Latine Southern Ohio: Presentation of Research

Latine del Sur de Ohio: Presentacíon sobre la Investigacíon

Date: February 13, 2023 | 13 Febrero, 2023

Time: 5:30PM - 7:00PM (EST)

This was a hybrid event/Este es un evento hibrido:

In-person Location: Center for Public History, Clark Memorial Library, Shawnee State University, 940 Second Street, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662

Virtual via Zoom

Languages/Idiomas: English and Spanish/Inglés y Español

This event was FREE and open to the public/Evento gratis y abierto al publico

Watch the presentation video on Vimeo

Join Southern Ohio Folklife for our presentation of research for the Latine in Southern Ohio project. We will discuss our historical and cultural research about Latine community members in the southern Ohio area drawn from census records, archives, scholarship, and oral histories of local residents. The new bilingual (English and Spanish) Latine in Southern Ohio archival collection will be launched.

Acompáñenos a la presentación de Southern Ohio Folklife sobre su investigación para el proyecto sobre la comunidad latina en el sur de Ohio. Hablaremos sobre la investigación histórica y cultural de la comunidad latina del sur de Ohio con datos recolectados del censo, archivos, estudios, y las historias orales de residentes locales. Se va a inaugurar el archivo digital de la nueva colección bilingüe llamada, Latine in Southern Ohio.

After the presentation, Dr. Andrew Feight will provide a tour of the Center for Public History.

Después de la presentación, el Dr. Andrew Feight proveerá un tour del centro de historia pública.

This program is made possible in part by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Este programa es posible en parte por Ohio Humanities, un afiliado estatal del National Endowment for the Humanities.

Email southernohiofolklife@gmail.com if you require assistance to attend this event.

Email southernohiofolklife@gmail.com si necesita asistencia para participar en este evento.

Latine in Southern Ohio

Funder: Ohio Humanities

Period of Performance: August 2022 - February, 2023

Southern Ohio Folklife has been awarded a quarterly grant from Ohio Humanities to continue our work with Latine communities (see planning grant information below). We seek to (1) deepen and expand existing relationships in the area, recruiting more collaborators and stakeholders and continuing to build collaborative frameworks with the project Steering Committee; (2) contextualize Latine life in the area by conducting archival and public research that culminates in a white paper that is available for free to the general public; (3) continue exploring Latine life in the southern Ohio region through fieldwork and by collecting and transcribing bilingual oral histories with Latine leaders, (4) establish a bilingual archival collection with the Center for Public History at Shawnee State University and contribute to the existing Oral Narratives of Latin@s in Ohio Collection at the Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State University; and (5) present our work at a public event and solicit feedback from community members. At the end of the grant period, we will (6) reflect on our work and the feedback from the public event, and brainstorm next steps based on expressed community interests.

Collaborators for this project include the South Central Ohio Educational Service Center and the Center for Public History at Shawnee State University.

Project Team

Project Director: Dr. Cassie Rosita Patterson (Executive Director, Southern Ohio Folklife)

Fieldworker, Translator/Transcriber: Dr. Céline Lamb (Independent)

Bookkeeper: Sue Eleuterio, M.A. (Independent Folklorist)

Translator: Ariadna Bentley (Wheelersburg Schools)

Transcriber/Translator (for oral history interviews): Dan Kauffman (Spanish Teacher, Valley High School), Ileana Perez (Graduate Student, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Ohio State University)

Steering Committee

Joseph D. (J.D.) Emnett (Curriculum Specialist, South Central Ohio Educational Service Center)

Dr. Sophia Enriquez (Assistant Professor of Music, Duke University)

Lucía Espinosa (Seamstress and Domestic Worker)

Dr. Andrew Feight (Professor of History and Director of the Center for Public History, Shawnee State University)

Dr. Elena Foulis (Assistant Professor, Department of Language, Literature and Arts, Texas A&M, San Antonio)

Alex (Artist)

Edwin Martell (Board of Trustees, Southern Ohio Folklife and Watch Me Grow, Ohio)

Hector Reffit (Pastor, The Cross Church)

Dr. Pablo Salinas (Associate Professor, Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures and Literatures, Department of English, Shawnee State University)

If you know of someone who would be a good fit for our work on this project, email us at southernohiofolklife@gmail.com.

Latinx in Southern Ohio Planning Grant

Funder: Ohio Humanities

Period of Performance: September - December, 2021

Southern Ohio Folklife has been awarded planning funds to establish a Planning Committee made up of Dr. Cassie Rosita Patterson (Executive Director, Southern Ohio Folklife), Dr. Elena Foulis (Clinical Faculty, Department of Spanish, Ohio State University), Dr. Pablo Salinas (Associate Professor, Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures and Literatures, Department of English, Shawnee State University), J.D. Emnett (Curriculum Specialist, South Central Ohio Educational Service Center), Hector Reffit (The Cross Church), and Yolanda Villeda-Quirasco (Adult Career Services, Community Action, Portsmouth, Ohio) in order to develop a plan and write a Major Grant application to the Ohio Humanities to fund storytelling sessions aimed at listening to, documenting, and interpreting the multifaceted Latinx experience in southern Ohio. The Team will reflect upon and discuss (either virtually or in person, depending on statewide Covid-19 restrictions) strategies for conducting ethical, collaborative folklore and oral history research in the southern Ohio region. The purpose of this planning grant is to (1) recruit and assemble the Planning Committee that will develop a plan to document, interpret, and share the history and contemporary folklife of Latina/o/x communities, (2) establish a collaborative relationship between SOF and Latina/o/x communities, (3) prepare a Major Grant application to the Ohio Humanities, and (4) collaboratively imagine and enact an equitable future for Latinas/os/xs in southern Ohio.

While Dr. Patterson has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork and community-engaged programming in Appalachian Ohio, and Dr. Foulis has and continues to document Latina/o/x oral histories in Ohio through the Oral Narratives of Latin@s in Ohio project and archival collection (housed at OSU’s Folklore Archives at the Center for Folklore Studies), they propose to bring their collective experience together to merge these two foci in order to focus on Latina/o/x residents in southern Ohio. Our long-term goal is to significantly expand oral history collaboration and documentation with Latina/o/x in Appalachian Ohio, with southern Ohio being our area of focus. After building our own relationships and archives, we imagine embarking on collaborations with other organizations throughout Appalachian Ohio to connect our Latina/o/x oral history archives and projects to others in the region.

This program is made possible in part by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

If you know of someone who would be a good fit for our work on this project, email us at southernohiofolklife@gmail.com.