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When Mariana Françozo, Associate Professor at the School of Archaeology at Leiden University and member of the LAGLOBAL research network at the University of London, was asked to contribute to the JCB’s Global Americana exhibition, it was no surprise that she chose the Historia Naturalis...
Congratulations to former fellow James Delbourgo (Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow, 2001-02) for the publication of his book, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Harvard University Press, 2017). Sloane was a wealthy collector of a world of objects and...
Mining the JCB’s unparalleled collection of early modern travel reports, Lisa Voigt (Spanish/Portuguese, Ohio State University) and Stephanie Leitch (Art History, Florida State University) completed a two-week Collaborative Cluster Fellowship at the JCB in summer 2017. As part of a book project tentatively entitled The...
Although the cumulative cost of the Library’s wish list of rare materials always outpaces available funds, Library staff carefully weighs opportunities to buy items of value to our researchers. The criteria considers their condition, rarity, and fit within the collection's scope. One item that passed...
In the summer of 2017, the JCB invited scholars from around the world to collectively curate an array of our materials that speak to the global dimensions of a collection focused around the Americas. Leveraging our institutional partnership with the LAGLOBAL research network at the...
When the JCB's fellowship program began 55 years ago with just two fellows-in-residence, it must have been difficult to imagine ever reaching 100 fellows, let alone 1,000! During the summer of 2017, the JCB welcomed Jody Benjamin, Assistant Professor of History at the University of...