About Us

The New Radical Archives Workshop creates a space for scholars, activists, and artists to share ways of engaging with archives and archival material in a series of facilitated conversations. Taking as our starting points that (1), there is an urgent need to democratize access to and curation of archival holdings, (2) the work of historians outside of the academy is vital to interpretations of the past, and (3) scholars can benefit from reconsidering the definitional boundaries of the archive, the New Radical Archives Workshop holds meetings that feature invited guests whose work engages with questions of how to use, produce, and/or re-interpret archives.

We are funded by the NYU Center for the Humanities. The workshop is co-directed by Sam Pendergast and Katherine McLeod, PhD students in the NYU history department. We hope to share our own work and learn from those across and outside of NYU in an interdisciplinary, ongoing discussion about radical methods of archival creation, curation, and communication.