AGPR Mellon Intern Work Started!
AGPR Director Hilda Ayala, archivist Pedro Roig, PRAC Manager Sofia Feliciano and Aldo Lauria Santiago welcomed the first group of Mellon interns to the AGPR on Monday. The group will … Read More
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PRAC Interns will assist Dr. Jose Rigau Perez with Health Department Records
Dr Jose Rigau Perez has been working as a volunteer at the AGPR organizing the Departamento de Salud Records. He has produced a massive draft index to this collection. PRAC … Read More
Mellon Interns Start in July!
(English Below) 6 de julio de 2024 ¡Estimados Participantes del PRAC! La comunidad del PRAC ha crecido en los últimos dos años y ahora, gracias a la Fundación Mellon, ampliaremos … Read More
Archival Internship for Graduate Students at the Archivo General de Puerto Rico and the Colección Puertorriqueña
I am pleased to announce the continuation of the Rutgers/Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration (PRAC) Summer Graduate Student Intern Program for 2024, now with funding support from the Mellon Foundation. Having successfully … Read More
PRAC Intern Andres Acosta de la Cruz Defends Master’s Thesis
PRAC Intern Andres Acosta defended his MA thesis in history from the University of Puerto Rico on June 28. The thesis is titled “Reciprocidad Antillana: Huracán San Zenón y la … Read More
PRAC Hosts Chat with AGPR Director Hilda Teresa Ayala
About forty people joined AGPR Director Hilda T. Ayala and PRAC Director Aldo Lauria Santiago for a Q&A session about the National Archive in Puerto Rico, its goals, work, conditions and challenges.
Victoria Arredondo Works on the Narratives of Migration Project
Victoria Arredondo and Iulianna Rosario have started working on digitizing narratives of Puerto Rican migration. Profs. Ismael Garcia Colon and Lauria Santiago secured a grant from Arte Publico Press’ Latino … Read More
Rutgers Graduate Student Laurian Rosa Begins AGPR Internship
Rutgers Geography Ph.D. student Laurian Rosa begins her internship at the AGPR. Funded by the PRAC Laurian will work organizing a collection of documents from Mining Commission of the Departmento … Read More
New PRAC Project: Documenting the Narratives of Puerto Rican Migration, 1945-1980
PRAC Director Aldo Lauria Santiago and Professor Ismael García Colón (College of Staten Island & Graduate Center, CUNY) were awarded a grant for organizing and digitizing migration-related documents at the … Read More