Archives & Public History Alumni Jubilee Marshall has been selected to receive the 2023 Master’s Award for Academic Achievement. The Master’s Award recognizes the most distinguished master’s thesis or final project in the applicant’s respective discipline. Congratulations Jubilee for your hard work and for receiving the award!
Archives and Public History Alum Danielle Nista is an Assistant University Archivist at NYU. She is currently curating the exhibition, “Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).” The exhibition explores the stories of U.S. volunteers who served with the Spanish Republic to support its democracy. It showcases visual raw archival materials such as posters, postcards, and advertisements to share the experiences of civilians and those on the front lines. “Fighting Fascism” will be on display at the NYU Kimmel Windows Gallery from March 3rd – September 15th, 2023.
Archives and Public History MA student Gracia Brown has been awarded the C.V. Starr Fund for Asian/Pacific/American Research. The grant supports NYU students working on an academic project with an emphasis on the New York metropolitan region. Gracia will be conducting fieldwork and oral histories for her capstone project, “What About The Children? Oral Histories About Growing Up Mixed Asian Before Loving v. Virginia.” Her project seeks to share the lives of mixed-race Asian Americans born before the Supreme Court legalized interracial marriage nationally in 1967.
Nicole Font (APH 2022) is a Processing Archivist at the Brooklyn Public Library. She recently wrote a blog post for the library’s website titled, “Opening the Pocket Doors: Ba Da Dao/Sunset Park Chinatown History Project.” In her post, Nicole presents a “photo of the week” which depicts the 1996 exhibit opening of New Neighbors: Sunset Park’s Chinese Community. She discusses the history behind the decision to change the project’s initial title, “Eighth Avenue: Sunset Park’s Chinese-American Settlement,” to, “Ba Da Dao: Avenue of Prosperity,” so as to better reflect the community’s perception of the area.
Beau Lancaster (APH 2022) is an adjunct professor of history at the City University of New York. He was recently featured in a Gay City News article titled, “Gay historian brings attention to 1982 Blues Bar raid.” The article highlights Beau’s documentary film, “Gay, Black, and Blue: The Raid on Blues Bar,” which began as his APH capstone project. Beau is now seeking to turn his film into a feature-length documentary and will soon begin a Kickstarter campaign to fund the post-production phase.
Josie Naron (APH 2020) is the Digital Projects Specialist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Josie co-wrote and published a book review of A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture in Volume 85, Issue 2 of The American Archivist. The review addresses the book’s strengths as a resource for contemporary discourse regarding memory and ownership, but also dives into the book’s strengths and weaknesses from an archivist’s standpoint.