I became The Providence Public Library's first Creative Research Fellow in the Spring of 2015. For my research project I used the library's special collection of Fiske Harris Collection of Civil War song sheets as a basis for extending the history of anti-racist anthems into the Civil War era, focusing in my fellow talk on the popular song "John Brown's Body." I also published new research on the racial types used in the woodblock printing of broadsheets published by New York's Henry Marsan Publishers in the Spring 2015 edition of the library's Occasional Nuggets series. It was awesome working with the special collections librarians, and I even got to collaborate with my father, who printed and hand-sewed the covers of the nuggets at Big Boy Press in Lawrence, Kansas.