Helena Meyer-Knapp Papers
Scope and contents note
This collection contains academic program planning and administration, program and faculty evaluations, scholarly publications and research, documents of public speaking engagements, correspondence, and administrative work for Academic Advising and Career Counseling, Evening and Weekend Studies, Campus Conflict Resolution and Adjudication, and other governance projects.
Dates
- Creation: 1972 - 2009
Restrictions on Access
Collection is open to the public.
Biographical note
Helena Meyer-Knapp joined Evergreen in 1972, building the college’s original academic advising program. She taught as faculty from 1976 to 2007, facilitating numerous undergraduate programs as well as offerings for Evening and Weekend Studies and graduate studies in Public Administration. She worked on various campus hiring and policy making committees from 1985-2008 and was honored with emerita status in 2008.
She especially explored peace and politics throughout her teaching and academic career, from her dissertation, “Nuclear Siege to Nuclear Cease-fire” (1990), her book, “Dangerous Peace-making” (2003), Evergreen-sponsored research projects in “Ethics, Violence and Education in Japan” (2000) and “War, Peace and Memory” (2007), and numerous speaking engagements, most notably as a Fulbright Lecturer at the Kyung Hee University Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Korea (2009).
Extent
3 Cubic Feet (See archivist to request VHS recording)
Language of Materials
English
Copies
Continuing Legal Education on War Crimes, 2000. Paper:
"Ending a War and Stabilizing the Peace - Mercy, Reconciliation and Justice," 6/11/00;
copies of related articles. Quantitative Research 2004-5 - "Suspiciously Certain" - various student papers.
Feminist political theory (and practice) panel/discussion emails and faculty meeting minutes 5/17/00. Korea (Japan note?):
Fulbright Award, Graduate Institute of Peace Studies - Project Statement.
Notes on various presentations or "talks": correspondence, invitations, flyers for seminars
(i.e., "One River Many Wells - Peace-Making at Home and in the World" - 10/14/2003; Gear Up talk),
meeting notices, programs (i.e., Education for a World Lived in Common: Environmental, Economic and Social Justice, 2/18-19/2005),
visiting lecture handouts, newspaper articles,
Magazines and newsletters: Publishers Weekly, Chicago: Independent Publishers Group, Spring 2002. Writer's Yearbook from Writer's Digest, Cincinnati, OH: F&W Publications, 2002. Publishers Marketing Association (PMA) Newsletter, Santa Clara, CA: DeHart's Printing Services Corporation, October 2003.
Ethics, Global Politics and Active Learning folder: Correspondence and letters. Paper, "What's So Unique About the Nuclear Era?" by A.L. Morgan (11 pages). Paper, "The Drama of International Relations" by Helena Meyer-Knapp (21 pages). Active Learning in International Affairs (ALIAS) Panels wrkshop agenda sheet. Paper, "Toolkit 3: How Universal are U.S. Values?" by Helena Meyer-Knapp and Lucinda Peach (26 pages). "The Drama of International Relations" by Helena Meyer-Knapp (13 pages). Paper, "Ethics from a Global Perspective - a Toolkit" by Helena Meyer-Knapp and Lucinda Peach (48 pages).
More correspondence and emails. Paper, "Non-Western and Non-Traditional Perspectives on Ethics in World Politics - A Toolkit" Comparative Ethics DRAFT and The Drama of International Relations DRAFT (12 pages) by Helena Meyer-Knapp and Lucinda Peach. Paper, "An Ethics Toolkit" by Kristin Alexandra Andrews (24 pages).
More correspondence and letters. Portfolio Description - Helena Meyer-Knapp - Five Year Review, Fall 2007.
Speaking Engagements, 2002: Symposium notice and schedule of events, 9/13-14/2001. "Restoring Justice: A Path to Peace" lecture, 1/25/2002. Correspondence between Olympia High School. Notes from colleagues. Lecture notes of Glen Anderson for "The Bill of Rights Protects Our Freedom," Olympia Fellowship of Reconciliation, Thurston Community Television, 2/14/2002. Article from The New York Times: "A Frustrated ACLU Tries to Guide Consulates Through a Thicket," Jan 2, 2002. The Peace Chronicle newsletter, The Newsletter of the Consortium on Peace Research, Education & Development (Copred) and the Peace Studies Association (PSA), Vol 1 No 1, Fall-Winter 2001.
Community Spirit, Wealth and GRUB folder: 1) Grub Board Meeting agenda, Dec 2006.Grub's 2003 End-of Year Report to the Community. Grubin' News, Spring 2006. 2) Spiritual Activism. "Om Mani Peme Hung: A Gathering: Grief, Remembrance and War," Oct 11, 2002. Program, articles and notes from the lecture.
"What's where for the under fives in Camden" (pamphlet). London Borough of Camden, Feb 1979.
Numerous articles from the New Society magazine, 1981-2. "The Witches of Greenham," 9 Sept 1982, p. 405-7.
"Why some women decide to become their own boss," 9 Sept 1982, p. 408-410. 8 Sept 1983 p. 359-360.
"Learning to be a Woman's woman," 21 April 1983, p. 94-98. 17 March 1983, p. 429-30. 21 October 1982, p. 141-144.
"Pioneers of the welfare state: 2 - Josephine Butler" by Pat Thane, 21 Oct 1982, p. 123-126.
"Pillow Talk" by Ros Franey, 28 Oct 1982, p. 157-158.
"One Up to Reagan" by R.W. Johnson. 6 Oct 1983, p. 28. 29 Sept 1983, p. 489-490.
"The Loners at the Top" by Peter Hingley and Cary L. Cooper, 29 Sept 1983, p. 467-470. 13 Oct 1983, p. 71-72.
"How Boys Slag Off Girls" by Sue Lees. 13 Oct 1983, p. 51-54. 4 Feb 1982, p. 201-202. 17 Dec 1981, p. 511-512. 17 Dec 1981, p. 499-500. 21 Jan 1982, p. 115-118.
"Musical Events" by Veronica Geng, The New Yorker, Aug 6, 1979.
3) Handwritten notes on articles. 4) Various articles: "Women and Work" by Degler et al. from Harvard Magazine, Jan-Feb 1981, p. 42-44. Paper, University Health Policy Consortium. By Callahan, Jr. et al. (60 pages). 6)
"Responsibility of Families for their Severely Disabled Elders," by Callahan Jr. et al., July 1979. 7)
"Women's Changing Roles, The Aging Family and Long-Term Care of Older People" by Elaine M. Brody in National Journal, 10/27/79, p. 1828-1833. 8)
Various other articles from the New Society magazine: "Night is the last frontier" by Murray Melbin, 13 Aug 1981, p. 255-257.
"The caring, sharing co-op?" by Judy Wajcman, 2 July 1981, p. 12-14.
"Men are like women," 30 July 1981, p. 189.
"Maternity rights: the power of symbol" by W.W. Daniel, 22 Oct 1981, p. 147-148. "Girls, wives, factory lives" by Anna Pollert, 22 Oct 1981, p. 139-141. "Desires of a perfectly normal heterosexual male" by Sally Vincent, 29 Oct 1981, p. 203-204. "Mother, child and state" by Sheila Rowbotham, 1 Oct 1981, p. 24-25. 9) "Into battle: A guide to books on the First World War" by Vivien Noakes, Harvard Magazine, Jan-Feb 1980, p. 64-68. 10) "Reinterpreting the History of Women" (book reviews) by Joseph F. Kett, Science magazine, Vol. 209, p. 584-585.11) "VITA - Annie Jump Cannon - Ardent astronomer: 1863-1941" by Margaret Walton Mayall, Harvard Magazine, March-April 1981, p. 34-35 (includes portrait). "VITA - Alice Fletcher - Activist anthropologist: 1838-1923" by Joan Mark, March-April 1980, p. 33-36 (includes portrait). 12) "New perspectives on American women: A guide to recent books" by Marion Kilson, Harvard Magazine, May-June 1977, p. 61-66. 13) Syllabus: "The Rise of an Industrial Society" by David Smith, History 102, Spring 1979, p. 1-4. 14) More handwritten notes. 15) "Shakespeare and the Age of Elizabeth" Exam preparation paper, 3/16/79, p. 1-6. 16) "Divorce a la Mode" by Andrew Hacker, New York: The New York Review, May 3, 1979, p. 23-28. Plus handwritten notes. 17) "A non-threatening, unbiased look at women's history," Stanford Observer, Feb 1976, p. 6. Plus handwritten notes. 18) University of Puget Sound correspondence about a syllabus for a class, 27 Feb 1979. 19) "Educating for Clerical Work," Weiss. Journal of Soc. History, 14.3, 1981. 20) "Migration in England, 1660-1730" by P. Clark, Past and Present Society: Oxford University Press, May 1979. 21) "Women in English Philanthropy," by F.K. Prochaska, Int. Review of Social History, XIX No 3, 1974. 22) "The Domestic Environment" by Carole Shannar, Journal of Social History, Vol 14 No 1, Fall 1980, p. 9-13. 23) "Family work unite in black country nailing" by E. Hopkins, Int Rev of Soc Hist, XXII No 2, 1977. 24) "The Social Structure of a Bedfordshire Parish in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Cardington Census Enumerators' Books, 1851" by N.L. Tranter, International Review of Soc Hist, Vol XVII No 1, 1973, p. 90-106. 25)
Handwritten notes on Rev Journal of Social Hist, Vol 14 No 2. 26) Various uncited articles plus handwritten notes
VHS
09/13/2003 Helena Meyer-Knapp on TVW
Notes of gratitude
Various thank you notes and cards from students and colleagues, 1997-2005.
Kiwanis Clubs of Thurston County volunteer service award, symposium agendas, and thank you letters.
- Title
- Helena Meyer-Knapp
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Althea Topek and Puanani Nihoa
- Date
- 2012
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- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities “We the People” grant for Washington Women’s History to the Washington Women’s History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
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