Many students over the years have completed research for their SIPs in the College Archives, and it’s not just students in the History Department who use the Archives! Below are some examples of these SIPs.
ART AND ART HISTORY
BIOLOGY
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Visualizing Campus Throughout Time: Building a Web App Using the College Archives
ENGLISH
Black on White : The Story of the Black Student Organization at Kalamazoo College in the Late 1960s
HISTORY
Black Power and the Black Student Organization at Kalamazoo College
The Civil War and Kalamazoo: Community and Conflict
“Stars of Orange and Black”: Memorialization of the Great War in Kalamazoo
“They Died That the Nation Might Live” : Kalamazoo College and its Fallen Civil War Soldiers
RELIGION
Reading Religion in the 19th Century: Kalamazoo College and Baptist Missions
SIP IDEAS
Contact the Archivist if you have an idea for a SIP and you want to know if there are relevant materials in the Archives. Below are some possible SIP topics:
- 19th Century Photography in Kalamazoo
- Baptist Missionaries
- Founding of the Women’s Studies Department
- Women’s Athletics and Title IX in the 1970s
Senior Integrated Projects are archived on the college’s digital archive CACHE. To look at other examples of SIPs, browse through the Academic Departments, Programs and SIPs community.