Since the early 1980s, historians have redefined the field of public history’s understanding of audience, stakeholders, and the role of the public in producing community-based research projects.  Public historians have embraced the idea of collaborating with a community to share the authority on storytelling and to gain buy-in on local historical narratives.   Read More ..read more

El Paso Community College (EPCC) is one of many institutions that serves a unique student population.  The majority of its students are Hispanic or of another minority ethnicity, are often first-generation students, and also tend to come from low-income backgrounds.  These traits often become pre-disposed labels that accompany differential treatment that can occur not only in the education system but also in the judicial and carceral systems.   Read More ..read more

I had always assumed A.D.H.D was a phenomenon that only manifested in young boys.  Stereotypical and diagnostic characteristics included being disruptive, hyperactive, inattentive, male, and Caucasian.  My diagnosis as a young adult in college had severely disrupted this lens, as I was seemingly the opposite: quiet, timid, female, and Hispanic. Read More ..read more

What does it mean for a sound to be amplified?  Are they made to be more noticeable?  When a sound is amplified, it is expanded. It is made to be louder and heard.  The sounds I hear in one area with more activity may immediately catch my attention, but they are not any less noticeable to what I hear in another area with less activity.  They are of a different ambience as sound stands in different volumes—in different layers. Read More ..read more

“Do not seek the old in the new, but find something new in the old.” --Siegfried Zielinski, Deep Time of the Media I grew up regretting asking my parents anything about their childhood because they would go on long tangents about how in their times everything was better: the music, the clothes, the people, and the teachers. Read More ..read more

Since this past summer, our team of Faculty and Student Fellows have been planning our upcoming project with The Humanities Collaborative at EPCC-UTEP, which we've titled "Philosophic Dialogues from la Frontera."  Now that the fall semester has started, we've decided to introduce everyone to our team members and our project goals.   Read More ..read more

Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. I remember watching my father play the keyboard and sing during weekly practices at home. I remember watching him perform live and allowing me to sing or tinker on the instruments. Even though the band members were not related to me by blood, they became integral to my musical upbringing. Read More ..read more

In recent years, the humanities have steadily expanded its exploration of multiple histories and communities upon the realization that the history and representation of those communities have often been neglected.  Lately, this exploration has begun to include the disabled community. Read More ..read more

For The Humanities Collaborative at EPCC-UTEP, each new year starts with a gathering of new Faculty and Student Fellows in June.  From June 6-7, 2022, I attended The Collaborative's orientation in The University of Texas at El Paso Library's Blumberg Auditorium—the first orientation I attended since joining the Collaborative in September 2021—and I looked forward to this event because I was excited to meet my new Faculty Fellow and to learn more about the project I would work on this for this upcoming academic year. Read More ..read more

“Do not seek the old in the new, but find something new in the old.” --Siegfried Zielinski, Deep Time of the Media I grew up regretting asking my parents anything about their childhood because they would go on long tangents about how in their times everything was better: the music, the clothes, the people, and the teachers. Read More ..read more