{"id":1947,"date":"2015-08-06T15:19:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2015-08-06T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T15:19:25","slug":"welcome-to-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2015\/08\/06\/welcome-to-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Trinity!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/08\/Rawson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1948\" alt=\"Rawson\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/08\/Rawson-250x300.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/08\/Rawson-250x300.jpg 250w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/08\/Rawson-853x1024.jpg 853w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/08\/Rawson.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a>The Watkinson Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Rawson as Associate Curator of Archives and Manuscript Collections. He will begin working at Trinity on August 24, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Peter is originally from Riverside, Connecticut.\u00a0 He holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in history (concentrating on modern Europe) from Antioch University Seattle, a master&#8217;s degree in library science, and a master&#8217;s degree in history (American history, 18<sup>th<\/sup>-20<sup>th<\/sup> centuries)\u2014both from Simmons College. His history thesis focused on the ways in which the 1918-19 influenza epidemic in the U.S. disappeared in popular discourse for over a generation after the event.<\/p>\n<p>For the past nine years he has been Archivist for the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, CT. Prior to that he served for six years at the Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, as photograph\/image archivist, archivist for the National Archives of Plastic Surgery, and assistant reference librarian. Before becoming an archivist, Peter spent a decade living and working in Hartford as the Canvass Director for the Connecticut Citizen Action Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watkinson Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Rawson as Associate Curator of Archives and Manuscript Collections. He will begin working at Trinity on August 24, 2015. Peter is originally from Riverside, Connecticut.\u00a0 He holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in history (concentrating on modern Europe) from Antioch University Seattle, a master&#8217;s degree in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1949,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}