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Zitkala-Ša , Storytelling, and Resources to Learn about Other Cultures
By Jasper Greuel, Journalism News and Information, ’25 and Sullivan Beach, Journalism News and Information, ’25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Fall 2024 During the fall 2024 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s…
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Dory Yochum and The Glass Ceiling
By Isabella Pedrera, Journalism ‘26, and Kaylin Pickett, Journalism ‘25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Fall 2024. During the fall 2024 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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Unequal Algorithms: How Artificial Intelligence Reflects and Reinforces Media’s Social Biases
By Avery Ochs, Emma Kate Kawaja, Sydney Lehmann, & Isabel Mattern, Journalism ’25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Fall 2024 During the fall 2024 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class,…
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Processing the Zines Collection!
By Aria Black, English ‘26, Fall 2024 Intern in Rare Books In fall 2024, I was selected to spend my internship working with the Mahn Center’s Zines Collection. My supervisor is Dr. Miriam Intrator, who had also been my HTC tutorial instructor in spring of 2024, where we discussed what exactly went into being a…
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Dissecting Anatomical Structures: Curating an Exhibit on Books & Bodies
By Alex Rienerth, ’25, MA in Literary History, 2024-2025 Graduate Assistant in Rare Books At the beginning of my graduate assistantship in the rare books department, part of my training included watching “The Anatomy of a Book,” a wonderful instructional video captured from an early 1990s VHS tape. Though the video is a bit peculiar,…
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Processing the Dave Smith Collection
By Kate Wiselogel, English ’27, Fall 2024 Manuscript Archives Intern This semester I’ve had the opportunity to work with the Dave Smith collection and create a new, revised finding aid for it. This has also included working on the general organization of the collection. The main objective of my work this semester was to completely…