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Alphabets @ Alden, Spring 2025
By Sarah McDowell, Typography Instructor & Art Director at Ohio University Alphabets@Alden is a poster series of personal alphabets created by ART 2520 typography students and instructed by Tabitha Asiedu-Gyamfi and Sarah McDowell over the course of 9 weeks during the spring 2025 semester. Inspired in part by a hands-on engagement session with historic and…
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Rewriting the Narrative: Vernon Alden, The Post, and the Lack of Black Perspective at OU during the Civil Rights Movement
By Jadyn Carpenter, Communications Studies ’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…
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Processing the Gilbert and Ursula Farfel Collection of Incunable and Manuscript Leaves
By Zoe Duncan, Honors Tutorial College Art History with a certificate in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, ’26, Rare Book Intern, Spring ’25 As an Art History major, I often find myself working with materials as a researcher. My familiarity with the Mahn Center began over the summer of 2024, when I spent a few…
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Immigrant Stories Told Through Photographic Panels
By Emma Snyder-Lovera, BSJ, BSC ’26, for JOUR 4310 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…
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Evaluating the History and Societal Impact of Title IX at Ohio University
By Grant Kiefer, Journalism ‘26, Daniel Barnard, Journalism ’26, Aaron Parker, Journalism ‘26 & Marc Goldstein, Journalism ’26, for JOUR 4310 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…
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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…
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Examining “American Breeding Standards” and Unhealthy Expectations for Women Throughout History
By Molly Griffiths, Communication Studies ‘26 and Zoe Kirsch, Communication Studies ‘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,…