The Freshman Fellowship

Be among the very first researchers at Hopkins to explore our amazing collection of women's suffrage ephemera and publications, and co-curate an exhibition on the passage of the 19th Amendment!

Our collection includes a variety of interesting material documenting suffragists and their foes, including postcards, pins and ribbons, and magazines. Explore the innovative ways suffragists used new technology and exploited gender norms to advance the cause of "Votes for Women!"

Successful applicants are also guaranteed a spot in the Young Scholar's Panel at an upcoming national conference!

Note: Two students will be selected for this incredible project!

Have unprecedented access to John James Audubon’s double-elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, watercolors by naturalist John Gould, Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds, and other illustrated editions of ornithology, botany, and zoology as you explore the history of natural history. Where science meets art. Consider 19th century ecological concerns and approaches, find creatures that were driven to extinction, or study the process of how these kinds of books were researched and assembled.

Please note: Due to their size, the Audubon folios may only be used at the library at Evergreen Museum & Library.

Mentor: Amy Kimball

President Daniels wants to build a student center by 2024. But what is the history of places students have used in the past to hang out, catch up, and goof off? Using our collection of yearbooks (“The Hullabaloo”) as a jumping-off point, you will mine the University Archives to surface the history of student spaces on campus. Who knows, your work might be used to inform the new student union.

Mentor: Jordon Steele

Love studying Latin and solving mysteries? Then use your ever-growing Latin language skills to reveal the content of highly important, but rarely studied rare books held at the historic George Peabody Library. You will get to translate short and interesting Latin texts that date from the Renaissance and after that have never been translated before! See if you can figure out why the books were important, how they became neglected, and why they should be embraced by the masses once more!

• Caroline West Shakespeare's Language Through Time; Amy Kimball, Mentor.
  
• Lucy Massey Post-Roman Latin Translations; Paul Espinosa, Mentor.
  
• Faith Terry History of Student Housing at Hopkins; Jim Stimpert, Mentor.
  
• Kiana Bouromand Dress Reform; Heidi Herr, Mentor.

• Tim Lyu The Life & Mysterious Death of Jose Robles; Jim Stimpert, Mentor.
  
• Brianna Joseph Post-Roman Latin Translations; Paul Espinosa, Mentor.
  
• Keyi Yin Miraculous Creatures/Monsters; Amy Kimball, Mentor.
  
• Chloe Otterson 19th Century Spiritualism; Heidi Herr, Mentor.

• Katie Chen: Transcultural History of Tea; Heidi Herr, mentor
• Sarah Elbasheer: It's the End of the Book as We Know It; Neil Weijer, Mentor.
• Michael Harper: Italian Modern Art Movements; Amy Kimball, Mentor.
• Taharat Sheikh: History of Social Justice at Hopkins; Jim Stimpert, Mentor.