Past Projects

Social Connectedness and Fostering Mental Well-being for Refugees and Victims of Torture

Social Connectedness and Fostering Mental Well-being for Refugees and Victims of Torture
Professor Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg worked with Student Research Partner Jill Yanai ‘22 throughout winter and spring terms in 2021 to prepare for a collaborative research project with the Center for Victims of Torture (CVT), a non-profit headquartered in Minnesota that provides support for survivors of torture to advance healing and advocates for the protection of asylum seekers and refugees and against the use of torture. Working during winter and spring 2021 terms with Professor Feldman Savelsberg, Yanai did bibliographic work, abstract writing, and participated in discussions of the project themes.
Indigenous Landscapes: Mapping Memories of Indigenous Chicago

Indigenous Landscapes: Mapping Memories of Indigenous Chicago
Professor Meredith McCoy is collaborating with the Newberry Library, the Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative, and the Chicago American Indian Center to explore the experiences of urban Indigenous people in Chicago in the 1940s and 1950s,through oral histories and the creation of a digital interactive map of sites important for Indigenous people in the Chicago area.
ReligionsMN: Religious Diversity in Minnesota Initiative

ReligionsMN: Religious Diversity in Minnesota Initiative
Professors Michael McNally and Shana Sippy, with their faculty, staff, student, and community collaborators, created an online educational resource about the diversity of religious traditions in Minnesota.
Expanding Civic Engagement Course “Radio & News”

Expanding Civic Engagement Course “Radio & News”
In December 2020, Professor Palmar Álvarez-Blanco worked with student researcher Zoe Pelletier ’21 to revise and expand an existing academic civic engagement course. In the course, “Radio and News,” students collaborate with the KYMN radio program “El Super Barrio Latino,” a Northfield Latinx radio program focusing on news, music, and interviews. In the class, students have the opportunity to practice their Spanish and learn about current events, as well as interact with members of the Northfield Latinx community.
Embedding Arts and Humanities in a Master Naturalist Program

Embedding Arts and Humanities in a Master Naturalist Program in Carleton’s Arboretum
Professor Kelly Connole, Professor Eleanor Jensen, and Director of the Arboretum Nancy Braker collaborated to incorporate arts and humanities components into an existing naturalist class. The class, through the University of Minnesota Extension, promotes environmental stewardship and was taught by Braker and Jensen with support from Master Naturalists Laurie Hougen-Eitzman and Jim Platt.
Performing Justice: Conversations with Artists about Social Change

Performing Justice: Conversations with Artists about Creating Social Change through Performance
Professor Andrew Carlson planned a series of conversations to explore the intersection of the arts and social justice. These conversations will bring theater artists to campus virtually to discuss the role artists play in making social change, how their work responds to social inequity, and how performance can envision a more just future.
“What Can a City Be?”: Community Outreach for Art History 240: Art Since 1945

“What Can a City Be?”: Community Outreach for Art History 240: Art Since 1945
Professor Ross Elfline partnered with Minneapolis-based artist Sam Gould for the civic engagement portion of his winter term 2021 class, “Art Since 1945,” which explored how artists engage with the city and urban space. The project brought Carleton students together with community leaders in Minneapolis’s Powderhorn neighborhood to explore art and urbanism.
Green Germany: Curating Resources for Civically Engaged and Environmentally-Focused German Studies

Green Germany: Curating Online Resources for Civically Engaged and Environmentally-Focused German Studies Research and Teaching
During winter break 2020, Professors Kiley Kost and Seth Peabody worked with two student researchers, Ella Hein ’23 and Henrie Friesen ’23, to develop a collection of resources to be shared online with other members of the German Studies community. The effort is part of a broader collaborative project seeking to develop frameworks, methods, and shared materials for environmentally-focused, community-engaged scholarship and pedagogy in German Studies.
Word Clouds in the Wild

Word Clouds in the Wild
Professor Eric Alexander worked with two student researchers to examine how word clouds are used as data visualizations in different types of publications and build a taxonomy of their findings.
Constellation of the Commons

Constellation of the Commons: An Audio-visual Anarchive of Practices
Professor Palmar Álvarez-Blanco’s project brings a previously underresearched reality to light by creating an audiovisual anarchive of personal interviews with leaders and founders of collective movements in Spain. This project aims to record the personal narratives of grassroots leaders in Spain, and also facilitates a space in which the organizations and movements can find experiences, references, and models that aid in their development.
Chinese Classic Tales and Modern Adaptation

Chinese Classic Tales and Modern Adaptation
During summer 2020, Professor Shaohua Guo developed a new course, “Chinese Classic Tales and Modern Adaptation.” In the course, students will explore important Chinese legends and the ways they have been adapted in different media.
Streaming China in Times of Precarity

Streaming China in Times of Precarity
Professor Shaohua Guo worked with two students to research the sociopolitical ramifications of livestreaming as an emerging form of digital entertainment in China. She explored how and why streaming has provoked controversy and created anxiety, while also fostering hope in society.
Revising the “Crusaded Against” Omeka Site

Revising the “Crusaded Against” Omeka Site
Professor Victoria Morse worked with Aubrey Rawles ‘21 during summer 2020 to revise an online repository of sources on the Crusades. Professor Morse and Rawles explored how these important sources can be shared with a wider audience in order to expand access to diverse perspectives on the Crusades.
Pandemic in Translation: A Database of Translated Sources

Pandemic in Translation: A Database of Translated Sources for Teaching the Black Plague
Professor Bill North will worked with student researchers during summer 2020 to develop a pilot project for a database of translated primary sources about medieval history. Ultimately, they hope this project will facilitate access to medieval primary sources for teachers, students, and the general public, making history more accessible to a larger audience.
Summer Work on Late Medieval and Early Modern London Chronicles

Summer Work on Late Medieval and Early Modern London Chronicles
During summer 2020, Professor George Shuffelton worked with student researchers to continue creating a digital dataset of early modern sites and place names of London, based on late medieval and early modern chronicles. The data will be used for a new article and included in the Map of Early Modern London, a digital, publicly available historical project on London’s early modern geography.
Archiving Local Myanmar Public Memory in Minnesota

Archiving Local Myanmar Public Memory in Minnesota
Professor Tun Myint is collaborating with St. Paul’s Karen community to collect oral histories and deposit them in a publicly-available online archive, in order to preserve and explore the public memory of Myanmar.
Frères Ennemis: Re(conciliation) and Art

Frères Ennemis: Re(conciliation) and Art
Professor Sandra Rousseau collaborated on a documentary project with Twin Cities-based filmmaker Mohamed Yabdri on the unusual friendship between Yabdri, an Algerian-born actor and director, and the pied-noir painter Freddy Muñoz. Professor Rousseau and her students worked with the documentary team to create contextual materials for the project that are needed for an American audience to engage with the project.
The Small Cycladic Islands Project

The Small Cycladic Islands Project 2020: An Archaeology of Marginal Places and In-between Spaces
Professor Alex Knodell returned to Greece during the summer of 2020 to continue surveying small, uninhabited islands in the Aegean Sea. This project is a collaboration between Carleton College, the Norwegian Institute at Athens, and the Greek Ministry of Culture, and Dr. Zarko Tankosic and Dr. Dimitris Athanasoulis serve as co-directors alongside Professor Knodell. The team engaged the local community in the project by sharing their research and collecting oral histories of the islands.
Viking Cultural Impact Field Trip

Viking Cultural Impact Field Trip
Professor Austin Mason and his class collaborated with museum partners in Alexandria, MN engage with the legacy of the Vikings in Minnesota. Students worked on digital artifacts that the the museums will use for research and education.
Enacting the Ethics of Civic Engagement

Enacting the Ethics: Co-teaching, Community Building and Critical Reflection in The Ethics of Civic Engagement Course
In Fall 2020, Associate Director of the CCCE Emily Oliver taught “The Ethics of Civic Engagement” for the first time. This new course gave students a foundation in Academic Civic Engagement by exploring key topics in the field. Oliver co-taught the course with Cynthia Gonzalez, a grassroots organizer in Faribault who has worked extensively with the CCCE previously.
Witness to the Revolution Playtest

Witness to the Revolution: Playtest at the Museum of the American Revolution
Professor Serena Zabin planned to travel to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia with Professor Austin Mason and four students to playtest their historical game, Witness to the Revolution. The game confronts players with multiple, conflicting accounts of the event which they must interpret, much as historians do.
Researching Indigenous Pottery Traditions of Minnesota

Researching Indigenous Pottery Traditions of Minnesota
Professor Kelly Connole and Student Research Partner Laura Diamond ‘20 visited local museums and archives to research local indigenous pottery traditions. This material will then be incorporated into Professor Connole’s ceramics courses to connect students to the local landscape.
The Wandering House

The Wandering House
The Wandering House is a mobile audio-recording studio that collected Northfielders’ ideas and ideals of home and how these are affected by immigration. This project was imagined and led by Professor Cecilia Cornejo.
Cropping Calendar Illustration for Beginner Farmers

Cropping Calendar Illustration for Beginner Farmers
Professor Eleanor Jensen collaborated with Natalie Hoidal, University of Minnesota-Extension Educator, to create illustrated cropping calendars that bring regional agricultural knowledge to new Minnesota farmers.
Free Expression, Civil Discourse, & the Liberal Arts

Free Expression, Civil Discourse, & the Liberal Arts
The politics surrounding the freedom of expression lie at the heart of building a more inclusive and civil society. Professors Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder worked to organize a roundtable discussion series that will create on campus a dedicated space that allows Carleton, and the Northfield community more broadly, to wrestle with politically fraught questions about free expression, especially in the context of the liberal arts.
From Reflection to Advocacy

From Reflection to Advocacy: Post-Collaborative Documentation as a Bridge to Addressing Community Partner Needs
Following an academic civic engagement independent study, Professor Andrea Mazzariello and his student engaged in reflection on the experience and worked with their community partner to identify their needs and seek out appropriate funding.
Presenting on Poverty, Marginality, and Innovation

Presenting on Poverty, Marginality, and Innovation: Engaging Beyond the Academy
Professor Susannah Ottaway and Dr. Megan Dennis of Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum presented on their cross-institution collaboration at the European Social Science History Conference in March 2021.
Birmingham, the Johannesburg of the South

Birmingham, the Johannesburg of the South: Visualizing Historical Geographies of Racial and Demographic Change in the United States and South Africa
Professor Thabiti Willis hosted three distinguished guests for conversations on historical racial geographies, and their construction and transformation.
Mapping the US/Mexico Borderlands in Southern Minnesota

Mapping the US/Mexico Borderlands in Southern Minnesota
Professor Elena McGrath developed a new academic civic engagement course, History 275: History of the US/Mexico Border. This course engaged Carleton students with the Latinx community of Northfield and involved mapping collaboration between Carleton and local organizations. Through this course, students learned the contentious history of the North American borderlands region from both Mexican and US-centered perspectives.
Shifting Gears Within

Shifting Gears Within
Canadian artist 2Fik returned to campus to continue forging relationships with community partners throughout the Northfield area and the Twin Cities. 2Fik’s residency explored the difficult topics of prejudice and social power dynamics through events focused on art and engaging dialogue.
Census on Campus

Census on Campus
Professor Debby Walser-Kuntz hosted a census summer institute that brought together 20-30 faculty, staff, and students from institutions and networks representing all sectors of higher education. This summer institute helped our campuses and their communities be poised to fully participate in the 2020 census.
League of Women Voters Partnership

League of Women Voters Partnership
Professor Serena Zabin and two students presented at the League of Women Voters’ centennial state conference at the end of April 2019. Students in Professor Zabin’s HIST 216 (History Beyond the Walls) course partnered with the local League of Women Voters to produce a digital exhibit of the history of the Northfield League of Women Voters.
Bdote Memory Map Tour 2019

Bdote Memory Map Tour 2019
Students from EDUC 338 and HIST 338 attended the Bdote Memory Map tour through the Minnesota Humanities Center. This tour provided Carleton students and faculty a chance to have a deeper understanding of the place upon which the college is built and to gain an understanding of their surroundings from a perspective that many will not have considered previously.
The Empty Bowls Project

The Empty Bowls Project
The Empty Bowls Project has been a staple event at Carleton for the past 15 years. As the project continues to grow and touch many lives in Northfield, Professor Kelly Connole, the CCCE, Northfield Community Action Center, and the Cannon Valley Clay Cooperative are collaborating to develop sustainable methods of growth.
“Central Supply” Performance Project

“Central Supply” Performance Project
Professor Judith Howard’s “Central Supply” is a theater and site-specific performance, piece first performed at the Cowles Center for Dance in Minneapolis, to bring attention to the history of this building and to the diverse communities that surround and inhabit it. Professor Howard then brought the piece to Carleton for performance by students.
Nonfiction Community Video Course: Assessment & Development (ACE)

Nonfiction Community Video Course: Assessment & Development
Professor Laska Jimsen made major revisions to the ACE Community Video Project in her CAMS 270 Nonfiction course, with the goal of nurturing long-term relationships with community partners, generating legal and ethical release forms and agreements, and sharing best practices with the wider Carleton campus.
The Panel Story: The Life of a Community

The Panel Story: The Life of a Community
This project, led by Professor Iveta Jusova, sought to engage the living legacy of cooperative community building through times of change, as experienced in the U Opavice neighborhood in the small Czech town of Opava. Foregrounding some of the socialist structures and models of subjectivity that are disappearing throughout Eastern Europe with the region’s post-1989 initiation into global capitalism, the project facilitated a reflection on part of this Opava community, originally formed in the early 1960s, about the creation and maintenance of lasting social connections.
Collaboration on Field Work in Greece

Collaboration on Field Work in Greece
In collaboration with Carleton students, local researchers, and community members, Professor Alex Knodell co-directed a project studying uninhabited islands in Greece.
Science Discovery Day: Linking History & Chemistry

Science Discovery Day: Linking History & Chemistry
Professor Kim Huynh planned to implement an innovative outreach program, “Science Discovery Day” for Northfield students during Spring 2020. At this event, students would learn about the history of science through multiple activities and watch live chemical demonstrations to foster appreciation for science and history.
Steps in the Sun Tributaries: Northfield Audio Walks

Steps in the Sun Tributaries: Northfield Audio Walks
In collaboration with the Northfield Poet Laureate Rob Hardy, Academic Technology, and student research assistants, Professor Chris Martin produced a series of four audio walks, written by Northfield residents. These audio tours engage local history, placemaking, and literature.
Learning through Mind & Body: History of Samurai in Practice

Learning through Mind & Body: History of Samurai in Practice
This project works to incorporate community-based learning into the existing religion course, RELG 282 Samurai: Ethics of Loyalty and Death. Students will study the history of samurai and their martial arts since its inception in ancient Japan by participating in Professor Asuka Sango’s class while simultaneously learning the practice of modern kyudo (Japanese longbow archery) from community partner and Academic Technologist Carly Born.
Welcoming “We Are Water” Exhibit to Northfield & Carleton

Welcoming “We Are Water” Exhibit to Northfield & Carleton
“We Are Water” is a traveling exhibit that offers a deep exploration of local water sources and our relationship with rivers, oceans, and rain. This exhibit was first developed by the Smithsonian and is now making its rounds in Minnesota in conjunction with the Minnesota Humanities Commission. A large part of this exhibit was hosted at Carleton during summer 2019, and Professor Mary Savina worked with students to develop materials for the exhibit.
Art & Democracy Seminar: Partnering with Community Activists

Art and Democracy Seminar: Partnering with Community Activists
Professor Ross Elfline partnered with Twin City activist Sam Gould to connect students from his Art and Democracy seminar to a network of activist artists in the Chicago-Lake district of Minneapolis.
The Minnesota Somali Community’s Political Mobilization and Engagement

The Minnesota Somali Community’s Political Mobilization and Engagement
Professor Ahmed Ibrahim’s project examined the political mobilization of Minnesota’s Somali community, as well as the impact of their political engagement.
New Course: Textual Scholarship

New Course: Textual Scholarship
Professors Susan Jaret-McKinstry, Austin Maston, Tim Raylor, and George Shuffelton collaborated to design a new course, “Textual Technologies from Parchment to Pixel.” The course will be offered Spring 2020.
Digital History, Public Heritage & Deep Mapping

Digital History, Public Heritage & Deep Mapping
Professor Austin Mason developed a new upper-level history research course: “Digital History, Public Heritage & Deep Mapping” for Spring 2019. This course invites deep mapping collaboration between students and local historical organizations. The intended outcome of the course was the nomination of one or more sites on the Carleton campus to the National Register of Historic Places.
Engagement through Musical Mentorship: Carleton & The Key

Engagement through Musical Mentorship: Carleton and The Key
This project sought to lay the groundwork, both intellectual and logistical, for supporting an ongoing music-making and mentoring collaboration between Carleton and the Northfield Union of Youth. Professor Andrea Mazzariello also attended the national Imagining America conference on Public Scholarship to inform his project and ongoing work with Northfield Union of Youth and community members.
Artist in Residence: The Theater of Public Policy

Artist in Residence: The Theater of Public Policy
Professors Debby Walser-Kuntz and Lori Pearson collaborated to bring St.Paul-based Theater of Public Policy to campus. This artist residency helped students engage in critical and ethical reflection on issues of public health and public policy, in areas related to gun violence, racism, mental health and LGBTQ issues. This project engaged students in a multidisciplinary approach to public health and theology, culminating in a public performance about these issues.
Web Platform for Music Podcasts

Web Platform for Music Podcasts
Professor Megan Sarno’s project enhanced the web presence of student podcasts created in the new course MUSC 121: Songs of Love, State, and Self. She created a robust platform through which the students’ podcasts will be publicly available online. The students’ podcasts invite reflection on the musical practices, group membership, and sense of identity of people who listen to music, no matter where they are.
From Prison Back to School: Subverting the School to Prison Pipeline

From Prison Back to School: Subverting the School to Prison Pipeline
The purpose of this project, led by Professor Deborah Appleman, is to bring together formerly incarcerated individuals and writers with current high school students and teachers to foster dialogue around issues of mass incarceration and the school to prison pipeline.
Transnational Somali Political Mobilization

Transnational Somali Political Mobilization
Professor Ahmed Ibrahim examines the Minnesota Somali community’s involvement in both Somali and Minnesotan politics. His research shaped his course on The African Diaspora.
Enacting & Assessing Museum Collaborations on a Social History Project

Enacting and Assessing Museum Collaborations on a Social History Project
Professor Susannah Ottaway brought four student researchers to the UK during the summer in 2018 to install and develop an initial assessment plan for a set of digital and object displays that we have developed in collaboration with a long-term community partner at the Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum.
Workshop: Participatory Action Research for Carleton, Northfield, & Faribault

Workshop: Participatory Action Research for Carleton, Northfield, and Faribault
Professpr Anita Chikkatur organized and facilitated a two-day workshop in December 2018 about Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods for Carleton faculty and members of local community organizations.
Clay: Linking Carleton to Communities

Clay: Linking Carleton to Communities
Professor Kelly Connole used upcoming ceramics conference as a catalyst to bring diverse communities together to celebrate clay as a medium of expression, connection, and meaning.
Walking in Someone Else’s Heels: Cultivating Curiosity with Performance Artist 2Fik

Walking in Someone Else’s Heels: Cultivating Curiosity with Performance Artist 2Fik
Professor Stephanie Cox utilized an exhibit by Montreal performance artist 2Fik as the nexus point for interdisciplinary and collaborative reflection about diversity and identity across Carleton’s campus, at St. Olaf and Macalester, and at key sites in the city of Northfield such as the public schools, library and Arts Guild.
Hippocrates Cafe at Carleton: Humanistic & Artistic Reflections on the Ethics of Public Health

Hippocrates Cafe at Carleton: Humanistic and Artistic Reflections on the Ethics of Public Health
Through the guidance of the Humanities Center, three Carleton faculty in History, Biology, and Religion worked with U of MN physician Jon Hallberg (and 5 Twin Cities performing artists) to create a variety show that inspired reflection on the theme of “access to healthcare”
The Salvadoran Immigrant Experience: Transnational Memories of the Diaspora

The Salvadoran Immigrant Experience: Transnational Memories of the Diaspora
Professor Yansi Perez sought to establish a partnership with an organization that works with immigrants in the Pico-Union neighborhoood of L.A. to create an oral history archive of the Salvadoran community in Los Angeles.
TEI/XML Training for Long-Term London Mapping Project

TEI/XML Training for Long-Term London Mapping Project
Professor George Shuffelton attended a one-week Text Encoding workshop as preparation for a partnership with the Map of Early Modern London project.
Experiencing the Local Landscape: Carls “Learning from Place” with Bdote

Experiencing the Local Landscape: Carls “Learning from Place” with Bdote
Professor Meghan Tierney facilitated a one-day trip to the Bdote Learning Center, a Dakota and Ojibwe language immersion school in Minneapolis, to learn about Minnesota landscapes from indigenous Dakota perspectives.
How to Nurture Community Partners in North Africa and the Middle East

How to Nurture Community Partners in North Africa and the Middle East
Professor Thabiti Willis hosted a November 2019 workshop that examined the complex relationships between North African and Middle Eastern communities, and offered strategies for developing sustainable partnerships in North Africa and the Middle East through the medium of arts and culture.
Witness to the Revolution

Witness to the Revolution
Professor Serena Zabin worked closely with students and the Old State House museum of Boston to create an immersive, 3D computer game about the 1770 Boston Massacre. This project is producing a geographically accurate gaming experience, built using a decade of historical research, GIS mapping software, procedural modeling techniques, and the Unity 3D game engine.
Talking Story, Dancing Waters

“Talking Story, Dancing Waters”: Hālau Kiawekūpono O Ka Ua (“A Good Streak of Rain”)
Professor Kristin Bloomer hosted the male Hawaiian hula group called Hālau Kiawekūpono O Ka Ua (A Good Streak of Rain). The group opened conversation about Hawaiian culture and Hula traditions in Professor Bloomer’s Religion 238 course, The Sacred Body.
An Artist’s Book Collaboration with the Nisei Veterans Committee of Seattle

An Artist’s Book Collaboration with the Nisei Veterans Committee of Seattle
Professor Fred Hagstrom created a nppl on the life and service of Shiro Kashino, a Nisei veteran of World War II. Professor Hagstrom provided copies of the book to the Nisei Veteran’s Committee and other collections in Seattle, deepening the connection between Carleton and veteran communities across the nation.
Engaging Ten Thousand Things Theater Company

Engaging Ten Thousand Things Theater Company
Professor Stephen Mohring worked closely with Ten Thousand Things Theater Company’s current artistic director to explore how to develop a deeper, more sustainable partnership between Carleton and Ten Thousand Things Theater Company.
Digital Tools for Mapping the Humanities: Challenges & Opportunities

Digital Tools for Mapping the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities
Professor Victoria Morse coordinated a small December break conference to discuss the challenges of using available digital mapping tools in sharing humanities research with broad, diverse publics.
The Value of Liberal Arts in the Many Worlds of Work

The Value of Liberal Arts in the Many Worlds of Work
Professor Bill North partnered with the Learning and Teaching Center to host a book discussion about the value of the liberal arts in the many worlds of work.
The Arts & Democratic Engagement: Explorations and Events

The Arts and Democratic Engagement: Explorations and Events
Through collaboration between the Humanities Center, the Director of the Arts, and the Public Works Initiative, Professor Lori Pearson and Steve Richardson brought leaders of Twin Cities arts organizations to campus for a series of events focused on the arts and democratic engagement, and using these events as opportunities for learning, information gathering, and reflection on how to do collaboration between liberal arts colleges and non-profit organizations whose mission is devoted to the arts and community development.
Documentation & Preservation of German Conductor Kurt Masur Archives

Documentation and Preservation of German Conductor Kurt Masur Archives
Professor Juliane Schicker and the German program collaborated with the International Kurt Masur Institute to substantially advance the documentation and preservation of German conductor Kurt Masur’s personal archives.
Exploring a Digital History Track

Exploring a Digital History Track
Serena Zabin coordinated a workshop for History department faculty to explore the development of a digital history track through the history major.
Where is the Money for Public Education?

Where is the Money for Public Education?: A Public Research and Popular Education Project with the St. Paul Federation of Teachers
As part of her educational studies seminar, Visiting Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Kathryn Wegner and students collaborated with the St. Paul Federation of Teachers to produce a research project and popular education project on public education funding.
The Dakota Language Project

The Dakota Language Project
Professor Michael Flynn (Linguistics) and Professor Jeff Ondich (Computer Science) teamed up with the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Dakotah Language Institute (SWODLI) at Lake Traverse to learn about and document particular elements of the grammar and vocabulary of the endangered Dakota language. The project provided opportunities for students to visit Lake Traverse, interview first-language speakers of Dakota, and analyze some properties of the language. Students and faculty also collaborated on creating a database of Dakota words, phrases, and sentences that had been collected by staff at SWODLI over many years. Further, Professor Ondich developed an online Dakota-English dictionary based on public domain and SWODLI dictionary data.