It was in seeing themselves that they could better see others - perhaps, and especially, others who weren’t exactly like them.
The Personal Archive Assignment is an adaptable, re-mixable assignment ready for you, your students, and your community members.
Bring the PAA to your classroom or community space!
The Creators
Dr. Krista Grensavitch and Abigail Nye are long-standing collaborators at the intersection of archives, history, and women’s & gender studies
Krista & Abbi created the Personal Archive Assignment (PAA) within the framework of engaged pedagogy, in which the emphasis is on well-being, self-actualization, and empowerment of students. This framework is particularly important during an extended period in which students find themselves unmoored due to the pandemic and other traumatic events.
In creating and sharing the PAA, our goal is to attend to student well-being: utilizing the space of the classroom to help students learn to navigate, reflect upon, and mark the time spent living through a world characterized by upheaval.
Dr. Krista Grensavitch, PhD
National History Day
Abigail Nye, MLIS
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee