The following publications, press coverage, and grants have grown directly from and/or supported the work of the Community Heritage Lab at SCU.
Scholarly Publications
Silva, Rafael M. L., Ana María Cárdenas Gasca, Joshua A. Fisher, Erica Principe Cruz, Cinthya Jauregui, Amy Lueck, Fannie Liu, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, and Kai Lukoff. 2024. "With or Without Permission: Site-Specific Augmented Reality for Social Justice," Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Jauregui, Cinthya, Tiffany T. Nguyen, Sarah Hazel Sallee, Mohan Raj Chandrasekar, Liam A'Hearn, Dominic Jonathan Woetzel, Pinak Paliwal, Shea MacDonald, Madison Nguyen, Lee M. Panich, Danielle M. Heitmuller, Amy Lueck, and Kai Lukoff. 2024. "We Are Still Here: The Thámien Ohlone Augmented Reality Tour," Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Panich, Lee M, Amy J. Lueck, Lauren Baines, and Isabella 'Amne Gomez. 2025. "We Are Here Because of Them: Co-Creating a Native Cemetery Memorial at Mission Santa Clara," The Public Historian vol 47, no 4, pp. 91-111.
Panich, Lee M., Gustavo Flores, Michael Wilcox, and Monica V. Arellano. 2024. “Reading Colonial Transitions: Archival Evidence and the Archaeology of Indigenous Action in Nineteenth-Century California.” American Antiquity 89 (3): 495–511.
Panich, Lee M., Monica V. Arellano, Michael Wilcox, Gustavo Flores, and Samuel Connell. 2024. “Fighting Erasure and Dispossession in the San Francisco Bay Area: Putting Archaeology to Work for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe.” Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 3: 1394106.
Gomez, Isabella Amne and Amy J. Lueck. 2023. “To Embrace Tension or Recoil Away from It: Navigating Complex Collaborations in Cultural Rhetorics Work.” College Composition and Communication vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 75-96.
Jegathesan, Mythri, and Ryan Anderson. 2018. “Disrupting Silicon Valley’s Stories.” Anthropology News, November 9, 2018.
Kroot, Matthew, and Lee M. Panich. 2020. “Students Are Stakeholders in On-Campus Archaeology,” Advances in Archaeological Practice vol 8, no. 2, pp. 134–150.
Lueck, Amy J., Matthew V. Kroot, and Lee M. Panich. 2021. "Public Memory as Community-Engaged Writing: Composing Difficult Histories on Campus," Community Literacy Journal vol. 15, no. 2, article 4.
Lueck, Amy J., and Lee M. Panich. 2020. “Representing Indigenous Histories Using XR Technologies in the Classroom.” Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy vol. 17.
Panich, Lee M. 2022. “Archaeology, Indigenous Erasure, and the Creation of White Public Space at the California Missions.” Journal of Social Archaeology vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 149–171.
Panich, Lee M., Rebecca Allen, and Andrew Galvan. 2018. “The Archaeology of Native American Persistence at Mission San José.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology vol 38, no. 1, pp. 11–29.
Press
CHL work with Ohlone and Muwekma Ohlone Tribes
Three news stations covered the AR Tour on Indigenous People's Day: ABC, NBC, and KTSF (Cantonese).
Cemetery Memorial Installation
Revealing an Unseen History (AR project) - article also featured in Santa Clara Magazine
Grants
- Kuehler Research, SCU
- Whitham Family Collaborative Scholarship Awards, SCU
- Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Grant, SCU
- Bannan Forum Mission Integration Grant, SCU
- University Research Grant, SCU
- Teaching and Technology Innovation Grant, SCU
- Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Research Grants
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Sustaining Public Engagement Grant
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Public Programs
- Critical Mission Studies Community Initiated Partnership Grant, University of California Multicampus Research Program Initiative
Awards
- Mark E. Mack Community Engagement Award, 2nd Place for the Community Heritage Lab (2026)
- “We Are Still Here: The Thámien Ohlone Augmented Reality Tour” video won Best Movie Award at CHI 2024 (May 11, 2024)
- Auggie Awards Finalist for Best Societal Impact at the 2024 Auggie Awards for Thámien Ohlone AR Tour (June 20, 2024)
- Grand Prize Winner of Niantic’s 8th Wall Explore Together Challenge for Thámien Ohlone AR Tour(July 11, 2024)
- President's Special Recognition Award, Amy Lueck and Lee Panich, 2023