Our Team

Our project team includes undergraduate, graduate students, faculty, and librarians at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the MCJC Co-Directors of Public History. Our interdisciplinary team works across the fields of oral history, rhetoric, and the digital and public humanities.

Project Team

Project Alumni

The Marian Cheek Jackson Center (MCJC)

Partnering with the MCJC has been transformative for students, deeply shaping both their understanding of historic Northside, Pine Knolls, and Tin Top neighborhoods of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC and their sense of responsibility as researchers. From undergraduates just beginning their academic journeys to graduate students and faculty refining their scholarly paths, working alongside MCJC and the Northside communities brought a level of emotional resonance and urgency to their work. The community’s willingness to share their experiences and the MCJC’s dedication to preserving and amplifying community members’ voices not only gave students and faculty access to richer, more accurate narratives, but also pushed them to think critically about the ways in which dominant narratives can obscure or distort lived experiences, especially in digital spaces like Wikipedia.

Importantly, working alongside one another – students, faculty, MCJC staff, and community members – allowed the group to reimagine more inclusive, community-centered interventions in Wikipedia that have a significant impact on the circulation of knowledge in digital spaces. Simply put, the project’s success—and the personal and intellectual growth students experienced—would not have been possible without the MCJC’s insight, support, and unwavering commitment to honoring local memory.

You can learn more about the MCJC’s crucial work and the staff and community members who make such work possible by visiting their site.