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Papers by Cheryl Jiménez Frei

Research paper thumbnail of Surviving, Learning, and Striving in the Times of Pandemic: Teaching With A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY)

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2021

With the onset of COVID-19, spring 2020 proved difficult for teachers and students everywhere. Bu... more With the onset of COVID-19, spring 2020 proved difficult for teachers and students everywhere. But amid the challenges of online and hybrid education, incorporating A Journal of the Plague Year: a COVID-19 Archive (JOTPY) into classrooms provided students a unique and impactful learning experience, while also helping them process the anxieties and uncertainties of the pandemic. In this article, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC) Cheryl Jiménez Frei shares insights and best practices for teaching with JOTPY, and a model incorporating the archive across multidisciplinary courses to address archival silences. Beyond the university, JOTPY can be a valuable pedagogical tool for elementary, middle, and high-school teachers during the pandemic. To examine this, in the article’s second half, UWEC public history graduate student and high-school teacher for the Eau Claire Area School District Shane Carlson shares his reflections on contributing to ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Towards Memory, Against Oblivion: A Comparative Perspective on Public Memory, Monuments, and Confronting a Painful Past in the United States and Argentina,” in The Public Historian (Sept. 2017)

The Public Historian , 2017

This essay examines the recent controversies over Confederate monuments and memory in the US from... more This essay examines the recent controversies over Confederate monuments and memory in the US from a comparative perspective, by analyzing how a difficult past is remembered in public spaces in Argentina. Beyond the obvious differences between the US Civil War and the period of state-sponsored terrorism under the 1976-93 military dictatorship in Argentina, key similarities allow for an apt comparison: both inflicted a broad national trauma, a response to which was an impulse to forget in the name of national healing. But while a strong urge to account for and confront the sins of the past manifested in public discourse and spaces in Argentina, in the United States the divisive results of a collective decision towards oblivion continue to emerge. For both cases, how these histories are told in public spaces—through monuments, protest and other collective actions—remains a key issue.

Essay published in a Special Digital Issue of The Public Historian: Monuments, Memory, Politics, and Our Publics, September 2017.

Research paper thumbnail of “Down Argentine Way,” in Race and American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation, ed. Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green (ABC-Clio Greenwood, 2017).

Review/Entry on film “Down Argentine Way” (1940) for three volume set that investigates racial re... more Review/Entry on film “Down Argentine Way” (1940) for three volume set that investigates racial representation in film: Race and American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation, ed. Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green (ABC-Clio Greenwood, 2017), 242-244.

Book Reviews by Cheryl Jiménez Frei

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review, Our Indigenous Ancestors: A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877-1943

Research paper thumbnail of Surviving, Learning, and Striving in the Times of Pandemic: Teaching With A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 (JOTPY)

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2021

With the onset of COVID-19, spring 2020 proved difficult for teachers and students everywhere. Bu... more With the onset of COVID-19, spring 2020 proved difficult for teachers and students everywhere. But amid the challenges of online and hybrid education, incorporating A Journal of the Plague Year: a COVID-19 Archive (JOTPY) into classrooms provided students a unique and impactful learning experience, while also helping them process the anxieties and uncertainties of the pandemic. In this article, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC) Cheryl Jiménez Frei shares insights and best practices for teaching with JOTPY, and a model incorporating the archive across multidisciplinary courses to address archival silences. Beyond the university, JOTPY can be a valuable pedagogical tool for elementary, middle, and high-school teachers during the pandemic. To examine this, in the article’s second half, UWEC public history graduate student and high-school teacher for the Eau Claire Area School District Shane Carlson shares his reflections on contributing to ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Towards Memory, Against Oblivion: A Comparative Perspective on Public Memory, Monuments, and Confronting a Painful Past in the United States and Argentina,” in The Public Historian (Sept. 2017)

The Public Historian , 2017

This essay examines the recent controversies over Confederate monuments and memory in the US from... more This essay examines the recent controversies over Confederate monuments and memory in the US from a comparative perspective, by analyzing how a difficult past is remembered in public spaces in Argentina. Beyond the obvious differences between the US Civil War and the period of state-sponsored terrorism under the 1976-93 military dictatorship in Argentina, key similarities allow for an apt comparison: both inflicted a broad national trauma, a response to which was an impulse to forget in the name of national healing. But while a strong urge to account for and confront the sins of the past manifested in public discourse and spaces in Argentina, in the United States the divisive results of a collective decision towards oblivion continue to emerge. For both cases, how these histories are told in public spaces—through monuments, protest and other collective actions—remains a key issue.

Essay published in a Special Digital Issue of The Public Historian: Monuments, Memory, Politics, and Our Publics, September 2017.

Research paper thumbnail of “Down Argentine Way,” in Race and American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation, ed. Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green (ABC-Clio Greenwood, 2017).

Review/Entry on film “Down Argentine Way” (1940) for three volume set that investigates racial re... more Review/Entry on film “Down Argentine Way” (1940) for three volume set that investigates racial representation in film: Race and American Film: Voices and Visions that Shaped a Nation, ed. Daniel Bernardi and Michael Green (ABC-Clio Greenwood, 2017), 242-244.