Karl Blumenthal ’06 is the new digital archives fellow. He manages input of Haverford’s portion of the Tri-Co online digital library, Triptych. Currently, he is adding content for the manuscript collection and the fine arts exhibit in Magill Library. He is teaching other special collections staff members the input method to standardize the updating process.

Karl graduated from Haverford in the spring of 2006 with a major in history of art at Bryn Mawr College. While at Haverford, he was a member of the Humtones, Chamber Singers, and the Bi-Co Movie-Making club. He was a student worker in special collections, and when he learned of the job opening he realized that it was the “perfect fit” because he had fallen in love with the Haverford community and did not want to leave. He is now a member of a barbershop group with three former members of the Humtones who graduated in 2004.

Michael Booth, this year’s Junior Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, comes to Haverford from Boston University. He is teaching two courses this year—Reading Poetry in the fall and, in the spring, Narratives of Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance, which focuses on early modern English and Spanish exploration in the New World. He is also a participant in a faculty seminar, run by Professor David Sedley, focused on the relationship between science and literature from the Renaissance period to the present.

Michael has lived in New York City, Virginia, Wyoming, Texas, and Washington, D.C. He attended Rice University and received a graduate degree in early modern English literature from Brandeis University. He has taught at Georgetown University, the University of Wyoming, and Boston University. He came to Haverford because of the intellectual environment and because the position is, as he describes it, an “opportunity of a lifetime.” Michael is also a songwriter and musician and enjoys studying Shakespeare. He is delighted to be here and is very much enjoying getting to know the whole Haverford community.

James Weissinger ’06 is the Hurford Humanities Center’s first Post-Baccalaureate Fellow. Responsible for coordinating the Center’s student programs, his duties range from general events management to working with the recent Representing Disability Conference. Having participated in a number of the Center’s initiatives during his time as a student, James is excited to spread the word about the Center’s expansive programming to the student body.

James was graduated from Haverford in the spring of 2006 with a major in English. Outside of his coursework, he helped manage the radio station, edited the humor page for the Bi-College News, and held a variety of positions in the Office of Admissions. James enjoys reading and drawing, and is a self-confessed music nerd; along with a group of friends, he runs a DJ night once a week in Center City.