finding aid

1. Preliminary Thesaurus and Finding Aid
(finding aid starts on page 8)
mfalk4@depaul.edu
aserna7@depaul.edu
kzubo@depaul.edu
Keywords from interview indexes:
Maddie: 99433 and 99574
● 99433:
○ Mental health, art account, platform to sell art on, college break, art mediums, Hindered
her business, Given her opportunity to create more due to increased time, Hard to get her
foot , Collaborations - Mutual Aid Organization - Hoodies, Proceeds from BLM themed
prints to RAGE Englewood - $600 Raised for RAGE - Description of RAGE (mutual
aid organization) to help support the community in any way possible, Mother and
Grandfather - Grandfather was a potter - Mother was GD , early influences, Does not
do commissions due to high stress - Avenue to release emotions - Can be overwhelming
- Creativity comes in waves - Creative high currently - Locked inside hurts emotions
that translates in art
● 99574:
○ Affiliation [to depaul];Date of birth;Employed;Job;Latin American and Latino
Studies;Major [in school] , Covid-19;Dorming;Dorms;January;Moving
out;On-campus;School;Shutting Down;Thoughts;U.S.A, Biggest
Challenge;clubs;DePaul;in-person classes;Money;Online Events;Online
School;safety;time-management;Universities , Distractions;Elderly;Essential
Worker;Fears;Job;lessons;Masks;Opinions on Covid;Positive;Walmart ,
Confrontation;Debates;educate;Family Relationship;ignorance;Politics;protests ,
concerns;emotions;faith;future;life post-pandemic,
Kara:
- 395
- the director of academic advising for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
- Mental health; morale of office; remote work; advising; affiliation with DePaul; change
since lockdown; staff engagement/ motivation; work,life, balance; conversation;
challenging; draining; meetings; morale; struggle with communication; nudging; radar;
academics; mental health; alumni affairs; resources; sources; employees; HR; alumni
affairs; boundaries; communication; contact; independent; kids/ work from home;
anti-bodies; COVID-19; sanitizer; physical health; faith; God; thankful;Need for news;
CNN; obsessive with news; missing adult conversations; book clubs; walks; hopes for
more humanity
- 409
- Change; Covid-19, energy, hermit, introvert, isolation, teaching, people molded day to
day interactions, never realized before; introspection from March 2020 to January 2021;
empathic, monotonous, quarantine, reflection, social interaction; The Future Social
Sphere, pre-pandemic, pre-pandemic self;pandemic-culture, norms, post-pandemic,

2. change;Family, friends, interaction, intimacy, stress, relationship with partner;
post-pandemic worries; pessimistic, hesitant with hope, divisions in America,
misanthropy, politics, “normal”. Mindset, plans for “after”, hopes for sweet moment of
recognition; acceptance, hope for contentedness; philosophies of life
Andrea: 99278, 99279, 99293
- 99278:
- coronavirus;dorm experience;dorming during a pandemic;human
connection;introspection;netflix;quarantine;workouts;daily routine;meals;student
life;student life during pandemic;learning;learning during pandemic;online classes;online
school;socially distant classes;dorm;dorming at depaul;freshman;pandemic;clubs;meal
plan;pandemic;studying;2020;coronavirus;Covid;covid-19;covid19;initial
lockdown;lockdown;pandemic;quarantine;coronavirus;covid
precautions;graduation;pandemic;wedding;corona;coronavirus;covid-19;covid19;pandem
ic;2020prom;lgbt and pandemic;prom
- 99279:
- CurrentJob;Hospital;Long-termAcuteCare;RegisteredNurse;clinicals;covid;covidexperien
ce;internship;nursingschool;school;exercising;family;friends;healthy;MentalHealth;outsid
e;pandemic;connections;DePaul;involvement;learning;nurses;organization;people;volunt
eer;depaul;experience;handson;remotelearning;simulations;complications;covid;difficult;
hard;hospitalized;limitedtime;train;care;devastated;mentalhealth;patients;sad;toomuch;pa
styear;pressured;stressed;strongemotion;nurse;pastexperiences;reflect;school;teach;adjust
;dying;hope;normal;normalized;happiness;income;joy;concern;discrimination;future;guid
elines;listen;protect;unexpected;violence;future;hopeful;postpandemic;vaccines
- 99293:
- date;interview;interviewee;interviewer;introduction;location;narrator;relationship;affiliati
ons;animation;date of birth;DePaul
University;major;student;undergraduate;year;classes;college;Covid-19;email;move
out;pandemic;Chicago;college;Covid-19;DePaul;future;internship;LA Quarter
program;spring break;work;back home;Covid-19;daily life;new
normal;organization;pandemic;remote learning;college;Covid-19;DePaul
University;reopening;school;vaccinations;2020;campus life;college;Covid-19;election
2020;family loss;pandemic;school;wildfires;world
events;animation;classmates;discord;friends;learning;online;remote
learning;tutor;2020;back
home;family;happiness;joy;Covid-19;life;masks;normalcy;recover;semi-normal;world;art
;California;confident;future;post-pandemic;wildfires;world events;covfefe;humor;raking
the leaves;wildfires;Covid-19;ending;movies;My Hero
Academia;pandemic;theaters;Weathering with
You;2020;archivists;conclusion;events;future;humor;last message;listeners;wikipedia

3. Common keywords:
COVID- 19; Quarantine; Pandemic; Hospitals; CNN; Stress; Fear; Difficult; School; Morale;
Mental health; Online-school; Politics; Protests; Family; Ending; Post-pandemic; Pre-pandemic;
March 2020; Empathy; Dorm life; Semi-normal; Netflix; Student-life; Remote-learning;
Potential Common Keywords
Joy; art; internship; hospitalized; studying; freshman; stress; teaching; kids; work/life balance;
remote work; faith; essential worker; masks; clubs; online events; moving out;
Preliminary Thesaurus:
COVID- 19; Quarantine; Pandemic; Hospitals; CNN; Stress; Fear; Difficult; School; Morale;
Mental health; Online-school; Politics; Protests; Family relationships; Ending; Post-pandemic;
Pre-pandemic; March 2020; Empathy; Dorm life; Semi-normal; Netflix; Student-life;
Remote-learning; Joy; art; internship; hospitalized; studying; freshman; stress; teaching; kids;
work/life balance; remote work; faith; essential worker; masks; clubs; online events; moving out
Finding aid information:
*(actual finding aid starts on page 8)
Collection Title:
DePaul Documentary Corps Project Records
Date Range:
January 2021 to Present
Creators:
Students at DePaul University
Abstract:
This collection includes oral histories of affiliates of DePaul, which detail their lived experiences
of the year 2020 (including brief mentions of 2021). These histories are focused on the impacts
of the Coronavirus pandemic and also address the racial justice protests of the summer and other
significant political and cultural events of 2020.
History:
The Coronavirus, Protests, and DePaul Project was created in a 4-credit internship/course, ISP
392: DePaul Documentary Corps, taught by Professor Lisa Dush in 2020. The course was part of
DePaul’s HumanitiesX initiative, and was created as both a creative outlet for students and to
catalogue and preserve DePaul stakeholders’ experiences of 2020. Undergraduate students
enrolled in this course/internship worked with DePaul’s Special Collections and Archives to

4. conduct, process, and edit remote interviews with DePaul students, staff, alumni, and community
partners, on topics including the pandemic and the ongoing struggle for racial justice. The course
was one quarter long, and was taught in both the Winter and Spring of 2021.
Scope and Content:
The Coronavirus, Protests, and DePaul Project collection contains audio recorded interviews of
people affiliated with DePaul University collected and created by DePaul University
undergraduate students formatted as born digital audio-visual materials, along with their
appropriate transcripts, headshot photographs of the interviewees, and highlights stories in digital
audio format for select interviews.
Arrangement:
These boxes are arranged by the academic quarter they were created in, beginning with the
Winter quarter of 2021 that went on from January 2021 to March 2021, and folders arranged
alphabetically by the interviewee’s last name.
Access and Use:
This collection is open for research use.
Related Materials:
DePaul University Special Collections and Archives project for faculty, staff, and students:
Documenting Your Experience during the Coronavirus Outbreak. “DePaul University Archives
is collecting journal and diary entries, emails, photographs, videos, voice memos and audio
recordings, and other digital evidence of the ongoing situation around COVID-19, including
being displaced from student housing, working from home, the shift to online learning, social
distancing, and self-quarantine.” See DePaul University library.
Contents Listing:
Box Folder Title Date
001.001 Syllabus and class materials 2021
001.002 Carolina Barrera-Tobon March 2021
001.003 Gabrielle Castle March 2021
001.004 Riley Farkos March 2021
001.005 Benjamin Frazer-Simser January 2021
001.006 Peter Golaszewski January 2021
001.007 Harsha Gullapalli March 2021
001.008 Euan Hague February 2021
001.009 Whitney Huston February 2021
001.010 Kimea Lawrence March 2021
001.011 Huimin Long February 2021

5. 001.012 Izzie Parenti January 2021
001.013 Josephine Paul March 2021
001.014 Valery Pineda January 2021
001.015 Alondra Rebollar January 2021
001.016 Cristopher Rivera February 2021
001.017 Tania Rodriguez February 2021
001.018 Maddie Rovin January 2021
001.019 Jessica Ruiz February 2021

6. Maddie Falk
Andrea Serna
Kara Zubo
7 March 2021
Winter Quarter 2021 Archival Team Brief
In the 2021 winter quarter, students through the DePaul Documentary Corps collected
and archived various stories of DePaul affiliated persons. The Corps was a team of nine students,
one teacher assistant, and one professor. Each student collected and interviewed 2 individuals for
oral histories to be included within this collection. Of the nine students that participated this
quarter, eight identify as female and one male. The Corps recorded the narrators being into these
several categories: DPU category, college, gender, and race. The DPU category refers to the
narrator’s affiliation with DePaul: alumni, student, faculty, staff, community member, and others.
The college category refers to which college in DePaul the person is related to, such as the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The gender options include male, female, nonbinary, and
other/unsure/NA, while the race category was taken directly from the American government
census. It is important to note that if a narrator fit into multiple categories, the one most relevant
to the topic of the interview was used to categorize. Faculty includes tenure-track and contingent
faculty, while staff is those employed by DePaul that are not classroom instructors. Lastly, the
college category pertained to which school within DePaul University the individual was
affiliated with, including an option for others if they are not.
Eighteen interviews are included within this collection, two from each student as
mentioned above. Of the eighteen narrators, seven identified as white, six other/unsure, four
black or African American, and one identifying as Asian. Overwhelming female, fourteen out of
eighteen interviews were female, and the rest male. Within the DPU categories, there were seven
alumni, five students, three staff, two faculty, one unsure/ other, and no independent community
members interviewed. Of the schools within DePaul, thirteen of the narrators were with liberal
arts and sciences, two science and health, two other/ unsure, and one computing and digital
media.
For future contributors, room for improvement may begin with the categories themselves.
Under the DPU category, it may be helpful to include a “no longer affiliated” or “not affiliated”
sub-category. The race category, though the standard American census, should include more
specific categories such as “Latinx/Latina/Latino”. The majority of contributors were white, and
there should be an emphasis on more asian voices being presented. In the first round of
interviews, five out of the nine narrators were White, but once this was highlighted in class, we
saw an increase in diversity. It should be noted the extreme dominance of liberal arts and science
affiliations present within this collection. This is not surprising as most of the students are LAS,
and this is an LAS affiliated project, yet there should be an emphasis on inclusion of other
schools within this project. For example, it may be helpful to require “Interview 1 Assignment”
to be within the School of Communications.

7. Also, there was a not an age demographic included when describing the narrators. That
may be an important distinction when trying to diversify perspectives, especially if the Corps
wanted to expand into parents of DePaul students/community members. Overall, a priority
moving forward would be to keep an eye on inclusion, especially within the schools being
represented.
18 interviewees/narrators:
- 7 identified as white
- 6 identified as other/unsure
- 4 identified as black or African American
- 1 identified as Asian
- 14 out of 18 identified as female
- 4 out of 18 identified as male

8. DePaul University Special Collections and Archives: DePaul Documentary Corps
Project Records
FINDING AID FOR
DePaul Documentary Corps Project Records
DePaul University Special Collections and Archives Department
2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago, IL 60614
archives@depaul.edu 773-325-7864

9. DePaul University Special Collections and Archives: DePaul Documentary Corps Project
Records
Collection Description
DePaul Documentary Corps Project Records
Date range: January 2021 to present.
Creator
Undergraduate students and affiliates at DePaul University.
Abstract
This collection includes oral histories of affiliates of DePaul, which detail their lived experiences
of the year 2020 (including brief mentions of 2021). These histories are focused on the impacts
of the Coronavirus pandemic and also address the racial justice protests of the summer and other
significant political and cultural events of 2020.
History
The Coronavirus, Protests, and DePaul Project was created in a 4-credit internship/course, ISP
392-201: DePaul Documentary Corps, taught by Professor Lisa Dush in 2021. The course was
part of DePaul’s HumanitiesX initiative, and was created as both a creative outlet for students
and to catalogue and preserve DePaul stakeholders’ experiences of 2020. Undergraduate students
enrolled in this course/internship worked with DePaul’s Special Collections and Archives to
conduct, process, and edit remote interviews with DePaul students, staff, alumni, and community
partners on topics including the pandemic and the ongoing struggle for racial justice. The course
was one quarter long, and was taught in both the Winter and Spring of 2021.
Scope
The Coronavirus, Protests, and DePaul Project collection contains interviews of people affiliated
with DePaul collected by DePaul University undergraduate students formatted as born digital
audio-visual materials, along with their subsequent transcripts, headshot photographs of the
interviewees, and highlights stories in digital audio format for select interviewees.
Arrangement
These files are arranged by what quarter they were created in, and alphabetically by the
interviewee/narrator’s surname inside of the quarter sections.

10. Restrictions
This collection is open for research use.
Language
Interviews and related material are in English.
Related Materials
DePaul University Special Collections and Archives project for faculty, staff, and students:
Documenting Your Experience during the Coronavirus Outbreak. “DePaul University Archives
is collecting journal and diary entries, emails, photographs, videos, voice memos and audio
recordings, and other digital evidence of the ongoing situation around COVID-19, including
being displaced from student housing, working from home, the shift to online learning, social
distancing, and self-quarantine.” See DePaul University library.

11. DePaul University Special Collections and Archives: DePaul Documentary Corps Project
Records
Series Description
Series 001: Winter Quarter 2021 Oral Histories
Date Range: January 2021-March 2021
Scope:
DePaul Documentary Corps oral history collection contains digital audio-visual materials
including audio interviews of DePaul affiliates, the appropriate corresponding interview
transcripts, headshot photographs of the interviewees/narrators, and highlights stories in digital
audio format for select interviews created by the students/interviewers. This box is for the class
that ran in the Winter quarter of 2021 at DePaul University, taught by Lisa Dush in relation to
HumanitiesX, that ran from January 2021 to March 2021. Interviews with corresponding
highlight stories contain an asterisk *.
Arrangement:
The folders in this box are arranged alphabetically by the interviewee/narrator’s surname,
starting with the related class materials and student guidelines.
Container List
Box Folder Title Date
001.001 Syllabus and class materials 2021
001.002 Carolina Barrera-Tobon March 2021
001.003 Gabrielle Castle* March 2021
001.004 Riley Farkos March 2021
001.005 Benjamin Frazer-Simser* January 2021
001.006 Peter Golaszewski* January 2021
001.007 Harsha Gullapalli March 2021
001.008 Euan Hague February 2021
001.009 Whitney Huston* February 2021
001.010 Kimea Lawrence March 2021
001.011 Huimin Long February 2021
001.012 Izzie Parenti* January 2021
001.013 Josephine Paul March 2021
001.014 Valery Pineda* January 2021
001.015 Alondra Rebollar* January 2021

12. 001.016 Cristopher Rivera February 2021
001.017 Tania Rodriguez* February 2021
001.018 Maddie Rovin* January 2021
001.019 Jessica Ruiz February 2021