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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Finding La Yarda: A digital storytelling art installation

Marlo Angell

Project Director/ Filmmaker, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Peter Jasso

Filmmaker, Incomplete Films Incomplete Films

Ben Ahlvers

Exhibitions Director, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Blanca Herrada

Exhibitions Coordinator, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Johnathan Christensen Caballero

Artist, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Ann Dean

Photographer, Lawrence Arts Center Lawrence Arts Center

Finding La Yarda is an immersive multimedia art experience recreating a room from La Yarda, the housing unit built for Mexican American railroad workers in Lawrence, Kansas from 1920-51. Using film, sound, art and digital storytelling practices, Finding La Yarda brings oral history to life by taking audiences on a cultural journey through time and place.

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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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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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The Chicano Movement in Kansas

Valerie Mendoza

Independent Public Historian Washburn University

This project consists of oral histories of Kansas Chicano Movement leaders from the 1970s.These activists drew inspiration from the national Chicano Movement and their initiatives impacted the Kansas Latinx population in ways that reverberate to this day in the areas of civil rights, educational opportunities and voting power.

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