The funerary inscription of Clesippus tells an impressive story of illustrious honors and administrative achievements in Ancient Rome. But there is another story, one of a man who navigated slavery, disability, and the sexual advances of the woman who owned him.
Author
Emily Lamond
Contributor
Gregory Parker and Hannah Roussel
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
In 1911, a contested horse race sparked one of the largest movements by black South Africans to reclaim colonized land. How does the history of the Native Farmers Association offer a glimpse into alternate futures of property ownership in South Africa?
Author
Tara Weinberg
Contributor
Gregory Parker and Hannah Roussel
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
What happens when ten Puerto Rican men try to register to vote in 1950s Connecticut? Despite a lengthy public debate that ends up at the state supreme court, we don’t even know all ten of their names. How much of their story can we uncover?
Author
Elena Marie Rosario
Contributor
Gregory Parker and Hannah Roussel
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
This project provides undergraduate students with hands-on experience with a museum exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Author
Jason Young
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2023
Format
Exhibit and Lab
Support Partners
University of Michigan Museum of Art
Category
History 294 students developed this historical walking tour to center students and community members as the agents of change on campus
Author
Abigail McAleer, Ashir Gupta, Connor Moore, Dana Harding, Eric Mackie, Gregory Parker, Hilary Lam, Isabella Servin, Ixchel Ceballos, Jordan Drayer, Lauren Gwillim, Macey Robertson, Madeleine Farmer, Mark Mitu, McKinley Nadai, Paige Harris, Regina Duerst, Scott Cheung, Skyler Moore, Sophia Janevic, and Theodore Wooley
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2022
Format
Website
Category
Tags
An interdisciplinary, grant-funded initiative that partners with regional organizations to reconnect communities with the river and its stories.
Author
Angela Dillard, Chauncey Monte-Sano, David Porter, Kristin Hass, María Arquero de Alarcón, Melissa Duhaime, and Rebecca Hardin
Contributor
Bailey Flannery, Elana Maloul, Gene Estrada, Kayla Grant, Leila Braun, Martha Henzy, Samantha L. Adams, Talitha Pam, and Taru Taru
Department or Unit
American Culture, Anthropology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, English Language and Literature, History, School for Environment and Sustainability, School of Education, and Taubman College
Publish Date
2021 and 2022
Format
Lab, Podcast, and Website
Website
Category
Students learned to transcribe fifteenth-century wills from the London Metropolitan Archive, documenting their results in a StoryMaps exhibit that explores life in late-medieval London.
Author
Cari Griffin, Gavin White, Katherine French, Lily Walbridge, Mira Strauss, Paul Young, and Thomas Gaffney
Contributor
Bethany Donovan, Caitlin Dickinson, and Taylor Sims
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2021
Format
Exhibit and Lab
Support Partners
London Metropolitan Archive
Funding Source
Category
The first project of its kind for Philippine collections, this project offers a new vantage point from which to participate in scholarly conversations around decolonizing collections.
Author
Deirdre de la Cruz and Ricky Punzalan
Contributor
Chad Kamen, Emily Na, Jim Moss, Kerstin Barndt, Kristi Rhead, Madeline Bacolor, Martha O’Hara Conway, Nancy Bartlett, Nick Trudeau, Robert Diaz, and Sony Prosper
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2021 and 2022
Format
Archive and Exhibit
Website
ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippines Collections at the University of Michigan
Funding Source
Category
Tags
In 1836, Monsieurs Pierret and Lami-Housset transformed fashion when they opened the first shirt store in Paris. Their radical feat? They tailored a shirt.
Author
John Finkelberg
Contributor
Alexander Clayton, Allie Goodman, Christopher DeCou, Gregory Parker, Hannah Roussel, and Henry M. Cowles
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2022
Format
Podcast
Funding Source
This research project explores materials contained at the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library related to the US colonial period in the Philippines.
Author
Alex Votta, Caroline Martin, Colin Lucero-Dixon, Deirdre de la Cruz, Ilina Krishen, Iman Ali, Reggie Galanto, and Steph Fajardo
Contributor
Cinda Nofziger and Gregory Parker
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2019
Format
Website
Support Partners
Bentley Historical Library and LSA Technology Services
Tags
This lab addresses contemporary debates over mass incarceration and police misconduct, ultimately creating a comprehensive database of thousands of police-civilian encounters and homicides in the city of Detroit and beyond.
Author
Brianna Wells, Caroline Levine, Charlotte Fater, David Helps, Dominic Coschino, Francesca Ferrara, Grace Bergeron, Izzie Kenhard, Lily Johnston, Lloyd Simpson, Maddie Turner, Matthew Lassiter, Mix Mann, Nicole Navarro, Sam Lauten, Sophie Mishara, and Zev Miklethun
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
Format
Lab
Website
Support Partners
Carceral State Project
Category
This Mellon Foundation-backed project will repatriate objects from the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology to the Uganda Museum in Kampala.
Author
Derek R. Peterson
Department or Unit
History
Publish Date
2021
Format
Exhibit
Support Partners
Uganda Museum and University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Funding Source
Category
