Sleeter to receive funding for website project

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

Nathan Sleeter, Research Assistant Professor, History and Art History, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), is set to receive funding for: “American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) at 50 website.”

RRCHNM researchers will develop a website that will tell the story of AISES’s first 50 years, its founding mission, its growth, and the individuals who have been part of its work supporting American Indians in STEM. Sleeter will serve as project director.

The researchers will also conduct and record oral history interviews with four key AISES originators — Al Qöyawayma, Carol Gardipe, George Thomas, and Jerry Elliott, visionaries from the organization’s history.

They will also edit interviews into a series of 12-15-minute videos, each of which will tell the story of AISES’s 50-year history.

Additionally, the researchers will collect annotated photographs, documents, and objects that communicate AISES’s 50-year history.

Finally, they will design and develop a WordPress website that will feature these resources along with links to full interviews with sources. This website will be linked from the AISES main website.

Regarding the importance of the project, Sleeter said, "The AISES at 50 project represents an important resource for the public to learn more about the history of Indigenous Americans in higher education."

Sleeter will receive $92,461 from AISES for this project. Funding will begin in May 2024 and will end in late April 2025.

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