Hutchins Center Fellows Research Guide

Welcome to the Hutchins Center, to Harvard University, and to the Harvard Libraries -- from wherever you are living and working in these extraordinary times.  

During your residency this year, we'll be happy to meet up in person in Widener Library or online, via Zoom. 

Either way, you'll have extraordinary access to our collections and archives. Moreover, at your fingertips will be what's arguably the Harvard Library's most important asset: its people. A vast and varied community of librarians, with language, subject, and technological expertise, are ready to work with you at any and every stage of your fellowship experience.

This guide is an effort to smooth the way for you as your Fellowship begins and help you make the most of your experience here at Harvard.

We wish you good health and a productive Fellowship experience and we invite you to be in touch!

Check out the links on these pages to find places to request materials, ways to access the library, and how to get help. See below for library contacts for African and African American Studies (we'll refer you to other folks as appropriate) and links to research guides that can help you navigate the Harvard Library landscape.

* Request Widener Carrel

Bassey Irele, Librarian for Sub-Saharan Africa
Widener Library
birele@fas.harvard.edu

Librarians and other staff create these "subject guides" primarily to help weed through the vast landscape of resources at Harvard Library to identify what HL resources might be most helpful for a given field or topic. We also use them to help people use tools like Zotero or locate archival collections at Harvard and beyond.

Harvard Library Subject guides (may include some guides which apply to US History but are not represented in the link below) 

Fred Burchsted's guides (History, US History, History of Science, Biography, Newspapers, Periodicals and Book Reviews, Manuscripts and Archival Collections)