Alisa Caira is a student pursuing degrees in Literary Arts and Anthropology at Brown University. They are particularly interested in storytelling and its relationship to the archive. They endeavor to intertwine their disciplines in order to generate deeper comprehensions of museum accessibility and the role of fiction in education.

Project:

This project studies the ways in which archives, libraries, and museum spaces across New England are reprioritizing and negotiating digital accessibility in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using past experience with various archival organizations across New England, these catalyst sites and experiences drawn from within them will be utilized to look at a broader wave of digitization happening in this realm. This project will help articulate a hole in academic research caused by the speed with which COVID has changed the landscape of digital accessibility. It will also analyze the ideologies and effectiveness of digitization efforts in order to assist in the creation of potential archival futures.