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By oieahc June 01, 2016

Short-term fellow's report from Ashli White

Ashli White (University of Miami), recently completed a short-term fellowship at the Omohundro Institute. In today’s post, she outlines her research project and talks about what she found while here. by Ashli White I arrived to the Institute at the beginning of this month to conduct some research for my project that explores the political, social, and cultural history of objects… Read More

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By oieahc February 02, 2016

Summer internships for undergraduates

Today's post is courtesy of Jordan Smith (Georgetown University), OI Regional Editor for The List. If you are interested in helping your undergraduates find an internship this summer then this is key reading. Read More

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By oieahc January 12, 2016

Report from Sueanna Smith, Lapidus Fellow

Today’s post comes from Sueanna Smith, graduate student at the University of South Carolina, who used funds she received as a Lapidus-OIEAHC Fellow to further her dissertation research. There is still time to apply for the next application round. Applications will be accepted through midnight, Friday, January 15.  The Lapidus-OIEAHC Fellowship supported my doctoral research by funding… Read More

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By Martha Howard October 22, 2015

Meet OI Fellow Deborah Hamer

Deborah Hamer began her residency as the 2015-2017 OI-NEH Fellow on July 1, 2015. Her current work focuses on the West India Co and its attempts to instill proper sexual behavior in marriage. Here she discusses her research process. So you have been working in the archives…. I have been in two… Read More

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By Martha Howard April 22, 2015

ICYMI: The George III Archives project

In case you missed it….We are proud to announce that the OI has been asked to help organize the digitization of the George III archives—the papers and household documents of the King and his family. Of the massive collection—approximately a quarter of a million pages of material—only about 15% has been available to scholars up until now. Today, instead… Read More

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By Martha Howard February 26, 2015

A conversation with OI Fellow Ryan Kashanipour

Ryan Kashanipour is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on ethnicity, race, and gender in the cultural and social production of knowledge in colonial Latin America and the broader Atlantic world. While at the OI, he is working on his manuscript, “Between Magic and Medicine: Colonial Yucatec Healing and the Spanish Atlantic World,” which examines the history of cooperation… Read More

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By Martha Howard January 28, 2015

A conversation with OI Fellow Paul Polgar

We sat down with Paul Polgar, Omohundro Institute-NEH Fellow 2013-2015, earlier this month for a quick interview.  What are you working on now?  I spent a lot of fall semester compiling a database of New York and Philadelphia’s abolition societies’ cases and now I am working with that material. These are cases brought to the societies by individual African… Read More

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