This post is by Laura Berrios Figueroa, (GSAS ’28), who in summer 2026 processed the Dolores Prida papers as part of the Primary Source Graduate Internship program. If, according to Shakespeare, “All the world’s a stage, [a]nd all the men and women [are] merely players,” Dolores Prida definitely knew how to play. In the theater […]
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Processing the Myrna Casas papers
By Michelle Lopez, SCSU student and RBML Fall 2025 archives intern In 2020, the Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquired the papers of Puerto Rican playwright, director, educator, and cultural leader Myrna Casas (1934–2022). A major figure in Caribbean and Latina theater, Casas’s work addressed questions of identity, politics, and women’s experience through realism, satire, […]
Staging the World with Josefina Báez
By Emily Oliveira, Latin American and Iberian Cultures PhD student The challenging thing about processing Josefina Báez’ papers is that processing definitionally requires categorization—and Báez is a person who resists categorization. In no particular order, she is a sui generis Dominican dancer, writer, performer, Mantra Yoga initiate, actress, theorist, and teacher, among a sea of […]
Abortion, Feminism, and Education in the Patricia S. McCormack Papers
By Sophia Scanlan, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, History PhD student Like all great journalist collections, the recently processed Patricia S. McCormack Papers (finding aid) offer insight into both the period she covered and the way she understood the world around her. Though the collection doubtless provides ample material for mid-to-late twentieth-century women’s historians, […]
Student Employee Profile: Meet Flor Barceló
Our colleagues at the Spotlight blog posted this nice interview with Flor Barceló, a graduate of our primary source internship program. Student Employee Profile: Meet Flor Barceló […]