The Cabaret Commons is a work-in-progress gathering place for trans- feminist and queer artists, activists, audiences and researchers.
Digital Exhibit-Curation
Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)
The goal of this site is to display, curate, and describe the documents that go into the making of a book.
DH Italian-Canadian Foodways project
This project considers the place of food production and consumption in Italian-Canadian culture, examining cuisine as one of the defining traits of cultural identity for Italian immigrants that settled within the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) over the past one hundred years. It begins with an overview of the history of Italian immigration to Toronto and key neighbourhoods built and transformed by this diaspora, including the establishment of landmark food businesses that persist to this day. Using a sociocultural, historical lens, the project further highlights the impact and contributions of the Italian community on Toronto’s food industry, tracing the growth and enduring legacies of restaurants in the face of cultural demographic shifts towards the turn of the century. This project further outlines the importance of recognizing and preserving the culinary traditions of diasporas, particularly in times of crises that impact local businesses and threaten to erase the cultural footprint of immigrant communities.
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Histories of objects that faciltated early globalization and cross-cultural exchange in Northern North America, c. 1700s-2000s.
Sex Work and the Queen City: Mapping Toronto’s Sex Trade History, 1865-1915
Brothels and historic sites researched by students in Professor Laurie K. Bertram’s seminar “The Oldest Profession in Canada”, Department of History, University of Toronto
Hidden Florence
An app that enables users to navigate Florence toggling between a modern and a superbly detailed sixteenth-century map.
Color and Overtones: A Web-Based Visual Archive of Africans and their Descendants in Latin America
A project to create an online visual archive of representations of blackness throughout Latin American history.
LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory
The LGBTQ Oral History Digital Collaboratory connects scholars, activists, and archives across Canada and the U.S. to produce a collaborative, digital history hub for gay, lesbian, queer, and trans* oral histories.