In January 2024, the Book Lab received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities within their “Humanities Initiatives” program to develop an undergraduate curriculum for a Minor in Book Studies. The NEH press release can be found at the address below, and includes a mention of our project specifically as well as a link to a full list of 2024 NEH-funded projects:
Our curriculum aims for the best of “immersive” undergraduate humanities archival research with widely transferable skills: primary source literacy, humanities literacy, information literacy, methods of experimentation and evaluation, creative making as a feature of research.
Project Leads
Patricia Ingham
Principal Investigator
Liz Hebbard
Co-Principal Investigator
Joshua Pontillo
Graduate Assistant
Faculty Collaborative Working Group
Members of the Book Studies faculty collaborative working group come from a variety of disciplines, and will work together to establish the minor curriculum.
Dana Anderson – English
Rebecca Baumann – Lilly Library, Head of Curatorial Services & Curator of Modern Books
Doug Case – English
James Canary – Lilly Library, Conservator
Yara Clüver – Associate Director, Collins Living-Learning Center
Laura Carlson Hasler – Religious Studies
Maureen Maryanski – Lilly Library, Head of Teaching and Research
Ron Sela – Central Eurasian Studies, Director of Islamic Studies
Nick Vogt – East Asian Languages and Cultures
John Walsh – Information and Library Science
Fei-Hsien Wang – History