Enjoy this post by Ankita Sen, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! My name is Ankita Sen and I am a first year student from Princeton, New Jersey. I am double majoring in Classics and International Studies, with a minor in Museums and Society. I have studied Latin for […]
Enjoy this post by DJ Quezada, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! Since I began this project three months ago, I have embarked on a similar journey to that of the mapmakers I have spent the last several months studying: synthesizing information about places (or in this case, time […]
Enjoy this post by Jade Robinson, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! Hi, everyone! My name is Jade Robinson, and I am one of four Freshman Fellows for 2020-21. These past few months I have been exploring Rachel Carson’s time as a graduate student at Hopkins, as well as […]
Enjoy this post by Kobi Khong, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year! Welcome one and welcome all, whether you be readers or eaters, librarians or pescatarians, academics or snack-ademics, I hope you’ll enjoy the cornucopia of knowledge that I’ve prepared for you today and leave with a belly full […]
The Special Collections Freshman Fellows program began in 2016 as an enriching and fun introduction to the challenges and joys of conducting research with primary sources. Students in the fellowship embarked on fantastic research journeys ranging from the history of student housing at Hopkins to the forgotten stories that ephemera can reveal about the women’s […]
Enjoy this post by Natalie Thornton, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! For my second installment of translations of later Latin texts as part of my Freshman Fellows research project, I bring you some excerpts from a late-16th Century book of trades. Originally published in Nuremberg in 1568 in […]
Enjoy this post by Aarushi Krishnan, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! A few months ago, I had sent my first blog post out into a world quite different from the one I now find myself in. I wrote about my first experiences looking into the anti-suffrage moment, finding […]
Enjoy this post by Natalie Thornton, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! My name is Natalie Thornton, and I am a pre-med Freshman studying Classics. This has been my fifth year studying Latin, and I was beyond honored to be selected as a Freshman Fellow and have the opportunity […]
Enjoy this post by Lubna Azmi, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! I spent my entire first year researching Black Activism at JHU only to find myself immersed in a reinvigorated revolution for freedom. My decision to pursue research about Black history was rooted in the lack of education […]
Enjoy this post by Ivy Xun, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year! The passage of the 19th amendment marks 2020 its historic centennial, while the present draws the year into a time of pressing uncertainty. Covid-19 continues to devastate along the curve, exposing health disparities at every level, in […]