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, […]
Tag: Graduate Student Internship Program in Primary Sources
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 […]
Oral History | Newly available Cuban Voices oral history collection
The Cuban Voices oral history collection is processed and its finding aid is ready for researcher use. Elizabeth Dore, Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton coordinated the Cuban Voices Project, also known as Memories of the Cuban Revolution. Dore received a Ph.D. in Latin American History from Columbia […]