Cassy Smith (PhD candidate) selected as a 2020-2021 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellow at the American Philosophical Society
PhD candidate Cassy Smith has been selected as a 2020-2021 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Knowledge Sharing (DKS) Fellow at the American Philosophical Society. Administered by the American Philosophical Society Library and Museum Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, this fellowship will support archival research that will contribute to the first major project at the Pueblo of Isleta's new cultural center, "Telling History from the Land." This project will transform a diverse and often disparate body of cultural knowledge, historical documents, and material culture relevant to the pueblo into an accessible and comprehensible living tribal archive and collection—digital, material, and experiential in format. The fellowship provides travel funds to repositories whose collections include archives and material objects of cultural significance to the Pueblo of Isleta. Additionally, all Fellows will participate in a two-day Digital Knowledge Sharing Workshop at the American Philosophical Society.