Category Archives: Student Work

[Applestein-Sweren Contest] Congratulations to our 2022 winners!

The Applestein-Sweren Prize is funded by a generous endowment established by Betty Applestein Sweren ’52 and Dr. Edgar Sweren in 2012. Prizes are awarded to Goucher students who present thoughtfully constructed personal collections of books and related ephemera. Continue reading [Applestein-Sweren Contest] Congratulations to our 2022 winners!

[Applestein-Sweren Contest] Indochina to Vietnam: A (re-telling) search for identity through narratives

We are raised and familiarized ourselves with the narratives we are told, given and taught. So when those narratives are challenged, we are confused and forced to step out of our comfort zone. Or at least that what happened to me in my high school U.S History class where I first experienced an identity crisis at sixteen; that was the first time I heard stories from the “other side of the battlefield.” Continue reading [Applestein-Sweren Contest] Indochina to Vietnam: A (re-telling) search for identity through narratives