Research
The aim is of the Ottoman Greeks of the United States Digital History Project (OGUS) is to preserve and raise awareness about the experiences of Ottoman Greek immigrants in the US during the first quarter of the 20th century. The OGUS project consists of the following components.
1. The OGUS Archive.
1.1. Interviews with descendants of Ottoman Greek immigrants from regions of the late Ottoman Empire that overlap with contemporary Turkey.
1.2. An archive of two and three-dimensional images that depict places, people, and objects donated by descendants of Ottoman Greek immigrants.
2. The OGUS Map
2.1. An interactive map that traces immigration from overlapping regions of the late Ottoman Empire and contemporary Turkey to the United States.
The OGUS archive and map can be accessed through the OGUS website here: https://ogus.oral.history.ufl.edu/
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The OGUS project is ongoing.
Yiorgo Topalidis
Black Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Retention at UF Oral History Project
The Black Faculty and Staff Recruitment and Retention at UF Oral History Project consists of oral histories with former and current Black faculty. Its primary objective was to develop a policy for Black faculty recruitment and retention and the development of an infrastructure to
promote the policy. The project's findings were presented at two separate events: a town hall in the Fall of 2021 and a conference in the Spring of 2022.
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Fall 2021 Town Hall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWpfa3ZRmgo
The White Anti-Racist Activism Digital History Project consists of interviews and artifacts donated by individuals who participated in social justice movements over the past 40 years in states of the Gulf South and present major themes from those interviews. The project’s goal is to raise public awareness about White intersectional anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-classist advocacy and activism from 1980 to the present.
