Appendix 2

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Experiencing History Digital Tool for Teaching the Holocaust at the college level

• 4 document collections
• Refined collection theme, selected documents, contextualized and annotated multiple kinds of primary sources, responded to feedback from museum stakeholders, drafted collection narrative

Detroit Institute of Art

Virtual Fieldtrip for the Rivera Court Mural

• Historical background material for a K-12 digital teaching tool
• Conducted archival research in DIA and Wayne State special collections, identified primary sources, drafted document descriptions, presented material to museum stakeholders

American Historical Association

Race and the Institutional Histories of the American Historical Association

• Report for the AHA Council on key moments in the association’s past that shaped racist exclusion
• Conducted research using association’s archives, created historical database of association leadership, drafted report, presented to AHA stakeholders

KQED, Pittsburgh Public Television

Comparative History of Reparations: Germany, South Africa, and the US

• Briefing papers on different historical reparations cases for production crew of KQED documentary film on Just Futures Mellon Initiative
• Primary and secondary source research on national cases, analysis of key terms (reparations, redress, repair, etc.), contextualization of national cases, presentation to filmmakers

Michigan Immigration Resource Center

Immigrant Justice Lab

• Open-access digital repository of country-of-origin background for attorneys defending asylum seekers
• Used actual cases of unaccompanied children to research social, economic, cultural context of countries of origin; collected and digitized material; drafted summaries; coded resources

Ecology Center

Environmental Justice Lab

• Give Earth a Chance exhibit
• Ecology Center at 50 exhibit
• “Environmental Action for Survival Teach-In of 1970,” documentary film

London Metropolitan Archives

Living and Dying in Late Medieval London

• Digital exhibit mapping late medieval London

School for Environment and Sustainability

Great Lakes Environmental Justice Lab

• Case book on the Rouge River – redlining, riverbanks, and restoration in metro Detroit

Bentley Historical Library

Asian Americans at UM and in Michigan

• Deconstructing the Model Minority at the University of Michigan exhibit

Bentley Historical Library

Politics of Academic Freedom

• Jointly authored research paper

Race, Local History, and Sundown Towns in the US

• Digital exhibit

Policing and Social Justice Lab

• Digital exhibit
• Digital map of police violence

Morgan Carlton
(History)

ProQuest

Curating thematic teaching collections of materials from ProQuest digital repository

Dawn Kaczmar
(English)

ProQuest

Curating thematic teaching collections of materials from ProQuest digital repository

Steve Pelletier
(English)

ProQuest

Compiling bibliographies for literature and drama collections for the Contemporary World Drama product

Ariana Peruzzi
(Philosophy)

ProQuest

Developing Music and Social change product around thematic topics to be used in the college classroom

Jennifer Sierra
(Anthropology)

Michigan Humanities Council

Preparing for Great Michigan Read event and launching Emerging Leaders Program

Roxana-Maria Aras
(Anthropology-History)

Arab American National Museum

Researching and developing content for exhibitions, public programs, and educational outreach

Staci Gusakova
(Women’s Studies)

Ithaka S+R

Developing new projects, collecting data, and conducting data analysis on national postsecondary educational landscape

Kate O’Connor
(American Culture)

ProQuest

Strategizing ways to increase use of Congressional Hot Topics product in policy research

Cheyenne Pettit
(History)

ProQuest

Undertaking market research on the Black Studies Center product, including analysis of competitor products

Robert Ramaswamy
(American Culture)

Michigan Publishing

Developing products for the American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book Collection

Jess Allen
(Romance Languages & Literature)

UM Center for Research on Learning and Teaching

Translating research into interactive presentations, especially for paratheatrical learning tools

Duygu Ergun
(Comparative Literature)

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Mining archival sources for database on forced labor camps; launch crowdsourcing for database

Benjamin Hollenbach
(Anthropology)

UM Ginsberg Center

Supporting efforts to broker and leverage University/community partnerships to meet community-identified priorities

Erin Johnston-Weiss
(German Studies)

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Mining archival sources for database on forced labor camps; launch crowdsourcing for database

Zachary Kopin
(History)

Michigan History Center

Managing project for restoration, community engagement, and interpretation of Julia and Ulysses Grant Home in Detroit

Vincent Longo
(Film, Television, Media)

UM Clements Library

Creating and carrying out communication strategies for public events; working with curators to assess and write finding aids for existing collections

Sydney Tunstall
(English/Women’s Studies)

UM Center for

Social Solutions

Coordinating the work across multiple sites of Mellon-funded Just Futures Initiative and engaging local organizations in discussions of community-based reparations in Detroit

Katherine Brausch
(History)

American Historical Association

Collaborating on research for projects on “Racist Histories and the AHA” and “Freedom to Learn”

Caroline Fernelius
(English)

Ecology Center

Providing communications content development, especially compelling stories about the organization and its work

Joseph Frankl
(Classical Art &
Archeology)

UM Publishing

Conducting research on open access opportunities and how they differ according to academic discipline; collaborating with Library Relations team

Simeneh Gebremariam
(Anthropology)

UM Kelsey Museum

Helping to implement new strategic vision for the museum in relation to DEI initiatives, marketing and communication, and audience-building

Timnet Gedar
(History)

Reveal Digital

Developing digital collections through identifying academic experts on specific topics and conducting interviews

Emmamarie Haasl
(History)

Ithaka S+R

Developing new projects, collecting data, and conducting data analysis on national postsecondary educational landscape

Tamarae Hildebrandt
(Linguistics)

UM Publishing

Collaborating on developing Fulcrum project

Esther Ladkau
(History)

Ithaka S+R

Developing new projects, collecting data, and conducting data analysis on national postsecondary educational landscape

Ruby MacDougall
(Asian Languages &
Cultures)

Ithaka S+R

Developing new projects, collecting data, and conducting data analysis on national postsecondary educational landscape

Sarah Van Cleve
(English)

UM Publishing

Implementing pilot program of Big Ten Alliance university presses and libraries to create a new e-book collection