Featured Projects

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  Season 7, Episode 2: Are We History? Historians in the Age of AI – Part II

  In this episode of Reverb Effect, we look at the ways in which graduate students and faculty in the humanities have been responding to the rise of AI. Last year, the University of Michigan’s history department put on workshops to begin discussing the impact of AI on teaching and learning and these first two episodes…

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  Season 7, Episode 1: Are We History? Historians in the Age of AI – Part I

  In this episode of Reverb Effect, we look at the ways in which undergraduates in the humanities have been responding to the rise of AI. Last year, the University of Michigan’s history department put on workshops to begin discussing the impact of AI on teaching and learning and these first two episodes of the new…

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  Season 6, Episode 4: Conservatism on College Campuses: A Conversation with Lauren Lassabe-Shepherd and Sophie Wunderlich

  In this episode of Reverb Effect, Lauren Lassabe-Shepherd and Sophie Wunderlich look at the long history of conservative student activism on American college campuses. The popular image of the 1960s student is a protester against the Vietnam War or for civil rights. That same decade also saw the rise of right-wing student groups like Young…

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  Season 6, Episode 3: Making KIN

  In this episode of Reverb Effect, we visit KIN: Us and Our Kinds, an exhibit of paintings, comics, and sculpture by historian and artist Rafael Neis, and ask what happens when creative practice becomes a way of doing history. Drawing on ancient rabbinic stories, KIN explored how kinship, species, and bodies were once imagined as…

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  Season 6, Episode 2: “When They Come Back to Communities, You See Life:” Reparations in Uganda

  In this episode of Reverb Effect, we follow the journey of Ugandan cultural artifacts from removal to repatriation, and what happens when they return home. Tracing historical materials and their layered afterlives as they moved from colonial Africa to the Cambridge Museum and back to the Uganda National Museum, we explore how collecting trajectories stripped objects…

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  Season 6, Episode 1: Capturing Change to Build a Future: The Woodbridge Oral History Archive

  What happens when a neighborhood tells its own story? In this episode of Reverb Effect, we step into Detroit’s Woodbridge neighborhood to hear firsthand accounts of resilience, memory, and change – from postwar life and the 1967 uprising to art, activism, and shifting pressures of today.