Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives
Featuring a wide array of perspectives, Transforming the Authority of the Archive details new roles for archives in undergraduate pedagogy and new roles for undergraduates in archives. While there has long been a place for archival exploration in undergraduate education (especially primary source analysis of items curated by archivists and educators), the models offered here engage students not only in analyzing collections, but also in the manifold challenges of building, stewarding, and communicating about collections. In transforming what archives are to undergraduate education, the projects detailed in this book transform the authority of the archive, as students and community partners claim powers to curate and create history.
 
Contributions to this volume represent a range of institutions including small liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, Ivy Leagues, large research institutions, and community-based collections. The assignments, projects, and initiatives described across this volume are fundamentally concerned with the challenge to model digital archival collections so as to center individual and community voices that are historically under-engaged in the archives. To address this challenge, contributors describe various approaches to substantively, often radically, redistribute archival resources and authority. The chapters within Transforming the Authority of the Archive offer thoughtful and creative pedagogical approaches to counter the presumed neutrality of the archive and advocate a shared understanding of the contingency of archival collections. This book is a must-read for liberal arts faculty, graduate students, archivists (both community- and institutionally-affiliated), information-studies professionals, librarians, and other professionals working and teaching in archives, museums, libraries, and other cultural heritage institutions.
 
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Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives
Featuring a wide array of perspectives, Transforming the Authority of the Archive details new roles for archives in undergraduate pedagogy and new roles for undergraduates in archives. While there has long been a place for archival exploration in undergraduate education (especially primary source analysis of items curated by archivists and educators), the models offered here engage students not only in analyzing collections, but also in the manifold challenges of building, stewarding, and communicating about collections. In transforming what archives are to undergraduate education, the projects detailed in this book transform the authority of the archive, as students and community partners claim powers to curate and create history.
 
Contributions to this volume represent a range of institutions including small liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, Ivy Leagues, large research institutions, and community-based collections. The assignments, projects, and initiatives described across this volume are fundamentally concerned with the challenge to model digital archival collections so as to center individual and community voices that are historically under-engaged in the archives. To address this challenge, contributors describe various approaches to substantively, often radically, redistribute archival resources and authority. The chapters within Transforming the Authority of the Archive offer thoughtful and creative pedagogical approaches to counter the presumed neutrality of the archive and advocate a shared understanding of the contingency of archival collections. This book is a must-read for liberal arts faculty, graduate students, archivists (both community- and institutionally-affiliated), information-studies professionals, librarians, and other professionals working and teaching in archives, museums, libraries, and other cultural heritage institutions.
 
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Transforming the Authority of the Archive: Undergraduate Pedagogy and Critical Digital Archives

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Featuring a wide array of perspectives, Transforming the Authority of the Archive details new roles for archives in undergraduate pedagogy and new roles for undergraduates in archives. While there has long been a place for archival exploration in undergraduate education (especially primary source analysis of items curated by archivists and educators), the models offered here engage students not only in analyzing collections, but also in the manifold challenges of building, stewarding, and communicating about collections. In transforming what archives are to undergraduate education, the projects detailed in this book transform the authority of the archive, as students and community partners claim powers to curate and create history.
 
Contributions to this volume represent a range of institutions including small liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, Ivy Leagues, large research institutions, and community-based collections. The assignments, projects, and initiatives described across this volume are fundamentally concerned with the challenge to model digital archival collections so as to center individual and community voices that are historically under-engaged in the archives. To address this challenge, contributors describe various approaches to substantively, often radically, redistribute archival resources and authority. The chapters within Transforming the Authority of the Archive offer thoughtful and creative pedagogical approaches to counter the presumed neutrality of the archive and advocate a shared understanding of the contingency of archival collections. This book is a must-read for liberal arts faculty, graduate students, archivists (both community- and institutionally-affiliated), information-studies professionals, librarians, and other professionals working and teaching in archives, museums, libraries, and other cultural heritage institutions.
 

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ISBN-13: 9781643150529
Publisher: Lever Press
Publication date: 08/22/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 356
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Andi Gustavson is the head of research services at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Charlotte Nunes is director of digital scholarship services at Lafayette College Libraries.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction | Andi Gustavson and Charlotte Nunes Part I: Archives and Trauma Chapter One: The Ethics of Teaching Undergraduates Using Digital Archives | Hannah Alpert-Abrams and Andi Gustavson Chapter Two: Can Critical Digital Archives Address “Archival Amnesty” toward Lynching? The Racial Terror: Lynching in Virginia Project | Gianluca De Fazio Part II: Confronting Institutional Power Chapter Three: Institutional Archives and Transformative Undergraduate Pedagogy: The Historical Accountability Student Research Program at Dartmouth College | Myranda Fuentes and Sam Koreman Chapter Four: Queer Pasts, Queer Futures: The Lafayette College Queer Archives Project | Mary A. Armstrong, Charlotte Nunes, and Jennifer Wellnitz Chapter Five: Learning with Zine Collections in “Beyond the Riot: Zines in Archives and Digital Space” | Michele Hardesty, Alana Kumbier, and Nora Claire Miller Chapter Six: Preparing, Practicing, Sustaining: Archives of Student Protest as Critical Archive Pedagogy | Christopher Jones, Elizabeth Rodrigues, Rachel Schnepper, and Temitayo Wolff Chapter Seven: Confronting Issues of Power and Privilege with Student-Designed Public Online Exhibits | Elise Nacca and Elon Lang Part III: Beyond the Campus Chapter Eight: No Fonds, No Masters! From Embracing to Dismantling the Power of Archives | aems emswiler Chapter Nine: Building Sustainable Collaborations at an Historically Black College or University: Reflections on Connecting Classrooms, Archives, and Community Partners | Marco Robinson, Phyllis Earles, and Daren White Chapter Ten: Reimagining the World Through Community-Based Memory Work: The Texas After Violence Project | Jane Field Author Biographies

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"The thoughtful contributions in this valuable compilation engage essential questions of authority, mediation, and social justice, and will inspire any educator who knows the power of archives-based pedagogy."

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