Saada summer fellowship in community archiving: a grassroots effort to diversify humanities collections [the saada summer fellowship in community archiving is an intensive, two-month summer fellowship…

This $350,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports the SAADA Summer Fellowship in Community Archiving program. The two-year project, starting on September 1, 2024, will provide master's-level students with training in community archival practices and digital preservation focused on preserving South Asian American cultural heritage materials. Fellows will learn skills such as digitization, metadata creation, oral history interview techniques, and ethical storytelling. They will also create a digital collection and curate an exhibit highlighting a South Asian American community. As a subrecipient, the South Asian American Digital Archive NFP (Saada) will leverage its expertise in community-based archiving to deliver this program and make these humanities materials more widely accessible.

Saada summer fellowship in community archiving: a grassroots effort to diversify humanities collections [the saada summer fellowship in community archiving is an intensive, two-month summer fellowship program that will provide training in community archival practices and digital preservation to master?S-level students who have a demonstrated interest in the south asian american community and the preservation and care of humanities collections. Fellows will learn about the operations and programming work within a community-based archive, including digitizing materials, licensing and copyright law, creating metadata for archival objects, conducting oral history interviews, and ethical issues around community storytelling. They will also be exposed to a range of career readiness and discovery opportunities. During the program, each fellow will create a digital collection and curate an exhibit highlighting a south asian american community of which they are themselves a member, or in which they have deep existing relationships.]