2024-2025: Archives, Memory & the Present Past of Puerto Rico
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What is the state of Puerto Rican archives, archival theory, and archival practices? What are the roots of Puerto Rican studies and how can we best tend to its past and futures? How is our field engaging with contestation, archival reckoning, accessibility, quotidian interventions, and forms of archival refusal? Archives, Memory & the Present Past of Puerto Rico” invites researchers to engage with archives and memory work concepts, practices, and theories within Puerto Rican Studies and Puerto Rican and Diasporican history. The selected fellows chose to focus their project on one of the following topics: archival silences, memory and preservation, Afro-Boricua and Afro-Indigenous archives, feminist archives, archival practices, queer archives, community archives, family archives, oral histories, and metadata and algorithms, among other possible interventions.
Dr. Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, Professor of Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures at the CUNY Graduate Center, will be the CUNY faculty presider for the year, offering mentorship and support for the cohort.
Community Micro-grant Recipients
- Agro, Cultura y Arte: Preservando Nuestro Origen y Naturaleza
Caguas, Puerto Rico - Periodico Comunitario Urbe A Voz
Caguas, Puerto Rico - Stories and Activism of the Air Bridge of Puerto Rican Harm Reductionists
Bronx, New York - Ancestral Herbal Narratives Oral History Project
Highland Park, New Jersey - Archivo Histórico del Ballroom en Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Dance is Life Archives: Preserving Puerto Rican Contributions to the Hustle Dance Movement
New York, NY - Fiestas de Cruz
San Mateo de Cangrejos, Puerto Rico - Recovering Hidden Narratives of Resistance to Colonization and Slavery
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Lugares Históricos: African Burial Grounds
Orlando, Florida - Telling Our Stories: The History of Rumsey/Roberto Clemente Park
Grand Rapids, Michigan - Proyecto Kokobale: Lxs Pequeñxs Cimarronxs
San Juan, Puerto Rico - Maui Puerto Rican Association Digital Archive
Maui, Hawaii
fellows
- Alberto Ortiz Díaz
- Amanda J. Guzmán
- Cristina Pérez Jiménez
- Daniel Morales-Armstrong
- Emma Amador
- Joaquín Villanueva
- Karrieann Soto Vega
- Katsí Yarí Rodríguez Velázquez
- Keishla Rivera-López
- Lorraine Torres Colón
- Nayda Collazo-Lloréns
- Shakti Castro
- Xenia Rubinos
- Estelle Maisonett
- Alexandria Ramos
- Conor "Coco" Tomás Reed
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This initiative is generously funded by the Mellon Foundation.