I am a junior at Carleton College and I am majoring in History and concentrating in Political Economy. In my free time, I enjoy playing guitar and writing music. I have been working as a student research assistant on Team Workhouse since the summer after my freshman year. The part of the project that I have been working on involves the study of texts and institutional records to understand the workhouse. More specifically, my work is in quantitative history, dealing with a lot of numbers relating to inmate labor and the house’s expenses. The process of formulating conclusions around the data I am collecting is the most rewarding part of the work I do. It makes the long hours I have spent processing the data worthwhile. I also spent a large amount of time tagging the St. Andrew Undershaft minute books for use in Omeka. Working on a long-term research project like this has allowed me to delve more deeply into the world we are studying. In my experience, this is something that does not really happen when you are doing a research project for a class at the end of term. Doing collaborative research is somewhat rare in the humanities, so the opportunity to work with such talented students and faculty has been a unique and fulfilling experience.
