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Dr. Daragh Grant
This workshop will introduce students to the challenges of working with archival materials or texts drawn from different cultural and historical settings. Students will be introduced to the basics of the historical method, and will be encouraged to think about how a careful attention to questions of temporality, periodization, and conceptual specificity can shape and reveal new avenues in their research, whether they are pursuing a project in intellectual, cultural, or social history. In addition to these questions of historical method, we will discuss the basics of archival research. Students will also conduct an exercise in historical analysis by reading a short primary source document. This will form the basis of a discussion of how one might begin to tease reliable insights out of documents encountered in an archive. Students will be provided with a bibliography of readings on historical methodology.