Cultural Heritage
Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage (“Recovery”) is an international project to locate, preserve and disseminate Hispanic culture of the United States in its written form since colonial times until 1960.
Archway Gallery is a partnership of Houston based professional artists who have taken cooperative responsibility of the business of selling art. The gallery is artist-owned and operated. Archway provides a space for the membership to exhibit and promote their work for sale. Each artist has individual artistic freedom over the quality and content of the work displayed. The artists are committed to promoting art and art education within the community. Archway Gallery has been open for 40 years and has a deep and rich history.
DiverseWorks commissions, produces, and presents new and daring art in all its forms through innovative collaborations that honor each artist’s vision without constraint. The museum is looking for a student to work on grant writing projects and other aspects of museum administration.
Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum was founded in the year 2000 by a Vietnam veteran and African American military historian, Captain Paul J. Matthews. The Museum is a proud member of the Houston Museum District, and is the only Museum dedicated primarily to preserving the legacy and honor of the African-American soldier, in the United States of America. The museum is looking for help cataloguing archival materials, designing children-friendly exhibits, interviewing local veterans for an oral history project, and acquiring new materials for the collection.
The mission of the Museum is to promote, preserve, and share the knowledge of printed communication and art as the greatest contributors to the development of the civilized world and the continuing advancement of freedom and literacy. The museum is looking for help in researching and cataloguing materials, including printing machinery, and in planning future exhibits.
The mission of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center (HMRC) is to locate, preserve, and make available to researchers the documentary evidence of Houston's history. HMRC is located in the historic Julia Ideson Building. Created in 1976, HMRC furthers its mission by providing in-depth reference services using materials including the Texas and local history book collection, archives, photographs, architectural drawings, oral histories, and maps. Librarians and Archivists are responsible for arranging, preserving, and indexing the contents of these unique collections.
Rice's Woodson Research Center (Cultural Heritage)
The Woodson Research Center, housed in Rice's Fondren library, supports the institutional, research, and public service programs of the University. The Center collects, organizes, preserves and describes Rice University archives, rare books, and manuscripts. Woodson has several medical archives relating to Typhus and Houston medical history that it wants help cataloguing and making accessible online.
Medical Humanities
MD Anderson Oral History Project
The "Making Cancer History Voices" Oral History Project at MD Anderson documents the center's history through the voices of practitioners and health leaders. Personal interviews with the men and women of M. D. Anderson who dedicated their work to eliminating cancer provide unique insights into the birth of oncology as a medical discipline; the emergence and evolution of surgery, diagnostic radiology, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy, and more.
Rice's Woodson Research Center (Medical Humanities)
The Woodson Research Center, housed in Rice's Fondren library, supports the institutional, research, and public service programs of the University. The Center collects, organizes, preserves and describes Rice University archives, rare books, and manuscripts. Woodson has several medical archives relating to Typhus and Houston medical history that it wants help cataloguing and making accessible online.
The Institute for Spirituality and Health
The ISH brings together scholars, healthcare professionals, religious leaders, and the public to learn how spirituality can impact health and healing. The Institute engages in education, research, and direct services. ISH is looking for help in researching and disseminating knowledge in areas of key interest in the intersection of spirituality and well-being.
TMC Library and McGovern Historical Collections
The John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center (McGovern Center) in the TMC Library has notable historical collections on the foundations of the medical specialties, Texas medicine, rheumatology and North American public health. The archival collections focus on the development of the institutions and hospitals in the TMC in Houston, the careers of Houston physicians, and biographical information on Texas physicians.