Finding “pluck” in America despite COVID-19 This story was first published in NUVO on April 9. The interlinked questions Michelle Fishburne asked her interviewees, as she travelled around the continental U.S. in her RV during 2020 and early 2021, were “What was your 2020 supposed to be like?” and “What did it end up being […]
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At the start of IUPUI’s spring break, professor Jason Kelly was putting together some components to the Frankenstein Atlas project for his graduate course in digital public history. Then America started to turn upside down with five letters and two numbers, and “public history” all of a sudden meant something very different. He emailed his […]
By Dan Grossman Holly Cusack-McVeigh, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has been recognized by the FBI — along with her graduate students — for her efforts to repatriate stolen artifacts to Haiti and China. She has also researched the importance of place among the Yup’ik Eskimos on the […]
The COVID-19 Oral History Project is a rapid response oral history focused on archiving the lived experience of the covid-19 epidemic. We have designed this project so that professional researchers and the broader public can create and upload their oral histories to our database. All the data that participants collect and produce will be open […]