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Portia Hopkins

University Historian

Fondren Library

CONTACT

pdh6@rice.edu

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SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics: Latinx Histories at Rice

Potential skills gained: archival research, processing and metadata entry, and writing history for a public audience

Required qualifications: Spanish reading proficiency preferable but not required. This project is open to humanities majors interested in the Latinx history and/or Rice’s institutional history.

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I. (Margarita M. Castromán Soto), Other research associates (Portia Hopkins, PhD, University Historian)

Research Areas

data curation for African American studies; oral history projects about African American life in Houston; grassroots social movements; the ways in which African American history is remembered in the twenty-first century