Student Impact - Museums, Archives and Rare Books

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’s students.

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: "Beyond Words: An Exploration of Research and Writing for Indigenous Land Acknowledgements"

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:
"Taxonomy and the History of Science: A Critical Analysis of Four Historic Publications"

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.