Last semester, as part of Teaching Assistant Professor Deirdre Smith's class "Inside the Museum," Pitt Museum Studies students engaged with recently digitzed letters from the Holland Correspondence Archive, which features letters written by former Carnegie Museum of Natural History Director William J. Holland (1848-1932) during the time of the initial development of the museum and its collections. In order to share their impressions of the letters, and practice short-form scholarly writing for public audiences, the students produced three Instagram posts during the semester on a private class page. After the semester, Erin Southerland, Communications and Social Media Manager at CMNH, selected two posts to feature on the museum's official accounts, one by Casey Withers (a Senior majoring in Statistics and Political Science) and the other by Emma Whittaker (a Senior double-majoring in Anthropology and Museum Studies). Casey's post is already up (linked) and Emma's will follow in the coming weeks.
Read Casey Withers' post on the CMNH Instagram.