The department caught up with Jordi Rivera Prince to learn the latest on The North Burial Ground Documentation Project. 

Over the summer, Jordi Rivera Prince did fieldwork for The North Burial Ground Documentation Project (NBG DP). This project is a community-engaged research project to record, digitize, and transcribe tombstones and written records at NBG, as well as document community stories related to the cemetery. In addition to advancing tombstone data collection, she spent time in the archives at the Providence Public Library and the Rhode Island Historic Society.

Data from the North Burial Ground Documentation Project will be used to explore a variety of social issues throughout Providence’s history, including changes in religious beliefs, public health and life expectancy through time, and investigate histories of communities typically not centered in US colonial narratives. This academic year, data collection is continuing with support from the UTRA program and the DSI Data Science Seed Grant.