ABSTRACT
Since 2014, the Difference, Power, and Discrimination (DPD) Program Academy has included a session in the Oregon State University (OSU) Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC). The time in SCARC is an opportunity for DPD Academy participants to meet with an archivist and learn about the various ways archival materials can be incorporated into their public programing activities and courses. When professors and archivists collaborate to design instruction sessions and projects that engage students with history through archival materials, students can learn research skills with primary source documents, creatively share their knowledge, and, on a broader level, engage with their local community history. The projects shared in this chapter are examples of partnerships between three DPD Academy participants and SCARC’s curator of the Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA) and OSU Queer Archives (OSQA). The three projects, including an event, an in-class activity, and an oral history project, offer a variety of ideas to inspire educators to reach out to their local archivists to develop archival collaborations of their own. In addition, to promote effective and fruitful partnerships, also included are lessons learned for successful collaborations between professors and archivists.
