Produced by Penn State Berks Center Staff, Students and Community

Undergraduate authors

Walton, B. “Sound Off: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow's Tales of an Artivist.” Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research, 5 (2016)

Grunmeier, J., and J. Hartman. “Olivet Boys and Girls Club Project: Civic Engagement and Public Memory.” Poster presentation. 15th Annual Conference for Undergraduate Research & Creative Expression (Higher Education Council of Berks County). April 26, 2014.

DeLeón, A. “Speaking as and for the ‘Other’: A Different Perspective on its Problems.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. April, 2011. (national faculty conference)

Williams, A. Presentation on Bakhtinian Multilayered Voices in the Underground Railroad Documentary she co-produced. Conference on College Composition and Communication. April, 2011. (national faculty conference)

Undergraduate and faculty co-authors (publications and presentations)

*undergraduates

Nieves, Y.,* and Catherine Catanach. “The Forgotten Trail: Student Campaign to Increase Usage of the City of Reading’s Northwest Section of Schuylkill River Trail.”Presented at the PRSSA Super Saturday” Educators Academy Conference Poster Session, in Boston, MA, Oct 2017.

Grobman, L., E. Kemmerer*, and M. Zebertavage*. “Counternarratives: Racist Rhetoric.” Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service-Learning. 17.2 (Fall 2017): 43-68.

Grobman, L., M. Orr*, C. Meagher*, J. Shelton*, and C. Yatron. “Collaborative Complexities: Co- Authorship, Voice, and African American Rhetoric in Oral History Community Literacy Projects.” Community Literacy Journal 9.2 (2015): 1-25.

Faculty and community partner co-authors

Schocker, J.B., C. Zook, and D. Hummel. Growing Citizenship: Confronting the Civic Empowerment Gap with a Garden Project Social Studies and the Young Learner, pp. 27-31 28, Number 4, March 2016

Faculty authors that include extensive interviews with community partners

Grobman, L.“‘Engaging Race’: Critical Race Inquiry and Community-Engaged Scholarship.” College English 80.2 (2017): 105-132.

Grobman, L. “Disturbing Public Memory in Community Writing Partnerships.” College Composition and Communication 69.1 (2017): 35-60.

Grobman, L. “(Re)Writing Local Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Histories: Negotiating Shared Meaning in Public Rhetoric Partnerships.” College English 77.3 (2015).

Grobman, L. “‘I’m on a Stage’: Rhetorical History, Performance, and the Development of Central Pennsylvania African American Museum.” College Composition and Communication 65.2 (2013): 299-323.

Grobman, L. “‘Speaking With One Another’: Writing African American History in Berks County, PA.” Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy 9.1 (2009): 129-61.

Faculty authors

Greer, J., and L. Grobman. Pedagogies of Public Memory: Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Archives, and Memorials. New York: Routledge, 2015.

Grobman, L., and Roberta Rosenberg, eds. Service Learning and Literary Studies in English. New York: Modern Language Association Press, 2015.

Grobman, L. “The Policy Brief Assignment Transferable Skills in Action in a Community-Engaged Writing Project.” Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments 1 (2017): 8-18.

Grobman, L. "'Does It Count?' and 'Who Can Speak?'": An Interdependent Model of Knowledge-Production in Public and Traditional Scholarship." Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education 6 (2016): 61-76.

Grobman, L. “‘Keepers of Memory’: First-Year Writers and the Central Pennsylvania African American Museum.” Pedagogies of Public Memory: Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Archives, and Memorials.” New York: Routledge. 2015. 61-73.

Schocker, J. (2012). Teaching social studies and literacy through Toothpick World. The Social Studies Journal, 34, 7-15.

Publications produced through the Berks Center with local funds, with community partners’ writing where appropriate.

All were researched and written by Penn State Berks undergraduate students in close collaboration with community partners and members, often through interviews and oral histories. Some of these books are available online at http://sites.psu.edu/localhistories/.

A History of the First Three Decades of the Olivet Boys & Girls Club in Reading, Pennsylvania
Introduction by Richard DeGroote (Mr. DeGroote has held several staff and administrative positions at Olivet for more than 30 years)

A History of the Jewish Community in Reading and Berks County
Foreword, Tammy K. Mitgang, President, Jewish Federation of Reading

A History of the Olivet Boys & Girls Club in Reading, Pennsylvania, Continued
Introduction by Jeff Palmer, Retired President and CEO of The Olivet Boys and Girls Club
Introduction by Richard DeGroote (Mr. DeGroote has held several staff and administrative positions at Olivet for more than 30 years)

A Landmark’s Legacy: Stories from the Reading Pagoda’s Window

A Portrait of Life in Northwest Reading

Hispanic Histories in Reading and Berks: A Glimpse into the Community

Hispanics/Latinos in Reading and Berks: A Portrait of a Community
Foreword, Michael Toledo, Executive Director of the Hispanic Center Daniel Torres

Neighborhood Narratives

Stories Behind and Beyond the CPAAM Exhibits, Volume 1

Stories Behind and Beyond the CPAAM Exhibits, Volume 2

The Future’s Past: Life Narratives of Seventeen African American Residents of Berks County

The Penn State St. Joseph “Community Benefit Report: Making a Difference Where We Are”

The Reading Police Oral History Project: Understanding the Lives of Those Who Serve and Protect Through the Eyes of Local African Americans: Reflections on the Civil Rights Movement in Reading and Berks
Introduction, Mildred E Gilyard, Board President, Central PA African American Museum

We Are Reading: Dancing in the Streets

Woven with Words: A Collection of African American History in Berks County, Pennsylvania
Includes several articles by community members

The Vietnam War through the Eyes of Berks County Veterans

Publication produced through the Berks Center with commercial press

Jewish Reading and Berks County (Arcadia Publishing) 2011.
Foreword by Tammy K. Mitgang, President, Jewish Federation of Reading