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Grad Prompt 1: Power, curation, and institutional memory
Compare Hawkinss institutional oral history work with Browns participatory archive, focusing on power, authorship, and control over narrative. In your post:
Analyze how institutional agendas, funders, or professional norms shape Hawkinss project, including her discussion of editing, selection, and representation. Links to an external site.
Contrast this with Browns strategies for cocreating the Eastern Kentucky African American Migration Project with community members (e.g., how materials were collected, how decisions about inclusion/exclusion were made, how invisible subjects are brought into view).
Use at least one concept from oral history/archival theory (e.g., authorship, voice, custodianship, gatekeeping, or community archives) to deepen your comparison. Links to an external site.
Conclude with a brief reflection on how you would design an oral history or archival project in your own field that takes these power issues seriously (be specific about methods, consent, and access).
Grad Prompt 2: Oral history in a digital and pedagogical key
Put Cohen in conversation with Gabriel to explore the intersection of digital oral history and higher education. In your post:
Identify at least two core shifting questions Cohen raises about digital oral history (for example, changing listening practices, new forms of audience participation, or the politics of metadata and interface design).
Show how these questions complicate or enrich Gabriels use of refugee community oral histories in teaching (e.g., access, vulnerability, representation, or how students encounter and respond to testimonies).
Propose a short module or assignment that integrates digital oral histories into a course on migration, religion, or archives, explicitly addressing ethics, traumainformed practice, and data/metadata choices. Links to an external site.
Be explicit about your pedagogical goals, assessment criteria, and how you would prepare students to work responsibly with digital testimony.
Grad Prompt 3: Designing a participatory, digital archive
Use Brown and Cohen together to sketch out a design for a participatory, community-based digital archive in a context of your choice (for example, Arab American communities in Texas, refugee communities, or another group you know). In your post:
Draw on Browns definition and practice of the participatory archive to outline how community members would be involved at multiple stages (collection, description, curation, access, and future use).
Incorporate Cohens concerns about digital presentation, metadata, and listening practices to explain how your site would invite users to encounter oral histories in ways that respect narrators and highlight community priorities.
Address at least three practical and ethical issues (for example: longterm preservation, consent and withdrawal, description of sensitive materials, language choice, or digital divide/access).
End by reflecting on how your design challenges traditional institutional archive models and what kind of memory work it makes possible.
Requirements: 1p
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