Dunn, Mary Maples

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Professor of Psychology, Smith College. Papers include professional correspondence, research files, publications and photographs that document his career as a psychologist. In addition, personal correspondence and biographical information are also available in the papers.

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The collection includes fifty-one oral histories of scholars of U.S. women's history. The interviews document the emergence and development of women's history as a discipline from 1960 to 2000, as well as the interviewees' professional and personal lives, their choices, and their intellectual commitments.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project collection consists of 17.25 linear feet of audiotapes, videotapes and transcripts. There are fifty-one individual oral histories plus group discussions conducted between 2000 and 2005. The project documents the emergence and development of U.S. women's history between 1960 and 2000 by creating an archive that explores a new group of scholars who entered the historical profession after 1960. It explores these historians' professional and...

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Mary Maples Dunn was Smith's eighth president, from 1985 to 1995. An imbalanced budget, campus diversity, internal communication flow, and socially responsible investment were significant issues during her presidency. The collection contains her early family papers and correspondence, honorary degrees, resumes, lecture and research notes, speeches, and manuscripts.

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Smith College president from 1985-1995 whose administration created programs, wrote position papers, and adjusted college policies and structure in order to deal with the questions of race and sexuality. Dunn dealt with the budget during an economically troubled period and began the process of getting the college on the "Information Highway." Includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, reports and working papers, newspaper clippings and photographs.

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President, Smith College and professor, Yale University. Papers include correspondence, memorabilia, writings, hobbies, course materials, Rhodes Scholarship information, professional records, news clippings, portraits and photographs.