About

Who are we?

Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region is an effort of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage (Recovery) program at Arte Publico Press (APP) in collaboration with the US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH). It is one of many ongoing Recovery preservation and digital humanities efforts.

Visit https://artepublicopress.com/ to learn more!

 

Project Documentation

View our Collections as Data Facets page for full documentation.

Project Leadership

Nicolás Kanellos, Ph.D., Director, Arte Público Press
Gabriela Baeza Ventura, Ph.D., Director, Recovery
Carolina Villarroel, Ph.D., Director of Research, Recovery
Mikaela Selley, CA, Program Manager, Recovery

Web Development

Anneliese Dehner

Preservation & Reformatting

Jerrell Jones, Digitization Lab Manager, University of Houston (now Digital Initiatives Coordinator, Rice University)

Research Assistants

Ayann’ah Batiste, Undergraduate Student Intern
Javier R. Franco, Graduate Student, Research Fellow
Kai Gomez, High School Student Intern
Valeria Gonzalez, Undergraduate Student Intern
Yanina Hernández, Graduate Student, Research Fellow
Kathleen Ortiz, Undergraduate Student Intern
Perla Ortiz, Graduate Student, Recovery Research Assistant
Camilo Rodríguez, Graduate Student, Research Fellow
Jacqueline Torres, Undergraduate Student Intern
Celeste Uribe, Undergraduate Student Intern
Alaíde Ventura Medina, Graduate Student, Research Fellow

A special thank you to Drs. Gabriela Baeza Ventura and Lorena Gauthereau for their assistance with training, translations, editing, and valuable feedback throughout the project.

With gratitude, we thank Hilario Castillo Castillo, Coordinator of the Archivo Histórico in Tijuana, and student assistants Adrián Garcia and Carlos Flores for their collaboration and skill sharing to preserve periodicals from their region.

 

Archival Collections

Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region includes materials housed in the following Recovery Archival Collections.

Alonso S. Perales Papers
Amira Mejía Collection
Recovery Reference Collection
Religious Thought Collection
Saltillo Periodicals Collection Tijuana Periodicals Collection

For more information on Recovery Archives, visit https://artepublicopress.com/archives/

 

Funders

Periodicals in the US-Mexico Border Region is funded by the Council on Library Information Resources (CLIR) Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives awards program, which is generously funded by the Mellon Foundation.

CLIR Announces 2020 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives Awards

Council on Library & Information Resources

Contact Us

apprec@central.uh.edu