Our Research Projects

 COVID-19 Healthcare Oral History Project

Document in ten oral history interviews the contemporary history of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. These interviews will be conducted first to document the work of healthcare providers on the front line during the early months of the current pandemic including documenting the impact of the pandemic on communities of color, and secondly to discuss comparisons between this pandemic and the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. COMPLETED

Learnings from HIV/AIDS and Other Diseases -Research Papers

Research and write papers to categorizes information collected through the HIV-AIDS Healthcare Providers Oral history project to increase access and link it to related research on other diseases. These papers will address parallels between HIV/AIDS oral history work and other diseases documented through oral history work as well as other documented studies, provide a way to replicate oral history projects, and, finally, will explore ways to increase access to oral history work. COMPLETED

Minnesota’s Daily Newspaper Environment

Understand the condition and future of MN daily print newspapers, through 10 oral history interviews across Minnesota, covering 40% of the state’s daily newspapers including journalists from urban, mid-sized and rural newspapers. COMPLETED

Why Minnesota Teachers Are Leaving Teaching

Understand why elementary, middle and high school teachers are leaving the field of teaching and what might be done to turn this around. The research paper is based on interviews with key informants who are involved in Minnesota’s education system as well as 16 interviews with teachers from urban and rural schools around the state. COMPLETED