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Donna Guatier And The First Presbyterian Church, Donna Guatier, Daniel Sims, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Daniel Sims talks with Donna Guatier about the history of the First Presbyterian Church.

Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/s0jnh2Suxuk

Listen on Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-22-Donna-Guatier-and-the-First-Presbyterian-Church-e35e2ru

John Hargaden And Sacred Heart Catholic Church, John Hargaden, Eowyn Agullo, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Eowyn Agullo interviews John Hargaden about the significance of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Milledgeville.

Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KCgfVVRyL3Y

Listen on Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-24-John-Hargaden-and-Sacred-Heart-Catholic-Church-e35njvs

Robert Wilson And The Baldwin Hotel, Robert Wilson, Drake Mellie, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Drake Mellie interviews historian Robert Wilson about the Baldwin Hotel.

Part one

YouTube: https://youtu.be/gERH6zAOd1E

Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-26-Robert-Wilson-and-the-Baldwin-Hotel-Pt-1-e35nopf

Part two

YouTube: https://youtu.be/y-qphh64Lh4

Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-27-Robert-Wilson-and-the-Baldwin-Hotel-Pt-2-e35nord

Kimberly Griffin And Downtown Milledgeville, Kimberly Griffin, Drew Rice, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Drew Rice interviews Kimberly Griffin about businesses in downtown Milledgeville, including Trapnells, Piggly Wiggly, Sanford House, and JJ's Locker Room.

Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/1hUviYP7hms

Listen on Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-29-Episode-Kimberly-Griffin-and-Downtown-Milledgeville-e35r7mh

Kimberly Griffin And Memory Hill Cemetery, Kimberly Griffin, Courtney Brandon, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Courtney Brandon interviews Kimberly Griffin on the history and significance of Memory Hill Cemetery, including racial and gender divisions.

Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lZTo2ly5zOM

Listen on Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-25-Kimberly-Griffin-and-Memory-Hill-Cemetery-e35nm5m

Jean W. Fraley And Flagg Chapel Baptist Church, Jean W. Fraley, Anne O’Neill, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Anne O'Neill interviews Jean W. Fraley on the history and significance of Flagg Chapel Baptist Church.

Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DyhVEL9Qrro

Listen on Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/flannery-oconnor-institut/episodes/Collecting-the-Past-Podcast---Episode-23-Jean-W--Fraley-and-Flagg-Chapel-Baptist-Church-e35nj38

Al Matysiak And Immigration To Milledgeville, Al Matysiak, Axel Hawkins, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Axel Hawkins speaks with Al Matysiak about his family's immigration to Milledgeville, their connections to Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and their relationship with the O'Connor family.

Listen to the podcast versions here:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ou2XcklemWY

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0t6OfFssHacOHmjPTvSHhJ?si=kgR-aOJcRKaNBkQFTPyLwg

Alfred Thomas And Black Businesses In Milledgeville, Alfred Thomas, Maddie Marcinkowski, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Maddie Marcinkowski talks with Alfred Thomas about owning AT's Jazz Club in Milledgeville and describes other black businesses in the area.

Listen to the podcast versions here:

YouTube: https://youtu.be/IDNdkIMMlmk

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/672GyUTA7d9xVymTtPnvDy?si=i-mM6_4mTfuCXdAcJmvrtQ

Al Haslam And The History Of Lake Sinclair, Al Haslam, Emily Brown, Stephanie Opperman

Collecting the Past

Emily Brown interviews Al Haslam about the history of Lake Sinclair, his family-owned marina (one of the longest-operated in Georgia), and the impact of the lake on life in Milledgeville.

Listen on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y29NJXIuc_s

Listen on Spotify: https://spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/sGA2KSqWbVb

Identifying Intangible And Biocultural Heritage Elements Toward Environmental Understanding: Engaging Stakeholders Through Art, Martha B. Lerski

Publications and Research

Grounded in a case study in Barbuda in the Caribbean, this research examines sustainability from the perspective of what arts and heritage can contribute to community engagement and local and broader understandings about the environment. This article documents a growing body of literature recognizing the role of arts and culture, including local knowledge and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), in climate change endeavors. Art and TEK present expansive world views. Contextual information situates research done on the island of Barbuda pre- and post-Hurricane Irma. Visual arts workshops engaged community members in mixed methods research. Results documented cultural elements, particularly intangible and …

Campesino World-Building: Stories Of Migration, Memory, And Care In The Tension Of The Colonial Frame, Chelsea Ríos Gómez

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

Campesinos, often reduced to the label of “farmworkers”, are too often seen only through the lens of their labor within profit-driven systems. This thesis disrupts that limited narrative by illuminating the rich, expansive nature of vivencias campesinas, ways of being that transcend capitalist measures of value. These vivencias are lived, embodied experiences rooted in campesino lifeways, encompassing cultural, spiritual, and relational practices that nurture and sustain life.

My research is guided by four central questions: (1) In what ways have campesinos in pixley resisted exploitative labor systems, and how can this resistance be understood as a form of care labor? …

Record Scratch: The Podcast, Kate Widmer

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

“Record Scratch: The Podcast” is an attempt to gather some of the history of Missoula’s alternative music scene from the 1990s until now, to contribute to documentation of Montana’s art scenes as well as to summarize and finalize my two and a half years of doing music reporting in Missoula. For the podcast, I interviewed four people who are active in Missoula’s music scene. Our discussions range from their youth through to the present day, giving several perspectives on Missoula’s changing music culture, as well as what it means to be a punk in Montana. My guiding reason for this …

Nuclear Reactions: Making Sense Of The Accident At Three Mile Island, Jordan Emily Bennett

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis examines the causes and consequences of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in March of 1979. First detailing the event, this thesis then examines activist narratives following the accident, with a particular focus on women’s “motherist” activism in the community outside the plant, before turning to questions of memory and the creation of a public memory of survivorship in the community surrounding the plant. In considering these questions, this thesis seeks to shed light on the differences between official and communal narratives of the accident in an effort to understand the impacts that the partial meltdown at …

Muharram, Milad And The Memons: The Commemoration Of Muharram And Celebration Of Milad Within The Memon Community, Ashkan Fayyaz

SSLA Culminating Experience

This thesis is a documentation of the Oral History of the commemoration of Muharram and celebration of Eid Milad-un-Nabi (ﷺ) within the Memon community residing in Karachi. The thesis traces a shift in scale from Muharram commemorations to Eid Milad-un-Nabi (ﷺ) celebrations. Using seven oral-history interviews from Kharadar and Hussainabad, it reconstructs the rituals affiliated with Muharram and Rabi-ul-Awal and analyses their meanings through hermeneutic phenomenology. It then analyzes transformation via Van Manen’s four lifeworld existentials: spatiality, corporeality, temporality and relationality. To complement the findings of this thesis, a historical analysis of Memon community’s practices in colonial Natal and colonial …

Occupied Lands, Occupied Histories: Activist-Historians And The Red Power Movement, Elena Rose Paz Thompson

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay.............................4

II. Primary Document Collection......25

III. Textbook Critique........................37

IV. New Textbook Writing.................42

This Is A War: The 1977-78 Coal Strike And The Fracturing Of The Postwar Social Compact, Christian B. Rowe

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The 1977–78 coal strike was a landmark moment for the American labor movement. Despite holding out for 110 days with no pay or benefits through a historically severe winter, miners were unable to advance their demands and achieve a progressive contract. By invoking the Taft–Hartley Act to end the strike, Jimmy Carter destabilized the New Deal political coalition by enraging one of its core constituencies and placing the needs of the state over the needs of unionized industrial workers. The BCOA’s immovable position in negotiations was an early sign that the labor-management accord that had governed industrial relations since World …

From Conscientious French Canadian To Enterprising American: Making Memory & Measuring Social Mobility Of French Canadians 1880-1940, Brooke S. Schwaderer

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

This thesis studies the social mobility of French-Canadian immigrants to the Keweenaw Peninsula 1880-1940 and memory among their descendants to explain how French-Canadian culture in the Keweenaw faded over time. Oral histories were conducted to gain an understanding of the current French-Canadian culture in the Keweenaw, understand how the current generation perceives changes in culture over time, and provide possible explanations for why French-Canadians thrived in the Keweenaw. Tax records from the Michigan Technological University Archives and social mobility scores, mother tongue, and homeownership information from the United States census was analyzed to measure language loss, and the social mobility …

Indigenous-Industrial Heritage: Centering Indigenous Voices In Minnesota's Iron Range, Larissa A. Juip

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Industrial heritage refers to the material remains, sites, landscapes, and practices associated with industrial and extractive activities. As a field, it has historically been concerned with the conservation, management, and interpretation of industrial sites and activities and forms a central narrative within Minnesota's museums. Yet such accounts often privilege object-centered narratives while silencing the presence, knowledge, and contributions of Indigenous and Descendant communities, obscuring their enduring relationships to extractive landscapes. In recent decades, critiques of traditional industrial heritage approaches have identified gaps in the discipline related to the exclusion of marginalized populations, including Indigenous Peoples. Minnesota is home to eleven …

Workable Seams, Jackson Mills Smith

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

In Jackson Mills Smith’s Workable Seams, readers encounter the stories, landscapes, and lives of rural Knox County, Indiana, from the oscillating vantage of a Hoosier boy raised with a Cajun sensibility. After relocating from Louisiana to the river bottoms of the crossroad state at a young age, the speaker gradually uncovers a local history only previously understood in fragmentary shards and fading glimpses.

Alternating between semi-lyrical embodied experiences and memories, documentary pieces in conversation with the state’s historical archive, and the retelling of exaggerated local yarns, poetry is a means of inquiry in Workable Seams. Topics range from …

Front Matter - Zamani 1, No. 2, Editors Note

Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies

The editors are pleased to present to you the second issue of Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies. Volume 1 Number 2 has a collection of research and forum articles as well as book reviews. There are four articles that builds from field research with different themes spanning from neolithic to the postcolonial periods. The themes include new neolithic dating; smallpox control in early colonial period in the former German East Africa (now Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi); evasion of colonial taxation; and the connection between land legislations and land conflicts among the peasant and pastoral communities. There are also …