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New Funders
Community College of Rhode Island
Brandeis University GSAS Grant
Funders Needed!
All donations to the CCRI Foundations are tax
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Who
Are We?
The
Public Heritage Institute is students and faculty from
various disciplines who are dedicated to making our
practice culturally relevant. It is our mission to
bridge the gaps not only between academic disciplines
and methods but also between academic institutions and
the communities which provide them a home. In
short, we are historians, anthropologists, historic
preservationists, archaeologists, craftsmen, and
community leaders who wish to share our expertise with
those around us -- the people who care and the things
they care about.
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New Bridges
Johnston Historical Society
Salve Regina University's School of Graduate
Studies
Rhode Island College's Anthropology Department
Attleboro Career and Tech High School |
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Projects: Quick View
Native American History in Johnston, RI
RI State Park, Snake Den: Historic Land Use
The Southern Italian Diaspora: folklores,
traditions, and tales
Marian festivals in Italian-American communities |
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What
is Public Heritage?
"Public Heritage" casts its
nets wide and deep. Our goal is to work with local
agencies -- historical societies, cultural
organizations, museums, cultural resource management
companies, etc. -- to help distribute the kind of
historical and cultural research which the local
population has a stake in. When history -- oral
and written, folklore, legend, religion, and other
matters of society and culture matter to the local
community, they matter to us. Using the methods of
Ethnohistory,
and more specifically, "Holistic
History," we aim to
seek out that which we refer to as "the backyard exotic"
and bring history home.
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Team Members
Kaela Keller
Audrey Geisler
Pavli Nashed
Caitlin Calouro
Alana Fiorenzano
Raffaele Florio, Director |
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Goals
and Objectives:
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Educate students in a manner which instills ideas of
practicality and relevance in their studies in
addition to a sense of responsibility to the
communities they call home.
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Organize summer field schools for college and
graduate school credit so students can work in a
hands-on setting
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Make independent studies available to students at
any level to both sharpen their skills and work with
the public to research the material which matters
helping to bring to light traditions, stories, and
other elements of an otherwise "silenced" past.
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Collect, categorize, and make accessible to the
public: Outside contributions to the Public Heritage
body of knowledge, the results of research, a
repository of cultural artifacts -- digital images
of local agency holdings, video, audio, etc, and
maintain a virtual museum that is open to the
general public for both uploading and searching
cultural artifacts.
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