by Umass Amherst Archives | Mar 12, 2025 | History News
Jean Schnell Quaker Meetinghouse Photograph Collection 2014-2017 3 boxes 5.5 linear feet Call no.: PH 103 After retiring from a career as a nurse and a health coach, Jean Schnell immersed herself in the photography world. Her work has been featured in numerous...
by Umass Amherst Archives | Feb 26, 2025 | Education, History News
Dr. Deborah Johnson-Simon, PhD, is a museum anthropologist dedicated to advancing social justice and fostering community engagement through cultural heritage projects. She focuses on attracting and maintaining African American audiences and works extensively on museum...
by Umass Amherst Archives | Dec 13, 2020 | History News
Naomi Nir Papers 1948-1973 15 boxes 8.5 linear feetCall no.: MS 952 Naomi Nir spent much of her life exploring the deep inner workings of the self through writing, painting, drawing, studying the writings of mystics, and exploring — both as subject and scholar —...
by Umass Amherst Archives | Jul 16, 2020 | African American, Education, News
Robert B. Moore Collection 1974-2019 1 box .20 linear feetCall no.: RG 050/6 1969 M66 An educator and activist for understanding race awareness, racial bias, and racism, Robert B. Moore created white-on-white awareness training as a way to help white educators and...
by Umass Amherst Archives | Jun 30, 2020 | News
A distinguished, productive, and beloved professor of chemistry, Louis A. Carpino, born in 1927, was the son of Italian immigrants who settled in Des Moines, Iowa, where he grew up and went to high school and college. He earned his doctorate in organic chemistry from...
