University research
Students work within Project AROS Lab and affiliated programs at Montclair State: mentored, collaborative, and partner-driven.
Action-research · justice · memory · technology
Project AROS began by making digital archives public. It now connects a wider body of student-driven, policy-facing research across transitional and climate justice, human rights, memory politics, and technology, plus the visual work it produces.
§01 · Experiential research
Working alongside faculty and partners, students take on real questions in transitional and climate justice, human rights, and memory politics, then carry them through archives, fieldwork, data, and visualization into work that reaches policy and the public.
Students work within Project AROS Lab and affiliated programs at Montclair State: mentored, collaborative, and partner-driven.
Transitional and climate justice, human rights, and the politics of artificial intelligence, pursued hands-on across cases and regions.
Findings become interactive ArcGIS Story Maps: public, navigable narratives on rights, memory, and the environment.
§02 · Lines of inquiry
Distinct themes, one stance: research built with students and designed to reach beyond the academy into policy and the public.
Transitional justice, alternative and informal justice mechanisms, and policymaking across global and local contexts.
The societal impact of artificial intelligence and digital methods on governance, healthcare, activism, and scholarly work.
Climate governance, gender-inclusive and Indigenous adaptation, environmental risk, and social-enterprise responses.
Memory politics, performative justice, queer geographies, youth activism, and the arts as engines of social movements.
§03 · Research, visualized
Each project moves from research to data visualization to a navigable public narrative, built with ArcGIS StoryMaps as the tool. The mostly student-led work is grouped into three collections below; each card opens its story in a new tab, hosted on ArcGIS and indexed here.
§04 · Network
Project AROS sits alongside the university lab rather than inside it, linking out to the institutions that host the research, so the umbrella stays stable even as their addresses change.
§05 · Lineage
The current work rests on a decade of digital-humanities and archival research. These predecessors are preserved here so the trajectory stays visible, and so existing citations keep resolving.
The original initiative to expand and open the Wilson Center Digital Archive through histograph: exploring links between people, places, and concepts across time.
Open the original site ↗Early work on mapping and visualizing digital and digitized data, with C2DH Luxembourg, Sciences Po, and partners in Rijeka and Graz.
Open the archive ↗