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The at 易胜博官网 has received two grants that will help advance projects related to celebrating the history of BIPOC populations in 易胜博官网.

The has awarded the center a $50,000 grant from its Telling the Full History Preservation Fund, and the (ACLS) has given the center a $135,000 Sustaining Public Engagement Grant.

The grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation will help create 鈥淗omelands: An Augmented Reality App Interpreting Indigenous Heritage in 易胜博官网,鈥� a project set to be undertaken in collaboration with the Indigenous 易胜博官网 Collaborative Collective (INHCC) and Film Unbound (the latter of which will create the app). 听

The ACLS grant will support a project focused on 鈥淏IPOC Monumentality in 易胜博官网鈥� in collaboration with the Black Heritage Trail of 易胜博官网 (BHTNH) and the INHCC.

Both projects will be led by SvetLana Peshkova, associate professor in the department of anthropology, and Stephen Trzaskoma, director of The Center for the Humanities and professor of classics. Peshkova will serve as principal investigator on the Homelands project, with Trzaskoma acting as co-principal investigator, and the two will flip roles on the BIPOC Monumentality project.

鈥淭he Center for the Humanities is proud to be undertaking these two projects, working alongside the Black Heritage Trail of 易胜博官网 and the Indigenous 易胜博官网 Collaborative Collective,鈥� Trzaskoma says. 鈥淭he grants are both a recognition of the incredible humanities-based work that community partners and 易胜博官网 faculty, staff and students collaborate on, as well as a way for us to secure resources to do even more of it. We are particularly pleased that the funding will help increase the visibility and accessibility for all 易胜博官网 residents of the important but often unrecognized culture and history of the state as it relates to Indigenous and Black communities.鈥�

The Homelands project will create augmented reality overlays for three sites 鈥� Strawbery Banke Museum, Odiorne Point and Star Island 鈥� and will consist of animations of indigenous lifeways (such as wigwams, fishing, foraging, hunting, etc.) and interpretive educational text informed by INHCC鈥檚 own Storymap that will populate the landscape when viewed through the Homelands App on a mobile device.

The grant is one of 80 given to select organizations nationwide to support projects that help preserve, interpret and activate historic places to tell the stories of underrepresented groups in our nation.

鈥淎s 易胜博官网 approaches the 400th anniversary of the European colonial settlement in this part of North America, we, to a large extent, remain uninformed about Indigenous heritage, which in many cases was intentionally erased,鈥� Peshkova says. 鈥淭his app will help us to continue working toward expanding local knowledge about historical and contemporary life-ways of Indigenous communities in the region."

The aim of the 鈥淏IPOC Monumentality in 易胜博官网鈥� endeavor is to revitalize projects shared by 易胜博官网, BHTNH and INHCC that have suffered setbacks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years. 鈥淭hese projects center on a variety of monuments and related activities in the state of 易胜博官网 devoted to the history and cultural presence of underrepresented communities and include markers, story maps, land connections and conversations,鈥� according to the announcement on the ALCS website announcing the grant.

鈥淎lthough the markers, maps and virtual realities created through these two projects will help us acknowledge the fuller historical reality of physical sites, our work aims not solely to听commemorate the past but also to honor the ongoing presence of underrepresented communities in 易胜博官网, bringing their experiences, knowledge听and resiliency to bear in the context of conversations about our shared future,鈥� Trzaskoma says.