About

Project Head:

Most of my experience in public history has been with oral history, but in this class I wanted graduate students to explore the methods of digital humanities and their opportunities to reach new audiences. The problem presented to the graduate public history class was to explore the subject of women's civic engagement in Nevada from new perspectives, while keeping in mind the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020. The class collaborated thoroughly on the project, while each student brought their research interests to the project. Joanne L. Goodwin is Professor of History at UNLV.

Project Managers:

Maggie Bukowski is a Master’s student in the UNLV History Department. Maggie earned her Bachelor’s in American History from UNLV in 2016. Maggie is currently working on a thesis about nineteenth-century women’s magazines with an emphasis on fashion, morality, and memory. Maggie interned with the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the summer of 2016. While there, she worked with the Assistant Registrar to create housing and updated records for forty Native American headdresses as well as tracing and recording the provenance of a late nineteenth-century trousseau. Currently Maggie works at UNLV Libraries Special Collections and Archives as an Accessioning Assistant. In this capacity, she is working on processing and making available the University Archives to researchers.

Doris Morgan Rueda is a Ph.D. student in the UNLV History Department. She received her B.A in Criminology, Law & Society from UC Irvine. She then earned her M.A in History & Digital Media from CSU San Marcos where she researched San Diego’s moral panic over juvenile delinquency and border crossings during the Cold War. Her current research focuses on the development of juvenile justice along the U.S-Mexico border and popular ideas of juvenile delinquents and criminality throughout the 20^th century. Prior to her time at UNLV, she contributed to the digital project documenting the rise and fall of the Prohibition Bureau.

Web Design:

Yá’át’ééh. Shí éí Neil Dodge yinishyé. Neil is a citizen of the Diné Nation and a Ph.D. student in the UNLV History Department. He received both his B.A. and M.A. at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. His research centers on the indigenous people of North America and the formation of their kinship networks prior to American colonization.

Christina Lamoureux is a Ph.D. student in the UNLV History Department. She obtained an M.A. in History from Fitchburg State University and an M.A. in Public History from Southern New Hampshire University. Christina’s research focuses on prostitution and print culture during the late 1800s and early 1900s. In particular, she is interested in exploring the language used in reference to prostitution in newspapers, moral reform literature, and other forms of print. Christina is currently using Geographical Information System (GIS) technology to map both an 1870 New York brothel guidebook and important sites of female suffrage in Nevada. Prior to her time at UNLV, Christina developed a digital exhibit using newspaper snippets to highlight references to prostitution in print from 1690 to 1930.

Public Outreach:

James Steele is a second year Ph.D. student in UNLV’s History Department. Originally from Los Angeles, James graduated from California State University Los Angeles with both his B.A. in American History and M.A. with focuses in American, Middle Eastern and Russian History. Currently his research interests include American Popular Culture of the Twentieth Century, International Affairs and Public History. Now in his third year of hands on Public History experience that includes both in house interpretation of artifacts and outreach education he hopes to pursue a career in Public History after completing his education.

Content Editor:

Ajay Kalra exceeded his feline quota of nine lives somewhere down the long and winding road on the pursuit of his American music muse. His latest stateside appearance has seen him pick up the chase in the rolling hills of Kentucky, where he received an MA in folk studies in 2017 and a second Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowship in 2016, and the wide open western spaces of Nevada, where he is pursuing a second PhD in cultural history of the West. In previous avatars he was a doctor in New Delhi (where he was awarded a silver and two gold medals), a bluegrass mandolinist in East Tennessee (where he also served as assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia and received an MA in Liberal Studies), and a blues and rock bassist in Austin (where he also earned a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Texas). In other sojourns on a long, strange trip, Ajay has taught blues, rock, and world music courses at three US universities, and bluegrass, hippie music, and yoga in the hills of India.