Reading over my first blog post, I think my experience this summer aligned pretty well with my expectations. I wanted to get a clearer picture of what working as a humanities researcher would be like, specifically with archives, and I think I’ve learned a good deal about the experience; you’ll have to look through a…
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Blog #3
It’s been about one month of working for this project on the history of the Rackham School and graduate research, and I’ve settled into routines that I enjoy. For the first couple weeks, I felt aimless and also overwhelmed with possible things to do, especially since we hadn’t gotten into the archive (Bentley) yet; at…
Blog #2
My research project surrounds the 150th anniversary of the Rackham Graduate School, which is happening in 2026. Two other students and I are working with our mentor, Emily Swafford, the Assistant Dean at Rackham. We are doing background archival research online and at the Bentley Historical Library in order to find interesting themes within the…
Letter #1 2025!
Dear reader, I’m Fiona, a senior at UM majoring in Anthropology and minoring in Religion and Museum Studies. It’s June 2nd. I start working on the Bentley doctoral research project with my mentor Emily this week! This project seems like a great fit because I am hoping to someday work in an archive, museum, or…