Contents

  • Histories

    Essays on periods and aspects of New School history, partial and evolving.

  • People

    Profiles of people who have passed through the New School. Entries focus on their time at the school.

  • Reader

    Readings, artworks, and materials by and about people associated with the school, including faculty, staff, and students.

  • Reflections & Analysis

    Podcasts, scholarly commentary, and opinion.

About

This website seeks to explore and interrogate the past at a school dedicated to the new. Contributions by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and researchers.

Editors
Julia L. Foulkes, Professor of History
Mark Larrimore, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Wendy Scheir, Director, New School Archives and Special Collections

Connections
The New School Archives Digital Collections from the Archives Public Seminar The New School

Contact
[email protected]

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Category: Students

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A Space to Collectively Reflect

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A Space to Collectively Reflect Created by Ana Holschuh, Charlotte von Hardenburgh, and Jennifer Simonton   March 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of remote learning for students at The New School. We, the students, were all collectively disrupted, but our experiences were individually felt. To memorialize this moment, we archived the experiences and emotions of […]

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New Talks Podcast

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New Talks: International Voices for the Arts By Marissa Giblin, Sara Valbuena, Nakai Falcon This project was conducted as part of the class “Curating Public Memory” in Spring 2021.   This podcast series is a platform that focuses on the experiences of international students involved in creative practices at The New School during the pandemic. […]

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Mardi Gras: A Forgotten Parsons School of Design Tradition

The New School Libraries and Archives was recently contacted by a media archivist at the University of Georgia about an intriguing movie reel in one of its collections. Our Georgian counterpart, Margie Compton, was examining what looked to be a fabulous costume party. People were dressed as giant fishes and chairs. Could we help explain […]

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Parsons School of Design School of Fashion Designer of the Year Awards (1967 – 2011)

The information on this page was either provided to the present New School Archives staff or was found in legacy files. Corrections and additions welcome.   2011 David Ferron (women’s), T Young Hwang (men’s), Serena Chang (children’s) 2010 Niloufar Mozafari (women’s), Dylan Taverner (men’s), Susan Kay (children’s) 2009 Julia Blum, Robert Fitzsimmons (women’s—a tie, not a team), […]

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Peer Learning

by Rita Silverman, IRP Member

If visitors were to drop into an IRP study group, they might observe the following: the coordinator is perched on the table in the front of the room or sitting behind the desk or standing or walking around the front of the room. She asks a question of the group, and several hands go up. […]

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The IRP’s Collaboration with the New School

The diverse and experienced members of the IRP have backgrounds in the sciences, arts, business, academia, law and more. They support objectives of the New School through a variety of volunteer endeavors. This energetic, committed group reaches beyond the IRP’s core of developing and participating in the 30+ Study Groups each semester. IRP members enthusiastically […]