Sites & Symbols organizes projects that foreground and explore the significance to institutional life of symbolic and material sites of memorialization and commemoration.
Whether they take the form of named spaces, legendary figures, public art, iconic structures, or shared rituals, these tokens of collective identity serve not only to express but also to shape and sustain systems of value that can help to forge community even as they demarcate zones of exclusion from it.
Additional project sites are in development for this frame, including one focused on the history of diversity, equity, and inclusion in U-M Athletics that will launch in fall 2024.