At a time when so much of our focus is on national events and crises here, it is also important to recognize that there are those in our community who also are dealing with the impact of violence, loss, and upheavals that, while occurring beyond our borders, have profound and personal impact. The Center’s Administrative Manager, Sabina Sarkisyan Griffin, is among them. – Ed.

Mary Murphy serves as the Nancy L. Buc ‘65 Pembroke Center Archivist where she curates and oversees the Christine Dunlap Farnham and Feminist Theory Archives, Brown’s womxn’s history special collections.

Amanda Kazden is a second-year student in the Public Humanities MA Program and an Exhibitions Assistant at the John Hay Library.

Marisa Angell Brown is Assistant Director for Programs at the Center for Public Humanities where she teaches courses on historic preservation and cultural heritage and curates the Center’s programs. She writes about preservation, public history, monuments and art on Twitter @marisa_angell  and is the author of "Preservation's Expanded Field" in Doing Public Humanities (available here), published by Routledge Press this past July.  

Sharaldine Francisco is a second-year student in the Public Humanities MA Program. Her research interests include memory politics, historical reconciliation, collective memory and trauma, and Cold War Latin America. She is particularly interested in public projects that engage in dialogue with difficult histories of war and violence in a meaningful and responsible manner.

March 2015. Mendoza, Argentina.