Explore the Projects

Stories for All brings together over forty community and University of Kansas partner projects. This page enables you to identify partner projects that interest you and takes you to their websites.

You can search and filter projects by topic, partner, or digital genre. Please contact storiesforall@ku.edu if you have any difficulties.

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Coming to the Heartland

Marta Caminero-Santangelo

Professor of English, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Elizabeth MacGonagle

Associate Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, University of Kansas University of Kansas

Focusing on the diversity, adversity, and struggles of Latin American and African immigrants in the Heartland, this initiative asks how the new digital age affects the stories that immigrants tell, as well as the possibilities for their visibility in the wider community.

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GeoTestimonios Transfronterizxs

Sylvia Fernández

(Until December 2021) Public and Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, and Co-Principal Investigator, Stories for All / (From January 2022) Assistant Professor, Digital Technology and Culture, University of Kansas

Gris Muñoz

Independent writer / Escritora independiente

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.

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Kansas: An Eclogue

Patrick Ross

Independent Filmmaker Independent Storytellers

Joshua Nathan

Independent Filmmaker Independent Storytellers

KANSAS: An Eclogue will be a full-length documentary film. The project evolved from a walking journey across the state of Kansas by the film’s co-directors, Patrick Ross and Joshua Nathan, independent filmmakers from Kansas, now living in Los Angeles, CA. In more than 35 hours of filmed interviews, they captured stories about rural/small-town Kansas life.

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Las Colonias: The Housing of Poverty in Modern Americas

Bobby Cervantes

PhD Candidate in American Studies University of Kansas

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.

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