Directory

Title
- PhD Candidate
- Co-Director of the Watsonville is in the Heart Digital Archive
- Center for Archival Research and Training Fellow
Division Humanities Division
Department
- History Department
- History of Art/Visual Culture
Email
- msimonre@ucsc.edu
Office Location
- Remote work location, N/A
Mail Stop History Department

Education

M.A. History, University of California, Santa Cruz

B.A., History summa cum laude, University of California, Irvine

Current Public Historry Projects

Digital Archive Co-Director and Undergraduate Team Lead, January 2020- present

Center for Archival Research and Training Fellowship, 2023-2024
UCSC History Department Summer Dissertation Grant, 2023
UCSC History Department Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2022
The Humanities Institute Summer Dissertation Fellowship, 2022
The Humanities Insititute Public Fellowship 2021-2022
Social Science Research Council's Dissertation Proposal Development Program (SSRC-DPD) 2020
The Humanities Institute Summer Research Fellowship 2020
CITL Graduate Pedagogy Fellowship 2020
National Humanities Center GSSR Fellow 2020
Regent's Fellowship 2018-2019

Ayson Plank, Christina, Meleia Simon-Reynolds, Olivia Sawi, Dr. Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, and Dr. Steve McKay, “Building A Community Archive: Preserving and Uplifting Stories of Filipino Labor and Migration,” FANHS Journal 11, (2023): 161-170.
Ayson Plank, Christina and Meleia Simon-Reynolds, "Watsonville is in the Heart: Documenting Histories of Transpacific Filipinx Migrration in the Pajaro Valley," Pacific Arts Journal 22, no. 1 (2022): 250-261.

“Connecting Humanities Undergraduates with Community Projects and Future Careers,” National Humanities Conference, November 11, 2022.
“Watsonville is in the Heart: Reflections on Community-engaged Oral History, Archiving, and Exhibition Curation,” All-In Conference, October 27, 2022.
“Navigating Silences and Things Left Unsaid: Watsonville is in the Heart, a Community Oral History Case Study” Oral History Association Annual Conference, October 22, 2022.
“Building A Community Archive: Preserving and Uplifting Stories of Filipino Labor and Migration,” Filipino American National Historical Society Conference, August 13, 2022.
“Impassioned Online Teaching: Empathy, Embodiment, and Radical Pedagogy,” The Humanities Institute PhD+ Series, November 3, 2020.
“Transpacific Images: Photographic Representations of Filipinx Migrants in California and Hawai‘i,” UCSC Graduate Research Symposium, April 20, 2021.

Upcoming Exhibition

Sowing Seeds: Filipino American Stories from the Pajaro Valley, April 2024 - August 20204, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

Instructor of Record Experience

UCSC Teaching Assistant Experience