The Bentley Rare Book Museum (BRBM) works with students in a variety of ways, from providing internships and the Mattord Family Scholarship to aiding in research and offering primary sources for capstone projects. Here we highlight a few noteworthy impacts the BRBM and its collections have on KSU鈥檚 students.

 

 

Oksana Flores-Padilla

Oksana Flores-Padilla

Introduced to the Bentley and Archives as student in HIST 3328, 2019

  • Bachelor's degree in English, 2021
  • Master's degree in Professional Writing in 2023
  • Used Bentley collection as part of MAPW Capstone:

 

Christopher M. Rogers

  • Bachelor's degree in Science, 2019
  • Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 2023
  • Worked with Dr. Livingston and a collection of materials from the Bentley Rare Book Museum to write his Honor's Capstone:

 

 

Christopher M. Rogers

 

 

Camilla

Camilla Stegall

Camilla began volunteering with the UASC and BRBM in 2019 and completed an archives internship in 2020. She initiated and completed Honors Applied Learning experiences with the BRBM from 2021-2022. 
Camilla worked extensively with JoyEllen to research, promote, and develop the BRBM's collection of rare and historic cookbooks. Camilla's work included a blog series, collection development write-ups, and numerous outreach presentations.

  • Bachelor's degree in history, a minor in German, and a certificate in Public History, May 2022
  • Currently an MLIS graduate student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.