Baylor Libraries Announce Special Collections Summer Teaching Fellows
Each summer, the Baylor Libraries award endowment-funded stipends to full-time Baylor faculty and graduate student teachers of record, who are selected through a competitive process to explore creative ways to integrate archival materials from the Baylor Libraries Special Collections into their course curricula. This year, the following were selected to receive the $1,250 stipend and work with library faculty this summer with materials available in each of the following special collections libraries:
Armstrong Browning Library & Museum
Dr. Jamie Van Eyck, School of Music
Reilly Fitzpatrick Vines, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English
Arts & Special Collections Research Center
- Dr. Morgan Manifacier, School of Music
Baylor Collection of Political Materials at Poage Library
Dr. Kara Poe Alexander, Department of English
Hance Winingham, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Scienc
Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society
Dr. Steven Jug, Department of History and Baylor Interdisciplinary Core
Dr. Lizbeth Souza-Fuertes, Department of Modern Languages and Culture
Stephen Thomas, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science
The Texas Collection & University Archives
Dr. Maggie Elmore, Department of History
Dr. Ruth Oropeza, Department of History
Dr. Isabella Calafate, Department of Modern Languages & Cultures
Dr. Kristi Humphreys, Department of English
These opportunities are made possible by endowment funds created by our generous donors. Since launching this program in 2015, library faculty have partnered with 86 Teaching Fellows from across the university, including from the College of Arts & Sciences, the Honors College, and the Robbins College of Health & Human Sciences, the Schools of Music, Education, Social Work, and Engineering & Computer Science, and Truett Seminary. The Baylor Libraries have seen an increasing number of undergraduate and graduate classes visiting our special collections libraries and our faculty have worked with an increasing number of undergraduate and graduate researchers.
“The Teaching Fellows program provides Baylor faculty and graduate students the opportunity to create innovative and engaging curricula,” said Jennifer Borderud, Associate Librarian, Assistant Dean for Special Libraries, and Director of the Armstrong Browning Library & Museum. “The program’s continued success has enriched students’ education by allowing them to engage with rare, archival, and other primary sources, and to cultivate critical thinking, enhance their research skills, and inspire original scholarship.”
For more information about the libraries’ teaching fellows program, library.web.baylor.edu/special-collections-teaching-fellowships. To give to the libraries and support programs this visit library.web.baylor.edu/give/research-libraries-institutes-and-centers.