Digital Humanities Project Consultation: Picturing Mexican America

This digital humanities consultation project focused on evaluating and expanding the Picturing Mexican America initiative created by Marissa López at University of California, Los Angeles. The project explores Mexican American history through archival materials, geospatial storytelling, and public-facing digital scholarship. Learn more here: https://www.picturingmexicanamerica.com/

For this assignment, I conducted a disciplinary needs assessment and developed an annotated bibliography examining how archival collections and regional digital repositories could expand representation of Mexican American histories beyond California.

Through this work, I examined issues related to discoverability, access, metadata, and community representation in digital collections. The project reflects my interest in culturally responsive librarianship and the role digital humanities projects can play in preserving and increasing access to underrepresented histories.