BIO

Hi! I'm Emma Valderrama. I am a first year Political Science major. I am a first generation student from West Palm Beach, Florida. I am a part of HLSU and the Undergraduate Research Program, and a member of the first and largest Latin Sorority Lambda Theta Alpha. I enjoy nature, reading, dancing, and hanging out with friends. I am hoping to one day go to law school and then, when the time comes, run for a political office. Working on this project this academic year has been rewarding and I hope to find some opportunity to continue researching.

Tracing Women Pedagogues: Finding the Underrepresented in Nontraditional Sources

Abstract

This project intends to locate information about the careers of underrepresented women pedagogues in rhetorical studies that may appear in non-traditional sources. The Linked Women Pedagogues (LWP) Project focuses on recovering information about the pedagogical legacies of women in rhetorical studies between 1890 to 1990 who taught at a post-secondary schools or through the Peace Corps. Often, the recovery of information was difficult because it is archival data. If it is available, it may be missing important details. Or the woman are underrepresented because they are not mentioned in major information resources, such as VIAF, WorldCat, Google Books, or other archive-based resources. The purpose of this research project is to explore what information could be discovered by or about women pedagogues through non-traditional sources that have been unexplored because of their unconventional nature. Non-traditional sources included sorority/organization records, university faculty lists, and archived cultural magazines. Based on my findings, I consider what LWP researchers could add to their workflow to help recover key information that may be missing from larger data discovery tools.

Keywords: Rhetoric, Archives, Pedagogues, Graban