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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.

 

Alma encourages its students to look beyond Michigan’s boundaries. The Posey Global Leadership Scholarship provides opportunities for Alma College students to travel anywhere in the world and complete a self-designed project. Alma students have completed projects on topics ranging from teaching to public policy, in places from the Philippines to South Africa.

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Dr. Nancy Carter Dopke

Dr. Nancy Carter Dopke
Departments: Chemistry

Nancy Carter Dopke started college as an undergraduate at Millikin University and hasn’t left college since.

“Teaching at a college is a great mix of activities for me,” the assistant professor of chemistry says.

“I get to spend time working with students, talking and thinking about chemistry, working in lab and spending time with people.”

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