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Genealogy & Kinship: Following the Questions Across Family and Place
Folklife & Fieldwork · Research Note Genealogy & Kinship: Following the Questions Across Family and Place Documented ancestry and the historical questions it opens Published: October 19, 2026Collection: Genealogy & KinshipType: Research Note My genealogical work has established ancestral connections reaching into the Cane River…Continue reading →
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Returning to Timbertown: Reopening a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Fieldwork Record
Folklife & Fieldwork · Research Note Returning to Timbertown: Reopening a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Fieldwork Record Original fieldwork, renewed inquiry, and the return to Castor Published: October 19, 2026Collection: TimbertownType: Research Note The original 2001–02 Timbertown fieldwork in Castor, Louisiana, documented the people, work, places, and traditions…Continue reading →
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The Technology Changes. The Human Questions Remain: An FIU Conversation on Archives and Oral History
Recovering a Web 2.0 time capsule, revisiting oral history in the AI era, and asking students at FIU what happens to the stories no one thinks to ask about.
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Wikipedia Workbook for Cultural Institutions: From Workshop to Open Resource
How Jeff Guin commissioned Mary Mark Ockerbloom to create an openly licensed Wikipedia workbook at Vizcaya—and how the resource traveled into professional training and scholarship.
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Designing a Public Identity for Heritage Resources: The MAHR Recruitment Campaign
A recovered brochure and postcard document Jeffery Guin’s communications and design work for Northwestern State University’s Master of Arts in Heritage Resources.
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My Year at Wolfsonian-FIU: An Instructive Leap Toward Today’s Systems Building Focus
A brief Wolfsonian-FIU chapter, reconstructed through surviving video work, showing early experiments in participatory storytelling, curator-led interpretation, installation documentation, and the institutional conditions that shaped what came next.
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Preservation Technology Podcast: Interviewing the Field as It Changed
What remains is the belief that relationships beyond the walls matter, that cross-disciplinary curiosity matters, and that experimentation matters. Technology can extend the imagination and connect people in ways that allow a shared vision to advance further than any one person or institution could take it alone.
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A Modern Stoa: Can Cultural Institutions Make Room for Collective Adaptation?
A visit to the remains of Athens’ Painted Stoa becomes the starting point for a contemporary institutional question: where do cultural organizations create space for people to think together? Workflow Studio is presented as an experiment in collective adaptation—bringing people across roles and disciplines together around real problems, testing assumptions, and building shared understanding. The…
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Before I Knew to Call It Heritage: My First Corporate Communications Job
My first job out of college began with a newsletter internship at a paper mill and grew into a regional communications role I largely invented for myself. Looking back at the portfolio now, I can see how much of my later work was already taking shape there: an interest in people, place, storytelling, design, and…
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Greg Baldwin Oral History: Memory and Activism in the AIDS Era
A two-day oral history with Greg Baldwin became a layered digital presentation of Miami LGBTQ+ history — video, full audio, transcript, context, and a public-knowledge afterlife. This is the story, the presentation, and the toolkit behind it.