Collaborators
The OHL collaborates with digital humanities teams at UPR Río Piedras and Michigan State University in the Archivo de Respuestas Emergencias de Puerto Rico. This Omeka S digital archive is committed to preserving and amplifying curated collections of stories and documents from mutual aid organizations across the Puerto Rican archipelago. Through our work on this data curation project, we disseminate widely information regarding the creative strategies for survival that communities have developed in the face of stratified disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and the global pandemic of COVID-19. This project is generously supported by a Collaborative Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Presidential Stream of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The OHL is a partner in the translocal climate justice network of partner universities and community organizations led by the Humanities Action Lab (HAL) at Rutgers University-Newark. OHL Director, Ricia Anne Chansky, is the Senior Climate Justice Fellow for HAL. In September 2024, the General Library will host the HAL exhibition, Climates of Inequality: Stories of Environmental Justice. Click here to see the UPRM contribution to the exhibition—and be sure to scroll down to see both our work on the “Sheltered in Place” project and our food insecurity zine—and here to watch the HAL documentary that features the UPRM team. The climate justice work at HAL is generously supported by a Humanities Discussions Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Grant from the Higher Learning Stream of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
