Casey Moore

Email:

2556605m@student.gla.ac.uk

Twitter:

@MooreCaseyB

Research title: Archiving oral histories in the wake of 21st century mass shootings

Research Summary

Synopsis:

My PhD research investigates how US institutions use oral history to ethically document experiences of gun violence in the 21st century. I am using the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as a case study and expanding the Niner Nation Remembers oral history repository of the April 30th, 2019 campus shooting into a longitudinal study. By interviewing previous narrators and adding new interviewees to the project, my research investigates how oral history narratives represent a community's collective memory and activism in the wake of tragedy. 

 

Keywords:

Crisis oral history, mass shooting, trauma, archiving, radical empathy

Supervisors

Conference

National Council on Public History, Working Group 2022
Trauma Informed Practices in Teaching with Primary Sources in a Public History Setting
  • Worked with archivists and public historians to create content surrounding traumatic collections and their use within public history settings. 

 

National Council on Public History, Scheduled Panelist 2020
'Documenting Campus Tragedy: An Ongoing Case Study'
  • Presentation on the Niner Nation Remembers work at UNC Charlotte with Katie Howell, Tina Wright and Tyler Cline.

Additional Information

 Niner Nation Remembers Oral History Project, 2019-2020
  • Conducted 25 interviews for this repository documenting reactions and responses to the April 30th campus shooting at UNCC.
 Historic West End Digital Project, 2018 
  • Conducted interviews and created metadata for this digital project on Charlotte’s historic West End. The project houses oral history clips and digitized primary sources on a historic map overlay.
Taboo Tar Heels Digital Project, 2017
  • Digital project detailing thesis research and primary sources on black white interracial relationships in North Carolina’s Piedmont.