Mission Statement
The University of Arizona is a beautiful historical campus. It is decorated with numerous fountains, feats of architecture and design, plaques, and artifacts that chronicle the university’s past, yet these features often go unnoticed by students. The UA Memorial MAP Project is a humanist initiative to document and reconnect with the unique memorials on the University of Arizona campus. UA Memorial Map will pay homage to the students, faculty, and staff who impacted our campus by creating a unified archive and map of the memorials that honor them. By linking specific historical events to physical memorials, UA Memorial Map will make it easier for future generations of students to interact with these beautiful sites and navigate the rich meaning behind them.
About us
The individuals behind this map are 5 students at the University of Arizona who took the Introduction to Applied Humanities class in Fall 2019. As the final project for this class, we were challenged to apply what we had learned about the humanities to a project that is iterative, collaborative, insightful, and applicable to the public. We chose to focus this project around the forgotten histories that surround us everyday.