Read more about the class structure and assignments for ALAN 095 OL1 Curating Kake Walk: Race, Memory, and Representation. I am co-teaching this three-credit course this summer.
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This summer, I am co-teaching a course about Kake Walk, a blackface minstrel tradition at UVM which lasted until 1969. Students will use primary sources and secondary readings to learn about Kake Walk’s history + to explore issues of race, representation and cultural memory. They will then contribute to a collection of digitized archival material.
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View the reading list we created for ALAN 095 OL1 Curating Kake Walk: Race, Memory, and Representation. I am co-teaching this three-credit course this summer.
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I helped facilitate an educational workshop for UVM students alleged with violating the Code of Academic Integrity. Objectives for participants included understanding academic integrity standards, reflecting on their hearing experience, recognizing the importance of academic integrity, and building strategies for future success.
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Today I visited Professor Nancy Diamond’s “Higher Education since 1945″ graduate seminar to discuss Kake Walk. I told her students about the primary sources in the university archives and about our forthcoming digital collection. I brought examples of programs and students newspapers to focus our discussion. Read the students’ evaluations here.
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Today I visited “Teaching Social Studies in Secondary Schools.” I gave a lecture which covered the unique challenges for K-12 primary source research (whether in person or online) and an overview of digital library development. I then introduced the students to the CDI and gave a demonstration on CDI research. Read the students’ evaluations here.
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Robin is currently the Outreach + Public Services Archivist at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
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