This sound clip is of Telford Taylor on November 30, 1983, delivering the opening lecture for the 6th annual Vanderbilt Holocaust Lecture Series (HLS), which remains the longest running series of its kind at a U.S. university.

Tiago Fernandes Maranhão and Brad Wright, both graduate students in the History PhD program, discuss their spring 2016 Dean’s Fellows project, exploring the ethnographic collection of the Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection.

Jenifer Dodd, a fall 2015, spring and summer 2016 Dean’s Fellow, talks about her work on Science and the Subject’s Perspective: The Vernacular Archive for the Normal Volunteer Patient Program. Jenifer helped make the materials discoverable in a…

Jennifer Alexander, a spring and fall 2016 Dean’s Fellow, talks about key findings in the Alfried Krupp Trial Papers, the tenth in a series of twelve military tribunals held in Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of the Second World War. The completed…

Alex Ayris discusses his role as a spring 2016 Dean’s Fellow in building a linked open data set for the study of the Middle East and to explore various means for visualizing and querying the data.

Nadejda Webb and Queen Stevenson share their experiences as Dean’s Fellows working with Dr. Ifeoma Nwankwo, Director, Program in American Studies and Associate Professor English and library staff to develop a program for users to access and…

Professor Hanna Roman discusses her interest in rare books and in bringing learning outside of the classroom in this exhibition that highlights Eighteenth Century literature from the Morris Wachs Collection of the W.T. Bandy Center.

Bonnie Griffin, a graduate student in Hanna Roman’s spring 2016 “Rethinking the Enlightenment French Novel” class, examines the physical composition/materiality of eighteenth-century books in the Morris Wachs Collection. Drawn to the exquisite…

Kate Devine, a graduate student in Hanna Roman’s spring 2016 “Rethinking the Enlightenment French Novel” class, discusses how we can imagine the relationship between the reader’s body and the body of the text in eighteenth-century literature in the…

Cara Wilson, a graduate student in Hanna Roman’s spring 2016 “Rethinking the Enlightenment French Novel” class, discusses how the development of reading for pleasure, and specifically the pleasure derived from reading depictions of the foreign and…