Digitizing the Occupy Movement Archive to Create Research and Teaching Resources
Heather McKee Hurwitz (Department of Sociology)
2019–2020 Freedman Faculty Fellow
Heather McKee Hurwitz, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the CWRU Department of Sociology and is also a core faculty member in the Women's and Gender Studies interdisciplinary program. As a Freedman Fellow, she will develop the digital infrastructure for the most comprehensive archive of documents about the Occupy Wall Street movement, a vital democratic moment at the genesis of the contemporary protest cycle. The project includes scanning and metadata tagging paper and electronic documents to create a searchable database on the Open Science Framework (OSF). Hurwitz plans to make the archive publicly available. She will provide pedagogical materials about the archive including a collaborative teaching activity for CWRU Introduction to Sociology courses and a pilot Open Educational Resource (OER).
