Zachary McKiernan

Letters From Chile
The Working of History at Six Sites of Memory

The Inauguration of ‘Escotilla 8’ at Chile’s National Stadium


Human Rights Lessons: The Letelier-Moffit Monumumen and An International Terrorist Attack


The Reality of Fiction in Post-Pinochet Chile: Los Archivos del Cardenal

Public History

Ph.D. Candidate
B.A., Loyola University Chicago; M.A., University of California Santa Barbara

Office: HSSB 3226
Hours:

Advisor: Randy Bergstrom

Hi there. I’m Zach, and I have a keen interest in connecting the (political) practice of public history to human rights work. Mostly, I do this through sites of conscience—or historic sites that highlight “past struggles to address contemporary issues”—and recognize how such sites serve as cultural tools for memory making, transmission, and telling; and also how the historic activism happening at these sites seek to influence advocacy and policy. My public history experience has strong roots in Chile, a post-conflict society where I have worked closely with two grassroots initiatives aimed at memorializing former sites of detention, torture, and terror. I will be beginning a special projects position at the International Coalitions of Sites of Conscience in the fall. (more...)

I might add that I am not a user of facebook.