I have been deeply involved in digital public history projects such as Crossing Borders, Building Solidarity; Affective Labor and the Chicano Art Mural Movement in Chicago and Race and Power in Nineteenth Century Latin American Photography which utilizes StoryMapJS to trace the role of photography in representations of the colonial subject and in raising historical consciousness.

Crossing Borders, Building Solidarity; Affective Labor and the Chicago Mural Movement (Summer, 2023)

Students in this summer project will engage in intensive research on immigrants’ untold stories into American culture through the lens of Latino Americans’ contribution to the Chicago Mural Movement; a pivotal moment in the history of community activism in Chicago. Through a series of seminars, field trips, independent research, and the production of an open educational resource digital story map, students will immerse themselves into local history and contemporary discussions on how education, immigration, identity, and political and social issues affect visual arts representation. Moreover, this project will allow students to explore how Latino American immigrants are constantly articulating flexible and fluid, neither black nor white, collective racial positions in Chicago through cultural manifestations.

Race and Power in Nineteenth Century Latin American Photography; Photogrpahing ‘Other’ Histories

In Race and Power in Nineteenth Century Latin American Photography; The Photographing Other Histories exhibition, the photographs of Afro-Latin Americans and indigenous families will be examined and compared with each other. A variety of photographic images dating from the late nineteenth century South American region, including the work of Peruvian, Chilean, and Italians photographers, will be explored. The various social and cultural backgrounds of each of these photographers contributes to the differences in the style of pose, backdrop settings, clothing, and props of each photograph. Because some of these photographers come from Europe and others from South America, their visual representations of indigenous families differ; each photographer tells a different part of an indigenous families’ history