19th Century North America: Archival Research in Spanish, French, & English
Brian DeLay, Professor
History
Applications for Fall 2024 are closed for this project.
Are you interested in history? Intrigued by the secrets locked away in old, handwritten letters? Do you want to help create new knowledge about the past through archival research? Or put technical skills to work understanding the past? If so, here’s your chance. Brian DeLay (Professor of History) and Julia Frankenbach (Ph.D. student in History) hope to recruit 3-4 student research assistants to help us work with handwritten, digitized letters.
Role: DeLay seeks students with strong reading knowledge of French to help him work through a large collection of French diplomatic letters bearing upon the early United States. Frankenbach seeks the help of a bilingual undergraduate research assistant to transcribe a set of Spanish-language documents from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries bearing upon Indigenous labor in California. We both ALSO hope to recruit a student with a modest technical background in computer/data science to help us assess the potential for new technologies to assist with archival research.
Qualifications: Reading knowledge of French; OR bilingual Spanish; OR some experience with computer science/digital humanities.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Julia Frankenbach
Hours: to be negotiated
Off-Campus Research Site: Work will be remote - can be done on or off campus
Related website: https://history.berkeley.edu/j-c-frankenbach
Related website: https://history.berkeley.edu/j-c-frankenbach