Carceral Connecticut Project
As a postdoctoral fellow for the Carceral Connecticut Project at Wesleyan University, I am part of a team that explores the historical origins of racial inequality in Connecticut through teaching and public humanities. I collaborate with cultural organizations like the Middlesex County Historical Society and the National Park Service to produce digital exhibits about the legacies of race, capitalism, and incarceration in Connecticut.
Mapping the Mexican Midwest
“Mapping the Mexican Midwest,” which launched in February 2021, visualizes early-twentieth century Midwestern Mexican institutions, cultural celebrations, and networks. “Mapping the Mexican Midwest” makes clear the importance of mobility to community formation, while emphasizing to the public that dynamic Latinx communities have long viewed the Midwest as their home.
Dartmouth Digital History Initiative
From 2019 to 2022, I was the project manager and postdoctoral fellow for the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative (DDHI). During that time, the DDHI successfully completed an NHPRC Major Initiatives Grant by creating an open-source toolkit that makes oral histories more searchable and accessible. My work included encoding transcripts with the Text Encoding Initiative, training others to use TEI, building metadata infrastructure, and producing data visualizations with JavaScript libraries. In 2022, we launched our Data Visualization Viewer. As I completed my tenure, the DDHI was awarded an NEH Level III Digital Humanities Advancement Grant.
Dartmouth Vietnam Project
I was Associate Director of the Dartmouth Vietnam Project, a student-centered oral history project that interviews members of the Dartmouth/Upper Valley community with experiences of the Vietnam War era. As associate director I trained students in the methods and practices of oral history. I also assisted in the design and construction of our new digital exhibit, which launched at the end of 2021.
Dartmouth Black Lives
I was Associate Director and founding contributor of Dartmouth Black Lives, a new teaching, learning, and community-building initiative at Dartmouth College to record and preserve the oral history testimony of Dartmouth Black alumni.
