User:Andy Wilhide
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Anduin (Andy) Wilhide is a public historian with experience coordinating projects at the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) and the Minnesota Historical Society. She is a doctoral student in the History Department at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests are in migration history and her dissertation will be about the Somali communities in Minnesota. She is really interested in oral histories and personal narratives of migration and plans to do a large-scale oral history project with the Somali community.
Andy is currently working on the project “Minnesota 2.0: Digital Media and Storytelling by Immigrant Youth.” Minnesota 2.0 is a year-long collaborative research project sponsored by the IHRC where graduate and undergraduate students explore how Somali, Hmong and Mexico- origin youth use social networking sites and digital media to document their experiences. We have found that these new forms of social media open up ways for 1.5 and 2nd generation immigrants to express an emerging sense of identity and social connection—to Minnesota and the U.S., to their parents and communities, to each other, and to the homelands from which their families arrived. For more see: http://ihrc.umn.edu/collaboration/pdf/ImmigrantandRefugeeYouth3.pdf And check out recent IHRC Blog: http://ihrc.umn.edu/index.php?entry=223324
Andy previously worked for the Minnesota Historical Society on a number of projects including Minnesota's Greatest Generation, Minnesota 150 and the documentary "Two Homes, One Dream: The Somalis in Minnesota" (2004). Her passion for public and local history came from working at the Brian Coyle Community Center in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood in Minneapolis.
