Semester Wrap-Up!

Hi all!

It’s almost the end of the semester and things are wrapping up! We had our last day of MUSE 489 on Tuesday and submitted our final proposals this afternoon, both of which are bittersweet but ultimately very exciting. As I reflect on the work we've accomplished this semester, I’m so grateful for all the support I’ve received from the Museum Studies program and larger CoLA community on this project, especially from Dr. Decker and my thesis pals.

In other exciting news, I gave my final presentation on my MUSE 340 (Introduction to Archival Studies) Honors Option project yesterday afternoon and it went incredibly well! My project was centered around developing an evaluation framework for different forms of accessibility in archives at institutions in Hawai’i. Although I’ve completed this semester’s commitments to the Honors Program and to MUSE 340, I am planning on continuing this project into next semester (and probably after graduation!) with the encouragement of my advisor, Landyn Hatch, and MUSE faculty and staff. I received great feedback on ways to improve this project, which I’ll be integrating into a more usable product I hope to share with a larger audience sometime next year. In the meantime, if you’d like to learn more or get involved with this project in any way, please email me at ram3077@rit.edu.

Over the break, I’ll be working on planning my exhibit and selecting objects from the Susan Greene Costume Collection as well as getting some much-needed rest. I’m very happy to be going home, but I’m so excited to see what the next semester holds for all our theses!

I hope everyone has a wonderful winter break and a happy holiday season! :)

Riley