Community Based Projects

We are involved in a number of projects across the Southeastern United States that bring together historians, health science scholars, and community partners.

Current projects include examining the contemporary and historical factors effecting mental health policy and policing in Atlanta; the history of drug use and the move towards a harm reduction approach in Little Five Points, Atlanta; and understanding the health care experiences of Black women in Georgia.

Stories from the Margins is a proposed major oral history project aimed at understanding the life and health experiences of underserved communities in the Southeast including immigrant farm and construction workers, people living in toxic environments, young people with mental illness and intellectual and developmental disability, Black trans women in Atlanta experiencing violence, and HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health activists. The goal is to use the stories collected to create new policies, an archive, and documentary film.