Archive as Pedagogy: Oral History and a Journal of the Plague Year

It’s a pleasure to announce that I have a new open access essay out with John Horan in a special issue of Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals. Titled, “Archive as Pedagogy: Oral History and a Journal of the Plague Year,” we explore the oral histories developed by The COVID-19 Oral History Project and The Journal of the Plague Year in the context of pedagogy.

Here’s the abstract:

In March 2020, the COVID-19 Oral History Project, based at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), teamed up with A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY), based at Arizona State University to create and curate a series of oral histories focused on the lived experience of the pandemic. Among the results of this collaboration has been a focus on research-based pedagogy and learning for undergraduate students, graduate students, and the public at large. This pedagogical emphasis has both shaped the archive and has been shaped by the process of developing the archive.

You can read the essay at https://doi.org/10.1177/1550190620981029.