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Partnerships
For Community Organizations and Cultural Institutions
Our collaborators include neighborhood groups, housing coalitions, historical societies, land justice collectives, and Tribal Nations. With these partners we have produced exhibits, community archives, public dialogue events, oral history projects, community mapping, and much more.
For K-12 Schools
We work with K-12 educators and schools on a range of programs including single-visit workshops, short-term projects and long-term collaborations. Our school engagements have included customized curriculum, school-to-school student exchanges, and How-To workshops with students on oral history interviewing, podcasting, archival research, and exhibition design.
For Colleges and Universities
Our Whose Land? team includes university faculty, scholars, widely-published authors, and college classroom instructors with decades of experience. We offer public humanities bootcamps and project incubator opportunities for faculty and students alike, on-campus workshops in public humanities methods and technologies, scholarly talks on land, race and history, and access to a network of schools to support college-to-college collaborations and idea-sharing.
Customized Curriculum Development
With wide-ranging expertise in the history of race in America and methods in land and property research, we offer customized curriculum that includes lesson plans, primary document packets, and How-To guides in various public humanities methods. We work closely with educators, closely following state curriculum standards to design and help implement educational tools specifically regarding the history of land, space and geography in both urban and rural settings.
Services
Community Archives
We offer structures of support for community groups and residents seeking to document and preserve their own histories, especially outside the confines of formal archival institutions. With our network of professional archivists, digital humanities experts, and research scholars, and our own digital storage servers and digital tools, we have resources to train and support communities hoping to develop and maintain local place-based archival collections.
Community Engagement Trips
What does it mean to be an ally? We believe that experience and knowledge are best learned immersively, in the places where our community partners live and work. We offer opportunities for direct engagement with partners while providing much needed services and support for them on their terms.
Training and Workshops
We are always up for sharing our knowledge, methods and experiences in any of the collaborative programming we’ve been engaged in. Whether to give a talk to a local group or to lead a training workshop, we will work with you to conceive an engagement or build a program that suits your needs.
Memory Mapping and Community Dialogue Events
Whose Land? signature programming includes our public gathering facilitations centered on collective place-based memories. Memory Mapping programs bring a wide spectrum of community members together to engage in place-based memory sharing and dialogue about significant geographies of the past. Participants draw, write or paste photos on large-scale maps to recreate lost historical spaces and memories of places that matter.
