How do Citizen Humanities projects develop? And how have such endeavors changed over the course of the last decades? One of the research areas of the German Historical Institute Washington focuses on the intersection of Digital History and German Migration to the United States. “Migrant Connections” will be launched in the fall of 2021 as an online research hub for learning and participatory activity consisting of several subprojects that bring together hidden or neglected sources about German migration to the United States in the 19th and 20th century, including letters, poems, diaries, and lists. One of the research outcomes of “Migrant Connections” is a digital archive of diverse records about migrants and the ones they said goodbye. This repositorium will allow us to answer new research questions that go beyond the elite. This blog on hypotheses.org will regularly report on new activities and results across the different subprojects of “Migrant Connections”. We will put a special focus on the activities and events of “Expanding Migrant Knowledge: Contemporary and historical perspectives” which serves as a pilot project withing COESO (https://coeso.hypotheses.org/about), a research project funded by the European Commission to identify and document researchers’ needs and challenges regarding Citizen Science projects in the Social Science & Humanities . The “Migrant Connections” Team at the GHI: Daniel Burckhardt, Technical Developer Katharina Hering, Digital Librarian Jana Keck, Coordinator “Migrant Connections” Emily Kuehbauch, Student Researcher Simone Lässig, Director Atiba Pertilla, Coordinator “Mobile Lifeworlds in German-American Letters”
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