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Handmade Narratives: Creativity, Expression, and Personal Stories within the Student Artist Books Collection
By Lindi M. Harden, Communication Studies ’25, Spring 2025 Intern Over the past several weeks, I’ve spent most of my time as an intern in Rare Books working with the Student Artist Books Collection, and it has quickly become a body of work to which I feel deeply connected. Because of the time I’ve spent…
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Dissecting Double Standards: Gender Biases and Stereotypes in Ohio University Student History, Life, and Culture
Emma Fulton, Marketing and Analytics ‘26; Sydney Donohoo, Marketing ‘25; and Avery Tracz, Marketing ‘25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025 During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR…
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Teaching & Studying the Classics Today: A Faculty & Student Roundtable
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections On November 6, 2023, a group of faculty and students from Classics & Religious Studies came together to discuss collaborative course projects and research conducted in partnership with the Rare Book Collection. A recording of the roundtable is available. Learn more about…
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Making an Impact: Students Contributing to the Humanities @ OHIO Libraries
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections Mahn Center and Digital Initiatives staff have been collaborating with Ohio University faculty on Humanities in the Park since summer 2021. Humanities in the Park is made possible, in part, by a grant from Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National…
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Reblog: Meet an Early Multicultural Student Organization: Ohio University’s Los Amigos, 1947-1952
By Imani Estrada, Marketing, BA 2022, OhioLINK Luminaries Intern 2020-2021. Originally published January 18, 2021, on the Ohio University Libraries Digital Initiatives Tumbler, which predated this Mahn blog. The Student Organization: Los Amigos was a minority student organization established here at Ohio University in fall 1947, continuing through 1952. This student organization was primarily composed…
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Student Project: The Decline of Cursive
The Decline of Cursive: A Digital Exhibit by OhioLINK Luminaries Intern Judinya Thwaites-Brevik The Mahn Center was thrilled to welcome OhioLINK Luminaries Intern Judinya (Nya) Thwaites-Brevik for a seven-week rotation to start off the spring 2022 semester. Nya is a sociology major in the Honors Tutorial College, minoring in psychology and political science with a…
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Campus in Crisis: How the Vietnam War Reshaped Ohio University as told through the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections
By Alex Hetrick, Communication Studies ‘25, Anthony Bray, Journalism News and Information ‘25, Cameron Voelker, Journalism Strategic Communication ‘25, and Matthew Nichols, Journalism ‘25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025 By the spring of 1970, Ohio University students had endured years of growing unrest…
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Southern Justice Revisited: Lynn Johnson and Racial Violence in the Media
By Dylan Thatcher, Journalism ‘25 and Tyler Lacey, Media Arts Production ‘25 for JOUR 4310 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025. CONTENT WARNING: Racial violence. During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La…
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An Exploration of Women’s Role in Corporate America through Dory Yochum and the Lynn Johnson Collection
By Erin Brogan, Journalism 27’, and Abbey Menza, Journalism 26’ for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025. During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class, Gender, Race, and…
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How Music Reinforces Gender/Race Stereotypes Through Language
By Tess Murphy, Marketing ’25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria Lapoe, Spring 2025 During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class, Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass…