Digital Union
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Affiliated Faculty
Judy Wu
Associate Professor, History
wu.287@osu.edu
http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=738
Judy Wu's relationship with the Digital Union has produced some remarkable achievements. Focusing on enabling her students to produce multimedia, Wu has brought a series of interesting projects to the Digital Union.
During 2005, when she served as the coordinator for the Asian American Studies Program, she organized a Japanese American oral history/documentary project. Forty-five students from a variety of academic backgrounds learned the basics of and audio recording and video production. Theyworked in groups to produce ten to fifteen minute documentaries of their interviews with survivors of the Japanese internment camps during World War II. One student from that project, Genna Duberstein, extended the project in the Research on Research program, where she worked with Dr. Wu to mold the short videos into a full-length documentary. The documentary, Faces from the Past, Voices of the Present, has been shown internationally and is now archived in the Smithsonian Museum.
Wu's students in her Asian American women’s history classes are also enrolled in a class sponsored by the Digital Union through the TEAMS program to acquaint them with multimedia skills. Final projects have consisted of short digital-story-style pieces. The topics include:
- the experiences of transnational adoptees from Korea,
- racialized standards of beauty,
- Native American Women
- activism among indigenous women of Chiapas, Mexico
- Hawaiian congresswoman Patsy Mink
- multi-racial family and identity formation
- Asian American female spoken-word artists.
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