About Us
In March 2022 Professor Aldo Lauria-Santiago, Director of the Rutgers University Center for Latin American Studies, began a major collaboration with sister institutions in Puerto Rico to help them preserve and make accessible important archival collections and periodical publications, in coordination with the research needs of a working group of faculty and graduate students who study Puerto Rico History. The Rutgers/Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC) began with the Coleccion Puertorriquena of the University of Puerto Rico Library, its Digital Collections held at the Coleccion Digital Puertorriqueña and the Archivo General de Puerto Rico (AGPR) and Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña.
Since then multiple partners have joined our efforts. Funding and Partnership with the Fundacion Puertorriquena de las Humanidades has extended the digitizing work at the AGPR. With a grant from Arte Publico Press’ Latino Digital Humanities program we have extended the digitizing effort at the AGPR to include migration-related materials from various collections. In just three years we have collaborated with the Yale Program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration, the University of Connecticut’s Puerto Rican Studies Initiative, and received support from Professors Zaire Dinzey Flores and Ismael Garcia Colon.
The collaboration is actively recruiting partners among foundations and professors who do research on Puerto Rico and the institutions that support their work who can leverage research assistance resources for this project and their own archival goals. We also run a summer internship for graduate students.
If you would like to receive updates by email on the progress of these multiple projects including the Archival work.
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