Graduate Student Assistant - Archive-Making and Local History: A Partnership with Reckonings and the Asian American Resource Workshop
Support research, archive-making, oral history interviews, and collaboration between Reckonings and the Asian American Resource Workshop to uncover hidden histories of arts activism, housing justice, racial justice, and anti-deportation work in the Greater Boston region. Work with digital and analog tools. Work includes collaboration on workshops and toolkits. Researchers will attend Reckonings team meetings and trainings.
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Location:
Boston
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Semester:
Summer 2025
Application
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Project Title
Archive-Making and Local History: A Partnership with Reckonings and the Asian American Resource Workshop
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Faculty / Project Lead
Denise Khor
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Project Description
Founded in 1979 as one of the Boston area's first pan-Asian organizations, AARW is an intergenerational social justice nonprofit that promotes Asian American identity while addressing contemporary issues affecting our communities. For more information, please see the website at aarw.org. The Reckonings Project is a set of initiatives that seek to reckon with, uncover, preserve, honor, and celebrate the histories and cultures of BIPOC Boston and New England through projects of co-creation and co-curation between local community members and organizations and college teachers and students. For more information, please see the website at reckoningsproject.org.
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Qualifications Necessary
Students from all doctoral programs in CSSH are welcome to apply. Interest in civic engagement, partnerships, teamwork, and collaboration. Willingness to learn digital tools. Some experience in digital humanities a plus.
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Hours per Week
20 Hour Position