John C. Harris John C. Harris is driven to unite communities with their past to help inform their navigation of the present and generate a chance to reimagine their futures. He studied Public History at St. John’s University and has worked in archives and museums of varying sizes in New York City. As the Archives Committee Coordinator at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) he has planned and led processing, cataloging, and digitization projects that culminate in digital exhibits and programs which utilize a relevant understanding of the Lower East Side community’s history.
Bryan Zehngut-Willits is a volunteer at MoRUS where he serves as a digital collections and archives consultant, a member of the archives committee, and the primary site developer and webmaster for Green Oasis Community Gardens/Gilberts Garden, Inc. Records. He is a PhD candidate at New York University studying the United States in the world during the long nineteenth century specializing in immigration, global migrations, and U.S imperialism. Zehngut-Willits has also worked in education and exhibitions departments at major museums in New York City, and holds an advanced certificate in public history. He also serves as the Digital and Public Communications Coordinator for the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Zehngut-Willits strives to combine digital scholarly methods with years of experience in the field of public history to create accessible and engaging digital history projects that can bring cutting edge scholarship to researchers, students, and public audiences.
The archives committee at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space is an all volunteer team dedicated to ensuring the preservation and accessability of records and collections connected to the history of grassroots activism in the Lower East Side.
Green Oasis Community Gardens/Gilberts Garden, Inc. Records is a collaborative effort involving the MoRUS archives committee in collaboration with the Green Oasis Community Gardens/Gilberts Garden, Inc. membership. We ask that any citation of this project as a whole credit John C. Harris, Stephanie Zambrana, Marco Lanier, and Bryan Zehngut-Willits (E.G. Harris, John C., Stephanie Zambrana, Marco Lanier, Bryan Zehngut-Willits et.al., Green Oasis Community Gardens/Gilberts Garden, Inc. Records, https://morusnyc.github.io/green_oasis/).
[Item], [Folder], [Box], From the Archives of Green Oasis Community Gardens/Gilberts Garden on Deposit at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space.
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