Project Description
The Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School project is a recurring public humanities project that brings together community experts and university scholars around a common purpose of writing a "people's history" of Milwaukee's northside neighborhoods. Each summer a team of field workers collect oral histories, cultural landscape histories, and place stories from a neighborhood. They also go to the archives to learn more about the community they work in. Then, during the Fall and Spring semesters the research team continues to revise and interpret the raw data into podcasts, reports, exhibits and performances and re-engage community members around core issues raised during the summer fieldwork. Collaborative ethnographers call this process "co-theorizing" — an iterative process of data collection, data analysis, and history writing that includes community collaborators as co-creators of knowledge. The 2022-25 field school location is at Midtown, Milwaukee. We are working with the Midtown Neighborhood Alliance to rewrite the history of the neighborhood in ways that reflect the rich past of this community. During the Fall 2024 semester we hope to continue analyzing the data collected during the 2022 and 2023 summer sessions.
Tasks and Responsibilites
See above.
Desired Qualifications
None Listed.