{"id":7550,"date":"2025-06-05T03:10:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2025-06-05T03:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T03:10:06","slug":"jessica-alvarez-starr-to-intern-with-puerto-rico-archival-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/06\/05\/jessica-alvarez-starr-to-intern-with-puerto-rico-archival-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Alvarez Starr to Intern with Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alvarez-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alvarez-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alvarez-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alvarez-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alvarez-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/06\/alvarez.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/graduate\/starr-jessica-alvarez.html\">Jessica Alvarez Starr<\/a>, a first-year PhD student, will be serving as an intern with the Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC) Summer 2025 Graduate Student Internship Program. As part of this 8-week program, Jessica will gain valuable exposure to collections in the Archivo General de Puerto Rico (AGPR) and the University of Puerto Rico\u2019s Colecci\u00f3n Puertorrique\u00f1a (CPR). Jessica will work alongside archivists to aid in organizing, transcribing, and digitizing efforts for the AGPR while developing their own research project on enslavement and emancipation practices in Mayag\u00fcez, Puerto Rico. As an intern, Jessica will receive a stipend to cover travel and living costs for their work in San Juan. They are grateful for the opportunity to conduct archival research, gain preservation skills, and develop connections with scholars to advance their studies. Read <a href=\"https:\/\/prac.rutgers.edu\/graduate-student-summer-program\/\">more information about the PRAC internship<\/a>. Their dissertation, tentatively titled &#8220;Revolutionary Rhetoric: Antislavery and Anticolonial Alliances in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico,&#8221; is advised by Drs. <a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/chira-adriana.html\">Adriana Chira<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/yannakakis-yanna.html\">Yanna Yannakakis<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Alvarez Starr, a first-year PhD student, will be serving as an intern with the Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC) Summer 2025 Graduate Student Internship Program. As part of this 8-week program, Jessica will gain valuable exposure to collections in the Archivo General de Puerto Rico (AGPR) and the University of Puerto Rico\u2019s Colecci\u00f3n Puertorrique\u00f1a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,13,15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-awards","category-global-reach","category-graduate-students","category-professionalization","category-research","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}