A collection of promotional and educational comic books

In the Collection

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One of the newest additions to Special Collections is a trove of 139 promotional and educational comic books donated by Rob Galford ’74. Mainly aimed at influencing public opinion, burnishing a company’s public image, advertising a product, or promulgating a government message, promotional comics shrewdly cloaked their mission in the popular comic book form. But instead of featuring the sagas of superheroes, they told more prosaic tales.

"In the Collection" highlights some of the rare and marvelous items that are part of Lutnick Library's Quaker & Special Collections.

Photo: Patrick Montero.

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Faculty – Susanna Wing

A course on Francophone African literature as an undergrad led Associate Professor of Political Science Susanna Wing to an M.A. in African area studies and a Ph.D. in political science. She joined the Haverford faculty in 2002, and has become an internationally recognized and widely published expert on Mali.

Read Office Hour in the Fall 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.

Wing's office in Hall Building features a hand-drawn map of Africa, a photograph of her son and their dog Sebastian, and papers from a 1960 conference in West Africa that belong to Professor Emeritus of Political Science Harvey Glickman. Photo: Patrick Montero.

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Migration Encounters

Haverford professors Anne Preston and Anita Isaacs and a team of students are working to combat misinformation about immigration by sharing the personal stories of migrants deported to Mexico from the United States.

Read "Migration Encounters" in the Fall 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.

The team: (seated) Isabel Canning ’21, Sergio Diaz ’17; (standing, from left) photographer Patrick Montero, professors Anita Isaacs and Anne Preston, and Claudia Ojeda Rexach ’21. Photo: Lizzie Cannon.

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