Daily Archives: October 16, 2014


Denison Project on Missionary History featured in “The DEN”

DEN: Baptists in Burma informational FLyerA collaborative team led by between Denison Humanities Librarian Josh Finnell, Museum Director Sherry Harlacher, and Assistant Professor of Religion Jonathan Moore will create a digital map that will trace Denison’s missionary activity through 19th- and 20th-century Burma. This large scale project exemplifies many levels of colloaboration, not only at the local, interdepartmental level, but nationally as well, drawing on resources from the American Baptists Historical Society, the Yale Divinity School, and the Center for Burma studies. Moreover, the project promises significant involvement of undergraduate student specialists who are collecting and curating materials from these various locales as part of assistantships and coursework.

Please check out the article on TheDEN and explore the project further! You should also like the project’s page on Facebook and follow it on Twitter