During the summer of 2012, I worked as a graduate assistant for my Public History adviser. I both completed work and assisted with the Oral and Community History course in which students undertook research and oral history collection for the Guantanamo Public Memory Project. As a student, I studied the history and culture of Guantanamo Bay as a naval base, interviewed two former residents, transcribed recordings, and edited audio recordings into two, two-minute, interpretive pieces to be available for posting to the project blog. The travelling exhibit derived from the work of more than a dozen higher education and history institutions toured the country after its completion.
See the exhibit’s schedule of events here.
Visit the project blog here.
And view stories and videos on many of the subjects of the project at gitmomemory.org
Malina Rose Suity 