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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...
Julia Sarreal, an Associate Professor of Latin American History at Arizona State University, spent two summer months in 2017 at the Library as a Helen Watson Buckner Memorial Fellow. Her current project, “Yerba Mate, Guaraní Consumable, Tool of Empire, and Gaucho Lifeblood” provides a refreshing...
Congratulations to Pablo F. Gómez (2009-10 Paul W. McQuillen Memorial Fellow) on the publication of The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic. His book explores how Caribbean people created authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the...