Call for Proposals: “Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice”
Heather Fox (Eastern Kentucky University) & Amanda Stuckey (Central Penn College)
Since archivist Ken Osborne’s 1980’s call to integrate archival sources in the classroom,educators have sought to connect how we research and how we teach. “Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice” seeks to examine the collaborative relationships that archival research and pedagogy engender by connecting conversations between scholar-educators across disciplines, grade levels, and learning spaces. Taking a broad view of what it means to be a “student in the archives,” it expands upon previous work on archival pedagogy–Lori Ostergaard and Henrietta Rix Wood’s In the Archives of Composition: Writing and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools(U of Pittsburgh P, 2015), Sarah Robbins’s Learning Legacies: Archive to Action through Women’s Cross-Cultural Teaching(U of Michigan P, 2017), Nancy Bartlett’s Teaching Undergraduates with Archives(Maize Books, 2019), and Tarez Samara Grabin and Wendy Hayden’s Teaching through the Archives: Text, Collaboration,and Activism(Southern Illinois UP, 2022)–to bring together assignments, curriculum, and practices. We envision the collection as a resource, record, and theorization of archival explorations through pedagogy, written by scholars, archivists, librarians, and educators whose work furthers an understanding of the ways in which engagements with collected materials shape pedagogy.
Possible topics include but are not limited to
●Using archival sources in university classroom assignments and projects
●Collaborations between libraries, educators, students, disciplines, and/or communities
●Undergraduate (or graduate) archival research, including faculty-student collaborations
●Situating recovery/discovery projects as pedagogy
●Integrating archival sources in K-12 instruction
●Accessibility and other equity concerns when incorporating digital and non-digital archival sources
●Histories of pedagogical spaces that include archival research
●Teaching historically marginalized voices through archival sources
●The role of archival research and teaching in inclusive approaches to pedagogy
●Students’ reckonings with archival absences and silences
●Developing archival collections as pedagogy or future teaching use
Please submit abstracts (250-500 words) and brief biographies (100 words) to Dr. Amanda Stuckey (amandastuckey@centralpenn.edu) and Dr. Heather Fox (heather.fox@eku.edu) by March 17, 2023. Co-authored submissions are welcome. Reproductions of assignments that demonstrate archival pedagogical strategies may accompany chapters. If accepted, completed chapters of 6,000-10,000 words will be due in early 2024.