Hello and welcome to the Carleton Covid-19 Archive Blog! I’m Elizabeth Budd, a 2019 history alum, the Educational Associate for the Public Works Initiative, and coming to you from a southwest suburb of Minneapolis. I’ve been busy setting up the archive site for the last two weeks or so, and am really excited to start seeing contributions come in! Since my historical interests tend towards social history, I have trouble seeing any time as historically unimportant, but undeniably the crisis we are living in brings the sense that we are living in a critical historical moment.
I am incredibly excited to be working with all these awesome students and I cannot wait to see the materials they gather for the archive. Having done some archival research, I have some experience searching through documents in search of the voices of marginalized groups. As uncertain and scary the world is right now, I am excited to be part of a project that seeks to ensure underrepresented voices are present in the archive from the start.
