Office of the Connecticut State Historian
The position of State Historian was created in the 1930s in preparation for Connecticut’s 300th anniversary. Professor Andy Horowitz is the sixth person to hold the office.
Democracy & Dialogue
Through the Democracy and Dialogues Initiative, UConn is working to increase democratic and civic capacity by supporting community dialogues on critical issues, providing moderator and facilitation training for dialogues and deliberations, and partnering with campus colleagues and local institutions to increase meaningful participation by all community members.
Engaged, Public, Oral and Community Histories (EPOCH)
EPOCH formalizes the History Department’s initiatives to promote engaged, public, oral and community histories. It fosters collaborative intellectual inquiry between students, faculty, and community-based organizations around a particular historical theme and through a number of training activities and deliverables.
Fudeko Project
The Fudeko Project, a collaboration between UConn’s Greenhouse Studios and Asian and Asian American Studies Program, is a year-long online journaling program for survivors of Japanese American World War II incarceration. It uses bite-sized, trauma-informed prompts to help participants reflect on and share their experiences through an alternative to traditional oral history.
The project explores how journaling can create opportunities for survivors to engage with and communicate their histories in ways that are accessible, community-specific, and meaningful.
Laboratorio de Aguas Cuyanas
The “Laboratorio de Aguas Cuyanas” is a network for experimentation and research in environmental digital humanities. The “Laboratorio de Aguas Cuyanas” seeks to shed light on the experience of intentional water management that continues to shape our territories and societies.
Léamh
Léamh: Learn Early Modern Irish began as a digital humanities project at the University of Connecticut. Originally funded by a seed grant from Connecticut’s Humanities Institute in 2012, the project was envisioned as a means to facilitate the greater use of early modern Irish sources in scholarship across fields and disciplines. In the absence of learning materials – grammar, dictionary and guide – acquisition of Early Modern Irish has always been difficult. Léamh is intended to address that absence by offering guided translations of a wide range of texts and genres, a grammar with basic paradigms and descriptive summaries, and a searchable reference glossary.
