Michelle Martin and co-author Mandi Harris (PhD Student)’s paper titled “Home is a Sound: Relationships with the Land in African American and Native American Picture Books,” was accepted to Summer School 2026: Indigenous Voices in Children’s Literature.
Michelle Martin and Mandi Harris (PhD Student) co-led a workshop titled “Going Outdoors to Look Inward: Relationships with the Land in African American and Native American Picture Books,” at Summer School 2026: Indigenous Voices in Children’s Literature.
Several Information School researchers were awarded CALMA Grants:
Temi Odumosu received $3,050 for “Archival Work in Progress: Re-Visualizing African Craftsmen in America (1971-1977)”
Pelle Tracey received $10,429 for “Housing More than the Collection: The Role of Libraries in Supporting Patrons Experiencing Housing Precarity Across Locales”
Meena Selvakumar received $4,000 for “Bell Shimada Exploratory Exhibit: Connections to Today’s Audiences and Current Issues”
Verletta Kern, UW Libraries Director of Open Scholarship & Publishing, received $5,000 for “Building the Barangay: Museum Collections as Community Connector”
Melanie Walsh received $9,800 for “Public Canons and Viral Authors”
Karen Fisher received $15,000 for “The Role of Libraries, Archives and Museums in Supporting Post-Conflict Recovery: A Case Study of Syria”
Stephen Prochaska (PhD Student) participated in a roundtable discussion with Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs about election rumors, an event planned in conjunction with the Washington State University Thomas S. Foley Institute.
Tracie D. Hall was quoted in an article about the Black Information Futures Symposium that she convened recently titled “Luminaries Convene at UW to Envision Black Information Futures.”