Institutes

Students and community partners joined the Taft Research Center and Department of English for five days of workshops, hands-on-activities, and daily visits to local archives to learn how humanities scholars ethically tell stories from the materials writers, artists, and everyday people leave behind. Participants developed skills for researching and documenting objects and ephemera, tried their hand at critical, creative, and personal archival approaches used in Literary and Cultural Studies, Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, and Professional Writing, and created their own archive of the week.

Twenty-five Cincinnati-area undergraduate students joined the Taft Research Center and Department of Sociology for five days of workshops and hands-on-activities to learn social science research methods. They had the opportunity to expand their research horizons and professional networks while gaining experience working with different methods of data collection and analysis. Participants received a certificate of completion, digital voice recorder, and transcription software at the end of the program.