American Indian Digital History Project

Founded in 2010, the American Indian Digital History Project works with Tribal archives, community members, organizations, and colleges to recover, preserve, and increase free & open searchable access to rare Indigenous newspapers, photographs, and archival materials throughout Native North America. It promotes accurate and responsible research and reporting that focuses on Indigenous nations, communities, and peoples.

Decolonizing Information Paths: (Re) Visualizing Indigenous Sovereignty in Academic Libraries

Decolonizing Information Paths: (Re) Visualizing Indigenous Sovereignty in Academic Libraries provides a decolonized version of academic librarianship by employing digital storytelling techniques to delineate networks of Indigenous librarianship, acknowledging the sovereignty of that professional network.

Emmett Till Memory Project

Twenty-first century attempts to commemorate the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till have been met with persistent vandalism. Born in direct response to that vandalism, the Emmett Till Memory Project is a website and mobile application that preserves the sites and stories of the Till lynching. The ETMP uses GPS technology to take users to the most important sites in the Till story.

GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs

GeoTestimonios is a living border-community storytelling project that reappropriates personal experiences through testimonies and literary narratives about life in the El Paso-Juárez border region. This work is a collaboration between border poet and author Gris Muñoz and academic and digital humanist Sylvia Fernández Quintanilla.

Las Colonias: The Housing of Poverty in Modern Americas

Scholarly and popular accounts of the U.S.-Mexico border, one of the world’s most contentious geopolitical divides, often depict nearby communities as caught between clashing nations. Yet, such framing obscures both countries’ far-reaching policy collaborations that have structured vast inequality as a condition of local life.

The Boston Reproductive Justice Audiowalk

This Audiowalk is a work of historical scholarship, a call to arms, and a motivational tool for continued efforts toward reproductive justice. It traces the struggles of reproductive justice onto the Boston landscape while simultaneously expanding definitions of reproductive justice.

Voices of the Displaced

Gentrification, the calculated reclamation of black urban spaces for financially affluent new homeowners, is spreading through black communities across America. After years of economic oppression and deprivation, the black community now stands at the edge of perhaps the greatest community dispersal in its history.