Julia Rabig, Project Director
Associate Professor of History, African and African American Studies affiliate
I’m a scholar of African American history, urban studies, and social movements. My scholarly concerns intersect in my books, The Fixers: Devolution, Development and Civil Society in Newark, New Jersey: 1960-1990 (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and The Business of Black Power: Corporate Responsibility, Capitalism, and Community Development in Post-War America, (University of Rochester Press, 2012), which was co-authored with Laura Warren Hill. I’m interested in how social movements develop both in opposition to, but also within institutions. I’m currently studying how urban public library systems and their users have experienced periods of municipal disinvestment and gentrification since the 1970s. I believe historians should ask more questions about how social movements are implemented over the long term (decades or more) and how their afterlives unfold to influence subsequent movements. Oral history is critical to my own scholarship. Every interview I’ve done has challenge an assumption I held or complicated what I thought I knew about history. Prior to joining the history department of Dartmouth College, I taught at University of Rochester, Boston University, and Amherst College. I’ve also worked on the Dartmouth Vietnam Project (DVP).
Bryan Winston, Associate Director
Department of History/Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies Program
Bryan Winston is the postdoctoral fellow for the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative (DDHI) and lecturer in History and LALACS at Dartmouth. His research and teaching focus on U.S. migration and labor history, Latinx history, race and ethnicity, transnationalism, oral history, and digital humanities. Winston’s current book project is a transnational account and analysis of ethnic Mexican life in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska during the first half of the twentieth century. Complementing the monograph in progress is a digital mapping project that visualizes Mexican migration routes, institutions, and social networks in the Lower Midwest.