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Using Podcasts for Digital Storytelling, Archival Recovery, and Community Engagement
November 7, 2024 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time
Over the past decade, we’ve seen a rise in podcast production and interest. And as the producers of the Sexing History and Señora Power Project podcasts have shown, podcasts are a powerful medium:
They can serve as a sonic archive, preserving audio records that may have been omitted by institutional archives, and fostering an auditory experience for records that are intended to be heard, like oral histories. By nature, podcasts are also inclined to storytelling. Their stories can create new modes of access into the archive as well as create space for new voices from the community to contribute.
In a 90-minute webinar with eLaboratories, recorded during the original presentation on Nov. 7, 2024, Dr. Saniya Ghanoui of Sexing History, and Drs. Gaby Barrios, Sonia Del Hierro, and Sophia Martínez Abbud of the Señora Power Project will discuss how and why they designed their projects with these affordances in mind. This webinar aims to discuss how to ethically design digital storytelling projects, and the role of such projects in engaging students and local communities in the work of producing these projects. This presentation is ideal for those who are interested in learning more about digital storytelling, in exploring the ethics of their work, and in co-creating a project with their community.
Content Warning: Please be advised that as presenters share content from their podcasts, there may be references to racism or misogyny experienced by interviewees of the podcasts, or embedded within the situational contexts that these podcasts discuss. Please care for yourself accordingly.
About the Presenters
Dr. Saniya Ghanoui is the Senior Producer of Sexing History and an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her current book project examines the transnational history of sex education between the US and Sweden. As a trained public and digital historian, she advocates for the use of podcasts and other digital tools to extend the humanities outside academia.
Dr. Gaby Barrios is an independent scholar whose dissertation focuses on the representation of migrant women’s trauma in Mexican and Chicanx cultural production. Her recent publication about Mexican feminist performance art and its complications is available in the Spanish-language edited volume titled Partera de la historia: violencia en literatura, performance y medios audiovisuales en Latinoamérica.
Dr. Sonia Del Hierro is an Assistant Professor of English at Southwestern University. Her current project, “Chicana Sartoriality,” analyzes how fashion has been used in Mexican American communities to co-construct race, ethnicity, and political power. Her forthcoming article is a collaborative essay, “Teaching With Color: Thematic Hires and the Politics of Teaching in Texas,” which will appear in the Spring 2025 issue of Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Dr. Sophia Martínez Abbud is an Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature and Culture at Utah State University. As a scholar of and from the US-Mexico border, her research focuses on representations of DIY, clandestine, and underproductive practices—colloquially known as punk–in contemporary Chicanx and Latinx narratives.
