always met with surprise and confusion, as Classics and Peace and Conflict Studies initially...
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Ellie Rhymer ’12
“Bryn Mawr makes civic engagement not an obligation, but a fact of life. I’ve engaged with community partnerships as a volunteer, as a student, as a professional, and with campus clubs. Working with...
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Kate Severance ’12
“My academic experience has informed almost every aspect of my life, from the way I understand the spaces I occupy to the modes of presentation, self-expression, and identity production that I...
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