diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index b28aaab75..59c38bddd 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -91,8 +91,7 @@ gem 'devise', '~> 4.9.3'
 # gem 'childprocess', '~> 2.0'
 
 # CUL Fedora Dependencies and Content Models
-gem 'cul_hydra', git: 'https://github.com/cul/cul_hydra', ref: 'master'
-# gem 'cul_hydra', path: '../cul_hydra'
+gem 'cul_hydra', git: 'https://github.com/cul/cul_hydra', ref: 'remove_blacklight'
 gem 'active-fedora', '8.6.0'
 gem 'rubydora'
 # Temporarily use specific commit because new version of gem hasn't been released yet.  Latest is 1.1.3.
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index fd4f921f2..ae3d7d117 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -9,14 +9,13 @@ GIT
 
 GIT
   remote: https://github.com/cul/cul_hydra
-  revision: eed9abddd10b341ccc26b753353966efaf533736
-  ref: master
+  revision: 30a3ef5dce579bb63c6a3b3ff00ca9ab9480d5c9
+  ref: remove_blacklight
   specs:
     cul_hydra (1.12.0.dev)
       active-fedora (>= 8.0, < 8.7.0)
       active-triples (~> 0.4.0)
       active_fedora_finders (>= 0.5.0)
-      blacklight (~> 7.0)
       httpclient
       json (>= 1.8.3)
       mods
@@ -119,16 +118,6 @@ GEM
     best_type (1.0.0)
       mime-types (~> 3.4)
     bigdecimal (3.1.5)
-    blacklight (7.35.0)
-      deprecation
-      globalid
-      hashdiff
-      i18n (>= 1.7.0)
-      jbuilder (~> 2.7)
-      kaminari (>= 0.15)
-      ostruct (>= 0.3.2)
-      rails (>= 5.1, < 7.2)
-      view_component (>= 2.66, < 4)
     bootsnap (1.17.0)
       msgpack (~> 1.2)
     bootstrap-sass (3.4.1)
@@ -214,7 +203,7 @@ GEM
       railties (>= 3.0.0)
     faker (3.2.2)
       i18n (>= 1.8.11, < 2)
-    faraday (2.7.12)
+    faraday (2.8.1)
       base64
       faraday-net_http (>= 2.0, < 3.1)
       ruby2_keywords (>= 0.0.4)
@@ -227,7 +216,6 @@ GEM
     haml (5.2.2)
       temple (>= 0.8.0)
       tilt
-    hashdiff (1.1.0)
     hooks (0.4.1)
       uber (~> 0.0.14)
     htmlentities (4.3.4)
@@ -324,7 +312,6 @@ GEM
       nokogiri (>= 1.4.2)
       solrizer (~> 3.3)
     orm_adapter (0.5.0)
-    ostruct (0.6.0)
     parallel (1.24.0)
     parser (3.2.2.4)
       ast (~> 2.4.1)
@@ -538,10 +525,6 @@ GEM
       sequel (>= 4.26.0)
     vegas (0.1.11)
       rack (>= 1.0.0)
-    view_component (3.8.0)
-      activesupport (>= 5.2.0, < 8.0)
-      concurrent-ruby (~> 1.0)
-      method_source (~> 1.0)
     vite_rails (3.0.17)
       railties (>= 5.1, < 8)
       vite_ruby (~> 3.0, >= 3.2.2)
diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index 936bb7c83..ae98bedf2 100644
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ class Application < Rails::Application
     # -- all .rb files in that directory are automatically loaded.
 
     config.load_defaults 6.0
-    config.autoloader = :classic # need this because of "RDF::CUL" naming in cul_hydra gem
 
     config.generators do |g|
       g.test_framework :rspec, spec: true
diff --git a/config/initializers/zeitwerk.rb b/config/initializers/zeitwerk.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cfec2c5c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/zeitwerk.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+Rails.autoloaders.each do |autoloader|
+  # inflections for some all-caps module names
+  autoloader.inflector.inflect(
+    'dc_metadata' => 'DCMetadata',
+    'fcrepo3' => 'FCREPO3',
+    'nfo' => 'NFO',
+    'nie' => 'NIE',
+    'olo' => 'OLO',
+    'ore' => 'ORE',
+    'pimo' => 'PIMO',
+    'rdf' => 'RDF',
+    'sc' => 'SC',
+    'xml_generator' => 'XMLGenerator'
+  )
+end