The work on creating a website for Philosophic Dialogues from La Frontera continues.  Over the past month, we have found that the process involves the difficult work of figuring out both the technological issues involved in our start-up as well as finding the right experts with whom to work.  

When Dr. Gurrola approached me with the opportunity to help and be a part of The Humanities Collaborative at EPCC-UTEP, I was unsure if I wanted to pursue this.  

Since the early 1980s, historians have redefined the field of public history’s understanding of audience, stakeholders, and the role of the public in producing community-based research projects.  Public historians have embraced the idea of collaborating with a community to share the authority on storytelling and to gain buy-in on local historical narratives.  

El Paso Community College (EPCC) is one of many institutions that serves a unique student population.  The majority of its students are Hispanic or of another minority ethnicity, are often first-generation students, and also tend to come from low-income backgrounds.  These traits often become pre-disposed labels that accompany differential treatment that can occur not only in the education system but also in the judicial and carceral systems.