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Research
The LEAPH is more than a multimedia lab and meeting space, it's a place to generate and uplift faculty research projects that have public-facing components.
This lab allows students and faculty from various interdisciplinary backgrounds to come together and provide valuable experiences for students while also engaging with the public in a way that focuses on how academia can connect with the surrounding communities. This commitment to supporting diverse topics can be seen by the various current projects from plants and animals to the neuro-diverse experience. While each project is uniquely differnet, there is on overarching theme of understanding how the human experience interacts and shapes the surrounding world.
Explore the current projects being supported by LEAPH below.
Milpa Agricultural Placemaking Project
The Milpa Agricultural Placemaking Project (MAPP) at the University of North Texas is an innovative initiative in transforming the way food is grown, studied, and shared on the UNT campus. Supported by a $400,000 grant from the USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture, the MAPP team is focused on bringing the ancient concept of milpa—a sustainable agricultural practice originating in Mesoamerica—to create edible landscapes across UNT.
The MAPP project goes beyond creating edible micro-climates by establishing open diaologue with the surrounding communities that utilize these shared spaces. This is established through the MAPP Oral History Collection, a multilingual database of interviews with community members involved in food and agriculture.
MAPP, is led by Michael Wise, director of horticulture and associate history professor, and Sandra Mendiola García, oral history director and associate history professor.
To learn more about this initiative, explore their website.
Neuro-Narratives Project
The Neuro-Narratives Project is a true depicition of interdiciplinary partnership. Faculty and students from the Departments of History, English, Design and Rehabilitation and Health Services are all coming together to create a digital museum, which will use multiple forms of storytelling, including creative writing, oral history, and art and design, to document the experiences of neurodiverse people.
This initiative to create a public resource establishes a living representation of Neurodiversity that intimately reflects and lifts up the stories, knowledge and perspectives from autistic and neurodiverse community members.
Neuro-Narratives, is led by Sara Park, an assistant professor in the Department of Rehabilitation & Health Services, and Kimberly Grey, an assistant professor of creative writing.
Texas Animal Humanities Project
Cecelia Alexander, Phrynosoma cornutum, 22 August 2010, Public Domain, via flickr.
The Texas Animal Humanities Project is a joint collaboration between faculty and researchers from the Departments of History and Philosophy and Religion. Together these two departments helped cultivate and house Dusty Rhoads' research "Historical Horny Toads: A History of the Texas Horned Lizard as Pets."
Their initiative blends humanities scholarship with ecological conservation efforts. In the case of the Horny Toads, students helped prepare native seed blends to cultivate habitats that attract and provide shelter for threatened Texas horned lizards. While Rhoads' Horny Toads research does take center stage currently within the TXAH, they also promote other animal humanities projects by exploring animal-human relationships through research, teaching, and community engagement.
TXAH, is led by Jennifer Jensen-Wallach, professor of history and Divisional Dean of UNT Humanities, Leah Kalmanson, Baghwan Adinath, professor of Jain Studies, and Michael Wise, director of horticulture and professor of history.
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