Project Description
In 1971, the Black Panther Party (BPP) founded its longest running social service program, the Oakland Community School (OCS), which operated for eleven years and served as a model for education for Black and poor children living in urban communities.
Join us for a paid summer research fellowship (20 hours per week for 10 weeks, June 26-September 1) to mentor UCI undergraduate students and to contribute to a research and digital humanities project on the Oakland Community School. We are looking to hire two fellows. Specific tasks include:
- Help organize, promote, and support a guest speaker series
- Mentor UCI undergraduate summer research fellows
- Manage and coordinate projects
- Attend and contribute to project meetings, workshops, reading groups, and trainings as needed
- Contribute to an oral history project about the OCS by transcribing and/or editing interview transcripts
- Assist in creating a web-based year book project that features former students, teachers, and community supporters by exploring and archiving BPP and OCS-related documents, photos, and video
- Assist in creating a physical and virtual Oakland Community School traveling exhibit
This research fellowship involves access to unpublished material which cannot be shared publicly without copyright clearance. You will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement as part of your participation in this project.
Contact
The project will be supervised by members of the Black Panther Oakland Community School: Community Archives, Activism, and Storytelling Research Cluster:
● Angela LeBlanc-Ernest (bpocsrc@angelaleblancernest.com), founder of the Oakland Community School Project, founder of the BPP Women’s Legacy Project, and co-founder of the Intersectional Black Panther Party Research Project.
● Krystal Tribbett (ktribbet@uci.edu), Curator for Orange County Regional History and Research Librarian for Orange County
● Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (j.wu@uci.edu), Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the UCI Humanities Center