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Lycoming College announced the third edition of its Mid-Atlantic Humanities Review: A Journal of Undergraduate Research (MHR), featuring fifteen essays from undergraduate students from the mid-Atlantic region, including four from Lycoming College. The annual publication is available in both print and on the Lycoming website.
Published under the auspices of the Humanities Research Center (HRC) at Lycoming College, MHR celebrates excellence in undergraduate research in humanities and related disciplines: history, literature, philosophy, art history, modern & classical languages, religious studies, interdisciplinary humanistic studies, digital humanities, and social sciences with humanistic emphasis. The publication features the selected proceedings of the Lycoming Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference.
"My position on the MHR editorial board was the best experience to prepare me for my senior research projects. Through this job, I greatly improved my editing skills and saw how valuable it is to get feedback from others, because we each edited and interpreted the writing differently."
The year’s volume features essays in a variety of fields, including history, literature, gender studies, popular culture, modern language studies, bioethics, disability studies, and more. Together, the essays speak to the complex and beautiful cultural history of humanity, and they remind us of the vibrant work being done in college classrooms to understand our past, ourselves, and our world.
“As managing editor and a student of the humanities myself, working on this journal with a strong group of editors was rewarding in more ways than one. I was able to gain a deeper understanding of the many disciplines the humanities consists of, acknowledge the level of research undergraduate students partake in throughout their institutions, collaborate with editors, and discuss each paper with them in-depth, which ultimately encompasses the idea of the humanities as a whole,” said Emma Mitcheltree ’26, a history major and English-literature minor from Williamsport. “What I enjoyed most about working on the journal was the idea of helping with a project that uplifts the humanities and inspires independent thinkers, specifically for the undergraduate students who do not always have these outlets to publish their work as easily.”
“My position on the MHR editorial board was the best experience to prepare me for my senior research projects. Through this job, I greatly improved my editing skills and saw how valuable it is to get feedback from others, because we each edited and interpreted the writing differently. I applied the editing techniques I learned from the journal to my archaeology capstone project, but I also asked the tutors at the writing center for help, because this job showed me how important another pair of eyes is,” said archaeology and German double-major Chloe Shendge ’26 of Birdsboro, Pa. “Working as an editor for the MHR journal has only increased my love of academia and research, which I hope to continue in a graduate degree in archaeology after graduation.”
Humanities Research Center
The Humanities Research Center at Lycoming College enhances educational opportunities for students studying the humanities by supporting collaborative student-faculty research, internships, guided scholarship, study abroad opportunities, education certification, digital humanities, graduate school placement, and fellowships. The HRC is dedicated to developing students' thoughtful engagement with the world around them and launching successful careers.