Immigrant Harrisonburg , digital archive and oral history project

Immigrant Harrisonburg is a collaborative effort to engage JMU students from across the CAL disciplines in innovative research and creative projects that explore the lived experience of immigration in our local area. Our common goals are to record, produce and compile a variety of narrative projects that document and celebrate the lives of immigrants in the Harrisonburg and Shenandoah Valley region, and to inquire the social, cultural, and historical contexts of their storied experiences. An initial effort compiled oral histories researched and recorded by students in the Department of History. These are showcased here:https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/immigrantharrisonburg/?_ga=2.36339680.1151585485.1535635091-1536407135.1534611975Projects during the 2018-19 AY will continue to expand that effort so as to include other forms of interview, narrative, mapping, and documentary products from across departments and disciplines in CAL.On September 6, 2018 at 6:00pm, the students and faculty from different courses gathered together at JMU\u27s Student Success Center to meet and learn of the scope of our work. Several members of the local community who have already been interviewed for the Immigrant Harrisonburg project will also attend. Our goal is help our students see themselves as members of an academic community that is in service to our local community and larger society