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Since 1889, Saint Anselm College has provided a transformative education shaped by Catholic and Benedictine values and a liberal arts foundation. Here, you are part of a welcoming community where you will discover your passions, experience cherished traditions, and unlock your full potential.
Top100.00100
national liberal arts college by Forbes
99.0099%
of identified graduates of the class of 2023 are either employed, pursuing further education, serving in the military, or volunteering
#24.0024
most engaged in community service by Princeton Review
Celebrating 50 Years of Women’s Education
This year marks 50 years of women’s education and achievements at Saint Anselm College. To commemorate this extraordinary milestone, the college is celebrating with events and programs centered around the women of the past and present who have made Saint Anselm College what it is today.
Meet Our Anselmians
"I believe with all my heart that today’s world needs Saint Anselm College, a place that is infused with the Catholic and Benedictine values of community, hospitality and love, where the humanities, arts and sciences and professional programs like nursing, criminal justice and business build on our liberal arts core rather than compete with it. We need a place where you don’t have to choose between career outcomes and life outcomes. That place is Saint Anselm."
In the classroom and in the community, an Anselmian education will challenge you to find your best self.
Anselmian News
Interdisciplinary Special Topics Course is “Unlike Any Other”
Last fall, a new special topics course blended history and literature in a…
Anselmians Make Record Gifts to Support Saint Anselm College Now and Always
During the 10th annual Days of Giving campaign, the college a record $1.43…
Saint Anselm students play role in President Biden’s NH visit
Students reflect on the important role they played in President Biden’s…
Women in Leadership: A Women’s 50th Celebration
Seven Saint Anselm alumnae prominent in the business world discussed…
Women and Politics: NHIOP Celebrates 50 Years of Women’s Co-Education
Three notable women in the political field discussed the role of women in…
Chapel Arts Center Hosts a Retrospective on long-time Photography Professor
“The Intimacy of Seeing: Elsa Voelcker – A Retrospective,” the current…
Meelia Center's 32nd Annual Valentine's Dance Spreads Love and Inclusion in the Community
The Meelia Center for Community Engagement spread love in the community as…
NHIOP Welcomes 2024 Cohort of Kevin B. Harrington Student Ambassadors
The New Hampshire Institute of Politics welcomes 29 new Student Ambassadors…
FEATURED FACULTY MEMBER
Theology Professor Ahida Pilarski, Ph.D. was featured in the most recent issue of Portraits Magazine's Focus on Faculty.
"The first program in women’s studies in the United States was approved at San Diego State University in 1970. Saint Anselm College also is celebrating the 50th anniversary of women at the college this year. It is nice to know that our college joined this major change of increasing the access of women to education."
Anselmian Events
Please join us for Mass in the Abbey Church!
Join our weekly athlete Bible study.
Varsity, Club, and Intramural Athletes are welcome!
Contact us for more info: Campusministry@anselm.edu
The relationship between ethics and the arts has always fascinated thinkers. Join us on Monday, May 6th, for a discussion about the ethical complexities within artistic creation, consumption, and identity. During this time, our panelists will explore the intersections of gender, ethics, and art, and attempt to answer questions about how gender can and should inform the arts.
Some key topics that will be addressed:
- On the power of art: How can art trouble us? How can art challenge gender? How does our identity inform our choices and understanding of art’s power and ethical dimensions?
- On artistic production: Where does gender fit into our understanding of artistic production? What are our barriers to creating art, to making space for a more equitable, accessible, active artistic experience? How do we deal with that and why should we?
- On artistic responsibility: What is role of the individual—our personal responsibility as educators, as consumers, as citizens in a democratic, capitalist society—in thinking about how art is *in* our everyday life?
Through these discussions, this event aims to highlight the transformative potential of art in addressing ethical dilemmas and promoting social justice.
Free and open to the public. Refreshments and coffee provided.
Presented by the Diversity and Inclusion Innovation Fund, the Center for Ethics in Society, and the Richard L. Bready Chair in Ethics, Economics, and the Common Good.
Panelists:
Hilary Poriss, PhD, is a Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music and the College of Arts, Media and Design at Northeastern University. Her primary research interests are in the areas of 19th-century Italian and French opera, performance practice, diva culture, and the aesthetics of 19th-century musical culture. She has published four books: Gioacchino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville (Oxford University Press), Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance (Oxford University Press), Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (Cambridge University Press), and of The Arts of the Prima Donna in the Long Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press). Her newest book project, a biography about the nineteenth-century diva Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), will be published by the University of Chicago Press.
Ann Holbrook, PhD, is a Professor of English and Chair of the English and Communication Department at Saint Anselm College. She specializes in twentieth-century British literature and literature by women writers, particularly the prolific journalist and novelist Rebecca West. She has edited and analyzed some of West's posthumously published fiction and published articles on Edna O'Brien, Virginia Woolf, Mary Lavin, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anita Brookner, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. She co-edited the 2022 collection For the Sake of the Song: Essays on Townes Van Zandt, to which she contributed an essay. An avid musician, she sings with several regional bands.
Laura Elizabeth Shea, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Art History at Saint Anselm College who specializes in the history of photography and global and contemporary art. Her work analyzes the production and reception of images that engage with the intersections of race, gender, movement, and memory in American and global contexts.
Tina Philibotte, is the Chief Equity Officer for the Manchester School District. She is also an educator, having taught both Dance and English at Goffstown High School. During this time, she was a finalist for the NH State Teacher of the Year award and a two-time fellow with the National Writing Project. She’s served as a NH Listens fellow since January 2021 and an advisory member to the Endowment for Health’s Race & Equity Series.
Katie Collins is Director of Development at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. An English and Theater graduate of College of the Holy Cross, she has more than 30 years of non-profit development and management experience. Katie has led the successful management of major gifts acquisitions, capital campaigns, grants programs, and corporate giving programs. Katie is also a freelance writer and editor, and an active theatre professional, acting on stage with companies such as theatre Kapow. Her talents have been recognized by the NH Theater Awards who honored her as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy or Drama in 2013.
Aaron Tolson is an internationally renowned dance professional, choreographer, and show producer. Aaron has appeared on Broadway, toured nationally, directed non-profits dedicated to instructing youth in dance, and taught both in several institutions of higher education as well as prestigious dance schools in NYC. He starred for six years in Riverdance, co-created and was the assistant producer of Imagine Tap!, and is currently the director of the pre-professional tap company “Speaking in Taps.” In Fall 2024, he will join the Fine Arts Department at Saint Anselm College as a Professor of Practice in Dance.
Delight is a space where women of all faith backgrounds can come together for supportive conversations about pursuing a relationship with Jesus.
For more information, contact us: CampusMinistry@anselm.edu
Join the festival! From 5-9, enjoy live music, food, drinks, and free stuff to celebrate the end of the semester!
A-men is a Christian men’s group centered around community and faith. We have weekly meetings on Tuesdays in the lower church conference room from 8-9. During this time, we discuss topics centered around virtue, bible passages, and what it is like to be a Christian male in today's society and culture. A-men is a space for Christian men who want to grow in their relationship with God to come together, learn from each other, and support each other in their journey.
For more information, please email campusministry@anselm.edu