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Laura E. K. Von Wallmenich, Ph.D.

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Directed Student Presentations and Achievements

Faina Polt, Honor's Day Presentation

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"Woman, Herself: The Body and Notions of Womanhood in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl." Faina explores how Jacobs' text responds to the double-bind of the slave woman, whose attempts to define her own identity are constrained by the conventions of white, middle class womanhood that insist on the sexual purity of a virtuous woman. Jacobs uses her text as a vehicle for reclaiming her own body, insisting it is a text that she, and she alone, can inscribe with meaning.

 

Frank Knox’s accomplishments are extraordinary: From fighting alongside Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders and publishing the Chicago Daily News vice presidential candidate in 1936 to Secretary of the Navy under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Through it all, the 1912 graduate stayed true to his Alma College roots. His portrait adorns the conference room in the Reid-Knox Administration Building.

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Student Profile

Janelle Young

Janelle Young
Graduation: 2015
Major: Religious Studies

What does Janelle Young have in common with Aristotle and Descartes? The Charlotte sophomore enjoys pondering life’s big questions just as much as the world’s greatest philosophers did.

“I came to Alma College wanting to be a music educator, but I found myself leaving my religion class excited,” she says. “I really loved contemplating questions related to religion and the existence of God, and I realized that’s where my passion was.”

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