{"id":1665,"date":"2014-09-15T08:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2014-09-15T08:16:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T13:16:26","slug":"interview-with-isabela-morales-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/coolathoole\/2014\/09\/15\/interview-with-isabela-morales-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Isabela Morales, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Isabela Morales, PhD\u00a0candidate\u00a0at Princeton University<\/p>\n

\"IsabelaMorales\"<\/a>

Isabela Morales<\/p><\/div>\n

Hello! Thank you for agreeing to share with Cool@Hoole readers how your research experience in the Division of Special Collections at UA shaped your career. <\/strong><\/p>\n

First off, would you mind telling us a bit more about yourself? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Not at all\u2014My name is Isabela Morales, and I\u2019m currently a third-year PhD candidate in History at Princeton University<\/a>.\u00a0 My major fields of interest are the 19th<\/sup> century United States, African American history, and the American West.\u00a0 I\u2019m originally from Southern California, but I majored in history and American Studies at the University of Alabama and graduated in 2008.<\/p>\n

What led you to do research in the Division of Special Collections?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I came to UA I knew almost immediately that I wanted to study history.\u00a0 I remember sitting in orientation paging through the course catalogue and realizing that all the classes I found most interesting were in the history and American studies departments\u2014after that there was no question what my majors were going to be.\u00a0 Then when I was a sophomore I took my first research seminar, which turned out to be one of my most formative and fortuitous college experiences.\u00a0 Most of the previous papers I had written in high school and college up to that point had been based on secondary materials; this was the first time I had used primary sources to develop an historical argument, and I found the prospect of crafting an original narrative from these sources more exciting than any work I\u2019d previously done.\u00a0 I was hooked, bouncing in my chair at the microfilm reader whenever I found something particularly interesting.<\/p>\n

The next year, I took another research seminar in the history department, this one taught by Professor Jenny Shaw.\u00a0 The goal of the course was to produce a paper based on original research relating to the topic of American slavery.\u00a0 In the first seminar, I\u2019d based my project on microfilmed newspapers from InterLibrary Loan\u2014this time, Professor Shaw encouraged the class to use the archives at Hoole. That was another new (and intimidating) experience, but it\u2019s how I found the sources that provided the basis for my seminar paper, as well as the dissertation I\u2019m working on now.<\/p>\n

Come back on Wednesday to read more about Morales’ project!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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