Faculty Initiated Research Opportunities

DESCRIPTION:  The AfterWords Project analyzes the resettlement stories told by Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the US (focusing on those who settled in North Carolina). We work with transcripts of survivor interviews conducted by the faculty mentor and with video testimonials viewable at UNC's Visual History Archive. The project seeks to discover how survivors reclaimed their identities after the Holocaust and the ways these methods of identity formation become manifest in their first-person stories.
STUDENT STATUS:  Freshman
NUMBER OF STUDENTS:  3
HOURS: Contact faculty researcher for details.
TYPE OF SUPPORT AVAILABLE: VOLUNTEER - no monetary support
TASKS:  Contact faculty researcher for details.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS: 
-Word processing using MS Word
-Some, but not all, students would need to be proficient in digitally editing audio & video.
OTHER SKILL REQUIREMENT:  This project has an educational/community service component that requires creation of multimedia presentations about Holocaust survivors. These multimedia CDs/DVDs would be used for educating public school students and the general public about Holocaust survival.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT: NONE