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HONOR 2403: Gender and the Urban American Experience: Collection Overview

Title: HONOR 2403: Gender and the Urban American Experience

Date(s): 2013 October-November

Repository I.D.: US: MBEmm: IS-2014-1

Collection Call No.: IS-2014-1

Location: Emmanuel Archives, Cardinal Cushing Library 202

Extent: .4166 linear feet, (2 boxes/ 19 folders)

Language(s): The interviews are in English.

Abstract: This collection consists of interviews with alumni and staff who experienced Emmanuel College’s coeducational transition in 2001. The interviews are composed of questions and responses regarding how Emmanuel’s decision to become coeducational affected interviewee and the Emmanuel College community.

Access Restrictions: 1) The collection is not restricted. 2) Some interviews are still under copyright. 3) Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be discussed with the Archives Librarian.

Preferred Citation: [Item Title]. [Box Number]. HONOR 2403: Gender and the Urban American Experience. Cardinal Cushing Library, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA.

Related Collection(s):

Emmanuel College Oral Histories. Cardinal Cushing Library, Emmanuel College, Boston, MA.

Provenance: The interviews were conducted and the transcripts were created as part of the coursework for HONOR 2403: Gender and the Urban American Experiencein the autumn of 2013. The transcripts were acquired by the Emmanuel College Archives in January 2014 from Dr. Lisa Boehm.

Processed By: The collection was processed by Andrew Melia under the supervision of John Healey, Jr. in October 2015.

Biography/History: Gender and the Urban American Experience was established in the autumn of 2013 and was initially taught by Dr. Lisa Krisoff Boehm, Professor of History and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. The course explores the relationships between gender and urban experience in a historical framework. Through this course students gain a greater understanding of modernity and its impact on our lives. The course covers such topics as:  masculinity and its relationship to organized crime and political bosses as well the influences of the middle and upper classes upon the working class.

The interviews conduct in the autumn of 2013 were conducted by the students of alumni and staff who experienced Emmanuel College’s coeducational transition in 2001. These interviews detail the response of the community and what the interviewees experience at Emmanuel College during this time period.

Scope and Content: The collection contains student interviews from the class HONOR 2403:  Gender and the Urban America American Experience. These nineteen (19) student interviews were conducted from October 2013 through November 2013 and of the interviewees that were students and staff during the time that Emmanuel became coeducational in 2001. The questions in these interviews primarily consist of: 1) what the change from single-sex to coeducational was like for them, 2) what the overall response was of the student body to this change, and 3) what the upper classwomen who had been at Emmanuel for two or more years felt about the coeducational change. Other common questions consist of the activities the interviewees were involved in on campus and what Emmanuel was like for them before it became coeducational.

It should be noted that the interview with Judith Selley was not about Emmanuel College's co-education decision, but an examination of her life by her granddaughter Juliette L. Luchini. Other topics outside of the coeducation of the college may continue to be added in the future.

Accrual: Records will be added as they become available.

Collection Arrangement: The collection is arranged alphabetically by surname of the interviewee and then chronologically.