Dr. Yasir Hussain was born in the tribal lands of the Kurram Agency in the town of Alizai, grew up in Peshawar, and later relocated to Islamabad, Pakistan. With a love for literature, Hussain became a Fulbright scholar at the…
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Decolonized Mind
Tagged with: Albuquerque, Common Core, Education, ESL, Language, Literacy, Memory, New Mexico, Oral History, Pakistan, Phd, Research, Teaching, Transcript, University of New Mexico, UNM
Posted in Albuquerque
Posted in Albuquerque
Hope Stories
My journey to learn public history began with the March, 2014 Albuquerque Police Department shooting and killing of James Boyd, a “Homeless camper” who had been identified by nearby housed individuals as transient, potentially dangerous, and in need of assistance.…
Tagged with: Albuquerque, Archives, Community of Hope, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Las Cruces, Memory, MVCH, New Mexico, Oral History, Public History, Research, Transcript, Urban Space, Women
Posted in Albuquerque, Las Cruces
Posted in Albuquerque, Las Cruces
Bibliography
Draft bibliography shared with NMSU History Department in preparation for Hope Stories community event with Doña Ana County Historical Society (DACHS).
Tagged with: Bibliography, Doña Ana County Historical Society, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Learning, Library, Memory, Research, Writing
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Saint Andrew’s Church Hope
Dr. Nancy McMillan grew up in Las Alamos, New Mexico, an area known as a “Glow in the Dark” scientific community because of its history with radioactive elements and nuclear materials’ production. A youth member of Los Alamos Geological Society…
Tagged with: Archives, Churches, Community of Hope, Education, El Caldito, Geology, Hacienda del Sol, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Las Cruces, MVCH, New Mexico, NMSU, Oral History, Research, Saint Andrews Church, Saint Luke's Health Clinic, Soup Kitchens, Transcript
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
History Notes
Tagged with: Community of Hope, Doña Ana County Historical Society, Education, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Las Cruces, Library, Museums, MVCH, Research
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Research Questions –– Public History
Can the American home and workplace become sensible, inclusive, and accessible to human beings without recourse from bad credit, zombie debt, and the historical threat of cyclical individual and familia poverty? How do individuals, small groups, and municipal organizations apply…
Tagged with: Education, Health, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Language, Las Cruces, New Mexico, NMSU, Public Health, Research, Sustainability, Urban Space
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Hope Stories Narrator Questions
Questions design general outlines and intentions for the Hope Stories project, a working guideline to consider how a single interview might progress. The Hope Stories Questions list seeks rapport with potential narrators, greater access of memory recall, and to prepare for…
Tagged with: Community of Hope, Homelessness, Hope Stories, Interviewer, Language, Las Cruces, Memory, MVCH, Narrator, New Mexico, NMSU, Oral History, Public Health, Research
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Mesilla Valley Community of Hope Stories
This project explores human rights, access to services, and city resources as seen through the experiences of staff, community advocates, and city officials at Mesilla Valley Community of Hope (MVCH). The New Mexico State University Public History based project seeks…
Tagged with: Homelessness, Hope Stories, Las Cruces, Memory, New Mexico, NMSU, Oral History, Research, Writing
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Podcasts ‘R’ Us?
Podcasts pose challenges beyond the historical applications of analog oral history methodology. Pre-interview etiquette, in-depth narrator research, closely monitored sound recording levels and interviewing techniques all continue to be valuable skills of born-digital oral history collection; however, as the Oral…
Tagged with: Access, Communications, Computers, Digital Recording, Digitization, Education, FCC, Humans of New Mexico, Internet, Learning, Listening, Literacy, Net Neutrality, Podcast, Research, Story Corps, WiFi
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
NMSU Summer Archive Internship
In the archive, avoid to-do “which” lists that include any list of chores, errands, or projects that cannot be processed by real human beings. In the archive, and its companion library system, any number of misfortune, pitfall, or researcher led…
Tagged with: Archives, DACS, Digitization, Education, Internship, Las Cruces, Library, Lyrasis, NMSU, Processing, Research, Rio Grande Historical Collection
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS)
The Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) allows historians to display recorded spoken narrative alongside accompanied transcribed material on a single webpage. Many of the steps necessary to complete this process involve a moderate degree of digital literacy; however, patience and…
Tagged with: Archives, Computers, Library, Memory, NMSU, OHMS, Oral History, Research
Posted in Las Cruces, Sound
Posted in Las Cruces, Sound
NMSU Public History
January 2017 begins anew with a Public History master’s program at New Mexico State University located in Las Cruces. My accepted admission Statement of Purpose outlines my initiative to record, catalog, and present narrative research on Poverty, Homelessness, and Child Hunger in…
Tagged with: Las Cruces, Learning, New Mexico, NMSU, Public History, Research, RMOA, SOHA
Posted in Las Cruces
Posted in Las Cruces
Microscope Light
Neuroscience researcher Ernesto Caballero Garrido speaks about creating bridges between basic information and complicated scientific knowledge and his stellar appreciation for viewing cells under the light of a microscope. Staying current in the field of isolating strokes, Ernesto studies the…
Tagged with: Albuquerque, Health, Microscopes, New Mexico, Phd, Research, Science, Spain, Stroke, University of New Mexico
Posted in Albuquerque
Posted in Albuquerque
records papers 