Energy Stories Lab Associates named NEH Fellows for 2025

We are thrilled to announce that our team has just been announced as Fellows with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)’s Community Deep Mapping Institute. Our transdisciplinary team will be working on a project called The Boom, Bust, Repeat Community Deep Map of Foothills County, Alberta (PI: Sabrina Perić).

This is an exceptional achievement for the Energy Stories Lab team as well, as the competition received 1086 applicants, and they were able to support only 23 fellows, a 2% success rate!

This project is a multi-dimensional public-facing deep map of energy stories which describe the long-term social, political and environmental impacts of successive energy cycles in the region of Foothills County.  This project brings together spatially scattered energy histories including library and museum archives, 3D scans of personal archival collections, and photogrammetry of industrial heritage sites. In doing so, this deep map supports heritage work from local organizations as well as local, national and global academic institutions. 

Our team for this project includes:

• Sabrina Peric ~ Associate Professor of Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Calgary

• Rebecca Clare Dolgoy ~ Curator of Natural Resources and Industrial Technologies, Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

• Jean-René Leblanc ~ Professor of Digital Storytelling, Department of Anthropology & Archeology, University of Calgary

• Kim Geraldi ~ Assistant Archivist, University of Calgary Libraries and Cultural Resources

• Gerry Straathof ~ PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Calgary

For more information about this program, please click here.