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…

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.

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…

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…

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.

Mary Helen Johns, an undergraduate in Professor Elizabeth Moodey’s spring 2016 Art of the Book class, speaks here about how her interest in the relationship between art history and literary theory and how that drew her to the topic of art and text.…

Daniel Weitz, an undergraduate in Professor Elizabeth Moodey’s spring 2016 Art of the Book class, was inspired by an artist’s book to learn more about medieval and modern medicine. Daniel made a video of the book Open Heart Surgery opening and…

Sharon Si, an undergraduate in Professor Elizabeth Moodey’s spring 2016 Art of the Book class, presents on her curation of this music exhibit. As a musician, Si was particularly interested in the way our understanding of music has evolved since the…

Rebekah Smith, an undergraduate in Professor Elizabeth Moodey’s spring 2016 Art of the Book class, discusses the role of memory as envisioned in medieval texts and contemporary artists’ books. Smith tells us why she selected each object, what they…

Danielle Pettiti, an undergraduate in Professor Elizabeth Moodey’s spring 2016 Art of the Book class, describes the way illuminated manuscripts were created in the medieval period. Pettiti notes that her favorite part of the class was “decoding” her…