Blog posts

Blogging is central to the mission of the class as a space for intentional historical learning/methods and community engagement. Our audience is ourselves, our community, and the body of past, present, and future Bryn Mawr-historians. Students should “categorize” their posts under their name, and add any other tags that are meaningful.

Project topic statement

1 page, due on Tuesday, 3/23.

Project Proposal

2 pages, due Tuesday, 4/13.

Students will take a moment of pause in their research to gloss what they have learned so far, and situate themselves in the context of existing scholarship. Furthermore, keeping in mind history’s function in the present, the proposals will position the meaning of the research in the context of the community and its recent history. In your proposal, consider addressing any of the following questions, as it applies to your project:

• • How does project intervene in the existing historiography?
  • What types of sources will you analyze?
  • How will you be reading those sources?
  • What are the archival or institutional barriers to learning more about the past?
  • What will be the form of the final product?
  • How will you share your research with the community? With whom do you especially want to share? How can those community members inform the project as it unfolds?
  • Why this project, now?
  • What are your personal goals for this semester? Are there any skills you hope to obtain?

Feel free to also include a schedule of your semester-long work plan, and a bibliography.