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March 18, 2021 4:00-5:15 pm
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The opening session of this Zoom series will begin with an introduction from Dr. Matthew Mugmon (CUES Distinguished Fellow, Associate Professor of Musicology), who will discuss his project The Roots of Knowledge and the way he centers primary source research in archives and digital collections in his undergraduate teaching.
Following that, Mary Feeney (Librarian, Research & Learning, UArizona Libraries), Lisa Duncan (Assistant Librarian/Collections Management Archivist, Special Collections), and Niamh Wallace, who will discuss their research on teaching with primary sources. In 2019–2020, the University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) participated in a national research study about the experiences, practices, and challenges of teaching undergraduate students with primary sources. The UAL research team conducted interviews with UA instructors in several disciplinary areas who teach with primary sources. “The Real 'Aha!' Moments”: Teaching Undergraduate Students with Primary Sources details their findings related to course design and planning, discovery and use of primary sources, and pedagogy and practice, and includes recommendations around collections, services, and collaboration to support teaching with primary sources. This presentation will share results of the study.
Having taught courses dedicated to the use of archival paper, photo, and film material in literature, history, and film history courses, Dr. Jennifer Jenkins, (Professor of Literature, Film, and Archival Studies and Research Social Scientist), will discuss the use of archival audio-visual media in humanities general education. Her presentation will center on applied media archaeology as a tool for teaching social and cultural history, history of technology, and research skills. A few student projects will be available as examples, as will sample assignments and a resource list. If time permits, she’ll discuss the use of archival material in digital storytelling projects.
Dr. Matthew Mugmon is a CUES Distinguished Fellow and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Arizona. His CUES project explores two significant and related pedagogical challenges in higher education: the lack of opportunities for undergraduate students to engage with primary sources and a dominant curricular focus on the cultural achievements of a narrow set of figures who are considered canonical. As a musicologist, his research explores the intersections between American music and transatlantic modernism.
Mary Feeney is the News Research Librarian and Liaison Librarian for Gender & Women’s Studies, History, Journalism, and Sociology at the University of Arizona Libraries, where she partners with faculty and students in their research, teaching, and learning.
Lisa E. Duncan is the Collections Management Archivist and Instruction Coordinator at the University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections. She has a MA in Information Resources and Library Science and BA in Anthropology and History from the University of Arizona. She is also a Certified Archivist and holds a Digital Archives Specialist certificate from the Society of American Archivists.
Niamh Wallace is an Associate Librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries and an Adjunct Instructor for the School of Information at the University of Arizona. As a liaison librarian, she supports the research and learning needs of students and faculty in anthropology, English, government & public policy, and middle eastern & North African studies.
Dr. Jennifer Jenkins is Professor of Literature, Film, and Archival Studies and Research Social Scientist in the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on nontheatrical film in the Southwest and US-Mexico borderlands. She is project director of the NEH-funded Tribesourcingfilm.com project to repatriate midcentury U.S. educational films about Native peoples by recording alternate narrations from within the cultures represented.
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