Multimedia/Multimodal Research Projects

 2017-present         Digital Storytelling & Oral History (DS | OH) Lab

School of Information. Including both graduate and undergraduate researchers, the DS|OH Lab aims to create a teaching/learning space for digital media production that critically engages storytelling as method with implications for the emergence of multiple histories as complex and often contradictory. Submitted 2017 NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant. Jamie A. Lee selected as UA nominee for 2017 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship. (https://dsohlab.arizona.edu/)

2015-present         Climate Alliance Mapping Project (CAMP)

Co-PI and Digital Storytelling/Archives Director.  Co-PI: Tracey N. Osborne, PhD (Geography). Collaborator: Benedict J. Colombi, Ph.D. (American Indian Studies, Anthropology). Project awarded the Switzer Foundation grant through Amazon Watch and the Institute of the Environment. Applied to 2017 ACLS and designated ‘Alternate.’

2011-present         Arizona Queer Archives, statewide LGBTQ archives

Project Director, Founder, and Archivist. Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona. Awarded 2014 Alliance Fund grant for “Community Box Project.” Collaborate with graduate, undergraduate and high school student interns interested in Information, Archival Studies, Digital Storytelling & Oral History, Public History, and Gender & Women’s Studies each academic year. http://www.azqueerarchives.org

2010-present         Stories of Arizona’s Tribal Libraries: An Oral History Project

Project Co-Director with Sandy Littletree. Partnered with tribal librarians from 5 of Arizona’s 22 tribal nations to collect histories of tribal libraries. Knowledge River, School of Information, University of Arizona. https://vimeo.com/knowledgeriver

2008-present         Arizona LGBTQ Storytelling Project: Community Histories

Project Director and Oral Historian. Arizona’s first LGBTQ Archives and migrated into Arizona Queer Archives as the cornerstone collection and storytelling programmatic focus.

2006-present         aguamiel:  secrets of the agave (ongoing digital humanities project)

Co-directed by Adela C. Licona, Ph.D.  aguamiel: secrets of the agave is about the space between two nations—a ‘third space’—where the Mexico/US border can be considered a microcosm of globalization to highlight what everyday experts are doing to re-imagine and redress the practices that have entrenched inequalities and injustices. In collaboration with scholars, activists, filmmakers, and communities, aguamiel engages the goals of social justice media and the promise of digital humanities to creatively challenge mainstream mis/representations of Mexican and Mexican-origin households and borderlands’ communities. Presented at the 2008 Women’s World Congress in Madrid, Spain and the 2008 National Communications Association (NCA) Annual Convention in San Diego. Featured as part of the TransformDH Conference: http://transformdh.org/2015-video-showcase/aguamiel-secrets-of-the-agave-on-water-jamie-a-lee-and-adela-c-licona/

Multimedia/Multimodal Community Projects

2009-2010               Coming In Hot, Media Producer and Collaborator of live theater performances and DVD productions of one-woman show based on the book, Powder, Kore Press.

2009                          Powder book trailer, Media Producer and Director, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qO5qUg9TCQ, Kore Press.

 2008        Invisible City, Filmmaker/Collaborator in transdisciplinary community art and activist project, http://www.invisiblecityproject.wordpress.com.