Shira Greer

As a Graduate Research Assistant in the Southern Historical Collection, I work primarily with our African American Collections and Community Driven Archives initiatives. Much of my work has been related to UNC's branch of the On These Grounds project, which seeks to help researchers better understand the lives of the enslaved people who are documented in UNC collections through a linked data model. 

To learn more about the On These Grounds Project, please visit: https://onthesegrounds.org/

To learn more about our Community Driven Archives program, please visit: https://blogs.lib.unc.edu/community-driven-archives/ 

Our research room is currently open by appointment: https://library.unc.edu/wilson/visit/

I am a Graduate Research Assistant working in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill from 2023-2025 as I complete my Master's of Library Science at UNC SILS. Previously, I earned a BA in American Studies from the University of Richmond, where I stewarded the creation of an Africana Studies program and advocated for Black student welfare through the Black Student Coalition. My academic interests include community archiving, oral history, digital humanities, Black studies, and queer theory. My primary research interest is exploring how libraries and archives can collaborate with communities to document, collect, and make knowledge accessible through participatory praxis.