Past Projects

Whiteness in NH: An Archaeology of Accountability

The research aimed to critically interrogate the colonial roots of whiteness and privilege in New Hampshire and how it perpetuates systemic racialized and class-based inequities today.

  • Faculty Members

  • Jordan Fansler & E. Harrison-Buck

  • Students

  • Alec Momenee-DuPrie & Kieran Mulligan

 

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Envisioning Black & Indigenous New Hampshire

The funding supported continued progress on a cross-institutional, community-involved digital humanities project exploring the history of Black and Indigenous people in New Hampshire. 

  • Faculty Members

  • Stu Wallace & Alexis Broderick

  • Students

  • Ryan Cutting & Jonathon Nichols

 

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Social History of Civil Rights Project

The goal for the summer internship was to catalog the most important civil rights struggles that occurred in specific states in the west. 

  • Faculty Members

  • Jason Sokol

  • Students

  • Benjamin Rodgers & Alessandro Morales

 

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Italian Americans and Social Justice

The project aimed to discover, document, and share with the public the often-overlooked history of Italian immigrants who fought for social justice and human rights.  

  • Faculty Members

  • Anna Marra

  • Students

  • Katlynn Read & Melanie Matts

 

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New Hampshire Justice for All Campaign

The project examined multimodal composing practice using the strategies social activists use in creating texts that further the causes of social justice actions.  

  • Faculty Members

  • Krista Jackman

  • Students

  • Marianna Miller & Rebecca Nann

 

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Widowhood in Renaissance Italy
 

The research was focused around an in-progress monograph, Widow City: Emotion and Politics in Renaissance Italy, which investigates the role of widowhood in early modern Italian literature and politics.

  • Faculty Members

  • Chloe Kofman

  • Students

  • Anna Wainwright

 

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Racial Unity Team & Portsmouth Public Library Internships

This project accomplished the organization and development of an internship at the Portsmouth Public Library and the Racial Unity Team.

  • Faculty Members

  • Emily M. Hinnov & Cindy Walton

  • Students

  • Erin Luckern & Catie Moloney

 

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Covid Diaries
 

A CCSNH Virtual Symposium a day of scholarly exploration delving into COVID-19 and its effects on our world.
 

  • Faculty Members

  • Paula Delbonis-Platt (NHTI)

  • Students

  • Rebecca Nann & Melissa Sprague

 

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Afrofuturism

Broadly, Afrofuturism is an aesthetic movement and philosophy of technology rooted in experiences and creative expressions of Black African Diaspora communities. The term embodies a 20thc legacy of African American literature, visual, and performing arts engaging technology, temporality and futurity, and African cultural and religious heritage as means to envision liberation from and worlds beyond systemic racial oppression.

  • Faculty Members

  • Dr. Casey Golomski

  • Students

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Race, Gender, and the US Military: Understanding the Brass Ceiling

By studying the views of former military members, we aim to get a more representative sample. Our respondents will have served in different eras, different branches, and at different ranks, which will increase the representativeness and thus generalizability of our survey.

  • Faculty Members

  • Dr. Jen Spindel

  • Students

  • Tia Gaumont

 

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Migration in New Hampshire: Expanding Linguistic & Cultural Bonds

This project represents an original hands-on step in engaging with the collaborative lab structure between the humanities, social sciences, and technology. The work is organized under the “Global Humanities Undergraduate Research Lab” (GHURL), located in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UNH.

  • Faculty Members

  • Elizabeth Berry & Mauricio Pulecio

  • Students

  • Thomas Keegan, Bernadette Farmer, & Carolina Salazar

 

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