Congratulations to Faculty Member Jamie Lee on Grant to Train Grad Students in Community Archives

Congratulations to our affiliated faculty member Dr. Jamie Lee!

Jamie A. Lee, associate dean for faculty affairs and associate professor in the College of Information Science, has devoted their career to making the gathering, telling and sharing of lived and living histories more inclusive and just. Lee and colleagues from nine other universities—Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS)—were recently awarded $6.15M from the Mellon Foundation to empower a new generation of archivists to join their work to change archival studies pedagogy by centering community archives as rich sites for learning.

The University of Arizona’s Critical Archives and Curation Collaborative (co/lab) received $1 million to fund internships at five local community archives, of which three have been selected: the Dunbar Pavilion African American Arts & Culture Center; Los Descendientes de Tucson, the Mexican American Heritage and History Museum at the Sosa-Carrillo House; and the Arizona Queer Archives.

You can read more about this initiative on the UA Research, Innovation, and Impact website.