Sehoon (Sammy) Baek, in his second year as a Research Assistant in the Department of Anthropology, participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship through the Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry. His project involved creating a digital repository through Fondren Library's Rice Research Repository to curate and make available to the public important research documents. The documents were created by James Smith and the Brazosport Archaeological Society, and contain information about the early Anglo settlement of Brazoria County, including plantations and enslaved labor. These documents are already being used by historians and public history activists to better understand the history of Texas.
You can check out the collection through the Rice Research Repository here:
https://repository.rice.edu/collections/f6f10cee-0463-4460-bcd0-09ed5c5afbee
Sammy won the "All Around" Excellence award for his summer research, celebrated at the Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry end-of-summer symposium.