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Applications for the 2024-2025 Fellowship are now closed.
Check back in Spring 2025 for information about the coming year's projects and application details.
Fellowship Information and Schedule
The main components of the fellowship during the academic year will include archival processing, exhibition curation, public programming, participating in the UCSC Graduate Research Symposium, and ongoing collection research to support the above. The Fellow will be trained in archival theory and practice during Fall quarter, with ongoing training, discussion, and immersion in the University Library’s Special Collections & Archives department throughout the year.
Archival Processing
One main component of the CART fellowship is receiving training in foundational and contemporary archival theory and practices, and putting those skills into hands-on practice by conducting archival processing on collections. Getting trained in processing work with CART builds a foundational understanding of how archival collections are created, organized, and presented, which graduate Fellows can use to improve their own archival research skills.
Archival processing includes surveying, arranging, describing, preserving, and providing access to collections in the UCSC Special Collections & Archives. Fellows are trained by a professional archivist in established standards of the profession.
The 2024-2025 CART Fellow will process the Donna Haraway Papers, including digital files, to make the materials available for research via a collection guide:
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Donna J. Haraway is a professor emerita in the departments of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, where she has taught since 1980, and where she became the first tenured professor in feminist theory in the United States. Haraway is a prominent scholar in the field of science, technology, and medicine studies; with expertise in feminist theory; relations between life and human sciences; histories of animal-human relationships; cultures of nature and environment; science and politics; and animal studies.
The archival collection of Donna Haraway Papers spans over 30 boxes and includes correspondence, lectures and teaching materials from courses in History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies, notes and writings, administrative files from her work at UC Santa Cruz, research and publication files, materials from professional organizations and conferences, audio and video recordings, and some biographical materials. The files range in date from the 1960s to the present, with the bulk representing the 1980s and 1990s.
The 2024-2025 CART Fellow will process these paper files as well as the digital component of the Haraway archival collection, which includes manuscript files on floppy disk, videos, email correspondence, Haraway’s Facebook page, and various websites featuring Haraway’s work. The Fellow will use digital processing tools such as ePADD and Archive-it to capture, preserve, and make available digital components of the Haraway papers.
Exhibition Curation
The Fellow will curate a public exhibition in the Third Floor Gallery of McHenry Library during Spring 2025. This exhibition will highlight collection materials in Special Collections & Archives, and may include materials the Fellow has processed from the Haraway papers. The Fellow will have time throughout the year to research the collections stewarded by the library, and work with staff to develop themes, modules, and exhibition text for display in Spring.
Public Programming
In collaboration with archives staff, the CART Fellow will develop and facilitate at least one event or public program during the academic year. This could be a guest lecture, reading discussion, workshop, film screening, colloquium, etc.
Some examples of past programs include:
"Tripping on Utopia” and Locavore Research with UCSC Professor Ben Breen - Hands-on archival encounters and book talk for Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science
Echoes of Seema Weatherwax: History, Sound, and Creative Practice in the Archive - Hosted by Brock Stuessi, CART Fellow, with guest Michael J. Kramer, SUNY Brockport
Reading and discussion of "Of Things Said and Unsaid: Power, Archival Silences, and Power in Silence" by Rodney G.S. Carter.
Digital Project
Optionally, the Fellow can also create a digital project utilizing the archival materials in the Donna Haraway Papers or other collections stewarded by UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives. Examples of past digital exhibits and projects created by CART Fellows include:
Echoes of Seema: A creative rearrangement of the Sara Halprin interviews of Seema Weatherwax collection by Brock Stuessi
"See you when I see you...": Black Student Life at UCSC 1965-present by Jazmin Benton
Reading Nature, Observing Science: Examining Material Practices in the Lick Observatory Archives and Kenneth S. Norris Papers by Alex Moore, Christine Turk, and Danielle Crawford
UCSC Research Symposium
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The CART Fellow will participate in the annual UCSC Graduate Research Symposium in Spring 2025. They will present on the research they’ve done with CART in McHenry Library, either in a short talk, research poster presentation, or alternative media presentation
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