Dr. Novoa’s socially engaged scholarship focuses on the intersections of cultural heritage and social justice, industrial heritage and gender, and the politics of memory and grassroots organizing in Chile.
The “US Oral History Interview Archival Inventory” compiles oral history interview collections related to deindustrialization in the United States. This report brings together collections from libraries, archives, museums, and educational institutions, and is intended to support research into the lived experiences of deindustrialization, as well as encouraging the use of existing oral history collections in future research.
Women from the ex-coal mining town of Lota working on a collaborative arpillera urbana (textile art) depicting the history of their town. Photo by Magdalena Novoa.