National Endowment for the Humanities Awards $260,000 to Expand Seven Sisters Archive Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $260,000 grant to Bryn Mawr College for support of the project College Women: Documenting the Student Experience at the Seven Sisters Colleges.
College Women brings together—for the first time online—digitized letters, diaries, scrapbooks, and photographs of women who attended the seven partner institutions: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, and Radcliffe (now the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University).
Launched in 2015, the site is currently in a pilot phase with about 300 documents in it. The new funding will expand the content by thousands of documents, making it a rich and essential site for new research and teaching in women’s history.
For more information, contact College Women project director Eric Pumroy (epumroy@brynmawr.edu), associate chief information officer and director of Special Collections, or Monica Mercado (mmercado@brynmawr.edu), director of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education.
Additional information is also available on The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women's Education website.