About the Project
The materials held by the Vanderbilt University Special Collections & University Archives (SCUA) cover a variety of subjects and would span nearly five miles if laid out end to end. In this Fellowship, students developed their research skills by directly interacting with selections of these primary source materials, including diaries, letters, photographs, oral histories, and artifacts. During the semester, fellows kept a diary of their experience and learned skills such as how to approach different formats of recorded information, how to find primary sources, how to read a collection finding aid, and how to decipher difficult handwriting. As the fellowship unfolded, students used their imaginations to enter into the experiences of the people who created the primary source materials. Fellows completed a portfolio of poems inspired by their research and showcased items from the collections and their accompanying poems at a public poetry reading.
Mentors
Mary McSparran
Fellows
Davia Williams; Ayla Faullin; Lauren Johnson; Leyi (Adele) Shen
Project
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