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• South Bend Museum of Art
  For 75 years, SBMA has evolved alongside the city it serves. Today it offers over 15 exhibitions annually, maintains a permanent collection of more than 1,200 artworks, and provides educational programming that serves 2,000 adults and children each year. The museum is deeply committed to accessibility and inclusivity, ensuring that art is available to people of all ages and backgrounds through diverse educational programs, engaging exhibitions, and a welcoming community space.
• Our Rare Books, Our SMC: An Exhibit of Items Held at Saint Mary's College
  In the spring of 2024, a group of fourteen students enrolled in ENLT 265 (Digital Humanities Project Lab: From Medieval Manuscripts to Digital Texts) and collaborated to produce this exhibit of items held in the Rare Book Room at Saint Mary's College. Throughout the course, the Rare Book Room served as our laboratory, with students learning about the development of text technologies from cuneiform tablets and medieval manuscripts to early print and nineteenth century art house productions. An introductory project asked students to recreate medieval manuscript pages with parchment and quill pens and to consider the significance of material form to our understanding of a text's meaning. Our attention then turned to thinking about how that materiality might be translated into digital contexts, and how we could raise attention on campus about the rich collection of rare books held in the Cushwa-Leighton Library.
• LGBTQ Center Oral History Project
  Our HIST 392: Doing History: Oral and Public History Spring 2024 students learned the art of oral history interviewing before conducting oral histories with founders, employees, and attendees of South Bend's LGBTQ Center. The collection added to the Civil Rights Heritage Center's LGBTQ archival collection. The following semester, student Phoenix McClellan created an oral history listening session and posters about the LGBTQ Center's history, for the Center's future use.
• We've Been Here Since 1844: Queer History At SMC
  Students in HIST 392: Doing History: Oral and Public History researched college archival documents and engaged in oral history interviewing before curating an exhibit on the college's queer history. The Doing History course is aimed at familiarizing students with what historians do to tell stories: from finding excellent primary sources to creating a visual culture analysis, along with contributing to an original oral history project stored at a local archive.
• HUST 220 Class Session
  Photo taken during a class session of HUST 220, Fall 2022.
• The Actual Things They Carried
  In Tim O'Brien's novel, The Things They Carried, a collection of stories about U.S. soldiers' experiences during the Vietnam War, he focuses on the importance of inanimate objects. Often, the objects the soldiers carried with them helped them preserve their own truths and sense of identity as they grappled with the toils of warfare in the jungles of Vietnam. These objects and stories they tell often vary by the mission, superstition, necessity, and the soldiers' total awe for the things they carry.
• Sharing Stories from 1977
  Sharing Stories from 1977 joins historians and technologists who share a strong interest in women's ways of engaging the political world. Our project documents and preserves the stories of NWC participants through biographies, oral histories, historical ephemera, demographic mapping, and interpretive essays.
• Listening to Pandemic Narratives 2 Podcast Episode
  Over the past two years, doctors Jamie Wagman and Julia Dauer from Saint Mary’s College collected local stories of those impacted by the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. Last year, they gave a public presentation with clips from some of the narrators who graciously shared their stories. They did it again this past September at the Saint Joseph County Public Library with new narrators sharing a different set of stories. We shared the first presentation as a special on this feed last year, and we’re doing so again now. The full versions of these oral histories are preserved and accessible through the Civil Rights Heritage Center’s archives, and today we share the most recent public presentation. This episode was produced by Jamie Wagman and Julia Dauer from Saint Mary’s College, and Nathalie Villalobos and George Garner from the Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center.
• Dr. Julia Dauer Recording Covid-19 Oral History Podcast
• Dr. Jamie Wagman Recording Covid-19 Oral History Podcast
• Transgender in the Heartland: Transitioning and Seeking Community in Middle America
  Dr. Jamie Wagman and history students contributed to Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, with an oral history project focused on the experiences of people who transitioned in midlife. It was published in 2020 and includes 20 oral histories, a document list, an introduction and abstract, photos and one video.
• Covid-19 Oral History Project Website
  In the spring of 2021, students in HIST 392: Doing History contributed to IUPUI's Covid-19 Oral History project: The Covid-19 Oral History Project is a rapid response oral history focused on archiving the lived experience of the Covid-19 epidemic. This project has been designed so that professional researchers and the broader public can create and upload their oral histories to our database. All the data that participants collect and produce will be open access, open source and shared with researchers and the public through the IUPUI Library and the Covid-19 Archive. The dataset will serve as 1) an historical archive that compiles oral histories about the experience of living through the Covid-19 pandemic. 2) a tool that allows individuals and communities to express their understandings, hopes, beliefs, and values about the Covid-19 pandemic. 3) a resource to help researchers, policy makers, activists, artists, and communities interpret and respond to current and future pandemics.
• Collection of Covid-19 Oral Histories
  Oral histories done by Saint Mary's College faculty and the Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center.
• Saint Mary’s event highlights South Bend’s Covid-19 Struggles
  Article written by Katelyn Waldschmidt published in The Observer on Oct. 5, 2022.
• SMC professors showcase research on South Bend’s pandemic experience
  Article written by Samantha Gebert published in The Observer on Sept. 14, 2023.
• Jake Webster Studio Visit (6)
  Students from Curatorial Studies visit Jake Webster in his studio in Elkhart, IN.
• Jake Webster Studio Visit (5)
  Students assist Jake Webster prepare his work for transportation.
• Jake Webster Studio Visit (4)
  Students assist Jake Webster prepare his work for transportation.
• Jake Webster Studio Visit (3)
  Students assist Jake Webster prepare his work for transportation.
• Jake Webster Studio Visit (2)
  Students from Curatorial Studies visit Jake Webster in his studio in Elkhart, IN.
• Jake Webster Studio Visit (1)
  Students from Curatorial Studies visit Jake Webster in his studio in Elkhart, IN.
• Preparing Webster Installation (2)
  Students work to set up "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery.
• Preparing Webster Installation (1)
  Students work to set up "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery.
• Jake Webster Installation (11)
  Photo from "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery from Nov. 28 through Dec. 6 2022.
• Jake Webster Installation (10)
  Photo from "Come Talk With Me: The Art of Jake Webster" in Moreau Gallery from Nov. 28 through Dec. 6 2022.