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Research & Teaching

Research & Teaching foregrounds the centrality of knowledge production to the university’s mission. Projects in this frame examine how research, teaching, collecting, and archiving have been defined, articulated, and practiced, as well as how they have been resourced and evaluated. The Research & Teaching frame also considers the broad range of activities and sites at U-M that support and advance knowledge production, including the university’s libraries and museums.

This frame encourages deeper reflection on how changing understandings of the university’s core activities have affected the education of our students; impacted local, regional, national, and global communities; at times justified previously extractive relationships with communities around the world in the name of esearch; and shaped our contributions to society at large.

As part of the IHP’s reparative work, this frame seeks to build more reciprocal, co-creative relationships with community partners.

Project Sites

ReConnect/ReCollect: Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections at the University of Michigan

Fall 2021

ReConnect/ReCollect is a multidisciplinary collaboration whose goal is to develop decolonial and reparative approaches to the vast collections of Philippine materials at the University of Michigan, much of which was acquired during the U.S. colonial period. Through research and community consultation, ReConnect/ReCollect seeks to understand the meaning and value of these collections from the perspectives of Filipino and Indigenous cultural heritage. Our initiatives and activities encourage greater access and engagement with U-M’s Philippine collections through education, research residencies, and the distribution of collection copies to source communities.