Drs. Glenn Martinez and Elena Foulis, along with Dr. Fitzgerald and SPPO Graduate Student Palo Pinillos Chávez Receive Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant

June 22, 2020

Drs. Glenn Martinez and Elena Foulis, along with Dr. Fitzgerald and SPPO Graduate Student Palo Pinillos Chávez Receive Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Grant

Documenting of Latina/os/x in Ohio stories during COVID-19 through performed storytelling.

Drs. Glenn Martinez and Elena Foulis, along with collaborators, Dr. Fitzgerald, and Grad student Palo Pinillos Chávez received the The Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme grant ($18,000) for the project, “Documenting of Latina/os/x in Ohio stories during COVID-19 through performed storytelling.” The project seeks to collect oral histories of Latinas/os/x during COVID-19 in Ohio and to make them available to the public on a digital platform. In addition, stories will be performed live (or virtually), in order to model best practices for transformational community engagement through storytelling.