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SSG and HG members
Project Team
Kelley Lawton and Linda Daniel, Head Social Sciences Group:
Background
Initially the SSG and HG project team — with the advice and assistance of Amy MacDonald, Assistant University Archivist — identified 6 possible projects:
- Architecture at Duke
- Sports Architecture
- Inventory of Building Sculpture
- History of Core Buildings on East and West Campuses
- History of Core Buildings on East and West Campuses
- History of Student Organizations
- History of Core Buildings on East and West Campuses
- Mapping the Student Body from Bulletins, Phone Books, the Annual Calendar with dates ranging from the late 1920s to the 1980s
The project team and Ms. MacDonald identified possible resources in the University Archives, which would support each of these interests. We additionally identified potential collaborators and stakeholders. The project team discussed the pros and cons for each subject, on the basis of this information.
The idea of student activism evolved from (Ask Kelley and Arianne how we moved from student organizations to student activism, also why we focused on the specific decades of 1930-1950)