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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In an effort to raise the profile of DHI projects and promote the excellent DH-related work of faculty, students, and staff at UNF, we will be sharing regular updates via
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For this initial DHI Project Spotlight, I’d like to share news about
<i>Water Stories</i>, the collaborative, interdisciplinary effort spearheaded by Dr. Maureen McCluskey and Dr. Tru Leverette Hall.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Water Stories<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Photo Title: “Access”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Photography by Christine Vu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Direction: Dr Maureen McCluskey, Dr Tru Leverette Hall, and Craig Pedroza<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Cast Members: Rayanna Campbell, Miles Genaovargas, Louis Bell, Naomi Randolph, Monyel Poole, Dawn King, and Victoria Mapayi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">The arts and humanities further environmental justice work and thread together human connections to nature and humans' connections to each other.
This project, developed by Dr. Tru Leverette Hall and Dr. Maureen McCluskey, uses storytelling and theater to gather communities, translate environmental land memory, frame conversations on environmental justice, and foster communal healing and positive connections
to nature through shared embodied experience.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Water Stories: A River Harvest<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">showcases
theatrical movements based on oral histories of African American experiences with the natural world. Like the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">griot</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> (storyteller)
figure of the African diasporic tradition,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Water Stories: A River Harvest</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> gives
voice to underheard stories and demonstrates that the stories we tell (and who has a platform to tell them) shape our environmental justice work (and vice versa). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Check out the
<i>Water Stories</i> digital reel, available <a href="“Digital%20Reel:%20Water%20Stories”%20:%20https:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5RIVQGO4To">
here</a>.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img border="0" width="383" height="388" style="width:3.9895in;height:4.0416in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image004.jpg@01DA709C.0C9EE540" alt="A dock over water with logos
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Join Dr. Maureen McCluskey & Dr. Tru Leverette Hall for this exhibit featuring an original soundscape by
<i>Water Stories</i>’ digital composer and UNF alumni, Naijah Cox, and designs by UNF student, Christine Vu. We hope to see you there!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">Joshua C. Gellers, PhD, LEED Green Associate<br>
Professor, Political Science & Public Administration</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">(e)</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;mso-ligatures:none">: <a href="mailto:josh.gellers@unf.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">josh.gellers@unf.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Find me on:
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<a href="https://unf.academia.edu/JoshGellers"><span style="color:#0563C1">Academia.edu</span></a>
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