Public Scholarship

Indigenous Histories and Futures in Wallingford

Public History Research Project

Project Sponsors:
Historic Wallingford (Seattle, WA)

As PI, Alexandra leads a small team of researchers supporting the development of Historic Wallingford’s public project on Indigenous histories and futures in North Seattle and its surrounding waterways. The public research project proceeds from the understanding that urban histories are Indigenous histories, that settler colonialism is ongoing in what is now called the United States, and that the struggle for land back continues unabated. 

Learn more about the project here.

(Re) Imagining Home In the Crisis of the ‘Prison Fix’: Mapping Linkages Between Incarceration and Homelessness in Washington Through Narrative Story-Telling

Webinar

Project Sponsors:
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities
Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington
Department of English, University of Washington

This community colloquium discusses how narrative storytelling can help transform received ideas about incarceration and homelessness by showcasing a cohort of formerly/currently incarcerated and homeless narrative storytellers who have been collaborating on the construction of a digital creative commons that shares their life experiences at this intersection.

(Re) Imagining Home In the Crisis of the ‘Prison Fix’

Digital Creative Commons

Project Sponsors:
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Public Projects in the Humanities
Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington

(Re)Imagining Home is an open-access digital creative commons hosted by the platform Pressbooks at the University of Washington. The project comprises a digital compendium where collaborators contribute personal multimedia pieces that speak to the intersections of incarceration and housing insecurity. The project is organized and maintained by Alec Fisher and Alexandra Meany.

To access the project, click here.