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Collaborative Research (continued)
Skidmore students and their professors have worked together
on numerous research projects. This kind of high-level scholarship
does more than enhances a student's understanding in a given
disipline; the practical, hands-on experience and "real-world"
accomplishment also instill a sense of confidence that will
benefit a graduate in any career. Projects from recent years
appear below, arranged by academic area.
Project: Contesting the Sacred:
Preservation and Meaning of the Confederate "Lost Cause" Participants: Professors Brian Black and Mary C. Lynn
and Bryn Varley '00 Plan: For more than a century, Monument Avenue in Richmond,
Virginia, has stood as a public shrine to the Lost Cause of
the Confederacy. As the former capital of the Confederate States
of America, this Southern city holds a special tie to the volatile
Civil War history of the United States' past. The meaning of
this space has varied with the significance of this past: rather
than being swept from view, the Lost Cause has often been paraded
in bigger-than-life statues of Confederate heroes along a main
city thoroughfare. We believe that the record of the effort
to preserve this memory is a complex merging of American ideas
of myth and memory, nationalism and sectionalism, war and peace,
plurality and separation. It is our hope that student research
will gather primary source material from the Richmond area and
then faculty and student analysis at Skidmore will clarify the
complexity of this record while also generating a publishable
analysis of this locale's significance.
Project: The Search for Helen Campbell, Writer, Reformer,
Home Economics Pioneer Participants: Professor Joanna Schneider Zangrando and
Krista Senator '99 Plan: The team would like to contribute to the scholarship
on women's networks, on working-class and middle-class intersections
of interest, on the recognition of women's roles in the large
reform agenda of the period from the 1860s to the turn of the
century. The team plans to focus on, perhaps, a "second
string" woman reform activist, Helen Campbell.
Creative Thought Matters.
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