PhD Candidate Arielle Suskin wins Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities Flash Grant!

Congratulations to PhD candidate Arielle Suskin, who has been awarded a Flash Grant from the Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities. The grant will support the upcoming exhibition that Arielle is curating related to the Kelvin Smith Library Special Collections Roman Coin Collection. Arielle is the Research Lead on the coin collection, working since 2024 with KSL Preservation Services to document, catalog, and conserve the coins. Her exhibition, Ancient Antioch to Contemporary Cleveland, will center around coins from ancient Antioch, a major trade hub and regional capital of the Eastern Mediterranean, and the modern encounters that brought the coins to CWRU. The exhibition will open at KSL in January 2025.