Pedro Doreste is a researcher whose work on the lasting impact of educational cinema in Puerto Rico brought him to the RBML to investigate the papers of the documentary filmmaker David Flaherty. Doreste’s project, entitled, An Accented Seminar: Puerto Rico’s Division of Community Education at the Flaherty, 1955-1963, examines the seminars hosted by Frances Flaherty that facilitated […]
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Research at the RBML | Peter Weber investigates how philanthropies supercharge their impact
Peter Weber is Assistant Professor of History at Auburn University. His work examines public life through the lens of philanthropy and non-profits. At the RBML, he dove into the Carnegie Corporation’s records from the 1970s that tracked their efforts to expand the impact of their philanthropy. He found evidence of internal disagreement within the foundation […]
Research at the RBML | Ronnie Grinberg
Ronnie Grinberg returned to the RBML recently to use collections related to the New York Intellectuals for a forthcoming book titled, “Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals (Princeton University Press, to be published in early 2024).” Below, Professor Grinberg shares some finds and advice… What brings you to Columbia’s Rare […]
Research at the RBML | Sophia Houghton investigates the materiality of trees
If as Auden remarked, “a culture is no better than its woods,” what does it look like when books try to represent trees? Columbia graduate student Sophia Houghton visited the RBML to find out. Recently introduced to the RBML by Curator Thai Jones, Houghton returned to the archives to look at see Romeyn Hough’s American […]
Lili Hamlyn examines rituals of public mourning in Columbia’s oral history archives
This fall, Lili Hamlyn visited the RBML to use the 9/11 oral history project. Hamlyn’s work examines public mourning: how is grief conducted in public? How do communities process grief together? What role does grief play on a public stage? Lili Hamlyn is a writer, whose work has appeared in The White Review, The Oxonian […]