Read more about projects students have conducted using Hay materials below. If you are interested in hosting a program with materials from the Hay for your student group, fill out an interest form.
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Evan Kindler ’20: The Papers of the John Birch Society
Member of the inaugural cohort of the John Hay’s Summer Undergraduate Fellowship, Evan Kindler worked to examine how the values, ideas, and tactics expressed and used by the John Birch Society were essential parts of Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. The similarities had been expressed by pundits on both sides, prompting his investigation into their legitimacy.…
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Maya Omori ’19: Hidden Portraits of Brown
“Working at the Hay has been life-changing for me,” Maya Omori said. “It’s changed the direction of my studies.” Omori recently received one of the two annual Undergraduate Library Research prizes for her work with the John Hay Library’s archives, Pembroke Center archives, and various university archivists and curators for her senior capstone “Hidden Portraits…
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Charlie Steinman ’20: Nuremberg Chronicle and the Myth of Pope Joan
Charlie Steinman took a roundabout route to write his prize-winning paper, “Martin Luther’s whore more than a pope: Annotation, Disgust, and Materiality in the Reformation Reception of the Pope Joan Myth,” about a folio in the Nuremberg Chronicle. For his final project for Professor Tara Nummendal’s course “Age of Imposters: Fraud, Identity, and the Self…
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Chronicles of Brunonia
About A digital collection of historical narratives of the life of Brown – many of which were produced by student researchers for English Non-Fiction Senior Lecturer Elizabeth Taylor’s “Narrative History” course – Chronicles of Brunonia are archival-based non-fiction pieces about Brown’s buried history, quirky traditions, and unsavory moments. Notable Entries Include: Access Read more from Chronicles…
Student Programs
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Haggadot at the Hay – March 15, 2018
Around 20 students, faculty, and guests visited the Hay on March 15 for Haggadot at the Hay, a short tour of the ongoing Ungerleider Collection of Haggadot and a show-and-tell with curated Judaica housed at the Hay. Below are some of the items featured during the event. Sephardic Siddurim: Early Jewish Presence in North America After…