{"id":1940,"date":"2024-05-07T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T12:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/?post_type=showcase&#038;p=1940"},"modified":"2024-05-09T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T14:41:26","slug":"season-5-episode-5-not-just-for-scholars-democratizing-the-archives","status":"publish","type":"showcase","link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-5-not-just-for-scholars-democratizing-the-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 5, Episode 5: Not Just for Scholars: Democratizing the Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#4d4d4e\">Archives are central to the work of historians. But they are not just for scholars. In this episode, we talk with an archivist, an archival theorist, and a historian, all working to democratize these spaces, what they hold, and who can access them.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_16-9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A college of two photos juxtaposing a video tape archive, devoid of people and not open to the public, with a large crowd walking down a street.  \" class=\"wp-image-1941\" style=\"width:1000px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_16-9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_16-9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_16-9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_16-9-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_16-9-1568x882.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/peoplearchive_16-9.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image:&nbsp;Left: The archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (image: DRs Kulturarvsprojekt); right: \u201cCrowd\u201d (James Cridland, CC BY 2.0).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Season 5, Episode 5: Not Just for Scholars: Democratizing the Archives\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/45UJPthxjXT2w28U63dEgk?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/reverb-effect\/id1486434428\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4Otp5KrKnJYZVd1S8guPe6?si=UC24WtvISZaa_B_7JbXrIA\">Spotify<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Archives are central to the work of historians. But they are not just for scholars. In this episode, we talk with an archivist, an archival theorist, and a historian, all working to democratize these spaces, what they hold, and who can access them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor <strong>Patricia Garcia<\/strong> will help us think about the archives through a critical lens. Archivist <strong>Brian Williams<\/strong> will help us understand how to build an archive essentially from scratch. And Professor <strong>Stephen Berrey<\/strong> will help us understand what role the public can play in archival endeavors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-5-episode-5-transcript\/\" data-type=\"showcase\" data-id=\"1945\">View the full episode transcript<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"historian-biography\">Historian Biographies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stephen A. Berrey<\/strong> is an associate professor in the Departments of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan. His<strong> <\/strong>research and writing explores the relationship between race and culture in the twentieth century United States. His first book, <em>The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race, Civil Rights, and Segregation in Mississippi<\/em>, was published in 2015. He is director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/justice.tougaloo.edu\/sundown-towns\/\">Sundown Towns Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Patricia Garcia <\/strong>is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She is currently working on an NSF CAREER project, partnering with public libraries to study how a computational justice program model can support girls of color developing agentic computing identities. Her other related work, in collaboration with the co-authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manifestno.com\/\"><em>The Feminist Data Manifest-No<\/em><\/a>, examines how harmful data practices perpetuate structural inequities along racialized and gendered lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brian Williams <\/strong>is assistant director and archivist for university history at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. He is the project lead for the Bentley\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/africanamericanstudentproject.bentley.umich.edu\/\">African American Student Project<\/a>, working with a team of researchers, volunteers, and collaborators to document the history of African American students at the university. The project\u2019s centerpiece is a searchable database of every African American student who attended the university for any length of time from 1853 until 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"production-credits\">Production Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Episode Producers:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>Paige Newhouse, Enrieth Martinez-Palacios, Talitha Pam, Cheyenne Pettit, Sophie Wunderlich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Host and Season Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Paige Newhouse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Gregory Parker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editorial Board:\u00a0<\/strong>Henry Cowles, Enrieth Martinez Palacios, Talitha Pam, Cheyenne Pettit, Sophie Wunderlich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Voice Actors:<\/strong> Maya Sudarkasa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interviews: <\/strong>Stephen Berrey (Paige Newhouse, 2024), Patricia Garc\u00eda (Enrieth Martinez-Palacios, Paige Newhouse, 2024), Brian Williams (Cheyenne Pettit, Paige Newhouse, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Student Interviews: <\/strong>Rachael Barrett, Markus Merin, Irene Mora<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>timmyg62, &#8220;College Football Game.wav&#8221; (Freesound , CC0 1.0 DEED)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>JarredKarp, &#8220;Going through book &#8230;&#8221; (Freesound, CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thato Madiskwane, &#8220;paper flipping.wav 190246&#8221; (Freesound, CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sportygurl37, &#8220;Writing.wav&#8221; (Freesound, CC BY 3.0 DEED)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>kvgarlic, &#8220;AugustNightInCornField.wav&#8221; (Freesound, CC0 1.0 DEED)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Music: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Migfus20, &#8220;Relaxing Music&#8221;  (Freesound, CC BY 4.0 DEED)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Share your thoughts about&nbsp;<em>Reverb Effect<\/em>&nbsp;by messaging&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:reverb.effect@umich.edu\">reverb.effect@umich.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2024 Regents of the University of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives are central to the work of historians. 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