The Patient Interview, Part I: Text, Discourse, Performance
Minds may know and be known by cognitions. But persons are enacted rather than known, enacted by performances with a story in mind. William Frank …
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Uncovering the Commitment Process: The Archive
For the past four years the Community Histories Workshop has been working with the historical records from Dorothea Dix Hospital. Each year has brought new …
To Live is to Leave Traces: Learning from Adaptive Reuse
Learning from Adaptive Reuse adapted and abridged from: Adaptive Reuse and Community History and Archiving A White Paper And Final Report for: “Rocky Mount Mills: …
On Marginalia and Annotation
To participants in AMST 715, Fall Term, 2020: “Recovering and Representing the Asylum” Annotation as a kind of reader commentary has been around for centuries …
Graduating CHW Fellow Morgan Vickers recognized (again!)
Graduating CHW Undergraduate Research Fellow Morgan Vickers was profiled in Endeavors, the research magazine published through the UNC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. At the …
Teaching the Asylum: Health Humanities
Over spring semester 2018, the Community Histories Workshop partnered with Professor Jordynn Jack (Director of the English M.A. Program in Literature, Medicine, and Culture; and …
Work of CHW featured on UNC Home Page
The work of the CHW was highlighted on the landing page of the UNC website on April 2, 2018. Thanks to Kim Spurr of the …
CHW Statement of Principles
Established in 2016, the Community Histories Workshop (CHW) works with local communities to recover, preserve, and share the memories, stories, and materials that reflect the …
The CHW Releases “Stories of the Mills”
The Community Histories Workshop would like to announce the release of Stories of the Mills, the first round of transcribed oral history interviews relating to …
