Archive: March 2021 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Michael Stratmoen; (Year) 2021; (Month) March

Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

Getting to Know Staff Fellow Megan Halsband

March 26, 2021

Megan Halsband is a Kluge Staff Fellow at the Library of Congress as well as a librarian in the Serial & Government Publications Division. Michael Stratmoen: Can you tell us a little more about your background here at the Library? Megan Halsband: I started at the Library in 2008 as a Processing Technician in the …

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Rishad Choudhury on Studying the Breakdown of Muslim Empires Through the Hajj

March 2, 2021

Posted by: Michael Stratmoen

Rishad Choudhury is a Kluge Fellow as well as Assistant Professor of History at Oberlin College. He is currently working on a book-length project, ‘‘Hajj between Empires: Indo-Muslim Pilgrimage and Political Culture, 1739–1820.’’ Mike Stratmoen: Could you describe your project for us? Rishad Choudhury: My book on the hajj pilgrimage is set in an age …

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Refined by: (Author) Michael Stratmoen; (Year) 2021; (Month) March