We are looking for two summer fellows who would be trained in the fields of community-based research, public history methods, digital humanities, and curriculum development. While the fellows will have parallel and overlapping responsibilities in order to maximize learning and training possibilities, one fellow’s primary focus will be on the digital humanities and the other fellow’s primary focus will be on curriculum development. Both fellows will be expected to participate in selected digital humanities workshops offered by UCI Libraries over the course of the summer, led by Madelynn Dickerson, and also to complete two StoryMaps using the JS StoryMap Program. In addition, the fellows will have an opportunity to gain experience with a new digital oral history platform acquired recently by UCI Libraries, “Their Story,” in order to complete two oral histories. We also will be setting up meetings with different Filipino American community digital repositories, including the CSUDH Filipino American Digital Archives, the Watsonville Is in the Heart Digital Archive, and a digital book project by Mary Lacanlale and Eleanor Lipat-Chesler centered on Filipino American music and performance.
Digital Humanities Fellow
Individual Responsibilities:
- Setting up and launching Kwentuhan website through UCI Sites
- Practice in the digital humanities through StoryMapsJS and Their Story, an oral history platform
- Copyedit oral history transcripts and check accompanying forms for deposit in the UCI Libraries
- Network with the CSUDH Filipino American Digital Archives, the Watsonville Is in the Heart Digital Archive, and other digital repositories
- Conduct two oral histories
- Attend meetings with advisory committee members, and possibly with other organizations and community members
Contact: Dorothy Fujita-Rony, Professor of Asian American Studies; primary advisor
Madelynn Dickerson, Head of Digital Scholarship Services, UCI Libraries; secondary advisor
Curriculum Development Fellow
Responsibilities
- Assess curriculum possibilities for Kwentuhan, including the use of StoryMaps for K-12 curriculum by surveying available curriculum projects
- Network with the CSUDH Filipino American Digital Archives, the Watsonville Is in the Heart Digital Archive, and other digital repositories to begin mapping out possible curricular resources offered by these projects
- Prepare a model curriculum lesson on Filipino Americans in Orange County
- Prepare a final report of possible curriculum use of Kwentuhan and other resources, especially given Assembly Bill 101, passed in 2021, which mandates that Ethnic Studies is a high school graduation requirement
- Practice in the digital humanities through StoryMapsJS and Their Story, an oral history platform
- Assist in setting up and launching Kwentuhan website through UCI Sites
- Participate in selected digital humanities workshops through the UCI Libraries
- Copyedit oral history transcripts and check accompanying forms for deposit in the UCI Libraries
- Conduct two oral histories
- Attend meetings with advisory committee members, and possibly with other organizations and community members
Contact: Dorothy Fujita-Rony, Professor of Asian American Studies; primary advisor
Nicole Gilbertson, Director of the UCI Teacher Academy; secondary advisor