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Title: Striving for Eden: Working Towards Equality in Two Virginia Communes
Description: An exploration of two all-income sharing communes in Rural Virgina. Twin Oaks, founded in 1967 and Acorn, founded in 1993.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18951

Title: Studio Faculty Exhibition 2016, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell COllege
Description: Exhibition catalog for the Art Studio Faculty of Grinnell College in Spring 2016 in Faulconer Gallery in the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts at Grinnell College. Artists with works included are: Jeremy Chen, Mary Coats, Andrew Kaufman, Matthew Kluber, Evan McLaughlin, Andrew Orloski, Lee Emma Running, Jill Davis Schrift.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13251

Title: Tapping natureG??s bounty: science and sugar maples in the age of improvement
Description: This piece analyzes the eighteenth-century campaigns to develop a maple sugar industry in North America as a way of undercutting slavery and the sugar-plantation complex of the Caribbean. It is part of a larger collection that examines how trees became woven into the cultural, economic, and political fabric of life in the eighteenth century, and uses the case of the sugar maple to explore the intersections between nature, enlightenment science, and new ambitions for societal reform.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:17946

Title: The Art of Medicine: Training Future Doctors in Medical Humanities
Description: The Medical Humanities focus on teaching skills through art and the social sciences, which help address the inherently subjective – but often overlooked - aspect of medicine.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13269

Title: The Mosque as a 'School of Democracy': Civic Skill Opportunity and Houses of Worship in Indonesia
Description: This paper examines the potential role of houses of worship as institutions where individuals can acquire civic skills that can be deployed for political participation in the world's largest Muslim-majority democracy: Indonesia.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:13255

Title: The Refusal of Russian Motherhood, Annotated Bibliography
Description: An annotated bibliography developed for an analysis of Bolshevik Feminism looking at whether the legalization of abortion in 1920 had any real impact on the lives of Russian women.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:19507

Title: “Going to Meet the Man”: Scripting White Supremacist Eros
Description: James Baldwin's short story "Going to Meet the Man," builds a channel between the lynching practices of the postbellum South with the violence of the modern police state.
Date Created: 2016
PID: grinnell:18768