Engaged Curriculum Grants
Community-Engaged History
Faculty in the history department will create a sequence of courses that will support students in creating historical narratives of local and global communities.
All communities around the world have histories, but many lack the skills and tools to recover, preserve and document their past. This project will develop a curriculum that will allow students to help research and produce history for local or global communities.
History faculty will create a series of courses that will train students in oral history, reflective-learning and public history methods so that they can create formal historical narratives in diverse settings. One focus of the project will be recording the history of marginalized communities in the Ithaca area, such as mass-incarceration survivors, refugees and immigrants, the rural poor and political activists. Courses will also be developed to build on partnerships faculty have already created with anarchist communities in Spain and with sugarcane workers and activists in rural Jamaica.
Engaged Curriculum Grant type: Planning
Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Culture, Language and History
The Team
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Edward E. Baptist, Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
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Derek Chang, Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
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Raymond Craib, Department of History
College of Arts and Sciences
- Community partner: History Center in Tompkins County
- Community partner: Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
Engaged Curriculum Grants
Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.