This project explores the changing relationship between architectural archives and current architectural and urban research.
Given the biases and inequalities in archives, the project will consider the experience and struggles of archival labor across disciplines.
A graduate student reading group will plan a series of open workshops and a final symposium. Students and scholars will prepare photo-essays to be shared publically online.
A new podcast highlighting the historical roots and contemporary developments of scientific practice in Africa, a continent often overlooked in scientific discourse.
Over 12 episodes, the podcast will feature interviews with historians of African science as well as African science pracitioners.
Each podcast will be shared along with key texts, transcriptions, and other media to enhance accessibility for users.
Recipients
Karuna Vikram (Undergraduate Student; History)
Sajjad Zafar (Undergraduate Student; Computer Science and Economics)
Description
The project examines how historical memory and public trust shape the knowledge and politics of vaccines in India and Pakistan
The project will study both the 20th-century vaccine discourses around polio and the current COVID-19 vaccination campaign.
Primary sources, interviews, data, and findings will be shared via a website specifically aimed at students.
