Modern Endangered Archives Program
The Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) at UCLA Library supports the preservation and discovery of at-risk archival collections that invite a more expansive understanding of the world we live in. MEAP grants fund projects that document, digitize and make accessible cultural heritage materials from the 20th and 21st Centuries. We are committed to supporting projects that reflect community voices, cultural expression, and historical experiences that have been left out of national narratives and archives.
As the Founding Director of MEAP, I have created workflows, defined policies, established application protocols and amplified outreach for this global cultural heritage funding program. Since 2019, MEAP has issued 138 grants in 58 different countries to support cultural heritage preservation and expand capacity for digitization.
Memories/Motifs
Memories/Motifs was a dynamic digital exhibit that showcased research from my dissertation – tracing the narratives of three different Holocaust survivors in postwar America. The Holocaust stories of Kurt Maier, Irene Guttman, and “Hannah” were told multiple times in a variety of media, including radio, print, and performance. The exhibit marked the changes in narrative as each story was transformed from one media to another and highlighted themes of early Holocaust survivor representations such as immigration, Americana, and children.
The exhibit was public facing and built to highlight the interconnectivity of different media types and themes that defined early American engagement with Holocaust survivor accounts. The exhibit is now offline.
Digital Scholarship Commons at UC Santa Cruz Libraries
As the Founding Director of the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) at the University Library, I defined a vision for a new library space, building a computer lab, a large visualization screen, and a virtual reality lab. This space housed a new scholarly community of faculty and students from across campus to explore new questions related to Digital Humanities, emerging technology, and interdisciplinary scholarship. The DSC invites student use of new hardware and also facilitates curricular support, fellowships, and research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students that successfully connected students across campus.
Additional Collaborations
- The Gail Project, Alan Christy, P.I., UC Santa Cruz
- Digital Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz
- Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History of the Ottoman Judeo-Spanish World & its Diaspora, 1700-1950 (Stanford University Press, 2014), Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Julia Phillips Cohen, editors
- “Hugo Ballin’s Los Angeles,” Mapping Jewish Los Angeles, Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA >>News coverage: “Hugo Ballin: The Jewish muralist of Los Angeles,” Jewish Journal