Acknowledgements
At this time, we, the students of IDS 385W/ POLS 385W/ LACS 385W, would like to extend a very gracious thank you to everyone who assisted us in having our vision for the exhibition come to fruition. While the students in the class were highly motivated, ambitious, and very diligent in their work, this exhibition would not have been possible without the parallel and reciprocal motivation and ambition of some very special Emory faculty and staff.
We would first like to extend our gratitude to Dr. Phil MacLeod, a Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies Librarian at the Woodruff library. Over the past decade, Phil has greatly expanded the collection of Latin American works at the Woodruff library through his textual acquisitions trips to Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Trinidad & Tobago, Spain and Portugal. Without his preliminary acquisition and expertise on Latin American collections in the Woodruff Library, as well as his generous capacity to assist us through every critical stage of the research process, none of this would be possible. We extend a most sincere thank you to Dr. MacLeod.
Furthermore, we would like to extend a very humble thank you to Gabrielle Dudley, the Rose Library’s Instruction Archivist and QEP librarian. Ms. Dudley was extremely courteous in reserving the Rose Library for our class to use every Wednesday since the beginning of the semester. Moreover, Ms. Dudley was wonderfully generous and kind in allocating her time and energy to show us how to handle books, manuscripts, and other mediums of print in special collections and how to reserve an object or item that we might want to revisit for future use. Furthermore, Ms. Dudley was extraordinarily helpful in teaching us how to approach the material we were viewing, and directed our attention to what we should be paying attention to for a physical analysis of each item.
Moreover, we would like to extend a wholehearted thank you to Ms. Sara Palmer, a digital text specialist who assisted us in the design and construction of this digital exhibition. Ms. Palmer’s collaboration was profoundly felt in teaching us how to use the digital service platform, Omeka, to create our online digital exhibition. Without Ms. Palmer, all of our work in archival research would have never progressed past the preliminary stage.
And finally, we would like to extend the most humble thank you to our professor, Dr. Zeltsman. In light of Walt Whitman, we have nothing to say except “O Captain! My captain!” You were our captain through every stage in the process, steering not only our collective ship but each and every one of our individual ships in and out of challenging positions, new and different perspectives, and eventually, to safety. Dr. Zeltsman breathed life into the lifeless objects that compose this exhibition. In times of doubt or uncertainty, Dr. Zeltsman was the one to restore our faith in ourselves and our faith in the process. This exhibition has been the vision of Dr. Zeltsman and the product of her passion for and dedication to print, politics, and power in Latin America. We only hope that our work in this exhibition mirrors Dr. Zeltsman’s passion and dedication for the subject matter inside and outside the classroom.