Mount Hood Stories is research conducted by graduate students in Prof. Sarah D. Wald’s, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and English, University of Oregon graduate seminar ENG 660: Racial Ecologies in collaboration with Bark and UO Libraries DREAM Lab.  The goal of this community service oriented digital project is to tell stories that provide new or alternative ways for advocates, users, and land managers for Mt. Hood National Forest to grapple with Mt. Hood’s pasts, presents, and futures.  These stories will be featured Bark’s annual People’s Forest Forum held online December 9, 2021.

Talking Stories is an encyclopedia of traditional ecological knowledge encoded in hunter-gatherer storytelling. Created by Dr. Michelle Scalise Sugiyama and UO Libraries with support from the UO First Year Programs, first year undergraduate students worked with faculty partners to develop an open educational resource. The project is dedicated to raising awareness of hunter-gatherer literary traditions and ecological knowledge and encouraging their incorporation into Western teaching.

Yōkai Senjafuda is a digital exhibition about ghosts and monsters in Japanese votive prints. Users can learn about the social worlds of printmakers and collectors and meet the ogres, demons, and magical creatures that haunt the UO’s world-class collection of senjafuda. Yōkai Senjafuda was led by Professor Glynne Walley and co-sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and University of Oregon Libraries, with generous support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.