My name is Rose McCandless, and I am a rising third-year Eminence Fellow here at OSU from Shaker Hts., Ohio (but now based in Denver, CO). I am very passionate about the importance of history- I believe that many people do not see the study of history to be valuable, and one of my goals is to show people that not only is history relevant, it is fascinating. I believe that we have an identity as a human race which is built and reliant upon our collective history, and my mission is to encourage understanding of who we are as human beings based on our past. In pursuit of this, I am double majoring in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and History, with a minor in Latin. I am very passionate about rare books and manuscripts, especially high- and late-medieval Western European theological and liturgical manuscripts. I am currently working on my Honors Thesis at Ohio State, examining and finding the history behind three thirteenth-century Bible manuscripts in our Special Collections under the supervision of Drs. Eric Johnson and Sara Butler. These three manuscripts all tell their own stories, from an illumination workshop in Oxford to the destruction of the French Revolution, but share the experience of being cut into individual pages (what we in the field call “breaking”) by the same person, in Akron, in the 1980s-90s. The breaking of these three manuscripts has taken my research into the world of modern book-breaking and the ethics behind it; what do we gain or lose as a society when a piece of history is dispersed in this way? In April 2019, I gave a talk on one of these three manuscripts, the Ste-Genevieve Bible, at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus. I have also studied abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland during Summer 2018, in which I studied Museum Studies and Scottish History and had an internship at Rosslyn Chapel, a late-medieval, Flamboyant Gothic church outside of Edinburgh. In the future, I want to attend graduate school after my undergraduate years, pursuing a Master’s degree, a doctorate, and potentially a Master’s of Philosophy which will allow me to continue my work as a medievalist. I am interested in pursuing a career in academia, museum curation, the private art/manuscript auction world, or several other avenues of expressing my passion in my everyday life. My love of learning is something that I cherish and work to build as time goes by.