The crowdsourced archiving that occurred in the wake of the January 6 th US Capitol insurrection exemplifies the potential for agile, collaborative evidence gathering during a crisis situation. This paper studies the r/DataHoarders subcommunity of Reddit and the collective and s…
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Work archivists do to make collections broadly accessible is critical to the use of unique evidential primary sources in repositories. Use of primary sources in interdisciplinary research contributes to information science and its role in global health and sustainability practic…
A multidisciplinary approach is utilized to assess the organization and use of ancient and medieval Near Eastern textual deposits. An elaborate survey of the published material in ancient Near Eastern studies and library and archival studies indicates a general and pervasive ins…
The research presents a practice-based examination of the politics and poetics of the manifesto form, drawing on feminist theoretical writing and activism alongside contemporary iterations of socially engaged art. It offers feminist manifestos as a lens through which to reconsid…
This thesis considers how the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered communities of Plymouth have performed and signified their own culture and identities during the period 1950 to 2012. Its source materials were largely generated by conducting oral history interviews with mem…
Based on testimony and documentation in the archives of Timor-Leste and Indonesia, participant observation and interviews with key actors in the transitional justice process, this study seeks to document and analyze the fate of the thousands of stories that were given by the Tim…
This dissertation explores the practical theological implications of Dorothy Day’s 1958 diaries. Dorothy Day’s 1958 diaries were brought in dialogue with the moment in history in which they were written as part of a practical theological method that emphasizes context and everyd…
Contemporary computer interfaces are frequently designed using multiple media, including images, audio, and animation. These digital interaction modalities were conceptualized, implemented, and popularized within an interdisciplinary network of collaboration at the edges of prev…
Decolonial scholars insist that the work of decolonization must, at its core, involve understanding and dismantling the Western epistemologies that shape knowledge production in the academy. Historian Mhoze Chikowero identifies a particular scarcity narrative that is rooted in c…
This dissertation examines the mediation of the public’s encounters with recordings of field hollers, work songs, and blues music collected by the folklorists John and Alan Lomax in prisons of the U.S. South from the 1930s to the 1950s. These recordings have, over the years, rea…
Upon examining definitions of Cultural Heritage as proposed by some of the discipline’s primary scholars, one can derive the necessary classifications and objectives that make certain institutions examples of cultural heritage institutions. By virtue of promoting the education o…
Archipelagic Memory examines US Filipino cultural productions–including poetry, documentary film, fiction, and museum curation–and narratives of Filipino belonging outside the imperial archive of US-Philippine relations. Through my close-readings of Marlon Fuentes’ film Bontoc E…
The Candlemaker is a hybrid novel that explores the intersection of queerness, archives, and history in the rural South.
The focus of this paper is the Everfast Fabrics collection housed in the unit of Special Collections and College Archives (SPARC) within the library at the Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY in New York City. Everfast Fabrics, Inc. was a New York City-based textile company kno…
Creating the St. Francis Archive is a project designed to add insight into the experience of Catholic education in America. The all-girl Catholic high school of St. Francis started to work on an archive to better preserve their past and help serve the future. When working on cre…
This dissertation explores the points of tension between dominant histories of neighbourhood activism in Toronto and Montreal between 1963–1989 and the lived experiences of locally embedded activists who organized for access to safe jobs, homes, and the right to exist in their n…
In my studio practice, I tell stories about natural spaces and home through the lens of memory. I combine collected photographs, created images, videos, and objects into vignettes in order to bring forth narratives about generational family relationships in context with The Sout…