An interactive guide to Oberlin College's architecture and monuments from its founding to the present. This site provides historical and current information on
on the college's structures and includes photos, drawings, descriptive information, and…
Rhiannon Giddens graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a degree in opera in x. While in college she became interested in banjo and she became a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The banjo is an instrument originally brought to…
Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper is an academeic with a long standing research interest in Langston Hughes. She graduated from Oberlin College in 1975. While she was a student Oberlin College, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper was very involved in the Black…
This student projectexplores the different conferences and workshops focused on issues of gender and sexuality that were held at Oberlin during the 1970s and 80s. Drawn from the Dean of Students papers, the documents show changing priorities, methods…
Frances Walker-Slocum earned a Bachelor of Music at Oberlin Conservatory in 1945 and had a successful career as a pianist whose performances always featured the work of Black composers. She became the first Black woman granted tenure at Oberlin…
This digital project explores the contributions of art history professor and curator Ellen Johnson to Oberlin's Department of Art History and its art museum, as well as to the American and European contemporary art world. Johnson received both a BA…
