Guest post by Iva Moore (School of the Arts, 2023) The poet Lucie Brock-Broido has been critical to the Writing Program’s reputation at Columbia’s School of The Arts. After completing a Briggs-Copeland Lectureship at Harvard, Brock-Broido served as the head of Columbia’s poetry concentration from 1993 to 2018. She established herself as a bit of […]
Tag: Graduate Student Internship Program in Primary Sources
Processing the Joseph E. Slater Papers
Guest post by Evelyn MacPherson, GSAS student At the start of my internship with the Rare Books and Manuscript Library I was asked if I knew what my dissertation would be on— a fair question for any rising fourth year PhD candidate, albeit a daunting one. I’d been asking myself the same question, and I […]
Processing the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) records
“First of all, congratulations on finishing your oral exams.” So reads the first sentence of a correspondence found in the first box of the Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) records, which I am processing as part of the Graduate Student Internship Program in Primary Sources at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library this […]
United Bronx Parents – A Commitment to Service
By Rachel Klepper (Part II of II. Read part I.) Founded in the 1960s by Evelina López Antonetty (1922-1984) as a movement for school reform, United Bronx Parents developed into an important grassroots social-services provider. Over time, the networks and power that Antonetty built transformed into an organization that provided public health services to Bronx […]
United Bronx Parents – A “Community Grown Organization”
By Rachel Klepper (This is Part I of a two-part story. Read part II.) In 2018, the Lorraine Montenegro Women and Children’s Program Facility opened in a new building at 773 Prospect Avenue in the Bronx. With $12 million from New York State, this residential recovery center was built on the site where United Bronx […]