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Posted by: Travis Hensley
The following is a guest post by Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, who is based at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja and currently in residence at The John W. Kluge Center as the Alan Lomax Fellow in Folklife Studies. The Alan Lomax Collection at the Library of Congress includes, among other materials, recordings, photographs, diaries, notebooks and letters documenting Alan Lomax’s …
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Posted by: Travis Hensley
The following is a guest post by Alexandre Loktionov, PhD candidate in the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a 2016 AHRC Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. I am an Egyptologist happily working as a fellow at the Kluge Center of the Library of Congress. To some, I recognize that …
Posted in: Africa, Culture & Society, History, Law
Posted by: Travis Hensley
The following is a guest post by Samira Mehta, Assistant Professor at Albright College and the 2015 David B. Larson Fellow in Health and Spirituality at The John W. Kluge Center. This is the first post of a two-part interview by two of our Larson Fellows. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Yale University, …
Posted in: Culture & Society, Health & Medicine, History, Religion, Sociology
Posted by: Travis Hensley
The following is a guest post by Janina Schupp, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cambridge and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. In a rural part of France, in close proximity to Paris, lies the town of Jeoffrécourt. A seemingly average municipality with riversides and playgrounds, the …
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Posted by: Travis Hensley
It’s been a busy start to the year at the Kluge Center. In the past two months we’ve welcomed twelve new scholars into residence. Here are a few of the projects they’ll be working on: Will Slauter is a newly arrived Kluge Fellow working on his project, “Who Owns the News? Journalism and Intellectual Property …
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Posted by: Travis Hensley
In the month of November the Kluge Center welcomed five new scholars to the Library. Below are summaries of two of their research projects. Hannah Clark is a newly arrived Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bristol. During her residency, Hannah will be working on her project, …
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Posted by: Travis Hensley
Earlier this month, the Kluge Center celebrated our annual “opening lunch,” a tradition that informally kicks off the start of our new cohort of scholars arriving. In September and October the Kluge Center welcomed four senior scholars, fourteen new fellows, and welcomed back two fellows to complete their residency. Below are a few highlights that …
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Posted by: Travis Hensley
The Kluge Center welcomed six new resident scholars in July and August, including three senior scholars and the first of our 2015 Kluge Fellows. David Hollenbach was named by the Librarian of Congress to the Cary and Ann Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History this past April, and he arrived in early August. The …
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Posted by: Travis Hensley
This past month’s #ScholarFest was a huge success, and I’m grateful to all who made it so. It was such a delight to have so many familiar faces back at the Center; it was an amazing two days, one that could not have happened without our team at the Kluge Center and all of the …
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