Call for Proposals: COVID Tracking Project Archive Curriculum Award

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Thanks to the generosity of The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the UCSF Archives & Special Collections department is offering six $2,000 awards to educators who develop curricular modules or lesson plans that use the materials of the new COVID Tracking Project Archive. These curriculum awards are meant to raise awareness of the CTP Archive and its educational value among teachers and researchers. Applications due June 15, 2022. Please visit this page for additional details and to apply. Please email… Continue reading

You Know You Want To!

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Join us on Friday, April 1 (tomorrow and no joke!), for the second in our spring speaker series: Rachael Gillibrand. Throughout the summer of 2021, Rachael was employed by the Medical Heritage Library as the Jaipreet Virdi Fellow in Disability Studies. The purpose of her fellowship was to use the Medical Heritage Library’s digital collections to produce a primary source dataset relating to the theme of ‘Disability and Technology’. In this lecture, Rachael will talk… Continue reading

Spring Speakers 2022: Rachael Gillibrand

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Join us on Friday, April 1 (no joke!), for the second in our spring speaker series: Rachael Gillibrand. Throughout the summer of 2021, Rachael was employed by the Medical Heritage Library as the Jaipreet Virdi Fellow in Disability Studies. The purpose of her fellowship was to use the Medical Heritage Library’s digital collections to produce a primary source dataset relating to the theme of ‘Disability and Technology’. In this lecture, Rachael will talk about her… Continue reading

Spring Speakers 2022: Aja Lans

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We’re pleased to announce the first of our Spring Speaker Series, Aja Lans. Aja Lans completed her PhD in Anthropology at Syracuse University in 2021, where she concentrated in historical archaeology and cultural heritage preservation. Her dissertation traces the long history of violence against Black women in the United States by merging skeletal data with archival resources. These various archival traces shed light on the ways biocultural processes in the past continue to shape daily life,… Continue reading